Are You Knocking On a Bit?

[hifi_dave]

Lol... Were you hit with the chicks then, Dave?

Marco.

I had my moments but did better when I was a Mod.

[walpurgis]

I had my moments but did better when I was a Mod.

Oh dear. Wearing a parka whilst riding a Vespa GS?

[BTH K10A]

Blackjacks, fruit salads, bazooka joe, flying saucers.
noddy bikes, panda cars, mods, rockers, teddy boys, skinheads, suedeheads, hippies, CND

[The Black Adder]

Of A Certain Age?


Do you remember?

The cast iron loo cistern up on the wall... When the baker and milkman were door to door with their horse & cart... Dion and Gene Vincent... Half Crowns, Farthings and big white £5 notes... Constellation, Viking and Brittania airliners... Sam Costa... Jamboree bags... Before colour TV... Posh people driving Armstrong Siddeley cars or big Humbers... Gilbert Harding... Listening to Radio Luxembourg... Watching Rag, Tag & Bobtail or Andy Pandy... When 'Tuff' shoes came out... Edmundo Ross... Saturday Night at The London Palladium... Alma Cogan... Steam rollers still being used for road surfacing... The conquering of Everest... Gerald Nabarro... Police on Velocette 'Noddy Bikes'... Needing to hold trousers up with braces... Listening to The Navy Lark... Mau Mau terrorists... Sir Thomas Beecham and Sir Malcolm Sargent... The 'four minute mile'... The 'LP' and stereo records arriving... Wilfred Pickles... TV 'interludes' and the National Anthem playing each night on BBC... Brothel creepers, drainpipe trousers and winkle pickers... The lovely Katie Boyle... Panther motorcycles... Every bloke using 'Brylcreem'... Police boxes in the high street... Alec Guinness in 'The Horse's Mouth' film... Yellow AA motorbikes with sidecars... The country Tanganyika... Sainsburys being all wood and tiles... Teddy Boys... Listening to Ray's a Laugh... The Zeta Project... Arthur Askey... Travelling on steam trains... The Army Game on TV... The independance of India... Bus conductors and small coloured bus tickets that got clipped... The Derek Bentley hanging... Shouting 'open the box' during 'Take Your Pick' with Michael Miles... BSA and Rudge bicycles... Arthur Haynes... No Traffic Wardens or yellow lines... Princess Anne as a little girl... Trolley buses and trams... Harold Wilson's 'Gannex' coat... The laundry boiler & mangle in the kitchen... Watching I love Lucy... Only being able to buy shoes with leather soles... Gold top milk bottles... Wolseley 6/90 police cars with bells on... Chocolate bar machines at the station... The opening of the M1... The exploits of Hans and Lotte Hass... The opening of the Kariba Dam... Philip Harben cooking on TV... When motorways had no speed limit... Darning holed socks and jumper elbows... Allard cars... Having a larder... 'Ena Sharples'... Being given malt extract as a nipper... The launch of SS Canberra... WW2 gas mask bags being popular as school satchels... Mutton for dinner not Lamb... Tommy Trinder... Proper 'Dinky Toys'... Sunlight soap... Enjoying gooseberries every summer...

And so on........there are loads more I could add.

Feel free to contribute.

I do remember some still back in the 70's and early 80's but mostly all before my time. But, in a way I do envy people who witnessed/experienced some of those things in history.

I do remember going to the outside loo at my grandma's house in the dark with snow on the ground because she didn't want me to go to the indoor toilet, it was a shrine and hardly used. lol

Newspaper on the floor when we walked in too... classic. She was great.

[Marco]

I had my moments but did better when I was a Mod.

Ah, if we'd been around in the same era, we've have been rivals, as I was a biker and loved kicking mods off their silly wee scooters, by smacking them in the centre of that daft target on their Parkas!

Marco.

[Joe]

In Mark Twain's words 'I'm pushing sixty; that's all the exercise I need'. (Actually I pushed past it last year).

My uncle owned a Humber Super Snipe and before that a Humber Imperial. At one time he was chauffeur to the US Consulate in Liverpool.

[brian2957]

My dad had a Humber Hawk which I drove occasionally The fuel cap doubled up as one of the rear reflectors . He loaned it to a mate who broke down with it because he couldn't find where to put the fuel in
Bench seats front and back , it could comfortably seat 6 . The old cross ply tyres ( who remembers those ) could be a bit dodgy too
Later I owned a Singer Gazelle . The starting handle was still in the boot when I bought it

[walpurgis]

My dad had a Humber Hawk which I drove occasionally The fuel cap doubled up as one of the rear reflectors . He loaned it to a mate who broke down with it because he couldn't find where to put the fuel in
Bench seats front and back , it could comfortably seat 6 . The old cross ply tyres ( who remembers those ) could be a bit dodgy too

I had one. A 1957 Humber Hawk estate. It was an old banger (bit like some girls I knew ) when I bought it about 1970, but it was huge. I'd say to passengers 'welcome aboard'. The horizontal split in the rear loading hatch was handy, just like a Range Rover. It drank loads of juice and backfired a lot, but never let me down.

[struth]

inside of a Snipe..... very similar to my dads.. think this is a mk1

[brian2957]

I had one. A 1957 Humber Hawk estate. It was an old banger (bit like some girls I knew ) when I bought it about 1970, but it was huge. I'd say to passengers 'welcome aboard'. The horizontal split in the rear loading hatch was handy, just like a Range Rover. It drank loads of juice and backfired a lot, but never let me down.

Hah ! I remember putting a quids worth of petrol in it and it lasted for a couple of days .