katyjay 4,988 Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Flash bulbs for your camera. You'd take one off the strip, slot it into the top front of your camera, take a flash picture and discard the bulb. Brownie box cameras Hair laquer that you bought a refill for. The refill was in a soft plastic tube, you'd snip off the end and refill your bottle, then squeeze the bottle. This stuff would hold your beehive 'do, in the strongest of hurricanes! Shampoo that came in satchets Nylon stockings held up with a suspender belt. They came seamless or with a seam up the back, in different deniers. 2 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,812 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Ice cream vans. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,103 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Woodbines ciggy's in packets of three with two matches Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 233 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Kensitas - any size, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 If you're doing Cigarettes....Black cat. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 233 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 I have a cousin, her address was "10 Park Drive" 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Her I.D. wouldnt get her in a pub these days !rotfl! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,103 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Ayup Kev, You can still get Black Cat and Craven "A" with proper cork tips from the tobaconist under the council house building. I think the Black Cat brand was revived in the 70s complete with cigarette cards, "Uniforms of the British army" collected the whole set then left them in the old house when I left home Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 240 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Speaking of cigarettes, or fags, you don't see dolled up ladies handing out free ones at sporting events etc. I remember them handing out "Bristol" cigarettes at the speedway once - tried our hardest to get a few, but those women must have had age radar installed. Funny, we had no problem buying beer at the Pavilion! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 the whole set then left them in the old house when I left homeRog DOH !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 304 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Players Blue , Number 6 , Number 10 and Number 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Kids WITHOUT fags Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 233 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Kids WITHOUT fags Or booze Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 304 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Or Hoodies (And where do you buy those base ball caps with the peaks at the side ?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 240 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 And where do you buy those base ball caps with the peaks at the side ?? You can't - you have to get your head altered so your face is no longer at the front! It is amateur surgery often performed with a baseball bat - a side effect is complete loss of any kind of sense or imagination! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 233 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 contrite & apologetic bankers Well, go to foot of our stairs! 'Contrite & apologetic bankers' , like busses, you don't see one for years then 4 turn up at the same time! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ashley 288 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 re "10 Park Drive" one of the old Ilson bikers was pulled in by the police and they wouldn't believe his details, think it was in Matlock "name?" Bill Derbyshire, "**** off what's yer real name" William Derbyshire then, " hmmm, address?" 10 Park Drive Ilkeston, "Fred, radio for a car! got a right comedian here" "and you, what's your name?" Friar Michael West "make it a van Fred" 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Park Drive is still in Ilkeston Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 240 Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 There is one in Sandiacre too - my mate lived at number seven! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 4,988 Posted February 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 Not sure if this has appeared before, metal hair curlers. If I remember rightly, they gave a frizzy curl, they were so tight. Another 'hair' one is a stocking tied around the head and hair 'rolled' over it and tucked in. My mum definitely did that one. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scriv 168 Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 Not to mention CUSTOMISED Izal TP - Abiding memory from my Army days; if the RSM had been giving you grief, you could nip into a little room, sit down, have a smoke, read the paper, and then.... .... wipe your arse on GOVERNMENT PROPERTY .... every sheet was printed thus! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlie 11 Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 This site really does have an effect - now I walk round Tesco's looking for the things that have gone! No Cross & Blackwell soup, no Spangles and no Caramac! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,103 Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 Never see anyone go scrumping any more 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Charlie 11 Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 All the long, narrow pubs that they had in Longton, where I grew up, have gone too - Sort of terraces knocked into one long room, small bar, bunch of tables, sawdust on the floors of the posher ones, lods of domis and cries of 'one for his knob' from the crib players - oh and not a juke box or anything, but neough smoke from the parkies and the woodies so that you didn't really need to smoke your own! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,358 Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 Nuthalls Mintoes...Kids walking to school with satchels...Girls walking home from school with baskets covered in a gingham cloth containing their results from a cookery class... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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