Infant school in the 70s....

[Derekflint]

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Here's one:

The toilet paper that had the same consistency as tracing paper! Yay! The moment it was folded it formed an edge just shy of a razor blade.

[Richard1978]

Re: Infant school in the 70s....

Here's one:

The toilet paper that had the same consistency as tracing paper! Yay! The moment it was folded it formed an edge just shy of a razor blade.

Somehow I forgot that, very painful to use.

[kazboot]

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Although I went to Infants School in the sixties, many of these memories are still the same as mine.

I remember loving the warm mini milk bottles and the paper straw going soggy too quick to drink all the milk through it!

Tuc time also when I could buy my beloved Potato Puffs!

We had metal beakers at school mealtime with great colours. I was a server in my last year at infants and remember everyone wanting the chocolate custard skin. Could never remember who had it last!

Squidgy school chips! Yum!

[Derekflint]

Re: Infant school in the 70s....

Although I went to Infants School in the sixties, many of these memories are still the same as mine.

I remember loving the warm mini milk bottles and the paper straw going soggy too quick to drink all the milk through it!

Tuc time also when I could buy my beloved Potato Puffs!

We had metal beakers at school mealtime with great colours. I was a server in my last year at infants and remember everyone wanting the chocolate custard skin. Could never remember who had it last!

Squidgy school chips! Yum!

Hated milk when I was a kid. One time I spilt the bottle in my lap - ended up standing behind an open cupboard door in my pants while me shorts dried.

School chips had a different taste too. Made them a bit of a treat!

[Marine Boy]

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I certainly recall the little milk bottles - admittedly we're talking 1960s - and the biscuits which were 'Lincoln Creams', later called 'Lincolns'. Are they still sold?

I don't drink milk now. I developed a real problem with the smell.

[branny]

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I was fortunate enough to live on the same street as my infant/junior school so never had to endure school dinners.

Abiding memories are Peter and jane books, Tootles the taxi (like thomas the tank engine but with motor vehicles). Gumdrop (about a talking vintage car). Local police officers coming in to do safety talks. A road safety booklet featuring a clown kneeling at the side of a zebra crossing and looking like he only had one leg, which a boy in our class duly christened him. Going swimming (when the cubicles were around the pool). The anti vandal posters campaign (vandal maimed, vandal electrocuted etc). Bring a toy buy a toy. These interlocking transparent plastic squares that you couldn't really build much with. The green gym mats with the underside that reminded me of a crumpet. The inverted v climbing frames on wheels (were they as big as they seemed?). Taking the empty milk bottles back to the local cake shop (always rewarded with a free cake). Pump bag with your name sewn on. Annual reading test in the headmasters office. It took me years to get grotesque right.

[Derekflint]

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I had a little canvas satchel when I started school. I loved that bag.

Assemblies. Yuck! Even worse when it was your class giving it.

[Richard1978]

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My parents have still got a copy of Tootles The Taxi at home.

One thing I remember about assemblies were when one class would put on a play & all their parents & pre-school siblings would be invited to come along.

Almost everytime there would be someone's baby brother or sister crying throughout the whole thing.

[kazboot]

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I certainly recall the little milk bottles - admittedly we're talking 1960s - and the biscuits which were 'Lincoln Creams', later called 'Lincolns'. Are they still sold?

I don't drink milk now. I developed a real problem with the smell.

Ooh I remember Lincoln Biscuits. I don't think I've seen them for years.

[Quetelet]

Re: Infant school in the 70s....

I certainly recall the little milk bottles - admittedly we're talking 1960s - and the biscuits which were 'Lincoln Creams', later called 'Lincolns'. Are they still sold?

I don't drink milk now. I developed a real problem with the smell.

Yup, with you there amigo, I've always had an aversion to milk too, it's got to be a primary school phobia;I didn't learn until years later that I had Thatcher to thank for saving me from the horrors of school milk.

I remember Lincoln biscuits, much more dunkable than Rich Tea, although HobNobs have total domination of today's 'dunking market'

[curmudgeon]

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Abiding memories are Peter and jane books, Tootles the taxi (like thomas the tank engine but with motor vehicles).

Sweet Baby Moses yes! I loved Tootles the Taxi so much I wanted to take it home, but the teacher wouldn't let me. She told my mum that it was the only book I'd ever read, so mum bought me a copy. I recently treated myself to a large tea mug festooned with Ladybird book covers from that era and there, right in yer face is dear old Tootles. Wish I still had the book.

[Derekflint]

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No memories of Tootles at all.

But if you're interested, Amazon Marketplace may be able to reunite you with a copy.

[ClaudineJones]

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Lots of Tootles The Taxi on Ebay tootles, Children's Books, Antiquarian Collectable, Fiction Books items at low prices on eBay.co.uk

[Hooper68]

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Did anyone read the pirate books(different colours as you progressed),I also seem to remember the Fletcher maths books.

[Richard1978]

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Did anyone read the pirate books(different colours as you progressed),I also seem to remember the Fletcher maths books.

I cam't remember the Pirate books (I mentioned the Ginn ones before) & there was a series called Story Chesy

I remember the Fletcher Maths ones, the lower ones had a few cartoon characters to help explain things, I can remember a frog, a cat & a monkey, might have been more.

The later ones wern't as "user friendly" & in the last year at primary school we switched to a different series, can't remember the name of it.