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Where's all the traffic going to go when there's a match on at Curzon Ashton?

Vanessa

The last one changed as you became an adult.

"you know what thought did, don't you, sh*t in bed and thought he farted" 

Vanessa

As Well As Old Stories To Scare Us, What About Sayings from your parents?
I will start the ball rolling 

"Mum, what's for Tea? "   "A bite at my @rse"
"Dad how long is it goint to be?"  " Two shakes of a lambs tail"
When getting into trouble , I used to lead with "but i thought"  and my mum would shoot right back "thought followed a dustcart and thought it was a wedding"

I think we've probably all imagined boggarts and ghosties. I used to read under the bedclothes by torchlight- which could explain my poor eyesight today!  But I'd scare myself to death and then have to get my Dad upstairs to check underneath the bed in case something was lurking. He was never very pleased, surprisingly enough!

True- alongside the chairback covers I mistook for oven cloths and only just lived to tell the tale @))

Was a brilliant series wasn't it?  Your film would be a great item to be included in the future.  I was amazed at how many "ordinary" people had access to cameras so far back and the way things have changed in a relatively short space of time. 

The largest pink "smalls" used to be hanging from the ceiling drier in the Domestic Science room in Ashton Grammar 

Meg - even after all these years I can remember something said to me at Brownies!  One of the senior girls (!) was telling us about bad characters (boggarts?) and said that we would often see them if we looked in the mirror.  Years later, I realised she meant that we were often bad and we would be looking at an unpleasant person.  The trouble was that, at 7, I didn't understand this and for years was terrified of certain mirrors if I was alone.  It didn't help that the old fashioned wardrobe in my bedroom had a full length mirror!!

hi growing up round turner lane there were lot of frightening stories , of characters that lived round and about leading up to bon fire night, we would make dens in the wood we had collected and tell the stories that were made up , like the woman that was hanged for murder that live on turner lane ,and the ghost use to wonder around , also the woman that lived in a big house on the corners with lees street lord street and turner lane , we were convinced as kids she was a witch and if she caught you in her grounds she would beat you with her stick ,we use to see who could wonder up the path the farest we were scared to death , also ethel white that live on boodle street we were scared of her to , but the stories you hear when you were kids always seem to stick in your mind , like when you went to the out side toilet on a dark night you always pushed the door till it hit the wall in case any one was behind it 

hi bardleycrow , what years was it the gaumont ?, i also remember it as the top rank