The Dogmother Posted October 7, 2008 Author Share Posted October 7, 2008 Anyone remember the itchy scratchy Ladybird dresses? Pure torture. I do Seagazer, we were always dressed identically too, despite my sister being a fair-skinned, blue-eyed blonde and me being so dark.... one of us always ended up wearing something unflattering! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Ooooooooooooooooooooo mint cracknell!! Ooooooooooooo I adored them!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Why was that discontinued do you think? Health and safety measures as it ripped your tongue to shreds when you ate it perhaps? Now, what about Aztecs? Chocoholic, moi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 My dad had a yellow Capri with a black vinyl roof. I hated it. I would love one now though. Clare I went out with a lad who drove a Scimitar (made by Reliant - we lived near the factory), I wouldn't mind one of those now either. My parents still have their original 4 digit phone number (with a couple of digits in front now). Layla can't quite believe that we did not have a phone in the house until I was older than she is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyhole kate Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 I was only discussing with OH the other day that I remember my parents black GPO phone had a little pull out drawer for paper and a pencil and the A & B buttons on public phones. He said his parents didn't have a phone until the late 70's I said we were considerably posher than yow is my best Harry Enfield character voice Oh dear I do think I need to get out more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..lay a little egg for me Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Yep, I remember all those things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 7, 2008 Author Share Posted October 7, 2008 Tina, Phil's brother has a Scimitar too - he keeps it in one of the barns up at their folks farm - I think it's 'an investment' as he never drives it! We didn't have a telly until I was about 6 or 7. I clearly remember watching the moon walk on our new colour set! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Licken Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 I remember most of those things and I am only 35!!. My dad used to drive a Ford Capri and I remember he had a Rod Stewart Cassette in it that was apparently very cool at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milly Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 I can remember most of this (but not white dog poo - I'll just have to believe you). Do I remember a time when female teachers had to leave when they got married, or am I making that up? Milly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 What about Cremola Foam and Kunzle Cakes, Mivi and when Vesta Beef Curry in a box was brand new, exotic and exciting? My Mum and Dad always had Morris Travellers - my Dad used to revarnish the wood every year or so.... I always LONGED for one of those Ladybird skirts with the gold chain belt with a coin on it - unfortunately I got my older sister's home made hand-me-downs..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 I may be too young just but I remember loads of these. Went to a school reunion the other day and when we were in the loo somone said "oh they haven't got tracing paper anymore" Those were the days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purple hen Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 I remember all these things, I particularly remember a hated gabardine raincoat and a knitted hat with a hole in the back for a ponytail to hang out. My mum made me a sort of dungaree/overall/playclothes out of some old curtains, I remember being mortified but I suppose it was a good idea in the days before biological washing powders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhotchick Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 I remember a lot of those, and also rented TVs from DER and sweet tobacco (yum) I remember my dad's red Ford Cortina - wish we still had that. I remember my mum getting our first fridge (I was very young) I remember long hot summers and "days out" instead of foreign holidays. Sometimes when I tell my younger family members things like this, I can hardly believe how things have changed myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardene5 Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Hi Yes we can remember them like it was yesterday. It is when you son or daughter says heard this new song and you say that not new we can remember when it came out first time round in the 60's. Cars ...... Hillman Minx Vauxhall Victor with the bench front seat a push button start and column change gear stick. Morris Minor with split screen and arm indicators ( which stuck on my Dads car in frosty condition) Reg. URB 387. [ Wish I had that now would be worth a bob or two]! Morris / Austin Mini 1959 onwards. A40 like a hatchback. Jenson Interceptor. Citroen D which had turning headlights. Citroen Ami , 2cv, Dyane. Renault 4 & Renault 16 Wartburg Knight Fiat 500, 126, 127 Austin Maxi Package holidays were just starting..... Swan was a tour operator. Butlins & Pontins. Static holiday homes at Cleethorpes with the rain. People starting to get cars and towing a caravan. The start of M6 motorway . Start of Bond films The run down of the railways by Beachin The loss of stream trains. No more trolly buses or trams in a lot of the UK cities Good old money..... farthing, half penny, penny, three penny bit, six pence, shilling, half crown, ten bob note, pound note, fiver etc. can not remember them all. Children learning their 1 to 12 times tables up to 12x 12 = 144 without a calculator. Steel trade to be lost. Go from coal to smokeless coke in a lot of cities. Change of electricity voltage. Special touring wide screen cinema. The loss of cinema to Bingo Halls. Buying food for the farm eg eggs & milk..... milk churns Fish & chips in newspaper with a wooden folk. The post tram which ran in Sheffield you could post into a postbox and know it would be delivered in Sheffield the next morning. Co op delivery service.( you see Tesco etc it is not new ). Local bread shops selling freshly made bread from back of a A35 van. Frenchman selling onions on a bike. AA / RAC saluting a member as they saw you as you drove past at 30 or 40 mph. The 11 plus exam and for those boys who did not get it right at 11 to go to a high school a 13 plus exam in Sheffield to go to The Central Technical School ( I know I went there). Well that is all for now best regards Ian Ian & Valerie William & Harry Missy & Millie dogs 9 Hens + inside The Henian Castle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhotchick Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 CB radios! 10 10 good buddy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 What about butter that they used to pat with little wooden paddles and wrap in waxed paper? Or has that been mentioned already? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Huggers R Us Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 Anyone remember their Mum's collecting Green Shield stamps? Chocolate log's, large white mice (tiny now) Playing "Kiss Catch" in the playground, Sharing phone lines with the neigbours (because there wasn't enough lines to go round) My Dad drove a Ford Capri, a cool black one, he bought this in later life when he was going through his "Boy Racer" phase. Do you remember when you could buy a bag of crisps for 2 and a half pence? and you could buy the bensons brandof plain. Yum Ink wells in school desks, lift up lids to hide behind when having a snack or a giggle... Knitted school jumpers last lasted the whole school years. Taking pop bottles back for the deposits. Door to door Bread deliveries. Drawing hopscotch on the roads with chalk??? ( the white stuff found on the floor) Re white poo Playing kerby. Making homemade Bogeys out of old pram wheels with your Dad. Making dens in the long grass in the fields. Dragging mattresses up the trees to make treehouses. Being able to go into any neighbours houses for treats and chats without any fear. Proper snow that lasted long enough to make a decent snowman that lasted weeks. Soda fountains. Could go on and on and on..... Those were the days!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 I absolutely loved playing kerby and my brother always made me go on the back of the bogey. He said it was to make it go faster - yeah, right !! My inkwell was used for pencil shavings and chewing gum and we used to eat iced drinks when the lid was up Great days indeed !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 I remember being very sad when our black and white television was changed for a colour one. I seem to remember actually kissing the tv goodbye Oh dear - I have always been a bit of a tv addict. I obviously didn't realise that colour would be better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 I can rememer most of the list too It didn't mention polyester flares that your mum had made you with a matching waistcoat in emerald green and brown Yes I remember these, but did your mum put the crinkly, zig zag ribbon thing roung the outside of your waistcoat? Mine did (actually I thought it was quite cool ). I've also got pictures of me in rather natty crocheted dresses (and I wasn't even a baby) and of course my younger sister and I were always in matching clothes Yes I had the trimming too We had a 3 digit telephone number for years , it was in deepest darkest Wales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 I can remember some of all of the above. Someone mentioned sweet tobacco. Yum yum!! For those Sheffield people, I remember getting on a bus to go anywhere in the city for 2p. I think that it was only about 10 p for over 16s. In those unenlightened times, I remember thinking that it was really something to have your photo taken holding a poor little monkey! I used to love it in school when you were told to put your head down for a while and you could smell the (probably dirty) wood of the grafittied desk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Webmuppet Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 I remember Izal loo paper, my Gran used it We had some cheap imitation of it at school. As for the rest I can remember some of them. I remember in the summer holidays being kicked out of the house with a bottle of made up squash and sarnis and told not to come back until tea time (taking the dog with me - it was a pedigree though). I recall one of the neighbours saying were the kids safe (there was a little gang of us) doing this and my Dad replying - who in their right minds is going to go near those kids - they've got a labrador, a rottweiler and an alastian with them....... You wouldn't dream of doing that these days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 My parents didn't get a phone until I was 11, & before then we used to phone my auntie up every Saturday morning from the phone box outside the post office. There were 2 slots for your money, one for 2 pence & one (I think) for 10 pence. You had to put your money in when the call was answered at the other end, & I used to beg to push the 2 pence in, & to dial the number We got a black & white telly when I was 5. We were so poor that my parents made the decision that my mum might have to go back to work when I was 4- instead my dad took a job as a milkman which doubled his salary overnight so that mum didn't have to work. Women working "in those days" was rare, & my mum was always there when I came home from school, & I used to go home from school for my lunch as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 I do love a nostalgia thread I can clearly remember all those things, although weirdly I saw some white dog poo on the pavement the other day. It wasn't all cosy and fun though. I had a knitted bathing costume it was awful, weighed a ton when wet. My mum didn't have a washing machine it was all done by hand or boiled up with those blue dolly things, I can remember working the mangle for her to get the excess water out it was really hard work being a housewife and most women were back then. We had a phone in our house because it was an air raid warden's post during the war, all the neighbours used to come in a use the phone and leave my mum 1penny for the call. But all in all they were much safer, contented times and I remember the sun used to shine all through the summer months. Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardene5 Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 Drain pipe trousers Flare trousers winker picker shoes for men Sandy Shaw Dave Clark 5 hippies long hair VW beach buggy Flower power Flowery shirts for men England World Cup Win wooden igloos in the tree by hippies Rootes Cars Ford Prefect Ford Anglia, Consul, Zepha Zodiac Wolsey Elf Riley cars VW Caravanette The London Route Master Red Bus Best regards Ian & Valerie William & Harry Missy & Millie Dogs 9 hens Henian Castle with + inside Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
