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Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: December 2005 Posts: 1,174 Send Message	James	Report	11 Jun 2008 22:22
	McB what country were you in to get petrol for 2/6p? in 1953 it was 4/6p for the ordinary and 4/9p for best and 2/6p tax James
Member Since: December 2005 Posts: 1,174 Send Message	James	Report	11 Jun 2008 22:24
	The girls had a small Yellow and white doll to show they, I believe, were not longer virgins James
Member Since: September 2004 Posts: 3,234 Send Message	McB	Report	11 Jun 2008 22:27
	Yep james, your about right, i remember going to the garage with me dad & getting four gallons & four shots & get change from a pound, i was mixing 25p & 2 shillings & sixpence
Member Since: July 2007 Posts: 142 Send Message	Snowdrop	Report	12 Jun 2008 15:53
Member Since: July 2007 Posts: 142 Send Message	Black or white furry 'bonnets', I had a white one. Blue quilted anoraks. Reefer jackets. Palest Pink lipstick. Jackie, Fabulous, Bunty, does anyone else remember Intro mag, it was only published for a few months and then it folded. It was huge, about the size of a broadsheet newspaper.
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 718 Send Message	John	Report	12 Jun 2008 15:56
Member Since: March 2004 Posts: 718 Send Message	"Falling In Love" every day with Doris Day..
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 65,759 Send Message	AnninGlos	Report	12 Jun 2008 16:08
	Got married in 1960, daughter born late 61, son born 67. Did have a maxi skirt, couldn't afford a maxi coat. did have hot pants otherwise fashion more or less passed me by. A happy time for us though with the young family. plus we were fostering then too. End of the sixties I had a trouser suit, when they first came in it was trousers and a tunic top. Ann glos
	Researching: Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 659 Send Message	SilverLady	Report	12 Jun 2008 18:20
	I have loved reading this thread. I well remember the 60`s and yes I was there. The music and the clothes were FAB................... although I could be biased of course. LOL............. Love and Peace Marianne.x
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	12 Jun 2008 18:28
	Yardley's Pink Magic lipstick which made you look as if you had serious heart problems or circulation problems My sister had a gondola basket - Mum used to go mental cos she always left in the hall for people to trip over - she also wore black tights with white shoes!!!
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 480 Send Message	Meduck	Report	13 Jun 2008 13:24
	Oh Ann - just come back on the thread. I remember gondola baskets. I had one that I took my cookery ingredients to school in. One day I put in on the ground whilst I waited for the bus and when I unpacked it in the cookery lesson the biggest spider jumped out. The whole of the class ran out of the classroom with the cookery teacher chasing after us shouting "What about your ovens girls"!! Those were the days
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	13 Jun 2008 13:53
	Proper cookery lessons! I learned to make peppermint creams,melting moments and welsh cheesecakes.One class made bubble and squeak. There's food you eat daily! The bit we all liked best was when we had to tidy the cookery cupboard.Yeh? I wonder if she ever knew why there were never any cherries or currants in there. Things got a bit tighter when one of the girls thought she might just have a fag while she was at it. This was a grammar school too!
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 24,533 Send Message	Bobtanian	Report	13 Jun 2008 14:01
	from what I recall.............hmmm!, now where was I? back in a mo when I remember ..... AH! yes.....short skirts, n young mums...... nice legs,no luv handles, no bellies hanging over waist bands.. from what I recall figures seemed to be MUCH trimmer in those days.... Bob at 18:05 that seems to have killed it!!
	Researching: me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960