jarndice wrote:Winkle Pickers were very sharp pointed shoes much embraced by the youth of the day especially followers of Rock and Roll.
Many Schools of the time forbade their pupils from wearing them.
Headmasters also disliked the DA (Ducks Arse) hair style.
And if you rode a bicycle with cow horn handlebars you were not allowed to use the school bike sheds.
I remember the 'Teds' (Teddy Boys) with their leather jackets, Brylcremed swept-back locks (or did they use Castrol grease...
), and winklepickers. I never fancied the toe deforming 'pickers; but did prefer the
chisel-toe type of shoe/boot that eventually replaced them.
Things that made me go 'Hmmm!' in the 1950s: Richard Greene's bow, in the 'Adventures of Robin Hood' TV series...and then-especially, my pre-pubertal attachment to Maid Marion in the same show, played by the lovely Bernadette O'Farrell
More memories of 'Hmmm!!"The Vanwall VW5 racing car (I had a model of one, with detachable rubber tyres); Geoff Duke's World Championship winning Norton motorcycle; McCowan's Highland Toffee (with wee hammer to break it); Spud Guns; 'Jubbly' massive frozen orange lollies; ( see:
https://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-cultur ... /jubbly-2/); Buddy Holly's "Everyday'; Dale Robertson's left-handed gun belt in
'Tales from Wells Fargo', and Hornby trainsets- (
but we could never afford one.)
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"- Mark Twain.
