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Annual shut downs still happen today in some heavy manufacturing industries.

The significance of Wakes week was the May half term school holiday being relocated to June or July. In towns with a late Wakes week schools would have one week of term time between Wakes week and the summer holiday or even merge Wakes week into the summer holiday.

I have been informed that for a period of a few years in one town the secondary schools abandoned Wakes week for a half term school holiday in May because of GCSE exams but the primary schools maintained a Wakes week school holiday in June. This caused complications for parents who had kids at both primary school and secondary school.
Children playing outside .
Only one child in fifty being overweight .
Looking forward to Cup Final day .
Rushing home from school so as not to miss the start of your favourite programme .
Being able to go to football matches in Division 1 (the Premiership ) on a whim (from 8 years old)
And to be able to afford to get in even if your parents were poor
Actually living in a house in London your parents are buying even though they are ordinary working class people
Said house being cold and damp
Being able to cycle everywhere safely
Only having a handful of non white pupils in your year at school
No tv channels after 12 midnight !
Being happy with very little
Original post by Jamesshoreo
were they the ones that spun around like a propeller when you dropped them


Sycamore* seed pods.

Or other
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2017/08/helicopter-seeds/

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When people who are sick or disabled weren’t treated like scum by the system
(Brown envelopes, grrrr)
Floppy disks, cassette tapes, VHS tapes. Only just starting to have Freeview, Sky. Not doing things online
Life felt much more straightforward then, unlike today
Original post by moggis
Children playing outside .
Only one child in fifty being overweight .
Looking forward to Cup Final day .
Rushing home from school so as not to miss the start of your favourite programme .
Being able to go to football matches in Division 1 (the Premiership ) on a whim (from 8 years old)
And to be able to afford to get in even if your parents were poor
Actually living in a house in London your parents are buying even though they are ordinary working class people
Said house being cold and damp
Being able to cycle everywhere safely
Only having a handful of non white pupils in your year at school
No tv channels after 12 midnight !
Being happy with very little
waiting in the queue longer because someone wants to pay by card and they have to take a transfer of their card

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