O/T Anyone Remember

[Romared]

Them Frogmen, Submarines etc, that you got out of Corn Flake packets ? You had to put something in them (i thought it was flower ) put them in a screw top pop bottle Fulla watta , tighten the top and they submerged unscrew and they came back up , my mates found a box of these sort of things in his loft , Old subbeuteo teams , a small howzthat cricket game in a small blue tin abart one n hafe inches square , cud tell a story abart that brought back some reyt memories, did you have any of these things ?

[SBRed48]

A think it wo bicarbonate a soda tha purrin, Those simple toys were all wi cud afford in poverty stricken Doduth Bottom--but wi wor happy. Nardays all kids do is stare at a screen gerrin hyped up.

I ed that Howzat game. Two hexagonal metal rollers that landed face up on wunna the edges. Fust wun ed runs 1,2,3,4,6 and "Howszat". Second wun ed Not Art and five ways a gerrin art. I compiled scooarbooks for hours wi that game. Yorkshire allus wun.

[Romared]

Tha cheertud then aye that's the wun SB , a pinched wun frum towd co op up new street , laiked all weekend we it and got cort purrin the bugga back mi mam went mad !!! Then gave me sum POBS t mek mi sleep , happy days my arse ! Allus a scutch reddy if tha dint behave

[Romared]

Tha cud b reyt SB wi bi carbonate soda , posh eh t ev that int house narradays

[animallittle3]

Tha couldn't beat an early 70's Matchbox motorway , the must have toy in 1970 for the more discerning 8 year old rug rat .

Tha pushed it together and it formed the M1 and tha pushed thi own cars bought off Barnsley market ivery friday .

Mini coopers , Ford Anglia , Triumph Herald , an ambulance and the much sought after police bike ,

Tha med all the noises associated with the M1 at rush hour time in 1970 .

I suspect the 3 car pile up attended by the ambulance and police bike didn't involve fire as the matchbox fire engine war a tad dearer than the Mini Cooper and maybe next week never actually happened despite my insistence that I needed it and people may die .

I'd expect the 2017 version would have car occupants busy texting , cars hardly moving and every other vehicle purchased a 4x4 driven by a dolls head bimbo with two monstrous kids in the park all taking selfies .

[Romared]

tha reyt

[Exiletyke]

Tha couldn't beat an early 70's Matchbox motorway , the must have toy in 1970 for the more discerning 8 year old rug rat .

Tha pushed it together and it formed the M1 and tha pushed thi own cars bought off Barnsley market ivery friday .

Mini coopers , Ford Anglia , Triumph Herald , an ambulance and the much sought after police bike ,

Tha med all the noises associated with the M1 at rush hour time in 1970 .

I suspect the 3 car pile up attended by the ambulance and police bike didn't involve fire as the matchbox fire engine war a tad dearer than the Mini Cooper and maybe next week never actually happened despite my insistence that I needed it and people may die .

I'd expect the 2017 version would have car occupants busy texting , cars hardly moving and every other vehicle purchased a 4x4 driven by a dolls head bimbo with two monstrous kids in the park all taking selfies .

Talking of which I was behind a car yesterday with a sticker in the rear window which read



MUMMY & DADDIES SPECIAL LITTLE PRINCESS ON BOARD

Yeah right

My pet hate

[SBRed48]

If it's in decent condition and complete cos thaz not laiked wi it much Ziles then a saw wun sold on Bargain Hunt fo £40.
The ever so trendy people that go into Harry Enfield's I saw you coming pay loadsa money for em. The game is ever so working class and Northern and it's a must have.

[Exiletyke]

If it's in decent condition and complete cos thaz not laiked wi it much Ziles then a saw wun sold on Bargain Hunt fo £40.
The ever so trendy people that go into Harry Enfield's I saw you coming pay loadsa money for em. The game is ever so working class and Northern and it's a must have.

I'm always playing with it SEBs

[Ponte_Steve24]

I used to have Alec Stewarts World Cup Cricket game. It had string loaded bowler and batsman then fielders had cups between their feat to catch the ball. There were three different weights of ball too. Only problem was you got fed up after ten minutes when your hands got tired. It took longer putting the boundary together than it did playing it.