DANGER: Schemies on POL

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 31 Dec 2004, 02:24

From a position of relative comfort I often try and relate to Flearoy, Bruce and Macco how different their material lives are from mine as a kid.

We did not have a Fridge til I was 12, we did not have a phone until I was 14, many people had phone padlocks!!!

We had no full length feature cartoons to go and see etc etc.

Needless to say they have severe doubts. To make matters worse because we were too poor to have a Camera I can't prove it. !! Don't get me wrong we were relatively blessed living in the Christians. I keep thinking I will take them back to number 53 and show them.

Im sure that apart from myself and Bellybabe there must be some other POL schemies?

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 31 Dec 2004, 11:09

Dude - I still think food that isnt Fine Fare yellow label is posh, and that stairs are something you have *outside* your house.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 31 Dec 2004, 11:25

Until I was 7, my parents and myself and my 2 sisters shared a one bedroom flat with scullery and outside toilet on the landing which we shared with the flat next door. Three of us shared a double bed while my parents slept in a bed setee

Bathtime meant boiling kettles and filling a tub in the middle of the living room and drying your hair in front of the fire...only on Sundays mind

Then we got a coucil house with 3 bedrooms, a bathroom and under floor heating

We may not have had much but it was a happy existence

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 31 Dec 2004, 12:59

It's my parents I feel sorry for. As kids we did not know any different but they were still doing the tin bath and sleeping on a bed settee in the Living Room (not the George Street pub Porty) through their 20's and 30's. And all this was after doing a 'proper' days hard graft.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 31 Dec 2004, 15:39

We had no full length feature cartoons to go and see

Hoi, Porty, surely to goodness you could collect enough jamjars to get into see Fantasia and Snowwhite!!!???

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 31 Dec 2004, 15:40

many people had phone padlocks!!!

Bet many parents wish they could padlock the kids mobiles today!!

Gemini · Post by **Gemini** » 01 Jan 2005, 10:32

Housing Schemes - I spent a very happy childhood in one, fabulous open spaces adjacent, playing in the cornfields, climbing trees, parents out with us kids playing rounders etc.
We had a phone installed when I was about 14, remember the neighbours coming round to use it.

The Saturday Matinee at the George Portobello with a Jubilee.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 01 Jan 2005, 12:41

Gemini wrote:Housing Schemes - I spent a very happy childhood in one, fabulous open spaces adjacent, playing in the cornfields, climbing trees, parents out with us kids playing rounders etc.
We had a phone installed when I was about 14, remember the neighbours coming round to use it.

The Saturday Matinee at the George Portobello with a Jubilee.

Jubilee's were brilliant Gemini...pronounced joobly of course

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 01 Jan 2005, 12:41

Here's my gran, 2 great aunts and a great uncle.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 01 Jan 2005, 12:42

One of these is a boy?

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 01 Jan 2005, 12:48

Great pic Dada. What's the location?

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 01 Jan 2005, 13:26

Edinburgh, as far as I know. This is my paternal grandmother's family. My grandmother (the one on the right with the very short hair) went to school at the place next to Dumbiedykes (you know the big building you can see from the radical road - I presume it's flats now) but I don't know exactly where they lived at the time.

The boy is the one in the middle. Dode. He was captured by the Japanese, held at the notorious Changi prison in Singapore before being moved on to some forced railway work in Burma. He survived and worked down the mines when he came back here. I always remember him as the nice old man who liked HP sauce. I used to sit on his knee!

DG · Post by DG » 01 Jan 2005, 13:45

He was captured by the Japanese, held at the notorious Changi prison in Singapore before being moved on to some forced railway work in Burma.

That must have been really tough. Sounds like he survived it in many ways. Mr DG's Dad served in Korea. Apparently was never the same when he got home.

It,s a lovely photo, Dada.

DG

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 01 Jan 2005, 22:27

Before we got a fridge the highlight of the week was getting the jelly to set in the 'front room' because it was so cold. Poor Rathbone didn't even have a socket in his bedroom so my Dad drilled a hole through the wall into the next room so he could plug in his record player. I think we got a phone in about 1974 because we were fed up having to go to the woman upstairs (who had the only phone in the stair) to speak to Prombabe when she moved to Carlisle. Remember 'party lines'? I was telling the kids at school about them and they didn't believe me

My kids also don't believe that videos hadn't been invented when I was young or that the only time the coal fire was lit in the 'big front room' was on Christmas day. They really just don't know they're born (and they still moan

).

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 02 Jan 2005, 13:34

The funny thing is that our kids will say the same thing about their kids.

There was a sketch on Hogmanay where the grandma is explaining to the kid that in her day they only had monophonic ringtones on their phones, and only normal txt - predictive hadn't been invented!!

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 03 Jan 2005, 00:21

Porty wrote: Im sure that apart from myself and Bellybabe there must be some other POL schemies?

EXCUSE me?!

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 03 Jan 2005, 18:55

How many council houses make up a scheme?
I was raised in one of only 4 council houses . Does that make me a schemie or just plain common?

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 03 Jan 2005, 18:58

Marya wrote:How many council houses make up a scheme?
I was raised in one of only 4 council houses . Does that make me a schemie or just plain common?

You are a qualified schemie. That's two out of the three administrators and we've not heard from Bob yet. Sheesh!

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 03 Jan 2005, 23:45

I was not raised on a scheme. But I've practised hard at making people think i was.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 04 Jan 2005, 17:54

I wasn't raised on a scheme either. We knew this because we neither had a chip van nor an ice cream van

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » 04 Jan 2005, 18:06

Epykat wrote:I wasn't raised on a scheme either. We knew this because we neither had a chip van nor an ice cream van

Vans don't only visit schemes Epykat.
I was born and brought up in the new town

and we had a ice cream van round our way quite often, though no chippy ones

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 04 Jan 2005, 21:08

I don't qualify as a schemie as I didn't live in a housing scheme, but I can certainly claim working class credentials. My parents lived (still live) in rented accomodation. Long story, but they pay rent to my paternal uncle - a local Tory councillor

- and have probably paid for the house several times over, although it will never be theirs. My father was a bricklayer and money was always tight. We didn't have central heating until after I had left home and I can remember having ice on the inside of my bedroom window in the winter. For many years things like telephones and TVs were luxury items that only the well-off could afford.

I'm sure that many of us had similar experiences and hopefully we appreciate what we have as a result.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 04 Jan 2005, 21:42

Bob Jefferson wrote: I can remember having ice on the inside of my bedroom window in the winter. For many years things like telephones and TVs were luxury items that only the well-off could afford.

I'm sure that many of us had similar experiences and hopefully we appreciate what we have as a result.

I told my son that ice would form inside my bedroom windows as a child and that we didn't have a tele, fridge or telephone. At first he didn't believe me and now he thinks that I must have been born in the stoneage. He keeps on asking things like, "Did they have pens in your day Mum?"

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 04 Jan 2005, 23:14

We had ice on the insides in our first flat. Really nice patterns

My main bugbear at my Mum's was not being able to read when I was in bed because it was too cold to hold the book with two hands. One hand had to be under the covers defrosting while the other held the book which meant it kept falling over, then eventually the nose would get really cold as well so you just gave up and went to sleep - under the 45 army blankets and the dressing gown wrapped round your feet - or in Prombabe's case, the dog.

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 04 Jan 2005, 23:29

Like your avatar Epykat

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 05 Jan 2005, 17:47

Thanks! Thought it kind of summed up the way I was feeling this week

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 05 Jan 2005, 18:03

Talking of avatars - I'm glad you have changed back to one of your earlier ones Marya, I really like that one.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 05 Jan 2005, 20:42

Pal of Porty wrote:Talking of avatars - I'm glad you have changed back to one of your earlier ones Marya, I really like that one.

Thanks PoP. I'll make a little confession so long as you don't tell anyone.......It's scary PoP, but I'm starting to think of her as me

I don't feel like 'myself' in any other avatar.

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 05 Jan 2005, 22:04

And going totally off topic!.......when are we starting POPs New Year game as discussed at the get together - the one where we all change names, avatars and personalities to post as someone completely different and then guess who's who? If I remember rightly there was a bottle of best Mortgage People wine in it

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 06 Jan 2005, 00:22

Marya wrote: I don't feel like 'myself' in any other avatar.

You know what they say. If the curlers fit......

Mimpty · Post by **Mimpty** » 06 Jan 2005, 14:30

[quote="Epykat"] One hand had to be under the covers defrosting while the other held the book [/quote]

We did that too. I used to ask for a torch every Christmas so I could read under the bedcovers.
We only got a coloured TV when I started work and went out and bought one. That probably had a lot to do with my mother not watching much TV - none of that the kids first sort of nonsense that goes on now. (Just sour grapes talking there!).

Oh and thanks to whoever changed the avatars - I'm not a snowscene any more - Lizzie yours is great BTW!

CatzVP · Post by **CatzVP** » 06 Jan 2005, 15:42

After reading about some PoL'ers I feel very lucky,.... Indoor ice..B/W Tv's.....No telephones or fridges... it makes me shudder!!! I remember complaining to my parents that the spare tv in the guest room was only a 14 inch colour portable.

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » 06 Jan 2005, 20:23

[quote="Mimpty"

Oh and thanks to whoever changed the avatars - I'm not a snowscene any more - Lizzie yours is great BTW![/quote]

Thanks Mimpty

you're not so bad yourself

What do you mean "thanks to whoever changed the avators ":?

Didn't you do your own one

Have I missed something here

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 07 Jan 2005, 00:09

CatzVP wrote: I remember complaining to my parents that the spare tv in the guest room was only a 14 inch colour portable.

Pooor weee kitten

Not an alley catz then

CatzVP · Post by **CatzVP** » 07 Jan 2005, 00:14

foxy wrote:
CatzVP wrote: I remember complaining to my parents that the spare tv in the guest room was only a 14 inch colour portable.
Pooor weee kitten

Not an alley catz then

That came later!!!

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