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

[Romared]

Agree , but not all like that !! Just 80% ov mm

[Romared]

Anyway back to old games gadgets and toys , enny favorites ?

[Exiletyke]

Anyway back to old games gadgets and toys , enny favorites ?

Still got my Escalado

Love it but can't stand horse racing