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Memories of the past

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  • I remember Andy Pandy and  Mary Mongo and Midge. Can anyone remember Champion The Wonder Horse?

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    I loved Champion the Wonder Horse.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • I was Champion the Wonder Horse. I spent my childhood cantering about and whinnying image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  •  Doghouse Riley I don't recognise Chemmienn. The  Americans called it The Adventures of Champion. It was a children's western. Here's the lyrics.

    Like a streak of lightnin' flashin' 'cross the sky
    Like the swiftest arrow whizzin' from a bow
    Like a mighty cannonball he seems to fly
    You'll hear about him everywhere you go
    The time will come when everyone will know
    The name of Champion the Wonder Horse.

  • Just googled Frankie Laine. It's the same one. Maybe that's how you heard him pronounced it. Like most songs of today, I can't understand a half the words being sung,so I  have to google the lyrics.

  • Can you remember when you got money back for pop bottles you took back to the shop.

    2p to make a phone call at the old red telephone boxes.

  • LoganLogan Posts: 2,532

    RB, I remember the fire being drawn by newspaper.image

    PC I remember the pop bottles.image

  • I remember the birds pecking through the cardboard milk bottle tops. 

    There was a song 'If you roll a silver dollar down upon the ground it will roll.....'

    Also Peggy - see my photo earlier - called Donald Peers 'bellie ache number one'.

  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    As kids, we used the cardboard milk bottle tops to make pom poms.  Threaded the wool over and over through a central hole then, cut round the edges,and wrap wool round the middle..

    We also used empty thread spools with nails hammered into the top to do "French" knitting.

    SW Scotland
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Enjoyed "The Good old Days".

    We made carts from wooden fish boxes fixed onto old pram wheels. . . . a bit smelly.

    We had to use our imagination to create things.  

    SW Scotland
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