Thread: I can remember when..........

Originally Posted by dirtdodger

Buying hot jam donuts at the Croydon Markets on Sunday mornings.

When they were bitten into, the hot jam would scald your lips.

& the jam would go everywhere! I used to help dad take his cattle down to the old stockyards at Croydon market for sale. Not too many were happy with the refurb of the place back then, it used to be a great market.

Fishing in the Yarra at Wonga Park.
And actually catching fish.

Native blackfish.............Probably extinct now.

Driving around Croydon Hills before it was developed in the old paddock ute. Spending every weekend there working on dads farm.

The village blacksmith,who used to fix the broken frame on my bike more times than I can remember and the village cobbler.

Originally Posted by numpty

I went to school in Sydney in the 50's and 60's and we had desks with pencil grooves and ink wells also, and used post office nibs for writing until high school, but no slates nor chalk. Neither were used by my older sister or brother either. But I also know of many Qld (Brisbane) associates who have told me they used them in the 60's.

I remember being one of the boys whose job it was at Sawtell Primary School in the early 1950s to mix up the powder with water to make the ink to be used in those inkwells with those nibs.

I also remember using the nibs to create the same darts that p38arover describes.

I used to duck down to the creek at Coff's Harbour and go fishing before school.

The change over in the seventies when QR moved from the old red rattler slam door train carriages built prior to ww1 to the new steel, air conditioned and carpeted trains.

Downside was that these new trains had cloth seats rather than the leather of the old. All those surf board covers which QR supplied over the years for the price of a train ticket were no longer available. A pattern and a sharp knife and you could knock out the two halfs in 3 stations.

I used to duck out for a swim during lunch time at Coffs High.