Guest Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Triang scooter,sovereign fags,Alberta shop,everlasting strip,x army brown plimmo's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
broxtowelad 175 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 ruck sacks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,085 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Coal Fires, toasting forks. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terence12 725 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Scammell Scarab, loved the old British Railway lorries Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Home made cloth bags with a draw string for carrying gym kit to school and wooden pencil cases, now expensive things to by at 'By-Gone' sales. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Re #2936, I used to collect old brass toasting forks when I lived in an old cottage. I've still got about thirty under the stairs. Difficult to display in a 3 bed semi. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Spats Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,607 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Karlton #2932 I mix with all sorts - some who think they are better than others and some who feel they are not as good. It doesn't worry me who people are (or who they think they are) This, of course, has nothing to do with my little plaster cubes - my snobs! Since writing about snobs, I've tried to play the game and have realised that I'm not as good at it as I used to be. And why are they called snobs I wonder.... My mum said when she was young they played with pebbles and called it 'five stones'. Perhaps only the posh people could afford to buy the plaster cubes and that's why they were called snobs? And does it matter? Sorry for this rambling post... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,166 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 I SHOULD think so Margie......lol. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karlton 582 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 MargieH #2941 I was only joking Marg lol I have no idea why they were called snobs either. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 #2941 http://www.theforgottentoyshop.co.uk/blogs/news/11628301-so-who-knows-what-snobs-is Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 I never did see anyone wearing spats. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Not even in the army ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 I was never in the army. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 #2902: Talking of plaster/rubber moulds, here is a gnome that I made from one of those moulds in 1977. I used sharp sand and cement instead of plaster and it still survives today, albeit in need of a lick of paint here and there! when I made him I gave him to my (late) mother, who named him Gregory after the road I lived on at the time (Gregory Street, Lenton). 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 Even in that state, he's better than these plastic or resin objects. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 Fulcrum type chemists' scales: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 See previous picture #2950.....Large stone tubs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
davep5491 360 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 kids limbs covered in yellow or bluey purple patches (iodine?) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 Wasn't it gentian violet? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 http://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-4397/gentian-violet-topical/details Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Mums ironing using a flex/light fitting.yellow sun obscuring film in shop windows.the 3 co ops together: butchers/fishmonger/MKT or veg shops. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 #2952, The reason you don't see many children with their limbs covered in Gention Violet or Iodine these days; is because they don't play out like we used to. The only place they would need the treatment; would be on the end of their thumbs through texting or the fingers from over doing the Internet. Sadly they probably will never understand the fun of climbing trees (and not being able to get back down), or just playing in the fields all day, making dens, playing marbles, snobs, skipping, playing ball, or just sitting on the pavement, taking car numbers. I'm glad I did those things when I was a kid, actually, still do most of them now. Not collecting car numbers though. 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Well posted Carni!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Can anyone remember the booklets you could get with names of streets and house numbers?even told you the names of people who lived in each house? I bet compo has one of these Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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