Things you don't see anymore

[katyjay 5,091]

re Trevor, #1641 candy cigarettes. Yo must a bin posh, we called 'em tuffy fags.

[Compo 10,328]

There used to be a Christmas special Liquorice pack containing Liquorice fags, pipes, cigars etc...

[Compo 10,328]

Worrabaht them liquorice "Catherine wheels" wi a lirrul round sweetie in the middul.

[katyjay 5,091]

The round sweetie was my least favourite of the Liquorice Allsorts, a 'beady' sweetie either in blue or pink. It's my hubby's favourite though, so things even out!

[Michael Booth 7,364]

Can you remember the knife sharpeners that used to travel around your area?.

[katyjay 5,091]

I remember them knocking on doors asking to sharpen your knives etc. We have a knife man come to our monthly farmer's market, I took my blunt veggie knife, you could have rode bare arsed to London on it, as my mam would say. He sharpened it for me and don't you know, the first time I used it I sliced me thumb open, LOL.

[benjamin1945 16,158]

My Dad had a (and dont laugh) a small grinder,which he tried to sharpen our knives with,my mam always got on to him after saying "you could ride bare arsed on em," we dint have same mam did we katyjay

[LizzieM 9,507]

The knife sharpener man I remember in Arnold had a pedal bike affair which he pedalled like mad ......

[Bilboro-lad 294]

We used the back doorstep. I do remember the knife sharpening man though.

[Trevor S 2,003]

http://www.retronaut.com/2014/04/spud-cigarettes/

[benjamin1945 16,158]

Pregnant women wearing a "smock" and often owt sensible!

[tomlinson 879]

Telegrams, which when received frightened the life out of everyone because it usually meant someone had snuffed it.

[Compo 10,328]

I once sent a telegram to a girlfriend who lived in Southend-on-Sea. It read: "Arriving in 1 min P". When the telegram boy had delivered it I waited 1 minute and knocked on the door. A good laugh was had too!

[Compo 10,328]

Sensibly dressed pregnant girls is it?! I saw one the other week in Portugal wearing tight slacks and a short T shirt showing her 7monthish pregnant belly to all.

[DaveN 1,118]

In warm/hot weather bottles of milk were put into a bowl of cold water to stop the milk going sour before fridges

[Merthyr Imp 729]

Also in the days before fridges we had a meat safe to put fresh food in. Just a cupboard with a fine wire mesh on the front. It obviously didn't preserve the food like a fridge, but it was somewhere to put it that would stop flies getting to it.

[Compo 10,328]

I was still using a meat safe as late as 1988 in the Falkland Islands.

[Trevor S 2,003]

Plastic figures, puzzles etc that were given away free in the breakfast cereal boxes.

[benjamin1945 16,158]

Or hear, Exressions such as "BLOW ME" and "CRIKEY"

[DaveN 1,118]

Round pin electric plugs

[Compo 10,328]

How about clockwork tinplate toys like this:

[Compo 10,328]

My Indian Clockwork train set:

[Compo 10,328]

Even the good old 60watt lightbulb is nearing extinction:

[DaveN 1,118]

Button Flies

[Limey 242]

Don't know about the U.K., but here you can easily buy button fly Levi jeans! Some people swear by them, others at them!