I’ve left it longer than usual between posts. Call it lockdown negativity perhaps! To get me back into it I thought I’d do a quick list of things we no longer hear or see. Most of these have been covered in previous posts at other times. It’s a brief resume.
Clothes
Twinsets
Petticoats
Cravats
Boleros
Cars
Push-button ignition
Indicators which stuck out
Gear change on the steering column
Handbrakes in the dashboard
Bench seats in the front
Gadgetry
Reel to reel tape recorders
Radiograms
Kitchen
Rotary whisk
Soda syphon
Camp coffee
Blancmange
School
Inkwells
Blackboards and chalk
The cane
TV
The test card
‘Snow’
The National anthem at closing time
Presenters smoking pipes and cigarettes
Shops
Loose groceries weighed out on scales into paper bags
Sweet cigarettes
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Childhood Memories of growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. 
Can remember all of the items shown in the latest edition,sadly that includes getting the cane at school,afar cry from being made milk monitor at junior school 😊
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A naughty boy, eh? My brother and his mates all tried that trick which got passed around. If you were going to a teacher who caned on the bum not the hand, you slipped an exercise book down the inside back of your shorts or trousers. Thanks for commenting!
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I can remember doing that 😊 Always seemed to me that female teachers caned harder than male ones !
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I’ve heard that said before! There were some sadistic teachers around back then.
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Their were indeed, I can remember a boy in my class who was caned in front of the whole class including his twin sister until he cried ,the teacher smiled ,sent him to sit down until it became evident that his hand was bleeding.apparently to break the skin was illegal ( the difference I guess between child chastisement and child abuse)
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My ex-husband went to a convent boarding school at a very young age and said some of the nuns were vicious. One of my sister’s teachers used to hit kids on the head with his board-backed register. My sister’s nose poured with blood after one such attack. He never hit her again. We could go on, I’m sure!!
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I am sure we could !
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Oh, goodness! When I was in fifth grade, we had a teacher who had taken a instant dislike to one of the boys. She would make him come to the head of the class, where she would put him over a desk and beat him with a yardstick. One day she wailed on him so hard the yardstick broke. She then sent another boy over to Champlain Chevrolet to get another yardstick. Needless to say, I developed school phobia with a convenient stomach ache that never went away.
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😱
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My mother felt guilty about subjecting my brother and me to that school even after we were well into middle age.
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That’s absolutely vile – but was not uncommon back then. That poor boy probably still gets flashbacks to those beatings.
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Probably, sadly.
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I can’t match any of these tales of sadism, but I do remember most of the items in this collection. Guess I was lucky.
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I wasn’t hit at school either – but there was a lot of it about 😕
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Went to a well known grammar school In woodwork our punishment if we made mistakes was to run a gauntlet of fellow pupils wielding lengths of timber from the scrap box.
He would probably get arrested if he was teaching today
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That’s horrific!!! Yes, he would definitely be arrested if he was doing it now. Sickening thought, but he probably got some weird sort of pleasure out of seeing that happen. Vile man!
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Thankfully we moved away from the area. So much was accepted in those days My memories of the school still haunt me.
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I can well understand that.
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I can imagine.
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