Itma was one of my favourite plays that was when we got given a radio before then it was a wind up record player with about 6 78's and by the way I do still use a fountain pen now I have managed to find suppplies for the Ink cartridges the women in the shop nearly passed out when I asked if they still sold Quink ink her reply sir I never have done for 20 years just as my last bottle was drying up.
Toothpaste in a tin izal toilet roll a key for the outside toilet crisps with a twist of blue paper in that held your salt ,a can you left outside and the milkman would ladle milk into it ,bus conductors Bag of chips for 6pece old money rag and bone men ,
Playing on the Atari
Telly with push buttons no remote
Post delivered b4 7 am
Blankets on beds not duvets
1/2 p
Pound notes
Nit nurse at school
Virgin socks
Whitening ur pumps on a Sunday ready for school on Monday
Never heard of macdonalds/ KFC, a chippy was a treat on a Friday or Saturday night.
Going out with the family to the local working mans club on a Saturday night............ The list goes on, oh those were days, life seemed so simple, x Sonia x
I still have blankets Sonia. I hate duvets, they're not heat controllable like blankets. Trouble is finding flat sheets anymore. Why does the whole world seems to think that we all like same things? X
Tin bath in front of the fire, cutting up the Sunday papers for toilet paper, outside toilet, Journey into Space, malt, Hancock's half hour and freezing cold starched sheets. the greengrocer and the coalman with their horse and carts, climbing lamp posts. Happy days.
liked the cartoon brilliant,, i can reiterate most of the things in all the past posts,, but did i see halfpenny liquorice sticks, gob stoppers, penny vantises , aniseed balls ? ,, getting sent to the shops for a forepit of potatoes, aye brings back many happy memories, certainly different days now, i often wonder for the better. jimmy
Jimmy you would love the sweet shop in my town, its old fashioned and has all the old favourites in jars!!! Aniseed balls, cough candy, mint imperials, pear drops, rhubarb and custard the list is endless.
sorry so late in replying two eyes, but was just a wee bitty under the weather, few sleepless nights, but ok now yes , sounds good that shop, you never see the big jars of sweets nowadays, oooh fancy me missing out the sticks of rhubarb, i used to love them they were expensive tuppence a stick,,,less than half, of a half of a five penny piece nowadays lol,,jimmy
Ours was the Malvern in Leeds and I had to go with my two older brothers - they were one and two years older than me and they would ditch me as soon as they could
And what about the traffic. Not much of that and no motorways. When a journey was attempted, it was in unheated cars, and seemed endless. Garages with petrol pumps along the way. The fog was a challenge. xx
How about the rag and bone man? The twin hoover washing machine, the old tape recorders with the reels, the clothes mangle, milk delivered to the door, your wages in a brown paper envelope.... x
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I remember my mum turning the mangle and feeding in sheets
boiling water in a bucket to fill the tin bath in front of the coal fire once a week. Listening to valve radios in the dark so mother did not know you were awake still. Gas wall lights. No Television just to name a few.
Thanks for trip down memory lane - yes where did they go......xx
Playing street games; hopscotch, skipping ( if there were only two children instead of three then one end of the rope would be tied to a lamp post), leapfrog and roller-skating - the kind that you'd adjust with a key and you could shorten or lengthen the base! AND...cowboys and indians...even if you were a girl Happy days xxx
I don't remember the cat's whisker but I was a Radio Sunbeam, and I still have the certificate to prove it; my Dad built our first radio and on my fifth Birthday the man on Childrens Hour told me to look behind the sofa, and there it was - my first "fairy cycle"! Couldn't have been many radios around then. Saturday Penny (pocket money), Sunday School outings, frost on the inside of my bedroom window, Virol, sulphur and treacle on a saucer every Spring to "clear our blood" - I loved it - goose grease for bad chests, iodine poured neat on our many lacerations, ouch!! Uncle Mac, Out with Romany, Larry the Lamb, Mr. Grouser - all on the Children's Hour. Whip and top, hop-scotch, Huge chunks of candied peel in the greengrocer's window every Christmas - none of your tiny plastic cartons. Fish and chips in newspaper, everlasting strips, toasting forks............memory is mostly kind, but there was also the cane, 3 swipes on each hand taught us not to repeat our sins, woolen bathing suits which never dried, chilblains; the past is another country - lovely to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Oh yes! The good old liberty bodice I think it had rubber buttons. I remember having our chest rubbed with Vicks, yes,and Virol (I actually liked it). Mum would put Snowfire , softened in front of the fire, on our chapped hands in the cold winter - it was green, sticky, revolting looking stuff I remember some much- loved childrens TV on at tea-time after school - Robinson Crusoe, White Horses, Fireball XL5, Fury (horse before Black Beauty), Lassie....
my god, what a thread i remember it all ,[apart from the boddices but we saw them ,, you've not half brought back many happy memories the saturday morning matinee, in the "new vic", picture house,,,dropping itching powder from the balcony [till we got caught with the usherette with the torch [so cruel :)] then all the kids in picture house , with the words on the "big screen" singing,,,,
" we come along on a saturday morning, greeting every body with a smile ,,SMILE ,SMILE,
we come along on a saturday morning, making it all worth while" etc etc,,,,,,then it was time for "flash gordon" always ending at an exiting bit, to go back next week, to see if hes saved the world the lone ranger and tonto, hopalong cassidy, laurel and hardy, the cartoons, wooddie woodpecker etc hahaha,,haha!!!! ,,,then having to walk 6 miles home, as we've spent our penny bus fares,fantastic memories, great, great days,,, jimmy
p.s the free nhs orange juice and cod liver oil ,, did any of you get a tablespoon full of "malt a cod liver oil" forced down your thrapples by your mothers ? ha ha,,,we did !!! [with a fight lol]
We used to have liquidfruta or something like that when we had a cold! (not sure if that's the correct spelling) It tasted absolutely foul! Oh and any muscle pain it used to be sloan's liniment stunk like hell!
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Ah ha! Eyes_right, I remember Liquafruta (as I think it was called) with a feeling of repulsion that would be difficult to forget It was like no other cough mixture and tasted of rotten onions! ???
Loved the smell of Sloans, still do,along with other 'smelly' concoctions such as Dettol, Olbas Oil, Germolene ointment...weren't so keen on a brown gunk called Friars Balsam which was added to boiling water as an steam inhalant!!! Lol
lovelight took the words from my mouth lol, loved the smell of sloans liniment etc, i was going to mention the friars balsam, i remember my mother putting a towel over our heads whilst the friars balsam was put in the basin of boiling water.
[in my case,i think she forgot to take it of ]
i wonder if you can still get that ? ,,,as it worked!!, i've never heard of it mentioned in years ,,jimmy
the old jaggy, itchy balaclavas , knitted by mother, by reconstructed wool, from an old jersey. they covered your whole head and neck, with just the eyes , nose and mouth visible
if you wore one now, you would get shot as a sniper lol jimmy
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brilliant,, i can reiterate most of the things in all the past posts,, but did i see halfpenny liquorice sticks, gob stoppers, penny vantises , aniseed balls ? ,, getting sent to the shops for a forepit of potatoes, aye brings back many happy memories, certainly different days now, i often wonder for the better.
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