What do you remember- seems impossible now

[pielip]

 

     I remember when i used to slide down the mountain side on a piece of cardboard to see who could get to the bottom first,It was also great fun to go up top of mountain make, a kite, out of old newspaper and a few pieces of string and watch it soar over the houses below,it was good sometimes the string would break and it never came back , it was good  to imagine you were on that kite and looking at the scenery below,

[Leah-WW]

Cows being driven along the road outside my grandparents' house from one pasture to another by a man with a dog and a stick This would be around about the late 1980s.

[stonechat]

My Dad reminded me tonight that when you got off a train there were several porters ready to take your luggage

Many stations there is noone at all now

[Pejic]

Leah - this still happens here twice a day. And also the collection and return ofthe herd of sheep and goats - they all know where they live.

[kooky]

Actually, today, I was travelling north to visit my gr children and dau.
I found myself in the wrong bit of train. I had to get out onto the platform and get in the right bit
The nice man who brought round the trolley said " Follow me, I'll take your case! Amazing.
Sorry off topic.
Kooky

[joboy]

memories of my childhood
This Pathe clip shows the noble clydesdale pulling a coal barge on a canal http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=47785 ...... I can remember them as I used to catch sticklebacks in a net along the towpath of the Grand Union canal at Paddington c1940
joboy

[Musicman]

My father started his own business when I was around 6-years-old (feels like around 100 years ago!) - and had a phone installed - the number was 1306 and, whilst the number has had various changes/additions over the years, it still has those three last digits!  I remember that, at that time, one newsagent in the town had a single digit phone number “8”.

[coombs]

The early years of Neighbours on BBC1. I hated all the shouting in it mainly from Max Ramsay.

Sooty Show, Raggy Dolls, Rainbow, You And Me, Blockbusters, Button Moon. I was born in July 1982 by the way.

I can remember my auntys house being rendered and then discussing sharp sand. In the photo album there are some pics of the works being carried out these are dated 1983. I was a year old yet remember aunty talking about sand and I must have known what sand was even at 1. I can remember being carried by mum when they were discussing sand.

[billkent]

My first encounter in the early forties with the school dentist, most dentists had joined the forces and some retired dentists were recalled, I sat in the teachers chair, had an injection, waited for  it to take effect then a nurse assistant put her arms around my chest from behind pinning my arms to my side whilst the elderly dentist removed my tooth, that memory still haunts me, I still break out in a cold sweat whenever I visit the dentist even after all these years.