crankypig 457 Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Booths In record shops ,where you listened to a record before you decided whether to buy it or not 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Biscuit tins in shops. I used to buy broken biscuits from the shop just inside the Central Market on my way home from school in the mid-60s. here's one I bought the other day in a garage sale: 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 The shop was joices,I also got broken biscuits there 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Right, own up! How many of you draped yourselves over the dome on one of these? I know I did..... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 It's an AMI continental 2 (1961-2). The earlier version (1960) had a rotary selection mechanism thus: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Click click click Segs appeal. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sue J 11 Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Liquorice was my favourite and still is. I remember the boxes with an assortment, but they were only received for Christmas. Any other time it was just a penny whatever. We used to go to Aspley Cinema on a Saturday morning to see Flash Gordon etc. There was a sweet shop, diagonally across from the library, and my sister always bought us cinder toffee. Not because we liked it, but because you got a lot for your pennies. It had that awful, cheap chocolate on it that stuck to the roof of your mouth. I never ate much - probably another reason why she bought it! lol Coats on the bed in winter Biscuits at the grocer's in big, tin cubes with a glass panelled lid so you could see what sort they were. Sweets and biscuits were dug out of their containers by the shopkeeper and put in paper bags. No rubber gloves were worn but we all survived! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sue J 11 Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Re #2778 My Uncle Bill (Warren from Kimberley, known as Drummer) smoked a pipe. He was a miner. He was a belt and braces man and is very vivid in my memory. He would get what I thought was a stick of liquorice out of his pocket; cut about 3/4 inch off and rub it between his palms, then poke it into his pipe. Then he would get a coloured spill from a jar on the hearth and light it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 In a pub/restaurant in Scotland on our last trip, there was a little gift shop in there. There was a box of assorted licorice sticks, about 20 in the box, the same as the penny sticks of my childhood. Only the price was about £5! I remember that cinder toffee Sue, you are right about the cheap chocolate coating, spoilt it really. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Try it yourself.... http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/8839/homemade-crunchie.aspx?o_ln=SimRecipes_Photo_2&o_is=SimilarRecipes 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 12, 2015 Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Nuffield car transporters. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sue B 48 1,226 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 I saw something today that I haven't seen for many a year while queuing at the checkout in Sainsbury's. There was a young lady in front of me dressed very smart with a full head of rollers in, tied up with a sparkly silver turban. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,155 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 Funny that Sue,a few weeks ago i was driving up Southwark st,Basford,and a woman crossed the rd in front of me with full set of 'Rollers' in and wearing Pyjamas and slippers,.....it was about 11am and she gave me a wave as she crossed,............i'd like to think she got home ok or recaptured very quickly. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dave 48 847 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 #2870. A bit like this Sue Lol. http://ladylace.com.au/2015/02/04/easy-vintage-turban-tutorial-youtube/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 Went into the Old Peartree on Southwark St the other evening, and found it most pleasurable. A proper back street pub. Not the greatest selection of beers, but as it was hot, I settled for two pints of Fosters. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sue B 48 1,226 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 Yes Dave she also had red hair, you could see the rollers under the turban must be a fashion thing.LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,155 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 got great family memories of 'The old peartree' pub FLY2,back in the 60s,sitting out the back among the actual Peartrees' with Granny and lots of long departed Uncles and Aunts,.......in the 80s a mate of mine used to keep it,Billy Wilson and his wife Pat,if i'm right another mates son runs it now Woody? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 If you walk round Liverpool on a Saturday afternoon , most of the girls have their hair in rollers, young and old, with or without a headscarf but all getting ready for a good night out, scouse style. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 I hope that they take em out before hitting the town !!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,155 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 I think they do fly2,...........then they put their Teeth in, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 Oh God !!!!! It doesn't bear thinking about. Perhaps I'm too choosy. LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 Sue J #2866: That would have been a "Twist". Chewing tobacco that miners took down't pit. There was Twist and Condor "Plug". The twist was long and thin whereas teh plug was short and fat. Both were basically the same thing though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 Me, except I was posh, I used wallpaper. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 My dad used to cadge old wallpaper sample books,we used the best pages 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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