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Started by: beckett (373)

does anyone remember the temp on the bar in my day 60s it was owned by mr lance lucas, it was a beltin shop,he sold toffy ice cream, beverages,cigs,even condoms, there was a lit up red sighn in the window advertising durex,well i was about 14 then and ime not ashamed to say that i didnt know what they were,all my other mates were laughing including my now hubby but even he says he didnt know what they were ha ha,he said he was still playing with corgies and dinkie cars he he,i thought it was something to do with men having periods and ime not kidding!!!! anyroad when i was a bit younger than that i lived at top of lane and we had to go to church so i was never a church lover from being a little girl,our mam sent us with tuppence for the box but we sat on the step (kennys) till we saw them all coming home we spent our tuppence at mrs rosses on toffy eventually my mam took us to evening mass we only went because she took us to the temp and we could have hot choc, horliks, bovril,hot vimto,ovaltine, and more we sat on a little bench near the door what a great time we had if i could have one more hot vimto at temp ont bar with mam x

Replied: 29th Sep 2011 at 00:07

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