The Poolie Bunker

Was it you who pinched me free gift out of my Beano and Beezer?..

Bicycles adapted into deathtraps with poorly fitted cow horn and a- banger handlebars..

Licence if you had a radio in your car, think 5 shillings, my old man not too happy my brother fitted one in his moggy 1000.

was it childrens choice that was on the wireless where you wrote in for a record to be played and they announced your name. did it along with others but were never succesful.

There was Junior Choice introduced by Ed Stewpot Stewart on a W.E.

Saying nowt me like.

The 1oclock show.

The lone ranger

Lassie ( friend of Ratboy )

Never heard that one it's totally stupid

The Littlest Hobo
(superb theme tune/ lyrics)-

'There's a voice, keeps on calling me,
Down the road, it's where I'll always be,
Every stop I make, I make a new friend,
Can't stay too long, keep moving on, til I'm home again.

Maybe tomorrow I'll want to settle down…...
.....Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on..........!'


Could be adapted and become the theme tune to Pools, searching for and keeping a clean sheet!

"Pipeline" switches next to your telly.

Purely platonic I’ve had him done to calm him down…..that said I was taking him down to pets at home and as I looked over to fasten him in I noticed he had an erection on….I drove all the way down and their it remained like a randy chilli pepper, pulls up in the car park and it was still there, what do I do , then he realised where he was, went apeshit and it disappeared…phew , close shave.

Old Lucozade bottles from the 50's. Wrapped in orange "polythene" type paper. Only got them when you were sick and at young age tasted horrible.

Fred Lumsdens….he always had a train set running in the front window…used to pass it every Sunday with my nana, age 7, me that is, not my nana.

The Little House on the Prairie, Sunday afternoon, one of the most depressing tv programmes ever.

and the waltons was the most puke inducing.

Lambert's news and sweet shop in Stockton road near Spring Garden avenue.

Good job you weren,t driving over speed bumps.

Aye remember "Hairy Mellon" well

Did you grow up on Rift House as well, Were you on the posh side of Oxford Rd.

Airfix models

Suspender belts!

Didn’t the program finish with the family going to bed all saying good night or similar

The Beverley Hillbillies been mentioned ?

Wrong thread Jamie-
You're talking about Pools current squad!

Any program with Michael Landon - usually shite

Bonanza- usually on ITV just before the Wrestling on World of Sport

Goggins Newsagents on Duke Street- always got the wrong change if Mrs Goggins served you!

For yourself,lol

Don't know how that newsagents lasted so long lovely people.. Was her son called David, he tried to bring the account paying for your newspapers into the 20 century. Like I say nice people.

Love it Snowy

Dial-a-disc

Watch with Mother,
Andy Pandy, Flowerpot Men, Rag,Tag and Bobtail, Picture Book and our current players The Wooden Tops !

Yeeees, ‘Bonker bikes’ on the Rat field paths Where Kingsley school is now.

Greythorpe Laing

That ship in the docks opposite the Vic circa 1975. The Princess Helena. Morells everything. Bruce Moores. Middleton Pier. The Heugh in reasonable condition and dodging the waves over the top half way across. Steetleys chimney and pier save it please. Poolie fans who were/are Pit Yakkers when the pull of Sunland and their "fans" who never went to Roker Park always called Pools shite. Once a Poolie always a Poolie even a Cornish one.

Aye that's right - David was a bit of a wizz on the computer in the days when nobody had one- think he put the stock on an early spreadsheet on his Spectrum! Remember him being painfully shy- mind his Mum could talk a glass eye to sleep!

David's biggest problem though was his fear of soap! Sure they lived in one of the bungalows on Percy Street - opposite Jesmond Road, as would often see them on my way out of school.

Goggins was always good for an emergency card- only trouble was, some of them had been there since the '60s! Remember my Dad getting an Anniversary one for my Mum and she kicked off big time!

Grand Hotel & Hill Carter

VHS tapes

Eddie Palmer's Butchers on Murrays Street

Is that Eddie the same one as Eddie's takeaway on Murray
Street Can't remember the real name but we always called it Eds he done stormer of a Sunday Lunch

The ‘Egton’….it was rumoured she’d been there that long she was ‘floating’ on baked bean cans the skeleton crew threw over the side.
A fine looking vessel, fully maintained for years.,,then sent for scrap.

Thank the lord we had Songs of Praise to look forward to,eh.

We only had aspirin in our medicine cabinet, not even a fisherman's friend..and what sort of man used Vicks vapor rub?

black cats and dogs with names like blackie, sooty and nigger where zero offence was either given or taken.

A hot toddy, whiskey, hot water and sugar,when I had toothache my father used to use an eye dropper to put whiskey on the tooth. We were never encouraged to brush our teeth, it was accepted you would have them all extracted eventually and replaced with false ones.

Another one toothpaste in round tins, gas when getting a tooth extracted, horrific, the person who ever come from behind you and snuck the mask over your face.

I had a tooth out when I was 8 with gas…the old man took me down and I came out a bit drowsy…he bought me a packet of spangles give me my bus fare and told me to get the bus home as he was meeting his mates…

Never had a filling until I moved away
The natural flouride in Hartlepool Water is amazing - It might be a poor town in many aspects but you rarely see shockingly bad teeth, like you do down here.

Don't know if it's the same family, or whether they bought part of the name- but think it's the same premises - opposite the bottom of Sandringham Road.