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Daddima Mon 01-Aug-16 19:41:26

I am certain that I remember going to a wee shop near our house around 1958 and buying " Bar- B- Q" crisps from a green square tin. I can find no mention on the inter web of flavoured crisps till the early/ mid sixties.

I also am sure I received a Cashline Card from the Royal Bank of Scotland around 1971. You put it into the machine and got £10. The machine kept the card, which was posted back to you.

Does anyone else have any memories which may/ may not be true ?

ginny Mon 01-Aug-16 19:49:44

I remember a sweet that looked a bit like marshmallow but was crispy. No one in the family or any friends have any recollection of it.

hildajenniJ Mon 01-Aug-16 20:02:10

I went on a trip to Newcastle upon Tyne when I was about 10. That would make the year 1962. I bought a packet of "savoury crisps" and ate them on a boat on the Tyne. They were very similar to Quavers, but can't have been them as they weren't introduced until 1968. Nobody else remembers them.

dramatictessa Mon 01-Aug-16 21:17:29

My first 'memory' is walking to the shops at the age of three on my own - don't think my Mum would have let me do that, even back in those more relaxed times!

rosesarered Mon 01-Aug-16 22:03:28

I can't think of anything specific, but think that we all have false memories of all sorts of things.My DH swore he had left the car in a certain street(years ago) and wouldn't have it when I suggested we look around other streets, he was certain it had been stolen( cue an arguement and we walked home).The next day he went back and it was parked two streets away, boy was he shamefaced.

GandTea Mon 01-Aug-16 22:17:15

I can clearly remember Mrs P saying that I could buy another Ukulele, but she cannot remember the conversation. (Must be her memory lapse)

rosesarered Mon 01-Aug-16 22:22:32

One ukulele is enough for anyone GT ......

Treebee Tue 02-Aug-16 19:25:07

We were laughing about a family memory of DH kicking a vole back in 1996. DD1 was convinced she was there, but she was in Spain with her best friend. DD2 was with us. We must have related the vole kicker story (it was accidental) so many times that she thinks she was there. So easy to do.

UkeCan61 Thu 15-Sept-16 22:27:39

I distinctly remember there being an eccentric parson in the village of Burton-in-Kendal when I was about 4-5(about 1958) He used to stand on the monument by the shop shouting damnation to everybody. I mentioned it to my sister who is 4 years older than me and she had no recollection. I wish my Mum was alive so I could ask her. I asked on a Burton history forum but nobody replied. Where on earth would I get it from if it didn't happen?
GandTea+ rosesarered - 1 ukulele is nowhere near enough! grin