Gallina Posted April 26, 2007 Author Share Posted April 26, 2007 We had a Flatley. They didn't have shelves: they were white oblong metal boxes with slots, and wooden bars rested in the slots. You hung sheets and towels over the bars to air when they came in from the line. They were electric airers, not really driers, and you didn't put really wet items in. Here is one for sale on eBay. Select the view with bars to see what good rods they made for threatening children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellcat Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Theres so much on this thread that I remember, I've just spent 10 minutes sniggering... and going, 'ooooh yes', and the like. Now I have become my Auntie Brenda! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 anyone have a tippy tumble...sory tumble reminded me BBx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Yes I did !!! I remember driving my folks mad one Christmas for tippy tumble then I got my Mum to knit her loads of clothes Didnt she have ginger hair??? EDIT - oooooh and that's also reminded me of "playing Jane" - the doll who would play noughts and crosses and basketball with you !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 We had a Flatley. They didn't have shelves: they were white oblong metal boxes with slots, and wooden bars rested in the slots. You hung sheets and towels over the bars to air when they came in from the line. They were electric airers, not really driers, and you didn't put really wet items in. Here is one for sale on eBay. Select the view with bars to see what good rods they made for threatening children. 'Next doors' had one of those! - no bidders for this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted April 27, 2007 Author Share Posted April 27, 2007 Flatleys were jolly good when the only alternative was to sit with damp washing spread all over the house. But I can't imagine anyone wanting one today. It's only when you start to reminisce and people don't know what you are talking about that you realize how much has changed. Food is very different now. When I was a child, all the nicest things came came in a tin: peaches, fruit salad, salmon, soup, ambrosia creamed rice, even chopped ham with porkand Heinz tinned salad. After that freezers were all the rage, and Birds Eye ruled the roost; and packet food such as Vesta Chow Mein came in. In my childhood you couldn't get exotic foreign food such as Brie, and I don't remember yoghurt being sold (probably because the plastic pot hadn't been invented). I don't think people today can imagine life without supermarkets. I can remember seeing my first plastic carrier bag when I was about 10 or 12: people always used shopping bags and baskets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggy-Bread Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Hands up too. Blue Peter with Val, John and Chris ! - and who remembers Bleep & Booster being read out on the programme? Follyfoot Catweazel The Singing Ringing Tree Noggin the Nog Tressie dolls Strap-on roller skates Pinning playing cards to the spokes of your bike wheels with pegs I could go on.................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Hands up too. Blue Peter with Val, John and Chris ! - and who remembers Bleep & Booster being read out on the programme? Follyfoot Catweazel The Singing Ringing Tree Noggin the Nog Tressie dolls Strap-on roller skates Pinning playing cards to the spokes of your bike wheels with pegs I could go on.................. Re Blue Peter: Anyone remember the elephant pooing fulsomely on live TV! And Christopher Trace having to leave the programme because he was spotted in the company of a female person who was not his wife!! I remember Anne Franks father Otto being interviewed too. That was very moving and I have not forgotten it. I absolutely loved Noggin the Nogg....In days of old when men were bold. etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Gosh, I remember all of both those posts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 I thought the elephant wee'ed profusely? - perhaps it was both. I'd not thought about the food Egluntine - I still love to have canned salmon, new potatoes and lettuce/cucumber salad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Carnation milk on tinned fruit salad! Vesta Curries! Energen Rolls....like a bread version of Aunt Bessies Yorkshire pud!. Truly awful. Go to work on an Egg with Aunt Et. Blancmange at birthday parties...made in a rabbit shaped mould, and two currants for eyes. Tinned peas! Heinz Sandwich Spread....which Him Indoors loves My daughter nearly put him off when she was about 9 she said I don't know how you can eat that, its like a jar of sick with a few dried bogies stirred in... which it is. I still get a jar for him now and then....and I remind him of her description as he is about to tuck in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Heinz Sandwich Spread....which Him Indoors loves My daughter nearly put him off when she was about 9 she said I don't know how you can eat that, its like a jar of sick with a few dried bogies stirred in... which it is. I still get a jar for him now and then....and I remind him of her description as he is about to tuck in. Brilliant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 I love heinz sandwich spread (it does look like it has been eaten once already though!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Me too.. haven't had it for years. Is it full of yuk? I expect so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 I always hated sandwich spread - I didn't mind the potted meat though, and Shiphams spreads........ My sister used to hide her sandwiches up a tree on the way to school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 I always hated sandwich spread - I didn't mind the potted meat though, and Shiphams spreads........ My sister used to hide her sandwiches up a tree on the way to school I really like potted meat.....introduced my OH to the delight of potted meat sandwiches just the other year Eurgh, memories of Shiphams spreads, even the thought of the fish ones makes me feel ill and the mean school dinnerlady used to make us eat all of our pack ups so I dreaded the day Mum did fish spread sarnies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 My sister used to hide her sandwiches up a tree on the way to school If it was luncheon meat (Bleuwch ) I used to post them into the pillar box at the end of the road Anyone remember Plumrose Popped Ham with Chalk That was disgusterous too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 I used to post them into the pillar box at the end of the road Anyone remember Plumrose Popped Ham with Chalk That was disgusterous too. Pity the poor postman Plumrose Plopped Ham and Chalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Am ressurecting this because Him Indoors was overcome by a flood of nostalgia when Look North announced that the last box of Black Magic to be made in the UK had rolled off the machine at the Nestle factory in York. His late Dad used to work there (man and boy) when it was called Rowntrees, maintaining the machinery. We were saying how heartbroken he would have been. We the got on to remembering: Weekend Chocolates. Spangles. I particularly liked the Old English variety. My sister nearly choked to death on a Spangle and had to be turned upside down and thumped between the shoulders by a complete stranger. She thanked him by vomiting on his shoes ( She was three). He simply raised his hat and walked into the sunset. My mother never got to thank him! Fry's Chocolate Creme (Made at the Terry's factory...the enemy!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Cadbury's Milk Tray in a bar not a box We are the Champions, a bit like It's a Knockout, for children and they all jumped in the swimming pool at the end. Superstars, remember Kevin Keegan falling off his bike and being really injured Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeckyBoo Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 spangles - yes!! I liked cola ones, and chopper bikes, watch out watch out there's a Humphrey about!! Busby the BT bird thingy, we're having a Eurovision Song contest party on Saturday night at our local pub (my idea!) and we're having fondue (is that how you spelll it?) black forest gateau (when it wasn't frozen) and we're all (if I can find something made of enough lycra!) dressing up as our Eurovision heroes (mine's ABBA obviously - went to see them when I was about 12 - they were fab - dig those flares!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Just read through the thread. My Grandfather lived in London .. and I always remember hooves clopping, and the bell ringing of the rag and bone man . Spangles were , I also liked Pacers .. the green and white minty chews. And Milk bottles ... proper ones ... which took ages to chew, like the original "milk-teeth" .. closest u get now are Maynards. . On a monday my Mum would let me watch the Rockford Files, and then we would go and get brothers from cubs/scouts at the local RAF base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Golly, I remember the Rockford Files,a nd the Six Million Dollar Man too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Pacers......mmmmmmmm! I seem to remember practically living off pacers one summer holiday - we were staying in the caravan in the Lake District, and the van would come round every morning with papers, sweets and veg and I would get a packet of pacers every morning. Or a texan bar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Spangles mmmmmmmmmmmmm i dressed as Busby for the town float parade when I was about 5 when I say to people now they just look at me like I'm mad We had little cardboard beaks to wear and it was really sore on the nose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
