Nostalgia Saturday

[albaqwerty]

Reading through a couple of threads, I think we're mature enough to handle:-

Bottles of milk
Blue Nun
Black Forest Gateaux
Prawn Cocktail
Bakelite telephones anyone? With the STD code being a name and then the digits?

[daftgrandad]

Giving your money for a purchase to an assistant.She then put it in a small tub,
pulled a handle and it travelled across the ceiling of the shop,to the cashier.
Your change was returned the same way.

[stewey]

Amazing, tenrec. But you're right: the soreness was just at the back, not all around:)

[daftgrandad]

Haliborange tablets.
Virol.

[Tilly2]

Olive oil and raspberry vinegar, when you had a cold
Mustard baths,when you had 'flu
Camphorated oil rubbed on your chest, when you had a cough
A clip round the ear, when you'd been cheeky
Getting told off by your parents after parents' evening at school

Toast done on a toasting fork in front of the fire.

[stewey]

Hanging onto the pole at the back of the double-decker whilst in motion, and not being that you're apt to fall off and break your head wide open.

[askyourgran]

Kicking on street gas lamps
Whip and tops
School milk in winter, the frozen cream rising out of the bottle,
Sugar and cocoa in twist of paper to dab your finger in.
Spanish in a bottle of water shaken up.

[Marijn]

I remember when everyone had front gardens and they had flower borders wth marigolds in, and it looked lovely, (better than concrete parking places)
And Toffos. Can you still get them?

[moonraker558]

Going to the village shop with a thrupenny bit to buy some sweets. Going to the same shop to buy 10 woodbines for parents...and being given them. Sherbert dips. Watching Fireball XL5 on telly.

[askyourgran]

When I first started work I used to buy 5 Woodbines they were the cheapest at 9d all I could afford.

[commoner]

lol...stew we were so cool or so we thought hanging on the pole of the double decker and getting off before it stopped..a little run on and a wave to the conductress....god we were so sophisticated in those days..hehe!

[emmie]

plastic sandals, swimming cossies made of wool, i kid you not, getting out of the water was embarrassing as the thing used to be around your knees, good thing we were only little.

[tonyav]

Stewey, I remember 5 woodbine tipped 1shilling and plain 1s1d.
Gat 1.77 and Diana 1.77 air pistols and Milbro catapults.

[askyourgran]

I can remember clay pipes. They always used to break as soon as you dipped them in soapy water to blow bubbles with them.

[commoner]

Jeez AYG I can remember clay pipes when they were used for smoking tobacco...not really just jokin'..:-))

[stewey]

Leaving your bicycle propped up by one pedal on the sidewalk curb in town, and returning much later on to find it still there!

[parkie]

During the really cold weather my dad used to heat up housebreaks in the gas oven and put them in our beds to heat them up.
Also remember ice on the inside of the bedroom windows.

[hc4361]

Yes, bricks wrapped in old rags in the bed.

Net curtains frozen to the glass, forming fabulous patterns.

Getting dressed under the blankets because the house was so very cold the top of your head ached.

[cupid04]

Bernie Inn pubs

saturday morning pictures

record players- stacking 8 singles at a time!

I actually liked school

sherbert dips [various flavours]
home-made cooking as opposed to frozen ready meals