Things you don't see anymore

[TBI 2,351]

#2231

When I was little, my mam drank it with lemonade in, sometimes I'd get to try some. In fact I used to try both my parents tipples. Dad's Shippoes was much better!

[terence12 725]

re my #2232, my deepest apologies, really got that one wrong, silly twit,

[benjamin1945 16,160]

Tut tut,...........i'm gutted terence' lol.

[Michael Booth 7,364]

benjamin1945 and I are really upset now, terence12. We were looking forward to watching that.

[tony1 118]

Thank goodness we no longer see: Appointments for children to attend the psychopathic woman dentist at Chaucer Street.

The horrors she put me through, as a child, will be taken to my grave. Today, she would probably be held accountable for child abuse.

[Guest]

Alpine pop, those tk bedford drivers were nutters. Victory v lozenges. Merry maid sweets . Spanish gold at the ABC minors

[Trevor S 2,003]

Static straps hanging down from the back of cars....supposed to have stopped travel sickness....

[Bubblewrap 3,815]

[TBI 2,351]

I never saw the paper money even then!

[Bubblewrap 3,815]

I could go down the pub with a ten bob note & get five pints with it.

[BilboroughShirley 1,120]

I remember when you could buy a large Kit Kat with 6d! Now the chunky ones cost an arm and a leg at motorway services! In about 1966 my dad drove out of a petrol station without buying petrol because it was 37p a gallon! The coins and notes bring back good memories. Thanks.

[TBI 2,351]

Only five pints? That's because you drink expensive beer.

[Bubblewrap 3,815]

I still wish beer was the same price as petrol

[TheTramp 139]

Girls wearing a headscarf over their rollers down the market Satd morning. Sailors in uniform. Women in fur coats and big ats in Yeates's.

Red marks on yer ands from the cane. Flat carts at Bobbers Mill scrap merchant waiting to weigh in. Wippet on a piece of string. Notice board outside a posh bungalow sez Strodex Corsetiere.

[StephenFord 866]

Women wearing headscarves done up like a turban. Any pictures?

[Dave 48 847]

There you go Stephen.....your own video.😃

[Ivor Thirst 120]

Who could forget?

[Ivor Thirst 120]

On a more serious note my mother and all the other Mums would always wear a headscarf when they left the house.

Now the headscarf is regarded as attire of a conservative Muslim.

Both look good to me!

Audrey Hepburn..................

[Compo 10,328]

Lemon Puffs and Iced Gems:

[Merthyr Imp 729]

The sum of money shown in #2240 is only a few shillings more than my weekly wage when I started work in 1966. It's a good thing Kit Kats only cost 6d! (Actually they may still have been 5d then)

[Compo 10,328]

Cigarette gift coupons, got a few things off Players No6 catalogue.

[Compo 10,328]

You forgot the humble Farthing:

[Merthyr Imp 729]

You could buy one aniseed ball for a farthing.

[tomlinson 879]

All the stuff you could buy and bring home in brown paper carrier bags with string handles.

[Chulla 4,946]

Policemen on point duty.

Cartons and jar labels with the price printed on.

Conductors on the trams (they are gone now).

Metal advertising signs.

Product names stuck on shop windows in individual letters (Cadbury, for example)

Ex-army servicemen wearing/using khaki items for work.

Built-up shoes for people with a short leg.

RUNNING IN PLEASE PASS notice in car rear windows.

Sun blinds pulled down over shop windows.

Hassle-free passage through airports.

Curtains drawn at house when someone had died.

Piece of black cloth stitched on to sleeve of bereaved men.

Spectacle lens of frosted glass for person blind in one eye.

Under-arm crutches for lame.

Bonfires in the middle of the road.

Trilby hats (very rare).

Bacon slicers (you still see bread slicers).

Brass-weight scales.

Lamp-posts with crossbar for ladder rest.

Semaphore indicators on cars.

Forest winning trophies!

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