[TerryB]

Theres one thing we all seem to have forgot is the long hair(not shore about my mate Terry i think he still as it ).

Yup ..still got it ...still long [-ish] ...going grey though ...

Trench style coat

Donkey jacket

Nah.not me ...'bike leather ...I still wear mine now.

T.

[Big John S]

Hi all. I guess the thread title includes me, I'm past the over 50 thing by a good ten years. The best thing about being a 'senior citizen' is that you find yourself sometimes being held slightly in awe by all the young whippersnappers who are too young to have been around in the days of steam.
Big John S.

[Mick]

Yeah B John the smell of steam the fog that was so thick you could cut it,the long hot summers its all gone
Mick.

[filonian]

Was it not the D.A. hair style (sides swept back top straight nice and long) not for me though in our village the only barber there had 1 style which was short back and sides. All done for the pricey sun of 6d ( 21/2p) in todays money.

[Mick]

I think we had the same barber Billy Welch was his name, he used to go to St Lukes Hospital in Bradford.
Me dad told me he used to cut the hair of the poor blokes that were on there way out if you know wot i mean .
Mick.

[Teleman]

I must have had a posh barber then , He did two styles
1/ ... ears showing .. (short back and sides)
2/ ... ears not showing ..(but still short at the back)
I can remember the school rule that your hair must not reach your shirt collar at the back , if it did it was to long and they told you to get it cut

[TerryB]

I can remember the school rule that your hair must not reach your shirt collar at the back , if it did it was to long and they told you to get it cut

They had that rule at my school too.
I spent my last year at school [64/65] "In Detention" [you had to stay behind for 15 minutes every day at 4.00pm when all the other kids had gone home]
It was bit of a pain ...but it was worth it for the schoolyard "kudos" [oh,they call it "cred" now ] ....'specially with the girls.
It was the Headmaster who came up with the idea ....I reckon the bald-headed old coot was just plain jealous.
Anyway ....the last laugh is still on the old fool now though [if he's still alive] ....'cos I've still got my hair ....and its still "over my collar & my ears"
My Mum used to make me laugh too ......"These pop stars with long hair ...its only wigs wot they wear"

T.

[Mick]

I bet you was one of the lads at the back of the bike shed Terry with the woodbines .
The last school i went to had this bloke that came in to give us Gardening lessons he used to leave a packet of woodbines in the potting shed:D .
The Head Master could never work out why everyone was so good at potting plants,he thought we just didnt like getting wet when it was raining .
Mick

[Big John S]

When you get to our age, some of us still have long hair, but only so we can use it as a comb over!
Regarding school, we had several teachers who were dead shots with bits of chalk if you were mucking about when they were teaching. One in particular, an art teacher called Mr Webb, christian name Rob, could turn and throw in one fluid movement, and he never missed. He was a good bloke though, he started a school railway club, and organised trips to places like OOC and Willesden/Camden etc. I often wonder if he's still around, though I somehow doubt it.
Big John S.

[TerryB]

.......... we had several teachers who were dead shots with bits of chalk if you were mucking about when they were teaching........

You should have had our woodwork teacher ...He used to throw the blackboard rubber,mallets,lumps of wood or anything else he could find near to hand at us ...I swear he would have thrown the desk [workbench] at us if he could've picked it up.
He dropped dead of a heart attack one dinner time [over dinner] whilst yelling at some-one for not eating their cabbage .....unfortunately,I missed it,because I got fed up with school dinners and used to "bunk off" to the chip shop for mine.

I bet you were one of the lads at the back of the bike sheds with the woodbines ....

Not quite mick ..... I was either at the back of the bike sheds with the girls ...or in the bike sheds mending some-one elses bike ...

T.

[filonian]

My woodwork teacher could do the same,had a short temper could also us a cane or any thing that came to hand.
Glad to say he was o.k. with me, he is still living,and was a very good friend of my next door neighbor he is 93 this year.

[Mick]

We had one that had a old Trolley Bus cane or pole wot ever you wanted to call it,the one that they used to change direction.
He could hit anyone in class with it and it hurt. he loved too drop it on your head.
Mick.

[filonian]

We can laugh at some of our old teachers antics now when we look back.but at lest you had respect for them or else you soon knew about it,it was sore hands or sore elswhere?.

Do you all think it would be a good thing today for the modern yobs.Not all kids are bad some can be very nice to speak to and very polite.

[TerryB]

I bumped into my old "Metalwork" teacher a coupla years ago ....he was huge man,with a foul temper and he thought nothing of using the full vocabulary of four letter words any any unfortunate "kid" who upset him just before dishing out "six of the best" with a metal ruler ...[bear in mind,this was 1961/65 ...no-one really swore anywhere,not on TV or radio anyway]....fortunately,I was good at metalwork,and got on OK with him.
The amazing thing was that he recognised me,and he seemed to be one of the most polite,gently spoken men you could wish to meet anywhere.

Not long after,I was standing in my local library and a wizened old git rudely pushed in front of me to get his books stamped [he literally elbowed me outa his way] ...I recognised the name on his card and politely enquired if he was Mr ****** [our old R.I. ....{Religous Instruction} teacher ...it was all C of E then,btw, ...non of this "multicultural carp" } ...............he looked straight through me,and just said ...
"Yes Lad,But I dont wish to remember You"
Lad? ...I was about 54/55 at the time.

T.

[Mick]

Yes i agree filonian the trouble is when a kid gets into trouble at school now they send them home for afew days.
But the best think thats happening around here is if they dont go to school they give them a LAP TOP to do there school work wot a joke.
Can you remmber the old school bobby,if you was off school he was round at your house the next day wanting to know why you was not in class.
Mick

[Mick]

That proves one thing Terry your not showing your age mate
Mick