Things you don't see anymore

[darkazana 1,736]

Don't remember that name except for Green Giant Sweetcorn

[Compo 10,328]

Jolly Green Giant. You can still get his sweet corn too.

[The Pianoman 1,532]

Police box:

POLICEMEN !

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Anybody know what jjap filberts where ?

[Karlton 582]

spangles

[katyjay 5,090]

I used to eat some sweets that started with Jap something, not sure it was filberts. They were square, chewy and either yellow, pink of brown. You bought them loose from the big sweet jars.

[katyjay 5,090]

Jap desserts, are what I'm thinking of.

[banjo48 928]

#1803

Telegraph lads riding their PO red BSA Bantams !

When I worked as a PO engineer they was based in the Parcel sorting office on Brook St, also remember a couple of their names, Pete Swift (Swifty) who came onto the engineering maintenance side later, another "Messo" was called Bob, tall ginger haired lad who moved to the mechanical section before emigrating like me to Oz, caught up with him years later in Perth WA, where he now resides.

Another "small world" episode.

[Trevor S 2,003]

Suddenly thought last night while watching the ads appearing on TV every few minutes and lasting forever.......................

Who can remember back in the early days of commercial TV when the ads came on virtually every 15 minutes.

The programme would start on time, say 8pm, then 15 minutes later you would get a break with the words 'End Of Part One' and then, a couple of minutes later, 'Part Two'

You could organise your toilet, coffee or tea break and not miss anything, regardless of the type of show - Sunday Night at the London Palladium, Cheyenne, Dangerman et al.

[Bazza 123 34]

Things we don't do anymore!!!!like opening a door for a lady,when walking with a lady walking on the road side,people wishing you good morning even if they don't know you.Respect for your elders, offering your bus or train seat not swearing in public,and my favourite not returning phone calls or emails or answering letters.

[Karlton 582]

man walking round playing the accordian tatman goldfish fer' old rags

as kids we often went in the phone box and listened to the speaking clock- 'at the next stroke it will be 7 28 and 5 seconds precisely or something like that does it still go to-day? iwonder

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Cash returnable bottles ,smelly tramps ,roadside huts with fire for workmen,mass produced British owned and built cars,however something you can find from years ago is tiles from houses pulled down in old meadows,our friend Dennis transported some up north for 're use.

[Compo 10,328]

#1803

Telegraph lads riding their PO red BSA Bantams !

When I worked as a PO engineer they was based in the Parcel sorting office on Brook St, also remember a couple of their names, Pete Swift (Swifty) who came onto the engineering maintenance side later, another "Messo" was called Bob, tall ginger haired lad who moved to the mechanical section before emigrating like me to Oz, caught up with him years later in Perth WA, where he now resides.

Another "small world" episode.

Here you go Banjo48:

[katyjay 5,090]

Don't see as many watches on wrists nowadays, ask someone the time and they whip their cell phone out to look. same with cameras. Personally I still use both.

[Compo 10,328]

I'm dead green, me! I have a solar powered wristwatch. It's a Mondaine; the type railways use. It's made with recycled materials.

[Commo 1,292]

Needlers Maltona Drops, malty flavoured buttery boiled sweets, flattish with a dimple in the centre! Re #1811, Andy, I recall that Jap Filberts were a flat soft chewy sweet covered in dessicated coconut.

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Well remembered commo,but you forgot the hazelnut in the middle ,at leanst I think it was a hazelnut,remember serving them to the drunks in Roy and arches sweet sho next door to the poets,down the medias in the 60s,my dad got me mam a tomatoes juice Sunday dinner as he staggered home from the pub,most blokes took sweets or chocs or summit,don't know why ,they still got a rollicking whilst they ate the dinner that had been 're heated over a boiling pan.that was kids entertainment,happy days.

[tomlinson 879]

BR freight carriers with three wheeled cabs.

[Compo 10,328]

Ah yes, the Scammel Scarab:

[Compo 10,328]

Nah then, there was a chocolate bar in the 50s and 60s, si milar in size to a Picnic or Nux bar, that had sections, each containing a nut and a fondant mallow filling. What the flip was it called?!

[The Pianoman 1,532]

Topic -- A hazelnut in every bite!

[benjamin1945 16,139]

#1826.............i remember one of them at Victoria Station 1960, i was a 'van-lad at Midland station at the time, even remember the driver big fat chap.

[StephenFord 866]

Otherwise known as a mechanical horse? They were highly unstable, and often overturned when turning too fast.

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#1828 I thought that was squirrel poo

[Compo 10,328]

Pianoman #1828: No, it wasn't Topic. This bar had IIRC four blobs, each containing the mallow and a nut.