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What's something that absolutely screams ‘British childhood’ to you?’

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MyCheeryPearlTraybake · 28/05/2025 16:20

Going to the corner shop for some custard creams

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Islagetmycoat · 28/05/2025 16:27

The sound of the ice cream van. I’m in my fifties now and still get excited when the ice cream van comes down our road.

SummerInSun · 28/05/2025 16:27

As someone who didn’t grow up in the U.K. but read a lot old British children’s books, you all spent your childhoods camping on moors, riding ponies and capturing smugglers, didn’t you?

stample · 28/05/2025 16:25

Corner shop for extra long strawberry laces for 5p
ice cream van after school to get a screwball
ice cream van inside secondary school to buy a mr bubbles or cherry brandy lolly alongside a ridiculously overpriced bag of strawberry laces and McCoys crisps
sitting in the pub with your folks eating a packet of peanuts or pork scratching that you didn’t even like washed down with a flat coke or panda pop