Ardene5 Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 Joke shop toys under 1 shilling for a great laugh Fun with moth balls in water early version of larva lamp. Metal hub covers Chrome plated car bumpers Policeman on point duty directing traffic. On foot Copper ( policeman) Blue Police Box For those who remember Sheffield Cole's Corner 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...
Janty Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 Mint Cracknell or Ice Breaker anyone? Hubby and I often talk about Icebreakers. Remember that lovely shiny bluey packaging? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 I do and the blue minty bits inside..... yum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhotchick Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 I was in Audlem the other weekend and there was a copper on foot, by himself! He was talking to some local youths, (in a friendly way) I waited politely to ask some directions. Lovely to see a helpful community policeman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutrix Farmers Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 2oz of sherbert pips for 2p sweet cigarettes with red tips (and Tom and Jerry on the packet) 4 black jacks for a penny hand knitted twinset to wear to parties with my kilt playing out in the park with friends all day and only going home to eat one car per family (if you were lucky) using next door's telephone for emergencies black and white rental TV Pricerites Jon Pertwee as Dr Who flowery maxi dresses in psychedelic colours a designer label had a ladybird on it 1p bus fare into town 3 TV channels power cuts (always seemed to be happening when I was growing up) kids don't have half so much fun today as we did!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutrix Farmers Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 I forgot Camberwick Green!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Bread strikes, I remember being the only one at school with sarnies because my Mum made her own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 9, 2008 Author Share Posted October 9, 2008 Anyone else remember the power cuts during the winter of discontent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 And a toilet roll shortage.... A yellow capri with a black roof just went past me on the high street (but not my dad's old one ) Weird. And yes Clare I remember them well. Thankfully we had a coal fire and lived in a mining village. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Oh wow, I remember loads and can add a few: Childrens tv: Torchie the Battery Boy Twizzle The Pingwings (knitted penguins Clanger prototypes) Mr Pastry Blue Peter with Christopher Trace Lost in Space Dr Who with the old guy, glad Patrick Troughton replaced him- loved Frazer Hines in his kilt! Rawhide 77 Sunset Strip It takes a Thief with Robert Wagner (drool) Fireball XL5 Get Smart Car 54 Where are You The Munsters Stingray Skippy Barrier Reef The Magic Boomerang Crackerjack - and childrens TV didn't last long and we had BBC and ITV, it was all in black and white and you had to turn a big k"Ooops, word censored!" to change the channel. The first thing I wanted to see on our new colour TV with BBC2 was the High Chapparal. All Our Yesterdays which was all war footage - booooooring. Cuddly Dudley which I named my teddy after. Scarey movies were Night of the Demon and Quatermass The first car I drove was an A40 when I was 10 over the New Forest at Sway - cars could go anywhere then. Then we had a Hillman Imp, Hillman Minx, Vauxhall Viva which used to gunge up it's pipes with a brown oily foam until my dad altered the engine. Datsun Sunny my driving instructor had. I also remember eating "mandarin oranges, dink,dink, dink" on the running board of my dad's Standard 8! How sad I remember the jingles! Steam trains and then the first diesels! Matchbox cars that were made by Lesney. Sweets and goodies: Gobstoppers that were huge Sherbet Fountains Cremola Foam R Whites Lemonade - Canadian cousins had 7Up long before we had it here "I drink IDRIS when I's dry" - lemon squash with a horrible lemon with an angry face on the doors of the grocers shop. My grandad insisted on Izal - my mum showed me how to use it - you rubbed it like doing hand washing over your knuckes to make it soft - the odd bent bits still scratched - thank goodness my nan discovered Andrex, but then you couldn't put that around a comb and hum through it and make your mouth all tingly! Going out on my Raleigh 16 (huge heavy thing) without being frightened of strangers. In fact we always said hello to anyone - it was just polite. Dogs running loose in packs - not so good. I still like cloud watching - some things never change. Oh yes "gimme mint cracknell 'n I don't care" Amazin(g) choccy bar with raisins Old Jamaica - yummmmmmm Yep also power cuts - they were fun with lots of candles and torch waving and making shapes with shadows. My mum had a stalker and the local policeman told my dad to beat him up in the woods when there weren't any witnesses! Dad didn't though because the policeman sorted him out first - he then became an inspector and then chief - a bit on the Sweeney side of the law! It is still not illegal to kill someone with a bow and arrow on Chobham Common - but would recommend it! Hermans Hermits Dave Clark 5 Billy J Kramer Johnny Kidd and the Pirates Freddie and the Dreamers The Scaffold The Monkees Yep remember a bread shortage and a sugar shortage. Oh dear I really should get back into the 21st century Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 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.. When we first moved to Sheffield bus journeys were 10p for adults. . Now they are around 2 quid. Hardly an incentive to use public transport when it is more expensive to go into the city centre on the bus than to drive and park for a couple of hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Old Jamaica was delicious,wasn't it? I remember that Momster Munch seemed HUGE back then,but they look small these days.Ditto to Curly Wurlys & Wagon Wheels. I used to love 'The Banana Splits', C.H.I.P.S,'The Dukes of Hazzard', 'Mulitcoloured Swap Shop' & Lamb Chop I read Bunty & Twinkle,then Blue Jeans, then Jackie then Just 17,then Smash Hits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Wow you really dragged an old memory out with Old Jamaica! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 My dad adored it & I would save up really hard to buy him a bar every Christmas it was brought back for a short while about 5 years ago, & I got him another bar , which he was really delighted with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireG Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 I'm just under 40 and remember most of them. Mum was an avid green sheild stamp fan! We had a Morris Minor and then several Austin Maxis. My sister and i were always in either handmade matching outfits or in Ladybird dresses. I don't think anyone has mentioned my all time childrens TV favourite yet, The Clangers, i loved the soup dragon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Old Jamica - yummmeee! I had forgotten all about that. What about The Woodentops or has anyone mentioned The Herb Garden or Noggin the Nog? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 I used to love those programmes too. I watched a programme when I was young and it scared the living daylights out of me. I'm sure it was a childrens programme. It sort of ended with the children sitting inside a ring of lights and there was a white horse (not sure if it was a ghost or just a white horse) it was really scary and you could hear it galloping along a corridor (that is wierd) and then it jumped into the circle and disappeared. I'm hoping someone else watched it because otherwise I probably imagined that I watched it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 I loved Noggin the Nog, Clangers, Captain Pugwash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimmyCustard Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 I remember Jungle Ted and the Crazy Buttonpoppers , having only the choice of a grey phone with the dial on it cos there was nothing else, eating spam (and not realising it was made from lips,bums,beaks and claws), playing Knockdown Ginger, finding out there isnt a tooth fairy nor Father Christmas . My Dad (aged 80 in Dec but acts about 50 and looks 60) still goes on about the price of things 'Ten bob?! You could get loads for that and still have half a crown change!' (or something like that). Then he said he used to drive his little sports car up to Soho for a night out and not locking the doors COS IT WASNT BUILT WITH LOCKS! Weird...... Kimmy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 9, 2008 Author Share Posted October 9, 2008 I loved Noggin the Nog, Clangers, Captain Pugwash. Me too, you can get Clanger knitting patterns you know.. just wish I could knit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 I used to have a knitted Clanger & a Soup Dragon, who I loved I wish I still had them now,actually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 9, 2008 Author Share Posted October 9, 2008 Shall we see if we can get The Clangers on DVD Sarah? Children these days don't know what they are missing. Puff the Magic Dragon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardene5 Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 (edited) Does any one remember those knitting patterns your mum found in the women mags. Although they sounded great they gave you (us) problems. A wooden balaclava made in brownish wool with a hole for our face great in idea, rubbish in the wool it was made in. Or those hand made swimming trunks made in some form of toweling material great for the beach but not to swim in or come out of the sea, very embarrassing. Then you get that photographer on the beach wanting to take your photo in those swimming trunk ......... not way was my response, he did take the photo but I know a mum who never made any more swimming trunks , thank goodness, after seeing the photograph. TV program ....... Super Car, Bat man 1960 version, Top Cat. Best regards Ian Ian & Valerie William & Harry Missy & Millie dogs 9 Hens Henian Castle with inside Edited October 9, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Anyone have a bubbly swimming cozzie? And plastic sandals in brown from Woolworths, a bargain at two and sixpence, long before anyone had heard of jelly shoes or Crocs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Fav.TV clangers Ivor the Engine The Wombles Paddington Grange Hill Rent a Ghost ( We watched a couple of these recently for the children to see and they were rubbish ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
