Does anyone remember

[Schutzengel]

Liberty Bodices. They were supposed to protect children's chests in the winter.

[chinadog]

Oh I love Camp Coffee shaney, We still use it now and then but moreso in the summer (When we get one) iced mmm. As I recall school milk was taken off and replaced with milk tablets,strawberry,banana and vanilla. They were vile and we used to spit them out,then a mad rush for to the toilets for a drink of water heads stuck under taps..lol

[Mamyalynne]

I have a secret i got hooked on Nurse Harveys gripe water i know it was for babies but if i had a tummy ache mum would give me a drop and i loved it so much would sneak a swig.(No i m not still at that particular bottle ) Ha ha

[shaneystar2]

Crikey I can't remember that .I left school in 1965 and up until then we always had milk in those little bottles with a straw.
My old school friend used to have to put the crates under the fire escape . We often laugh about it .I can picture her now slinging the crates in a heap so we could bunk off and smoke illicit fags behind bushes on the hockey field !
Do you know I think we had much more fun as kids than they do these days .

[Robinia]

oh I can taste that Nurse Harvey's now mamyalyn...

erm, sorry about your full inbox Schutz...but you did ask!!

[chinadog]

I reckon we had much more fun in school and out shaney. We had our " dib ends" in the bike sheds with a look out haha. I left school in 63 too! The milk tablet issue was at junior school. It did'nt last,back to ice cold milk in winter and sour in the summer.

[chinadog]

Oh Mamya, A gripeoholic,be ashamed...lol

[shaneystar2]

Nice to reminisce
.I'm sure Schutzie will forgive us .
Five Woodbines and a cup of coffee in Pyrex cups in the local coffee bar with the Beatles blaring out and a skirt up to you bum cheeks . Those were the days my friends :))

[Schutzengel]

This has been great. Just think all this started from Liberty Bodices. I will get back to you all with individual answers just as soon as I can (still on this thread). But I really have something I need to do at the moment. Keep those memories coming. I think one of us should collect them up and write a book. Thank you everyone for your answers, be back as soon as I can. Take care of yourselves. By the way no one has responded yet about the ice on the inside of windows. I'm sure some of you do remember this. Schutzi.

[craft1948]

I used to live near Rowntrees chocolate factory and cocoa works as it was known then,
It used to have its own railway station so we used to lean over the little bridge and get covered in black smoke, but we always used to run from school to get to the factory gates to see them leading the huge shire horses out and across the roads to the stables. I never found out what they used the horses for...

[Naomicorlett]

For ethandron...and anyone else. Was the stuff in a bottle called minadex ?...it was foul and I had to take it but I was allowed codliver oil and malt to take taste away. As i said I was born in north of Scotland and I blamed my mother for putting me in the pram in the garden for my delicate state of health and she replied indignantly " Well I tied the pram to the tree to stop it blowing away and I went out every so often to brush the snow off it " Poor little baby me.

[Mamyalynne]

Oh yes i do remember the ice on inside of windows. And heres another one Tar bubbles popping em in summer getting it on your legs and socks and being stood in the sink and scrubbed with Vim or Ajax, can feel that brush now and skin was red for days

[ladyalex]

Don't remember tar bubbles, but I certainly remember ice on the inside of windows...not so much at home, but when I was a poor student in Edinburgh in the late sixties...no money for the gas meter, so had to bundle up in blankets to keep warm. No duvets then and two baths a week. Those were the days.
Has anyone mentioned sugarella and sugarella water yet ?
Or is that a purely scottish delicacy ?

[ethandron]

yes yes, it was minadex - well remembered! really odd taste to it. and i used to sneak a slug of dinnefords gripe water when i thought i could get away with it. and a small chunk of exlax 'chocolate' for a treat too - how on earth did we all survive?
naomi, babies were left out in their prams in all sorts of weather weren't they? never did us any harm, except according to the news this evening, we're all hitting the bottle now!
off to bed shortly and going away for a couple of weeks tomorrow, so won't be checking in for a while. what a reminiscence this has been here today, thanks for starting it schutz, and everyone else who's brought a smile to our faces.

[chinadog]

Oh, Icy windows, I remember those, I used to like the patterns they made. Thinking of winter nights at bedtime, we would take a deep breath and run like hell upstairs into a lovely warm bed. We had those stone water bottles and bricks wrapped in a pillowcase. Who had a pot under the bed? Minedax is a tonic Naomi,you can still get it.

[Mamyalynne]

ethandron have a nice break, no doubt we will still be at it when you get back LOL

PS anyone remember getting dressed under the covers in winter??

[shaneystar2]

Oh nooo not the dreaded chamberpot .I was awful .I hated them .I used to call my Dad when he was at home and he would take me downstairs and hang about while I went up the yard .
Bless his heart .Mother was very hard hearted :))..and if he was away at sea I had to piddle in the pot whether I liked it or not .
Oooh didn't it use to stink of a morning . ..especially in the summer . My aged aunt who is still stomping about at 90 used to live out in the country .She had one of those dry toilets with two buckets and a wooden lid .. Yuk yuk yuk.

[mrs.chappie]

I remember going to the corner shop for my mam and buying 5 Park Drives. If mam didn't have enough money for a pack of 5, the nice lady in the corner shop would let me buy a single fag.

There was never any quibble about a youngster buying fags - the lady in the corner shop knew they were for my mam.

[ladyalex]

I can remember getting dressed under the covers too. And the awful night when the hot water bottle burst in the bed.
I can also remember an gadget we had which must have been the precursor of electric blankets. It was a foot square, four inch deep metal box with an electric light bulb in it. You put it into bed and switched it on for an hour or so and it warmed up the bed. I don't know if this was a commercially available thing, or one of my father's inventions. Thinking about it now, it is a wonder we were not killed either by flames or electricity. i wonder if today's generation will reminisce like this ? It's difficult to imagine that the same kind of progress will be made in the next fifty years.....after all we have gone from dip in pens (and what a mess I used to make with them...remember you had to use the rule curved side up to draw a line) and log tables to computers and the internet.

[welshlibranr]

Really lovely thread! I've so enjoyed reading all of the posts, feel a bit left out though, my liberty bodices didn't have any buttons at all! remember virol, I loved it and delrosa too, the cod liver oil and malt and syrup of figs were not so good! haliborange in winter were fine. We got frost inside our bedroom windows, and the blankets on our beds were so heavy that we just could not move when we got into bed, it was cosy though!

[ladyalex]

I meant you had to use the ruler curved side down to draw a line with the dip in pens. I can also remember the teacher filling up the inkwells in the desks with horrible blue-black ink. Some people had their own bottle of Stephen blue ink which I envied very much. They never offered it round, though, meanies!
We also had slates and slate pencils...what a blooming noise when we were all 30-odd of us writing on them. And the janitor rang a real handbell .