12-11-2019, 08:46 PM
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Re: Things from your childhood that no one will know now
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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It's a Knockout!
12-11-2019, 09:01 PM
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Re: Things from your childhood that no one will know now
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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And while we're on the subject....Watching all of the Muhammad Ali fights on terrestrial TV. If Sky had been around then I wouldn't have been able to see history being made...
12-11-2019, 09:09 PM
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Re: Things from your childhood that no one will know now
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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And watching the little white dot disappear.
(They eventually put circuitry in TVs to stop that dot because it could burn the phosphors on the screen.)
12-11-2019, 09:10 PM
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Re: Things from your childhood that no one will know now
Originally Posted by May
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Being sent to the C0-OP by My Mum and told to take My gird & cleek as it would get Me there and back faster 
12-11-2019, 09:13 PM
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Re: Things from your childhood that no one will know now
Originally Posted by mart
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Did you rub your finger over the dot until it disappeared and pretend you were rubbing it out?(They eventually put circuitry in the TVs to stop that dot because it could burn the phosphors on the screen.)
Sometimes if the light was off and you turned the tv off, you could still see someone's face left behind on screen which would slowly disappear.
12-11-2019, 09:46 PM
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Re: Things from your childhood that no one will know now
The gird and cleek (or hoop and stick) dates from around 1910. A gird is a plain iron hoop. A cleek is attached by an iron loop. The cleek is used to push the gird along. Using the cleek takes practice. When it is mastered playing with a gird is simple. Before streets filled up with cars many children played with girds rolling them along roads or pavements. Boys and girls would have races. Girds could also be made using old bicycle wheels, and the cleek could be a stick. This would push the wheel along. Pupils enjoy trying to master the tricky Gird!
Sorry I can't show You a picture ST
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