Summer School Holidays, where did you go, what did you get up to? - Page 2

sm_counsell · 05-02-2010, 17:27

Jaysay, do you remember Bill Dash in the Plantation ( or has this already appeared in a previous forum)Deja vù or I'm getting too old for this site!!
I was absolutely terrified of him even though I never saw him. It was enough to hear his name mentioned, to make me fly out of the 'Planny' and run home.
Still it didn't stop us returning next day.
Spent many summers there.

gdm27 · 06-02-2010, 02:19

Did anyone else sit on the kerb edge when it was really hot bursting gas tar bubbles that came up between the cobbles???

ossy kid · 06-02-2010, 06:28

Spent lots of time playing footy at the top of Hodder St and over at Broad Oak works. Also did a lot of camping with the scouts, Ribble Valley, Isles of Scilly, Isle of Arran and Jersey. Brilliant times, also did a lot of bird egging. Haven,t a clue how we survived all of the daft things we got up to.

Eric · 11-02-2010, 00:27

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Did anyone else sit on the kerb edge when it was really hot bursting gas tar bubbles that came up between the cobbles???

I remember this

... damn, this makes me feel older than dirt.

AngleIron · 12-02-2010, 02:23

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Did anyone else sit on the kerb edge when it was really hot bursting gas tar bubbles that came up between the cobbles???

remember that well gdm27 ..then we used to cool em down in river stink to make em solid...hahaha them were the days....then home for a leatherin offa me dad for gettin stickied up!!!

jaysay · 12-02-2010, 10:57

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Did anyone else sit on the kerb edge when it was really hot bursting gas tar bubbles that came up between the cobbles???

Then got a clout round the ear for getting it all over your clothes and hands and the pound of butter it used to take to get it of

gdm27 · 12-02-2010, 17:16

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Then got a clout round the ear for getting it all over your clothes and hands and the pound of butter it used to take to get it of

BUTTER???? You were rich, Stork marge if we were lucky!!!! The clout was the same mind!

Mancie · 12-02-2010, 20:01

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Did anyone else sit on the kerb edge when it was really hot bursting gas tar bubbles that came up between the cobbles???

The kids today don't know what they are missing.. they spend most of the time with games on Xbox or playstations when they could be sitting on t'kerb bursting tar bubbles!

Neil · 12-02-2010, 20:21

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The kids today don't know what they are missing.. they spend most of the time with games on Xbox or playstations when they could be sitting on t'kerb bursting tar bubbles!

Only if we had any nice cobbles left to play on.
Cobbles slow cars down due to the unexpected road noise and outlast any tarmac road.

Margaret Pilkington · 12-02-2010, 20:26

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BUTTER???? You were rich, Stork marge if we were lucky!!!! The clout was the same mind!

Stork marg........you were rich too.....it was LARD or dripping in our house.

I remember on of my many brothers getting it all over his school clothes, himself and his hair......his hair was shaved off, dripping was used to get it off his skin and I got leathered for letting him get it on his clothes.....happy days!

Mancie · 12-02-2010, 20:39

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Stork marg........you were rich too.....it was LARD or dripping in our house.

I remember on of my many brothers getting it all over his school clothes, himself and his hair......his hair was shaved off, dripping was used to get it off his skin and I got leathered for letting him get it on his clothes.....happy days!

Lard? you must have been rich .. we used to pick tar off mi brothers clothes to use as fuel for fire.

Margaret Pilkington · 12-02-2010, 21:08

Oh Mancie.......! No we weren't rich...we ate the lard afterwards....tar and all

Mancie · 12-02-2010, 21:16

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Oh Mancie.......! No we weren't rich...we ate the lard afterwards....tar and all

I reckon we were poorer than you Margaret.. we ate the lard, the tar and all the Lino my Dad nicked from next door kitchen when they moved out.

Margaret Pilkington · 12-02-2010, 21:42

Yes Mancie.......I concede defeat in the poorness stakes......we never ate lino...only coconut matting....by heck it was good roughage that coco matting

DaveinGermany · 12-02-2010, 22:16

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BUTTER???? You were rich, Stork marge if we were lucky!!!! The clout was the same mind!

Yep, Nan C would drag us in, Margarine & Sugar (or something granular) then proceed to abrade the skin/tar/tan/muck away, until it was all pink & sore, then the clip !! Oh happy days

I think it's a generation thing, did you also play kirby ??