4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[The Dogmother]

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!

[Mrs Frugal]

Ooooooooooooooooooooo mint cracknell!! Ooooooooooooo I adored them!!

[clootie]

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?

[Tina C]

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.

[keyhole kate]

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

[..lay a little egg for me]

Yep, I remember all those things!

[The Dogmother]

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!

[Chicken Licken]

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.

[Milly]

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

[Guest]

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.....

[Guest]

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!

[purple hen]

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.

[redhotchick]

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.

[Ardene5]

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

[redhotchick]

CB radios!

10 10 good buddy!

[clootie]

What about butter that they used to pat with little wooden paddles and wrap in waxed paper? Or has that been mentioned already?

[Hen Huggers R Us]

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!!!

[clootie]

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 !!

[Seagazer]

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!

[chickencam]

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

[jlo]

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.

[Mrs Webmuppet]

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!

[Jules.]

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!

[Tessa the Duchess]

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

[Ardene5]

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