Things you don't see anymore

[benjamin1945 16,139]

NOGS, IN FOOTBALL BOOTS,

[MELTONSTILTON 452]

Arm bands,Cravats and pocket watches,

I started to use a pocket watch, when I was working as a forester, because a the life expectancy of wrist watch when swinging an axe, or using a chainsaw, is counted in days not years, because they get shook to death, I have been retired just under a year and I still use one,

[benjamin1945 16,139]

To be honest melton ive never done manual work,and i still wear arm bands and occasionally my Dads pocket watch,but never a cravat,too upper class for the likes of me.

[LizzieM 9,507]

Bet you wear a TIE every day though Benjamin1945 ;-)

[benjamin1945 16,139]

Sometimes take it off in the shower

[Ashley 288]

forest getting promoted

[Trevor S 2,003]

Some people just do not see the point anymore..........................

[Michael Booth 7,364]

King Harold didn't either..lol

[Trevor S 2,003]

Candy cigarettes,

Chocolate cigarettes and cigars, and

there was a sweet tobacco that you could buy, came in a packet just like pipe tobacco and was thin strands of coconut coated in sugar and chocolate powder.

[DaveN 1,118]

Gas at the dentists!!

[Trevor S 2,003]

Common sense........

[benjamin1945 16,139]

#1642 never did see it dave

[poohbear 1,360]

Three columns of job vacancies in the Evening Post..

[colly0410 1,181]

Gas at the dentists!!

Eek! The horror, the horrible smell, the black thing they put in your gob, ugh..

H & X TV aerials, co-channel interference in summer wiping out BBC 1..

[Fynger 841]

Spanish Gold Trevor

http://www.oldestsweetshop.co.uk/sweet-tobacco-spanish-gold

[Michael Booth 7,364]

British Gold, Fynger.

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

Politicians with integrity.

[Fynger 841]

Always knew it as Spanish Gold...used to get it from the Naafi in Chilwell Depot...cos our shop din't sell it.

[Michael Booth 7,364]

Fynger, my comment (#1648) was regarding Britain's gold reserves that Gordon Brown sold off.

[Compo 10,328]

NOGS, IN FOOTBALL BOOTS,

[benjamin1945 16,139]

BRILLIANT COMPO

[Trevor S 2,003]

Thanks Fynger...that was the stuff....#1647

[DaveN 1,118]

Let’s take you back to your younger days

When there were loads of chip shops but no takeaways

You went to Mablethorpe or Skeggy on a day trip

At a lot of schools girls wore a gymslip

From a bottle of ink your pen you did refill

And listened to music on vinyl

No car lift to school –you had to walk

You didn’t have butter you had Stork

You did sums without a calculator

Walked up stairs – no escalator

At school if you were naughty or didn’t pay attention

You got the strap, cane, lines or detention

Had blankets and eiderdown – no duvet

Monday was always mums’ washday

You hated vaccinations and the nit nurse

But gas at the dentists was much worse

There were farthings, pennies, bobs and tanners

You were told to be polite and mind your manners

A Pac-a-mac to keep you dry in the rain

But the water down your legs did drain

Only one or two channels on the B & W TV

You went to the pictures to see a film not a movie

Chimney sweep, milkman and coalman

Two deliveries each day from the postman

Smith’s Crisps with salt in a little blue bag

Behind the bike shed you had a crafty fag

Stiff Izal toilet paper to wipe your bum

And even newspaper was used by some

Your mother darned holes in jumpers and socks

No such thing as radio alarm clocks

Shire horses pulling Shippo’s drays

Most shops were closed on Sundays

[Trevor S 2,003]

Going out the front door on a cold, icy winters' morning and seeing the milk in the bottles had frozen and had risen like a tube out the bottle neck with the foil cap still on top,

Cadging a free packet of hot batter bits from the chip shop on a cold night,

Test patterns on the TV, and

That bright white dot in the centre of the black screen when the TV channel ceased transmission for the night.

[benjamin1945 16,139]

Tarantella tomatoes (in the flat can)