tony1 118 Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Festival Creams and ... Ginger biscuits that actually tasted of ginger. Bacon with enough fat to fry six eggs from one rasher. [ The food police having since removed fat (and therefore any taste) from all meat before we get it.] Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ivor Thirst 120 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Plastic submarines, free with cornflakes, you filled them with baking Soda and they surfaced and dived, brilliant! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swe62 334 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 who needs atomic power 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 #1984 I think that was in the late 1950s could have been 1960/1 I can remember the submarines too. But kellogs did a set of six cow boys & Indians around the same time. They also did a set of pistols(half of one side only) and further set of rifles. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tony1 118 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Watching the man come round with his ladder and light the gas lights in the street at night and turn them off in the morning. It's nice to know that they still have gas lights in "The Park Estate" . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Don't the get their wages there in"Dane Geld" too Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swe62 334 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 cabins on the back of builders lorries for the men to go to the jobs in,builders handcarts Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 # 1984 & 1986 Had a lot of fun with the little submarine. Also in the Kelloggs cornflakes, same period, there was a number of vehicles you could make with inter-connecting parts. An open backed lorry, a car and bus I remember. We still have the Kelloggs cornflakes but no freebies these days, perhaps kids don't eat them? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swe62 334 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 nit nurse! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 Do you mean nitty Nora the bug explorer ? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swe62 334 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 the very same Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 The last time I was "checked" by the nit nurse must have been about 1958/59 Westdale Lane Junior School. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swe62 334 Posted January 28, 2015 Report Share Posted January 28, 2015 George Spencer About 1962/3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 spud guns and cap guns Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gibbo 04 188 Posted January 29, 2015 Report Share Posted January 29, 2015 Little rockets that you chucked up in the air, with a cap in, which banged when they hit the ground.... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ivor Thirst 120 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 The Sleek Streek, small balsa wood plane powered by an elastic band, 6d 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
... 1,411 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 #1994 was you a nit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Smiffy49 590 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Fight and determination in a Forest team..... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,120 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Can't argue with that Smiffy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Robbie 39 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 I think it was called sterilised milk which came in a long glass bottle with a metal cap. My gran always used it and nothing else. So on our visits we had to drink it. It made me want to heave, just thinking about the taste and smell now is making me want to throw up Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tony1 118 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Absolutely agree Robbie. We had pasteurised milk, red or silver top and orange-top Guernsey milk. The mother of a friend, down the road, offered me a drink of sterilised milk and I after I first tasted it, I was stuck with it out of politeness. Ugh.... It was GROSS ! I also had the similar experience with Camp coffee. We always had Nescafe made with milk (never water). A taste of Camp was a real culture shock. Yeuk ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tony1 118 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 My mother and an aunt used to eat a product called ENERGEN ROLLS. They came in a blue box and consisted of a ball of dry crispy, very light, honey-comb bread . Yester-years version of a slimming product. The problem was, that they used to eat it with a lavish spread of best butter. Somewhat defeated the object. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Ah the blue lettering on silver tin; National Dried. How well I remember! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 My Mum always had "stera", as she called it. It was disgusting. Another slimming product was Nimble bread - just like foam! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
... 1,411 Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Youth in the mirror 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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