I’m going to hazard a guess that as someone called them Punjabs earlier, it’s an abbreviation of that. Mebbes based on some kind of footwear brought back from India during the days of the Raj?
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gizmoganzee
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Sandies or Sandshoes
Same here.
I would have loved a pair as a bairn but my rather puritanical Dad thought any sort of Americanisation was the work of the devil.
Same applied to denims, comics, bubble gum, ITV and going to the pictures on a Saturday morning - the acceptable substitute for all of these things was 'getting outside in the fresh air'.
It really was a different world back then.
Vinny the Mackem
Winger
Punjabs, because they were cheap shite made in the Punjab.
Pseudonym Number 1
Striker
Borstal breakouts.
Abu Dhabi Red and White
Striker
Other memories -
Placky sandals that used to get mud/sand stuck in the soles - used to have to lever it out with a knife.
Wayfinder shoes that had a compass and a sole with animal markings (? vague recollection as I was too 'cool' to have those).
Georgie Best footy boots with laces that were tied at the side.
Placky sandals that used to get mud/sand stuck in the soles - used to have to lever it out with a knife.
Wayfinder shoes that had a compass and a sole with animal markings (? vague recollection as I was too 'cool' to have those).
Georgie Best footy boots with laces that were tied at the side.
This in Houghton ^^^
Sand shoes
MooBaaOink
Striker
Sand Shoes
Definitely the work of the devil. We couldn’t watch it in our house.
r@mside
Striker
Sandshoes, the school called them plimsolls though.
Tbf, he got a few of those right, especially the "getting outside in the fresh air".
Tbf, he got a few of those right, especially the "getting outside in the fresh air".
Abu Dhabi Red and White
Striker
Character building mate - made you into the mod you are today
myleftfoot1978
Striker
Plymas
black cat in france
Striker
We called them sambos
, think it was short for sandshoe. Remember we didn't have your own personal pair just a rack with them all in arranged by size, you just took a pair that fit and had squirt some stuff in when you took them off.
I was watching that Who Do You Think You Are the other week with Marvin Humes where one of his distant relatives was listed as a Sambo. The woman historian then explained that it was the name given to the offspring from a relationship between a mulatto (half white/half black) and a negro (black), so 3 parts black, 1 part white. She explained that there were all terms of "official" names back then to describe the various mixes of colours.We called them sambos
RichD
Striker
This...
I think it was the adverts that he thought were evidence of creeping Americanisation which he hated.
"Dangling stuff in front of people that they can't afford" or "if it was any good they wouldn't need to hawk it on telly". When he was in rant mode, logic wasn't his strong point.
Our family went from having one of the first TV's in Seaham ( got it for the Coronation) to one of the last in the country to buy the "converter" you needed to get ITV.
It was really frustrating as a kid not to join in with mates when they were talking about the latest ITV shows.
They were all singing the theme tune to Torchy the Battery Boy while I was stuck with f***ing Panorama.
And that was another thing he hated, cartoons.
Character building mate - made you into the mod you are today
Aye, all bitter and twisted.
Dmac1969
Winger
Plimsols or sandshoes in Berwick (Spittal School!)
