Bitter cold wind stinging our rain soaked faces, we walked, shivering and miserable.  My sisters and I had walked a long way.  We still had a distance to go and it was already getting dark.  With every step we took, our sodden wellington boots would hit our already sore and chapped legs, making us wince [...]

I was tagged by Drowsy Monkey. This is the first tag I’ve had so here goes:

Rules:
1. Copy all the links below and replace your blog beside the appropriate letter. For example if your blog name starts with the letter “D” then replace the link beside “D” with yours, and put the replaced link at [...]

I have been reminded of a lot more games children played in the fifties but here are a few of the toys children had back then too.

A typical fifties doll, of which we had many.  My great aunt & uncle had a ‘Doll’s Hospital’ shop.  People would bring all their broken dolls, and dolls that [...]

Ahh, the memories…..
Those lovely aroma’s, which were not chemical in any way, that wafted around daily. The smell of Tar as they resurfaced the roads. Lovely squishy tar that melted in the hot summer sun so you could make patterns in it that would stay when it set hard again.
That beautiful smell of the coal [...]

Balls bouncing everywhere!  Two balls, three balls, rounders and just plain old bat & ball.  Kids would be everywhere playing ball.  Often playing bat & ball in the road - and I’m talking about roads in London!  You would stand one side of the road with the bat and across the road would be someone [...]

“Where has all my sugar gone?  The packet is empty, I had almost a full packet yesterday”…. “Sugar duck?” ‘Duck’ was one of a few pet names my dad had for my mum.  “Yes it has all gone!” said mum, staring in disbelief at the empty packet that had been put back in the cupboard.
Sandie, [...]

Houses in the early fifties were certainly not safe havens - far from it!
The windows worked with a rope ’sash cord’ as it was called, like a pulley inside the window frame.  You pushed the bottom window up, or the top one down in order to open them.   As it was made from rope, [...]

It started out as a normal day in our house but It didn’t end that way.  There was a knock on our door and mum or dad answered it.  Us kids ignored it, as we always did, after all, that was adult stuff.  We had much better things to do to amuse ourselves, at least [...]

Having read the stories of Swubird and found them so interesting and heartwarming, It inspired me to write about some of my childhood experiences, growing up in the 50’s in London.  It will be a series of blogs that will last for as long my memory allows :O)  I will include photos wherever I can.
This [...]

Whilst we were out this afternoon, we decided to go for a walk.  I wish I’d had my camera with me but thank goodness for mobile phones.  These shots are from my iPhone - not bad considering.

Now the photos below are what I am really pleased with, particularly as I was taking them ‘blind’ so [...]