Stories from your childhood

ok just thinking about a few things today!

Remember playing skipping?

"Down in the valley where the green grass grows where so n so washes her clothes,
she sang and she sang and she sang so sweet and she called for so n so down the street,
so n so, so n so will ya marry me,
yes sir, yes sir at half past 3 ect....

What about playing balls up again the back door
Plainy packet of rinco -
Downy packet of rinso,
Uppy packet of rinso

Did you remember in marbles the "steelie", the great big steel ball that nearly killed all the marbles, the bigger the better, or the gulliers - cant remember what the name was.....

"Piggy Beds" with a shoe polish tin filled with clay......

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Rolo wrote: Funny that Teresa, Remember my sister and her friends doing something that involved hopping on one foot on numbered squares,drawn with chalk on the ground. Also remember them singing something like " vote,vote,vote for De Valera " or something,while they were skipping. Rolo.

I remember the girls singing that De Valera chant alright when they were skipping.

He was President at the time but I never dug the chant or what it meant.

They got to drink for free?..they are the kind of traditions I like.

I remember well when the building started at the back of Whitehall, pre
Beaumont Hospital. I delivered milk for Dublin Dairies (1966). I had to scale
a big wall with a crate of milk at Beaumont Pub to deliver to the new houses
in Montrose. If you hopped over the wall it was all field until you reached
Ardleigh near the roundabout. It took years before that wall was removed to
allow access to the estate from Beaumont Road. Those houses surrounding
Montrose Grove cost 4,800 pounds when built. they jumped to about 7,000
when I got wed, I could only afford to rent one. I wonder how much they
would fetch today?

Rolo wrote: Now there's a few memories all right.My parent's house,where I grew up,is right at the Kilmore Road / Ardlea Road junction,right opposite where the old Pre Fab St.David's school used to be.Even when I was a kid ( 1966 - 1970) there were fields across from our house ,what is now Admore and Montrose. Pogue,a standard 3 Bed in Montrose...................E 400,000 give or take. Saw you went to Ciaran's primary,where after that ? Pat what about you,where'd you go to school,betcha it was Joey's. Rolo.

You got it Rolo.

Scoil Mhuire first and on to Joey's. Class of 1971.

I remember what that practice of driving outside city limits for a drink was called.

Bona Fides. It's an old custom whereby a landlord had to open his tavern to you if you came knocking and were from a location a certain number of miles away. So you could be served but a local couldn't. People were driving all over the place for an extra gargle. No, the drink was not free and this was the time before drink driving laws came in and in fact there wouldn't have been a lot of cars on the road anyway.

Another memory is of the breadman from Johnson Mooney & O'Brien. His name was Alfie and he was a real Dub and he used to have great crack sl*gging me Ma when Dublin won the All Ireland in 1963. My Ma was from Galway. But she got her own back as Galway won 3 in a row 1964-1966.

Well Alfie bread cart was horse driven in those old days. I remember when the horse did a sh*te a woman 2 doors down used to run out with a shovel and scoop it up and put it on her roses. She had great roses !!! She f**king deserved to......

Anybody remember the knackers (they were called that in those days so no offence intended). They used to come round with a horse and cart shouting "rags for toys". You'd give them old clothes and they'd give you a little toy like you of those propeller things that blow in the wind.

Or making an igloo in the snow in the fields beside our home. We used to get a lot of snow back in those days.

Biker Pat wrote: Remember Buggles Lane where all the young folk went courtin' Buggles Lane ran from Beaumont Road, near that old Swiss style house, towards Cadbury's in Kilmore

Pat when we were kids we called the lane beside the piggery buggles lane as far as i recall the butcher..u remember him? was called Mr Buggle and thats why we called the lane buggles lane

i remember going into Mr Buggles the 1st day i went to school in donnycarney and telling him all about my day and him giving me loads of the butchers paper to draw on those were the days when u bought ur meat off a butcher and he wrapped it up in white paper,,use to hate it mind when said paper was marked with blood..yuck even know i hate red blood from meat hence me cremating everything i cook..lol

ah those were the days

 

Shar

Ann Whelan wrote:   I loved also when the ice cream van came around in the summer and as soon as you heard it from way down the road, you went into panic alert hoping that you would have time to go in plead with said parent that this ice cream was a real matter of a life and death situation.....I loved the little paper cup and wooden spoons...... Also loved when my parents went to the cinema ....they always brought home a carton of orange juice and a box of popcorn each for my brother and I. That orange juice tasted different to any other orange juice I ever tasted!! And the best!

Mr Whippy used to come around our road.

I loved it when my parents went to Belton's, the pub on Collins Avenue. They'd always come home with fish and chips.

You ever been in a Bubble Car?

A guy 2 doors down from us had one and I remember he took me for a spin in Elmount. I was thrilled. Like you were sitting on the ground. And the big door at the front where you got in and out.

There was at one time in Raheny if I remember two vegtable men, one was Alfie Kelly from Avondale and the other was Paddy Darby from Assams. Alfie then changed and took up the ice cream van.

I remember the horse and cart delivering the milk and the best was the breadman. He would come up the road with the doors open and we would skut and at the same time nick a few cakes or a vienne roll.

I loved to tear the inside out and leave the crust. There was the jam jar man as well usually with a horse and cart. You never see those old horse and carts now especially the gypsy one. I loved them.

I remember there used to be some gypsies in Raheny, they were almost always scarred. I guess they have all but disappeared.

René

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All go out here and have a read of this it is fantastic! it will drag you right back... there are some great stories out here about Johney 40 coats and bang bang... not to mention the stories of games we all played... oh to be that young again and appreciate it.

eejit91 wrote: Do you remember playing Doctor!!!!! Boys.. oh boys

Sure do..........

I knew I'd find a good use for girls dolls............

Was a good doctor and delivered many triplets............

We used to play kiss chasing down St. Anne’s - I always thought it would make me pregnant so I would pass the fella's on to my friends.... I still believe that

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