Does anyone remember

[Schutzengel]

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

[Naomicorlett]

AND I remember going to see my London Gran some time after Grandad died and she was very happy as she had buried the old man on the co-op and had just got her divi. I remember being very shocked that she was pleased !

[craft1948]

nice one schutz and many thanks - I keep re-reading some of the answers and giggling....

[chinadog]

Hiya Schutz and all, It was my job to do the brass. We had a brass fender that went right around and brass doorknobs,brass stair rods (at a later date) and a fender type thing on our froont doorstep. I loved getting it all nice and shiney. What I hated was my turn to wipe the dishes,so boring! Im wondering if anyones mams used to scatter damp tea leaves from the teapot over rugs? Mine did,she would scatter the leaves,leave for about 5 mins the sweep up with a hard broom. It was said the damp leaves cleaned the rugs and mats. We had those red and black floor tiles in the passage,thats where our Cardinal polish came in.

[craft1948]

we had red and cream tiles in the hall, and yes my gran used to clean the rugs with tea leaves - she also used to 'damp' the fire down at night with them.
We never had a tablecloth either it was always different patterned oilcloths...

[20SilkCut]

I remember mum collecting the Green Shield Stamps and the coupons from Embassy Regal ...these were saved up during the year, and sent off a month before Xmas to buy our pressies!

lovely thread, lets keep it going! :-)

[chinadog]

So your gran did the tea leaves too craft? The mats did seem to look cleaner after did'nt they? I remember mam and the other women sitting on the window ledge upstairs to clean the outsides. She would sit on the ledge and pull the lower half down onto her lap and natter to the other wives as they went by. I cant stand on a chair!

[chinadog]

Ah the GS stamps. We saved about 5 books for a little vase..lol Remember the pink stamps as well 20? Oh and the stamp off the tea packet.

[chinadog]

We had oilcloth as well craft,flippin cold in the winter and it used to get a polish as well. Remember the chenille cloth in the front room or parlour as we used to call it..lol I remember the men rushing out with shovels to get the horse droppings for their little gardens. Sings..memories,memories,days of long ago.

[20SilkCut]

Chinadog...dont remember Pink stamps...where did they come from (petrol or diesel maybe???)....and no dont remember stamps from tea packets (maybe we didnt have those in NI) lol

i remember my granny making 'egg nog' when she was minding us...beaten egg, warm milk and a good few spoonfulls of whiskey...and we got it fed to us in turn from a big spoon...we slept well those nights.....

"WHO WANTS THE WOODEN SPOON"???? ....i remember those cries of 'yes ...ME' after it had been used for stirring the mixture for a cake....

[Mamyalynne]

oh yes remember poring over the embassy catalogue to pick a gift LOL and remember coop divi too and the greenshield stamps.

[shaneystar2]

Do you remember those little savings stamps booklets from the Post Office ? I think you could buy a sixpenny stamp ( if you ever managed to get sixpence ) and it had a picture of Princess Anne on or was it Prince Charles ?
I remember my brother coming home from National Service in the RAF and he gave me half a crown .I was like a dog with two tails .But I had to save a shiling in the stamp book ..I probably frittered the rest away on peardrops or something .

I can never remember not being able to swim Schutz .My brothers used to take me in the sea clinging on round their necks .It's a wonder I'm still here to tell the tale !

I remember my Dad saving the ciggie coupons and he got a fold up lounger thing for the garden. When he was ill he used to lay out in the sun and read his westerns ..Zane Grey .
And we used save the tea cards too and they gave you a book to put them in .I think they were in the Typhoo and Hornimans packets .
And why don't they make HP breakfast biscuits anymore ?

[Robinia]

haha...why can I remember my mum's divi number but I'm hard pressed to remember my own phone no. some days?!

Crikey shaney, savings stamps, yes...and cards in the tea...there were always a few of the set that you never managed to get.
Polishing the brasses, a big event in our house, my mum had lots of it.
Oilcloth table covers...great if you were playing with plasticine. (Why did you always end up squashing it all together into one brown lump, haha?)
Did you have a rag drawer where old pants 'n vests went to die before being used for dusters? And a dressing up clothes cupboard? You felt great if someone gave you an old dance frock or something a bit strappy...and clomping around in high heels! You got an earbashing if they were best ones tho..."Get them off! You'll break the middles down!!" :o)

[grasscarp]

Shaney as soon as I read that about the savings stamps I could remember the head of a young (7 ish) Charles and about 6 ish Anne with lots of blonde short curls on those stamps back then - these may have been different denominations. I also remember greenshield and the pink stamps. Knew someone who worked in a greenshield "redemption centre" who said all the goods were factory seconds!

[grasscarp]

p.s HP Breakfast Biscuits! I swear my mother was more or less permanently on the HP Breakfast Biscuits diet at one stage.

[Schutzengel]

Robinia. I know how you feel, I can never remember my own mobile number, but I can remember my National Identity Card number. The funny thing was the number for me, my sister, and my brother, were identical apart from the very last number, I was 1, my sister was 2, and my brother was 3. I suppose that's because that was the order in which we were born. Does anyone else remember their own Identity Card Number. Schutz.

[craft1948]

I didn't even know I had a national identity number, but I must have as I must be the oldest on here...

[grasscarp]

I still have a ration book somewhere, so I expect I can trace my number!

[Schutzengel]

Craft. Now what on earth makes you think you are the oldest on here. You're probably probably not, but who I wonder will own up first. :-) Schutz

[Schutzengel]

Grasscarp. My husband still has a few petrol coupons.

[Schutzengel]

Anyone remember sitting around a little black and white television set in a neighbour's house watching the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.