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Childhood Memories 1960s and 70s
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May 13, 2024
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Hi everyone, it's Karen from the Georgie Grandma
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Welcome back to my channel. Today's video is a collaboration with the transatlantic Housewives of YouTube
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who are busy being Marie, Tina's Talk Time and Maria Crocker. and as it's Sunday, this is the Sunday Sunshine Show
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And today's topic is childhood memories. So if you've never seen our Sunday show before
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it's a collaboration with the ladies I've just mentioned. And we all talk about the same topic
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but obviously put our own spin on it. And when we decided to do childhood memories
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I really like the idea. It's really nice to reminisce. So I was born in 1963
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So my childhood memories are going to be from the 60s up to about 78, 79
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There's so many childhood memories you could think of. So I've just jot it down someone that just came straight to my mind when I thought about childhood
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So I'm just going to go through them. They're not really in any particular order
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And this is probably going to be a bit of a rambly video. But there you go
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So the first things that I thought about were obviously like sweeties and foods and things like that
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and what came straight to my mind when I thought about sweets was spangles
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Remember spangles? They used to have them in all different flavours. Like I think there were orange and lime and lemon and but the ones I used to like were aniseed
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Just I found a picture. I'll put it up here. I think it's a post day you can buy
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And just those aniseed spangles were really, really good. I don't think they still sell spangles, but they were good
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Can you remember spangles? Yeah, I definitely like those. Can you remember getting a, well, I remember getting a mix-up from the shop
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I know you can still get mix-ups now, but I'm pretty sure this was before decimal money
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We used to get a half-pence mix-up from the shop. and I'm sure I used to get about six or seven sweets in this half-pence mix-up
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And that last year for ages, I think it cost you about £1.50 or £2 now for a mix-up
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But yeah, those were the sweets I remembered. I also remembered, and I was talking about this the other day
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whatever happened to ski yoghut. I used to really love skye yoghits when I was little
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They used to come in like a pot shaped like that. If I can find a picture, I'll put one here
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I remember the orange ones I used to like the most, but they're always thick and creamy
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And you don't seem to get yogurts like that anymore. They're all these muses or corners or..
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I just want a straightforward yogurt. Yogots that are good for your stomach and things like that
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but I just want the ski, just ordinary yogurt in the pot
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that you could actually get all the yogurt out of, not these square-shaped ones
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We have to dig into the corners and you kind of get it out. So yeah, ski yoghits I remember fondly
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Another food I remember was Vesta Curries. Can you remember those? I'm sure they were boiling the bag
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curry and rice. I think you could get them in beef and prawn
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and chicken and there might have been other things other than curries
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but I definitely remember the curries. And I'm not sure if they had like a crispy noodle
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one. But yeah, we thought we were quite sophisticated with Vesta Curries back in the 70s
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I don't think you can still get those. But the other thing that I remembered food-wise from my childhood
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was going to the fish and chip shop and getting your fish and chips or your bag of chips wrapped in
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newspaper. That must have been so bad for you. I mean, the grease that was on the chips
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I think they used the newspaper because it's quite absorbent and it's soaked the grease up
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But can you imagine all of the ink you were eating off the newspaper
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I'm not surprised that the kind of fazed that out. But I remember that fondly getting me chips wrapped in newspaper
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So moving on from food, these are things to do with the home that I remember
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The first thing I remember, and probably everybody in my age remembers, is this power cuts
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And I think this was early 70s. I don think power cuts actually affected us in our household too much possibly for a lot of people back then because you didn have computers not a lot of people had TVs
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You didn't have, like, computer games, things like that. So we probably didn't miss it that much
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Obviously, you didn't have your electric cooker, but I'm not sure if I was gas
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And you used to have candles, used to have those long, candles, we used to have them all over the house
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If you think about it, if you think about the power cuts, you can remember the smell of the candles from back then
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and though it wasn't scented candles, there were just ordinary candles. So the smell was obviously just the candles burning
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But yeah, I remember that. I don't know how people would cope now if there was a power cut
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You know, if you cut off from your TV or, you know, your YouTube
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well, no, if you had a power cut. I don't think your mobile phone would go out, would it? So maybe that wouldn't affect people too much
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But if you watch YouTube on the telly, it would, obviously. The other thing I remember to do with the home is having an outside toilet
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Now, this must have been in the 60s because we would move by the 70s
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So definitely I didn't have an outdoor toilet then. But we had an outdoor toilet in the 60s
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And having to go to the outdoor toilet in the winter when it was snowing and it really snowed back then
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I just, I vaguely, well no, I don't vaguely remember it, I do remember it well
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It was freezing. You ran to the toilet and then you ran back and if you had to get up in the middle of the night
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So that was just horrendous because there's always spiders in there and you'd have the nine times out of ten
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You wouldn't have toilet roll. You'd have torn up newspaper on the back of the toilet door
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It was horrendous. Yeah, that's not a, it is a childhood memory
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but it's probably not a fond childhood memory, outdoor toilets. Let us know if you had an outdoor toilet and be interested to know
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And the other thing that stuck in my mind from childhood from the home
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was the clothes ringers. I think we call them Mangles. And I'll put a picture here if I can find one
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And they were like when your mom had washed your clothes and then it was like two ringers and you turned the handle
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You put the clothes in and you turned the handle. and the clothes went through and he used to wring all of the water out
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before they hungered up on the line. And I really do remember
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nipping my fingers doing this quite a few times because you had to feed the clothing in
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and it would, you'd turn the handle and sometimes would nip the end of your fingers
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That's not a fond of memory, but I think every household had one of those
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back in the 60s and maybe early 70s as well before we've got proper washing machines
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But yeah, mangos, you can still like, actually buy those on Amazon as all. So after the home stuff, we move on to toys
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And I don't remember an awful lot of toys from my childhood
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I did do a video maybe it's two or three years ago and I'll link it at the end of
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if I remember to. And it was to do with childhood games
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And I think I did seven or eight childhood games I remembered. That was quite fun to do
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but I think the main toy I remember from being young is my roller skates
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I was forever on my roller skates. They're not the roller skates that you get these days
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These roller skates were like a metal base and they had like a red
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a red bait on the front that you put over your toes and you had lace through it
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and you tied it with the lace. Then there was a strap that went around your ankle
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And you could adjust the skates that had a key and you could, would pull the bottom of the skate out there, you know, to fit your feet better
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But I was forever in those roller skates. Me and my friends would constantly be out on roller skates
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I don't think I could do roller skating now. I bought my granddaughter some roller skates last year
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and she really enjoyed them. But you just feel like we didn't have, like
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arm pads and helmets and things like that. We must have had so many injuries back then
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Health and safety just wasn't around. But, yeah, I used to. love me Roller Skates. And I think the other toy that came to mind when I was thinking about this
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is I had a tressy doll. I know everybody talks about Cindy dolls and Barbie dolls, but I had a tressy doll
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And what I remembered about this tressy doll was its hair grew. And I think there was a button
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on the doll, maybe on its tummy or it's back and you press the button and you pull the hair
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and the hair grew. Now, I'm not sure how you got the hair back in
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was did that have a key and you turned the key and the hair went back in i can remember that if anybody remembers the tressy dolls can you let us know in the comments how you got the hair back in Because I can remember that But I sure my tressy doll
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had dark hair. I wish I still had it, but obviously I didn't keep it from then. I'm sure some
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people would have done, but I didn't. But yeah, I remember the tressy doll. The next section that I've
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kind of grouped these intersections, as you can see, but the next section is to do with probably
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entertainment and stuff. And one of the TV programs I remember is a program called
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Why Don't You switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead
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And I think they should still have this program today. I mean, they may have for all I know, but I don't think they do
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But I used to love this program and it was just a bunch of kids
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and they would talk, have a feeling. Aunt McPartland was on it and possibly Pauline Quirk
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And they used to talk about viewers were sending, you know, recipes
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And obviously these were just kids. So there were recipes that kids could do maybe some chocolate crispy cakes or something like that
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People used to send jokes in. They used to do craft projects that you could do
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And because it was kids doing it, it obviously paid more attention to it
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But the part of the program I remember most where they used to have a kid on
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a different child each week who collected something and kids back there collected weird stuff
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that collect my bottle tops or plastic carrier bags, things like that
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But it was just really interesting. And I always wanted to collect something
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But I don't think I ever did. I know I did have a collection of whimsies
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There's another thing from my childhood whimsies. But I used to love the collector's section on that program
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It just really made us. want to collect something. Do you remember that program? If you remember it, again, let us know in the
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comments below. What part of it do you remember and what part did you like most? Going on to books
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I was an avid reader, I have always been an avid reader ever since I was a child. And I think my earliest
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memories of books have got to be Enid Blyton, right from the nuddy stories. I remember my
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Nana sitting reading as Nuddy stories. But when I started to read for myself
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The books that I remembered are the magic faraway tree. And I went and bought this book a few years ago
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Me don't, I love this as well. And I'm going to read it. I'm going to read it to me, grandchildren
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and maybe give it to one of them if they're interested. This is the faraway tree collection
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Obviously not from the 60s. The book isn't. But the magic faraway tree was a story about a group of
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of young children who went, I think they went to stay with that auntie, and she lived near a
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wood, and it was called the enchanted, if I remember, it was called the enchanted wood
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And they went into this wood and they found this tree and they climbed the tree
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And in this tree, there was some, like, magical people, like, there was Mrs. Wash a lot
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who used to took a dirt water down the tree after she had finished washing
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And there was a character called Moonface. and I think there was a character called Silky the Fairy
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This really stuck in me at this book. And at the top of the tree was this big cloud
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And every day, every couple of days, a different land would land in the cloud
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So there was like the, you know, the land of birthdays or the land of topsy-turvy
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And the kids might get stuck in that land for a while and not be able to get out
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And it was just a really fun book. It's maybe not the kind of book that kids
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would want to read these days, but I really enjoyed Enid Blighton books. I also remember one of our
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books called The Wishing Chair, and it was about this chair that you sat in and grew wings and you
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could fly anywhere in it. How fun would that be? That was a really good book as well
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Mainly the books that I remember from my childhood have got to be Enid Blighton. I also remember
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reading the Mallory Tower series, which was about a boarding school, a girls' boarding school
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just sounded so fun. I think the main character was called Daryl
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And, you know, her and our friends used to have a really good time. They'd have like midnight feasts and play lacrosse and, you know, have picnics and everything was jolly
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And it just sounded so much fun. That's probably not what boarding school is like
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But Ian Blythe, Ian Blyton made it sound fun. She made me want to go to Borden School
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Yeah, they were really fun books. I also remember taping the top 40 of the radio
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Can you remember doing that You used to have a little cassette player and the top 40 on the radio I don know if they still do it but the playage song and you try and record on the tape the songs you liked
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But the trick was getting the song without the radio presenter's talking, so you have to
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you have to try and guess when the presenter was going to talk near the end of the song
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so you could stop it before he started talking. I used to do that every week
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You'd tape the top 40. Not all of them, obviously, because you would have hundreds of tapes
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but you would definitely tape at least the top 10, you know, the ones you liked
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Yeah, that was fun. I used to like music when I was younger
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and I think the earliest memory of a singer that I really liked was Jimmy Osmond
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and I was fuming when he got knocked off the number one spot
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with Longhead Lover from Liverpool and I'm sure he got knocked off the number one spot by Sweet
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I can't remember what the song was, but I'm sure it was sweet
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Blockbuster, was it? Did they have a song called Blockbuster? I don't recall
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But definitely Jimmy Osmond, I was annoyed when he wasn't number one anymore
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Longhead Lover from Liverpool. Seeing him on Mostar Chef not long ago, and he's changed a little bit
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But from music from my childhood, I was probably about 12 when the BASCity Rollers hit the scene
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and I was a huge BASColour fan. I wanted to marry Les McEwen
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Who was your favourite, Basicy Roller if you liked them? Definitely Les McEwen for me
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And, you know, obviously, when you like a band like that, when you're that age
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it's probably from 12 to maybe 14. I had some white trousers with the tartan stripe going down the side
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and you used to have a tartan scarf and you tie it around your wrist
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and you thought you were the bees and knees you thought you looked so cool
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I remember wedges I had with them as well used to wear wedge shoes like platform wedges
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I must have looked horrendous. I did have a photograph somewhere of us dressed like that
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but I didn't have time to look for it. So yeah, I must have looked really cool in these
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white trousers with the tartan stripe down. I think there were brown platform wedges and my tartan scarf tied me out around my wrist
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I'm sure, you know, I must have looked really fashionable. And the only other thing I wanted to mention, so this is the last thing from my childhood
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memories, it's been a bit rambly, but I hope you're enjoying it. The last thing I remember is going to the cinema when I was 15 to say Greece
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absolutely iconic movie and I want to say when it first came out there was a huge queue
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if you're from this area there was a cinema in Lowell which is in Gates said called the classic
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and it was on Lowell are what we call the fell and there was a queue right down the fell
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for you know kids of my age and possibly a little bit older
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cue into sea Greece and we I think it was me and my friends
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from school, we sat in the back row at the cinema. I think we took a flask of tea with where
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we were so cool at 15, took a flask of tea to watch Greece
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And I still, when I watch that movie, I think of standing in that queue
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and sitting in the cinema with my friends watching that. And the moment in Greece
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that really stands out for me, and it's not the, you know
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the lovey-dovey scenes with John Travolta and Olivia New York. John. For me, it's when Sandy and Danny are the driving movie and they're watching the movie
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and there's an advert on and in the advert there's a hot dog jumps into a bun. That is the moment
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I remember most from Greece. What moment do you remember most from Greece? Do you remember
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the hot dog in the bun? It's strange the kind of things you remember. But anyway, those are my
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childhood memories of a few different things. I'd love to know what your childhood memories are
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You know, even if your childhood was in the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, let us know in the comments
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below. And don't forget to go over and watch Marie from at Busyby Marie, Tina from Tina's
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Talk Time and Maria from at Maria Crocker to see what their childhood memories are because
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I like to listen to what other people remember from, you know, those years. I do find it quite fun
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So don't forget to go over and watch those. That's all I've got for you today
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I'll see you again on Tuesday with, I don't know what yet
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but I hope you'll come back then and have a look. So thanks so much for watching
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That's all I've got for you. Bye for now
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