| First Christmas presents you remember 10:01 - Dec 11 with 824 views | onehunglow |
I’m going back a long way but from my memory . For me, a wooden push along tricycle .This would be around 1956 .
Women then got a Bottle of Emva Cream or in our case,Harvey’s Bristol Cream or Warninks advocaar, a pariticularly disgusting noxious egg liquor. I tried it once at our Boxing Day bash and threw up all over my nans fireplace ,singing my hair in the process .Id be about 13 .
Men got cigars ,normally Castellas ,if they smoked . If they didn’t , then a bottle of bleach masquerading as blended scotch whisky .
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| First Christmas presents you remember on 10:09 - Dec 11 with 811 views | lifelong |
My father bought me a second hand bike for Christmas when I was 7, it was green.
The next year I had another bike, it was red. What I didn’t realise at the time that it was the same bike but had been painted red. |  | | |
| First Christmas presents you remember on 10:18 - Dec 11 with 804 views | onehunglow |
| First Christmas presents you remember on 10:09 - Dec 11 by lifelong |
My father bought me a second hand bike for Christmas when I was 7, it was green.
The next year I had another bike, it was red. What I didn’t realise at the time that it was the same bike but had been painted red. |
That’s nothing.
I remember being bought a bike when I was 6 ,having the stabilisers taken off and then taking it to the top of Manor Road and crashing it into the first lamppost
I got taking to Dr George’s surgery and then referred to hospital as I’d fractured my jaw and split my chin wide open.
I had a lot of stitches at the old Swansea Hospital and still remember the bandages being ripped of.
Kids were treated badly then .
Memories eh | |
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| First Christmas presents you remember on 11:42 - Dec 11 with 780 views | Boundy |
My first memory (shared present with my older brother) was a train set , my father built the layout on plyboard (could have been hard board . Nothing fancy but it was Canadian Pacific with a working head lamp in the front and the rear carriage had a panorama canopy . I still have the track and carriages etc in my attic,
and yes happy days .My parents were and always were poor but they did their very best for us 5 kids and that I will never forget | |
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| First Christmas presents you remember on 12:06 - Dec 11 with 759 views | onehunglow |
| First Christmas presents you remember on 11:42 - Dec 11 by Boundy |
My first memory (shared present with my older brother) was a train set , my father built the layout on plyboard (could have been hard board . Nothing fancy but it was Canadian Pacific with a working head lamp in the front and the rear carriage had a panorama canopy . I still have the track and carriages etc in my attic,
and yes happy days .My parents were and always were poor but they did their very best for us 5 kids and that I will never forget |
Wonderful Boundy
We remember and fully appreciated our parents efforts as opposed to kids today
I doubt any of my grandkids will remember their presents six months away
We weren't poor but my ok fella worked very very hard in the family business | |
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| First Christmas presents you remember on 18:04 - Dec 11 with 713 views | Luther27 |
| First Christmas presents you remember on 10:18 - Dec 11 by onehunglow |
That’s nothing.
I remember being bought a bike when I was 6 ,having the stabilisers taken off and then taking it to the top of Manor Road and crashing it into the first lamppost
I got taking to Dr George’s surgery and then referred to hospital as I’d fractured my jaw and split my chin wide open.
I had a lot of stitches at the old Swansea Hospital and still remember the bandages being ripped of.
Kids were treated badly then .
Memories eh |
Subbuteo was my first memory. Everton and Hibs were the teams.
After reading your post I’m really glad I didn’t have a bike! | | | |
| First Christmas presents you remember on 18:56 - Dec 11 with 685 views | SullutaCreturned |
| First Christmas presents you remember on 18:04 - Dec 11 by Luther27 |
Subbuteo was my first memory. Everton and Hibs were the teams.
After reading your post I’m really glad I didn’t have a bike! |
The first present I genuinely remember getting was in 1979 when I was 12. My parents had divorced 6 years earlier and my mother was seeing another man, between the two of them they bought me a cricket bat.
I have never liked cricket and in fact have detested it ever since that Christmas. I view it as the worst present I ever got
Two years later with the Swans in Division One I got a pair of Patrick boots, that was MUCH better. | | | |
| First Christmas presents you remember on 20:01 - Dec 11 with 656 views | onehunglow |
| First Christmas presents you remember on 18:04 - Dec 11 by Luther27 |
Subbuteo was my first memory. Everton and Hibs were the teams.
After reading your post I’m really glad I didn’t have a bike! |
I was ,fair to say,mad on two wheels.
Always loved speed . | |
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| First Christmas presents you remember on 22:07 - Dec 11 with 621 views | Kilkennyjack |
| First Christmas presents you remember on 10:09 - Dec 11 by lifelong |
My father bought me a second hand bike for Christmas when I was 7, it was green.
The next year I had another bike, it was red. What I didn’t realise at the time that it was the same bike but had been painted red. |
🤣 brilliant |  |
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