Sunday Night Memories?

[BumbleB]

Our tea was from the shellfish man. Parents would have jellied eels (yuck). But we would also have choice of pease pudding with savaloy. Was hairdryers not invented in the late 50's? as I can remember having to dry mine in front of the coal fire.

[HayleyB]

Crumpets and cheese or beans on toast, Sunday bath, read a book in my room till bedtime - yuk school tomorrow....

[jackie j]

We also used to get Corona pop bottles delivered not on a sunday but during the week and we used to see how many bottles we could round up and have the money back on them lol. The rag and bone man, my mum got a china set or 3 from him. Me and my sisters used to argue about the telly I wanted to watch The Hillbillies and they wanted top of the pops, I always won being the youngest. ( all telly was black and white ) The first colour telly we had was in July 1981 when Charles and Diana were getting married all the family were coming round to watch as we were the only ones to have one. I was expecting my second baby so I thought I could put my feet up and let them do all the food, my baby thought otherwise and arrived on the 28th of July ( 2 weeks early ) so I watched from my hospital bed and the family carried on without me.

[geoff]

Yes, I remember several of the things mentioned; London Palladium on TV, The Clitheroe Kid and the Navy Lark on the radio
A roast dinner on Sunday dinnertime accompanied by Family Favourites on the radio, then sandwiches and soup for tea, then perhaps a bit of making plastic model aeroplanes (I recently heard the expression "The Airfix Generation" to describe boys born in the 1950s and 60s)

But none of these could be enjoyed properly as there was the all powerful thought of homework to be done, it took the shine off everything

[butter fingers]

7.oo am grandad cleaning out the grate me thinking im up at the crack of dawn, then waiting for the radio to warm up and listen to the bassey newsreader on the world service. next in came a cup of sugary tea (explains why i dont like sugar in tea now). waiting for sunday roast and when you heard family favourites on the radio dinner was just half an hour away.i think it was family favourites the one for the armed forces because it was years before i worked out who b.f.p.o. was.when i was a bit older up to the working mans club with nan and grandad" snowball" lager and a bitter,darts and back for dinner and football on the telly.xmas time was a brilliant time and the club xmas do"s were superb. i tell you ,you grow up and its all down hill from then on.

[dexterdoglancashire]

Eee buy gum! Sunday nights eh? I reckon I was around 9 or 10 years old, having a "stand up bath" in the kitchen sink (Friday night was bath night), listening to Sing something Simple (glad other grapes remember that!!). Clean PJs and an early night. Grand!
Excellent thread!

[FionaH]

I remember if I stayed at my grandparents I would be given warm milk before bed. It always came in a glass "cup" with a metlal slide over handle.
Also remember my mums sunday tea. It came out on one of those two layered trolleys. We always had trifle with tinned manderin oranges on top

[ginger ninger]

How many of you can remember the "Club Trip", with its pop & crisps and some money in an envelope for an ice cream ?

[bluemoon]

Mum was a working mum in the days when the world just wasn't set up for them. The week's shopping had to be done on a Saturday morning as shops only opened 9 till 5.30, she'd have her hairdresser's appointment then too and would manage to clean the house from top to bottom and still get us to my Nan's, 20 miles away, in time for lunch, where we'd stay until early evening. Saturdays were taken up with all that so the washing had to be done on Sunday. Washed, dried and ironed in one day with no tumble dryers and a twin-tub washing machine. She also managed to cook a huge Sunday lunch. Sunday evenings were us having a bath then eating sandwiches and a glass of milk in front of the telly while she desperately tried to finish the ironing for a family of five. Dad? Well on a good weekend Dad could get in three rounds of golf and a game of Bridge.

[Hilary B]

Evening church, getting home just in time to have missed the first few minutes of "The Saint" (Roger Moore), bath, hair wash, towel (hair getting pulled) followed by the hairdryer (painfully hot, especially on the ears), then bed!