Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: usedbustickets on April 16, 2014, 12:37:11 PM
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I thought it might be good idea to go through those old photos we all have that evoke memories of childhood and post them here with a little commentary.
To start things off here is a very early photograph of my good self and my younger brother holding the old man's prize marrow. The picture (apologies for quality) was taken in either 1959 0r 1960, outside the flats where we used to live. In the background you can see the council rent office and estate maintenance workshop. You will also notice the old man's motorbike and sidecar, cheekily parked outside the council offices ;D. And for those who want to know these things I believe the bike was a BSA 500. The green to the right of the council offices was where we played football, and if I had a pound for every game we played there I would be a rich man today :)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-A6GREpqX6UM/U05nPtTlv3I/AAAAAAAAA5A/DcKbEetW_58/s609/David%2520and%2520Peter%25201960%2520-%2520Copy.jpg)
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What a great idea
Only this weekend I have been searching through old photo's .It is my dads and his twin brothers 90th birthday soon and I am putting together a portfolio (this is your life) problem being the photo's are at my dads : :) I will get one posted this weekend hopefully if I can work out how :-\
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And here's another. This time taken in 1963 in the week or so before my first school, Burgh Heath Methodists, was closed and demolished. The picture is taken in front of the outside toilets. The school consisted of three classrooms, and was mixed aged classes at that. No facilities such as a school hall, gym or library, other than the three classrooms, which was probably why it was closed. Even school dinners were served at the nearby War Memorial Hall. Most of the kids in the picture lived on the same council estate as me, constructed by various London boroughs, but for some reason we all initially went to one of the local village schools, rather than the shiny new Junior/Infant school they built on the estate!
Great picture, very much of its time I believe, that still brings back good memories of people and the area alike. I still know most of the people in the photo, and in some cases I am still in touch with them as friends, and indeed relatives. I know we did not have the consumables or indeed the wealth then that we have today, but I still look upon this period as a happy and peaceful time, that in retrospect probably was a 'golden age'. :) :)
Can you spot me in the picture?
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gxFpiLbKWus/U05n3YUPnkI/AAAAAAAAA5I/CtWKOmV27vQ/s640/Burgh%2520Heath%2520School%25201963.jpg)
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Front row, fourth in from the left.
What do I win?
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Second row down, third in from the right
What do I win?
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2nd row down third from the right same as SteveJ
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Top row 5th from right ;)
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Me and a goat at Dudley Zoo circa 1960. I still really like goats.
(http://s21.postimg.org/aktaa368z/dudley_zoo_1960.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/aktaa368z/)
Me and my Mum in our back garden at Whiston, Rotherham circa 1963
(http://s21.postimg.org/4iuub2wkj/me_and_mum.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/4iuub2wkj/)
A 12 year old me with my young brother at Mablethorpe beach around 1971
(http://s10.postimg.org/5q7tczhdh/me_and_bro_1971.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/5q7tczhdh/)
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Lovely photos all of them! So nostalgic. They just evoke memories of that era. More please? :)
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Menthol, is there a Boston Park at Whiston?
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(http://s28.postimg.org/pqbkuaxa1/meschool.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/pqbkuaxa1/)
(http://s27.postimg.org/dn3gazinz/hospital.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/dn3gazinz/)
I'm the one in the bed :)
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Gosh in the old days you had to look smart even when lying in a hospital bed!
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Menthol, is there a Boston Park at Whiston?
Not really Whiston, more Moorgate which isn't very far away. But from Boston Park you can see all of Sheffield and the moors in the distance.
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H you was a good looking lad, but I did I notice you didn't put any dates on your photos, getting a little age shy are we? ;D ;D.
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The winner of the where's UBT in the school photo goes to SteveJ, and the first prize is a weeks IT support from Lance. The second prize goes to Patrice and that wins you two weeks IT support from Lance. ;) ;D ;D
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To answer UBT and Menthol
The hospital photo is circa 1966 (I was wearing a kipper tie which was a Christmas present :) ) and the other is circa, God knows,...... maybe 1961.
Perhaps, interestingly. the reason I was in hospital was because I contracted Potts disease.
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Potts Disease H, that's very interesting. My granddaughter was diagnosed with that, she had two years out of school because of it. She is now doing her A levels, but struggling to attend full time. :(
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(http://s2.postimg.org/i14g85i0l/image.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/i14g85i0l/)
Cycle proficiency course. Booker ave, school, Liverpool, about 1968
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Cycling Proficiency and Ribena 100 yards swim were the attainments in the last year of Primary school. Fran which one is you in the picture?
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(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Scan_zps5baae807.jpg)
C. 1953.
When we went on holiday my father would hire a car for a fortnight (we couldn't afford to own one) and we would drive off to stay with relations. Here I am with my younger brother on an uncle's farm outside Aberystwyth. As the older brother I was allowed to take the reins once milk churns had been loaded aboard and direct the horse up the quarter mile farm track to the main road. There were no side turnings on the track and the old horse plodded its way up the hill twice a day, for day after day, and year after year so there was not much fear of him getting lost but I applied myself single-mindedly to the task of guiding him along. When we got to the road my uncle would take over control to get the cart across the road and park up next to the concrete milk stand to unload the churns.
I seem to be in my junior school uniform, complete with cap, even though we were on holiday. Perhaps I liked it, or perhaps I didn't have any alternative clothing.
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(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/PrimarySchool_zps7b54973e.jpg)
Primary School, 1952 or 1953
The desks are pushed together so we can all fit into the photo. I am the serious one with the open, trusting (perhaps naive) face. Much like I am today.
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Potts Disease H, that's very interesting. My granddaughter was diagnosed with that, she had two years out of school because of it. She is now doing her A levels, but struggling to attend full time. :(
I was off for seven and a half months sadler, six of them lying completely flat in bed.
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Cycling Proficiency and Ribena 100 yards swim were the attainments in the last year of Primary school. Fran which one is you in the picture?
On the from row last person on the right