| Help required for my old man's birthday... 23:05 - Nov 22 with 2500 views | TresBonne |
Ok, one of the more random threads you will see on here at 11pm but here goes...
My dad's birthday is coming up, turning 57. I'm a younger lad myself mid twenties, but I want to write some oddly specific things in his birthday card (i.e, you've now lived to see the....x, something along those lines).
I'd love it if I could get some really obscure stuff in there that he'd never expect me to know.
As I know there is a lot of you on here of a similar generation/closer age, I'd love to be able to gather some ideas?!
What's some oddly specific and funny things that a 57 year old would've known about growing up? He's been in Suffolk, more specifically Bury for most of his lifespan, so anything from there that could be of use will be appreciated!
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| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 00:07 - Nov 23 with 2400 views | factual_blue |
Do you remember when OAPs queued for free tea and sugar from Glasswells in Bury town centre?
Do you remember when there was a butcher with its own abattoir at the end of Northgate Street?
Do you remember when M&S used to close their shoe section for half-day closing on Thursdays because all the shoe shops in Bury were shut for the afternoon?
Do you remember Bury bus station, where McDonalds now is? |  |
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| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 02:47 - Nov 23 with 2321 views | BigCommon |
Do you remember...?
Taking empty lemonade bottles back to the shop for 10p ..?
Scrumping apples from peoples gardens,?
The whole Street playing football or cricket together,? (dog poo everywhere)
Attaching cardboard to your bike forks, to make it sound like a motor bike as it hit the spokes. Although it really sounded like a loud fart..?
Kids walking to school in vast numbers, like a massive human caterpillar, from every estate..
Skinny , active, healthy ,kids
Sitting with the family at meal times. |  | | |
| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 06:55 - Nov 23 with 2208 views | heavyweight |
Some TV ones
The Anglia Television revolving knight logo
From Norwich it's the Sale of the century with Nicholas Parsons.
Romper Room with Miss Rossalyn - a pre-school tv programme |  | | |
| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 07:42 - Nov 23 with 2153 views | Herbivore |
You've lived to see Ipswich actually winning stuff. |  |
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| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 08:34 - Nov 23 with 2106 views | Trequartista |
| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 00:07 - Nov 23 by factual_blue |
Do you remember when OAPs queued for free tea and sugar from Glasswells in Bury town centre?
Do you remember when there was a butcher with its own abattoir at the end of Northgate Street?
Do you remember when M&S used to close their shoe section for half-day closing on Thursdays because all the shoe shops in Bury were shut for the afternoon?
Do you remember Bury bus station, where McDonalds now is? |
The lost verse from Marillion’s “Kayleigh” is not as good as I would have hoped. |  |
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| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 10:39 - Nov 23 with 2016 views | WeWereZombies |
| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 08:34 - Nov 23 by Trequartista |
The lost verse from Marillion’s “Kayleigh” is not as good as I would have hoped. |
Or, very specifically not Suffolk let alone Bury St. Eds:
Do you remember, your President Nixon ?
Do you remember, the bills you have to pay ?
Or even yesterday ?
Will work best if he was an avid Bowie fan. |  |
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| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 10:55 - Nov 23 with 1993 views | ford6600 |
Does he remember Anglia TV circa 1980 Tales of the
Unexpected especially the catchy intro tune and the
'dancing woman'! | | | |
| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 11:21 - Nov 23 with 1963 views | Guthrum |
| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 00:07 - Nov 23 by factual_blue |
Do you remember when OAPs queued for free tea and sugar from Glasswells in Bury town centre?
Do you remember when there was a butcher with its own abattoir at the end of Northgate Street?
Do you remember when M&S used to close their shoe section for half-day closing on Thursdays because all the shoe shops in Bury were shut for the afternoon?
Do you remember Bury bus station, where McDonalds now is? |
From my time at school in Bury in the mid-80s:
Rollerbury
The Golden Chip on St Johns St
The Cathedral church with no tower |  |
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| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 11:34 - Nov 23 with 1943 views | Meadowlark |
Do you remember when Greene King Abbott and IPA were nice beers? |  | | |
| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 17:33 - Nov 23 with 1851 views | TresBonne |
Haha, thanks for all the suggestions here TWTD'ers, I'll get to writing it later! | | | |
| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 22:45 - Nov 23 with 1799 views | ronnyd |
| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 00:07 - Nov 23 by factual_blue |
Do you remember when OAPs queued for free tea and sugar from Glasswells in Bury town centre?
Do you remember when there was a butcher with its own abattoir at the end of Northgate Street?
Do you remember when M&S used to close their shoe section for half-day closing on Thursdays because all the shoe shops in Bury were shut for the afternoon?
Do you remember Bury bus station, where McDonalds now is? |
There's a row of terraced houses where the abattoir used to be. Can't remember the name though. | | | |
| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 22:57 - Nov 23 with 1786 views | Tangledupin_Blue |
| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 00:07 - Nov 23 by factual_blue |
Do you remember when OAPs queued for free tea and sugar from Glasswells in Bury town centre?
Do you remember when there was a butcher with its own abattoir at the end of Northgate Street?
Do you remember when M&S used to close their shoe section for half-day closing on Thursdays because all the shoe shops in Bury were shut for the afternoon?
Do you remember Bury bus station, where McDonalds now is? |
And next to the bus station was Purdy's - where mum used to take us for milk-shakes before getting on the bus.
Don't know Bury so well, now. Is the Odeon cinema still over the road? |  |
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| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 08:22 - Nov 24 with 1716 views | Plums |
| Help required for my old man's birthday... on 11:21 - Nov 23 by Guthrum |
From my time at school in Bury in the mid-80s:
Rollerbury
The Golden Chip on St Johns St
The Cathedral church with no tower |
From my three and a bit years at St Louis Middle School the same time. I haven't been back for many years but I recall:
The overhyped punch ups between the three upper schools.
The town smelt of the brewery at one end and sugar beet residue at the other.
Andy's Records.
WHSmith being the main shop for home computers. |  |
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