School Dinner Money

[F 129 Row66]

What did you spend yours on?

It was one shilling a day and we used to go to a chipshop, bakery and sweet shop, a usual day I'd buy:

- Bag of chips
- Vienna Loaf
- 3d fizzy drink
- A loose fag
 

[Mike Oxsaw]

Airfix 

Happy days 

Re discovered it during lock down.

Still shit at it.

Years ago, I managed to get hold of an Airfix kit of an MGB (one of which I owned at the time). Never found the time to put it together and it vanished some time after I got married.

Might try to find another one to while away my retirement.

No school dinner money was spent on other products during the construction of this post.

[yngwies Cat]

Airfix 

Happy days 

Re discovered it during lock down.

Still shit at it.

[Mike Oxsaw]

No wonder every generation add more weight. Chipshop everyday is the fast lane to obesity 

Nah!

We has double P.E. three times a week. Anything and everything we ate soon got burned off.

[Keep dreaming]

No wonder every generation add more weight. Chipshop everyday is the fast lane to obesity 

[F 129 Row66]

On the subject of fags, if I saved for a day or two and put it with my pocket money, I could get a packet of 10 Anchor for 1/3d

[side effect]

I went Rokeby 73-8 in Stratford and I really enjoyed school dinners + seconds. Plus mum spoilt me so I always had more cash. Sorry to go off tangent but the pie mash shop Lediards spelt wrong was probably my favourite ever .

[violator]

A hollowed out bread roll and a crushed up bag of golden wonder, oh and a couple of JPS singles 

[Hammer and Pickle]

Two weeks’ worth would get you an eighth of Red Seal, 20 B&H and change for skins. That was back in the day when I believed we could have a world without authority because everyone would behave like adults if there was no Babylon (an’ ting).

[Takashi Miike]

run (yes run, or you'd be at the back of a massive queue) to georges pie shop on hermit road for the best tray of chips & liquor you'll ever taste. put the change towards an LP/Cassette

[Fauxstralian]

Loose fag?

Not all of us went to public schools you know

[WHU(Exeter)]

Same with the single ciggies. Used to get a couple of them and a packet of crisps. 

there was even a teacher at our school who would sell us single ciggies, at a couple pence more than the corner shops, he taught PE as well. Can you imagine that now?

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Ghost.

Forgot to ask, was Fat Cats the one on East India Dock Rd? If so I spent many a happy day in there.

Yes mate.

[Manuel]

Manny.

I know mate, I do like to look back. Bit fucking easier than dealing with the shitshow that is the modern world. 




 

Absolutely mate, I was dragged up on the island, so we have a bit in common there. To 'let it slip' I'm back for the first time in 6 years next month, preparing for reverse culture shock.

I truly hope that you can come away with something positive.

When I was living with my kids in Den Haag we used to go back to the UK once a month to visit their Nan in Witham (was easy on the kat to Harwich - day trip from Hoek van Holland).

I later did a 2 month contract in Dundee where almost everybody said stuff along the lines of "It was better "back then"", followed by 3 months in the City, when I chose to live in a familiar area - St. Albans. Everyone there said the same thing. We're talking about 25 years ago here and I doubt that the trend has deviated much.

You're ex-Hornchurch aren't you? Was last there (properly as opposed to a fleeting day visit) just before Covid as I used to visit my brother who still lives there; witnessed the changes (degradation) on a monthly basis.

Dinner money? Early days on my school dinner. By the 2nd or 3rd form over at the chippie on Green Lane. In the 5th form on a pint of lunchtime light & bitter at The Three Travellers.

The deterioration was noticeable even back then in the 00's

Yes, around that way, I don't want to say too much as I have only just learnt on another thread that there might be people looking for me after I ran away to Thailand

On a more serious note, to be honest, I always hear about how much things have changed (for the worse) but things always seem more or less the same to me, but maybe because I don't 'look for it' and am just in my own little world. Obviously if you live there these things are more in your face and you may have to adjust, but on a fleeting visit it's all pretty much same same to me.

[Mike Oxsaw]

Manny.

I know mate, I do like to look back. Bit fucking easier than dealing with the shitshow that is the modern world. 



 

Absolutely mate, I was dragged up on the island, so we have a bit in common there. To 'let it slip' I'm back for the first time in 6 years next month, preparing for reverse culture shock.

I truly hope that you can come away with something positive.

When I was living with my kids in Den Haag we used to go back to the UK once a month to visit their Nan in Witham (was easy on the kat to Harwich - day trip from Hoek van Holland).

I later did a 2 month contract in Dundee where almost everybody said stuff along the lines of "It was better "back then"", followed by 3 months in the City, when I chose to live in a familiar area - St. Albans. Everyone there said the same thing. We're talking about 25 years ago here and I doubt that the trend has deviated much.

You're ex-Hornchurch aren't you? Was last there (properly as opposed to a fleeting day visit) just before Covid as I used to visit my brother who still lives there; witnessed the changes (degradation) on a monthly basis.

Dinner money? Early days on my school dinner. By the 2nd or 3rd form over at the chippie on Green Lane. In the 5th form on a pint of lunchtime light & bitter at The Three Travellers.

The deterioration was noticeable even back then in the 00's

[Manuel]

I had to give my dinner money to the schooll bully

Ag!

[Ladysmith]

I had to give my dinner money to the schooll bully

[Manuel]

Manny.

I know mate, I do like to look back. Bit fucking easier than dealing with the shitshow that is the modern world. 


 

Absolutely mate, I was dragged up on the island, so we have a bit in common there. To 'let it slip' I'm back for the first time in 6 years next month, preparing for reverse culture shock.

[only1billybonds]

Manny.

I know mate, I do like to look back. Bit fucking easier than dealing with the shitshow that is the modern world. 

 

[Manuel]

Ghost.

Forgot to ask, was Fat Cats the one on East India Dock Rd? If so I spent many a happy day in there.

It's very unlike you to reminisce, Billy

[Manuel]

What did you spend yours on?

It was one shilling a day and we used to go to a chipshop, bakery and sweet shop, a usual day I'd buy:

- Bag of chips
- Vienna Loaf
- 3d fizzy drink
- A loose fag


 

 

 

66 you fucking old cսnt.

I don't remember what I had for lunch back then, funny enough, but whatever it was we got from the shop I don't think we paid for it too often.

[only1billybonds]

Ghost.

Forgot to ask, was Fat Cats the one on East India Dock Rd? If so I spent many a happy day in there.

[only1billybonds]

MMG.

We called that chip loaf, did exactly the same at Stepney green. Buy a couple of single fags from Jack Spiro's down White Horse Road. Can't begin to imagine what school lunch time is like now but in the mid 70's they were fucking great.

[RBshorty]

20 B&H.

[MaryMillingtonsGhost]

Half a loaf from Percy Ingles (iirc), rip the middle out and fill with a bag of chips from The Captains Table chippy in Crisp Street market. Smothered with vinegar, fucking delicious. Bit older, an hour up Fat Cats pool hall on the A13. Happy days.

[Massive Attack]

An hour down the local Snooker Club. Fucking great fun that was.