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only just jumped into this topic so if someone else has already mentioned this sorry!does anyone remember green shield stamps.....smiths crisps with a little blue sachet of salt inside!!

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only just jumped into this topic so if someone else has already mentioned this sorry!does anyone remember green shield stamps.....smiths crisps with a little blue sachet of salt inside!!

Thought you was still collecting em, haven't seen yer on nostalgia for a while Enjoy yer smiths

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Some interesting photographs of times and people gone by............................

http://www.slideshare.net/fullscreen/domipjc/old-photos-rares-11750509/12

The look on Sophia Lorens' face in Photo #30 is priceless!

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#2212 there used to be one like on main st long eaton near monkey park I think it was in the wall off tinklers cottage

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Thought you was still collecting em, haven't seen yer on nostalgia for a while Enjoy yer smiths

Thought you was still collecting em, haven't seen yer on nostalgia for a while Enjoy yer smiths

I can remember them and the orange stamps which were on Brook Bond Tea in the 1950's..

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i remember newspaper cut into squares ...outside loos and outside tin bath

We had an outside loo with newspaper and a tin bath hanging outside the back door for years.........then the landlord modernised us and we eventually had a bathroom and the outside loo was pulled down..........back in the 1950/60s......

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My grandad used to take Bile Beans....

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Beecham's pills, cannot remember what they were for and setlitz powders for upset stomachs also Andrew's Liver salts, for when you were out of sorts...........

Not forgetting the Fennings which was suppose to cure everything, my mother kept it at the top od the cupboard, if you complained of feeling ill and wanted to stay of school out came the bottle and you were at the school gates before the top was off, was vile stuff............

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Andrews Liver Salts - lovely stuff. I actually liked the taste and remember mixing some even when I didn't need it!!

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

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