It's now 50 years since we bought our first football boots. This momentous sporting moment (?) took place in Wrawby Street, Brigg - we think at Walker's shop. These were for use at Brigg Rec, where Glebe Road school had its "games" lessons, house and school games.
That set us thinking about other personal 'firsts' connected with town businesses.
Chewing gum & sweets: Ernie Robinson's, Grammar School Road (we were then living nearby in Woodbine Grove prefabs. Remember them?).
Cream cakes & penny bread loaves: Bowen's Bakery, Grammar School Road.
Dinky toys: Ernie Taylor's, Wrawby Street.
Flavoured crisps: Jack Clark's Grammar School tuck shop.
Bike: Bennett's, Wrawby Street.
Magazines: W H Smith, Wrawby Street.
Chips: Coun Jack Wattam's, Wrawby Street (a rare treat after Friday night choir practice at St John's Church).
Beatles' souvenir cards: Gray's, Glebe Road.
Comics: Richardson's, Wrawby Street.
Model railway items: Sherwood's, Bridge Street.
Saturday afternoon 'Pictures': The Grand Cinema, Wrawby Street.
Fireworks: Tierney's, Wrawby Street.
All those have now departed the Brigg retail scene with the exception of Sherwood's. There's still a convenience shop where Mrs Gray and staff once served sweets to Brigg County Primary School pupils before and after educational hours. However, it has changed hands and been altered many times since the 1960s.
If you are of a certain age, try filling in your own answers to the above categories and see how many match up with Brigg Blog's.
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My 1960's brainstorm....
Hitchcock's 'Psycho'
007....Dr Z....Lawrence of Arabia..the Great Escape....
The Mini(1959) and the mini!
Players Cadets - No 6 coupons - Green Shield stamps....
Moon landing...JFK assassination - Marilyn Monroe..the end of the Civil Defence Corps...Woodstock..Top of the Pops - Pans People..6-Five Special, ITV, Berlin Wall - Magic Roundabout - Mr Benn -Adolf Eichmann..Bay of Pigs- the 'V' Bombers - Valiant - Vulcan and Victor....Cash Machines - Comprehensive Schools - Beatles; Beatle suits; Stones; Cilla et al...Winklepickers - chisel-points...Mods & Rockers - Brighton beach..Vietnam - Aden...Buddhist Monks in flames..Great Train Robbery..Cassias Clay...Stirling Moss...the 1963 Winter..MLK 'I have a dream'...Steam engines - smelly diesels...Smog..Man on the Moon..Ford Cortina...British bikes versus - AJS, Triumph, James... Japanese machines..oil leaks..sidecars..Babycham..school caps, satchels...lines..canes and ink blots...Harold Wilson & Edward Heath...TSR2..North Sea oil..chips in newspapers..The Graduate...Chinese take-aways..10.30 closing in pubs + 10 minutes 'drinking-up time.' ...Z-Cars - Panda Cars -Dixon of Dock Green - This is Your Life...Flower Power..Bullet trains, Sunday afternoon wrestling on telly..snooker in black and white..Antree motor-racing track..Liverpool promoted to 1st Division - World Cup - trams and trolley-buses..grocers' bikes...string ties; Old Spice after-shave...Lady Chatterley's Lover...pages 59 to 72 and 101 to 123!...football bladders...short trousers, plastic sandals..nutty-slack coal..self-service stores...outside toilets..plastic string bags..birth-pills..thalidomide babies..'O'-Levels - Polytechnics..Open University..Drink-Driving laws..MOT's..strikes...Fyfe Robertson - Albert Speers -Mandela - Iron Curtain..Churchill dies..U2 & Garry Powers...Sputniks...Zoo Time, Mr Ed the Talking Horse..instant coffee...tea-bags..tea-cosies..knitted swimming-trunks!...bus conductors..petrol station attendants..Consulate Menthol...blotting paper, stencil machines; carbon paper....Brylcreme - DA's. quiffs & crew-cuts...NHS specs...Polio sugar lumps...'Never Had it So Good'....string, knitted woolen and kipper ties....Dads Army..Stop the Clock...The 6 Day War...Ann Packer; David Hemmery and Lillian Board...Stanley Matthews..first heart transplant..mobile TB screening x-ray units..the revolution of motorway driving and the picnicking of some on the central reservations...the National Speed Limit.....three-speed gearboxes...hand-signals..lolly-pop ladies....The Post-Office Tower...The Fairy Rotodyne...the hovercraft.....and all of me teenage years!!!
.....and not forgetting trannies - Radio Luxemburg....pirate radio - Caroline and 'Y'-fronts....
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