Compo 10,326 Posted December 21, 2016 Report Share Posted December 21, 2016 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 Remember these? This is the Bakelite radio we had with it: 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 Proper corner shops like this: 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 I have one of these somewhere - I must dig it out.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mess 609 Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 Jig toys One of my favourite cereal freebies along with the Sugar Puffs racing cars in the 1950s Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 Those racing cars and my Mums unmade bed kept me quiet for hours. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crankypig 457 Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 Kids don't build dens now,but I expect it's not safe any more Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BilboroughShirley 1,120 Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 #3860 Great photo Compo. It highlights that now a parent would not leave children/babies in a push chair or pram outside a shop. My mum told me that when I was a baby she left me in my pram to go into a shop and someone stole my teddy! My grandfather went all over Nottingham to find another one for me. I have a photo of me as a baby with the bear that was abducted. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 #3865 The thieving swines! Is nothing sacred? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,424 Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 No! Nothing is sacred anymore, anytime, anywhere. We live in an age when accountability and kindness are as dead as the Dodo. It is reported if someone does a good deed anymore. It is so unexpected. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,218 Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 Compo #3860 That picture would make a terrific jigsaw puzzle. Are the cigarette ads deliberately blurred or is it condensation in the window? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 8 hours ago, loppylugs said: We live in an age when accountability and kindness are as dead as the Dodo. It is reported if someone does a good deed anymore. It is so unexpected. You are right there LL. I wrote on a thread somewhere about the little kindness just before Christmas that happened to us. The knock on the door and a lady and daughter, handed Chris a card, inside they had written to kind neighbours that there are not many of these days. A couple of weeks ago Chris opened the door (I missed it again, I must spend a tot of time in the powder room these days) and that same lady had brought us a piece of her sons 21st birthday cake. We don't know them at all, but the little girl has obviously taken to us. Certainly brings on the feel good factor, kind acts for no reason are very few these days, that is probably why this has made such an impression on us. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted January 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Was just in the supermarket and spotted Heinz 57 Sauce. It is the first time I've seen it here, and it rang a bell. Did we have this as children? Maybe you still get it there, I obviously don't look at the shelf it was on very often and just wondered. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,269 Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 #3870 Ben is bound to know, along with prices through the decades. There must be more synapses in Ben's brain than the rest of us put together have had hot dinners! What a memory! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Obviously we had Heinz 57 Tomato Ketchup in the 60s.........but Heinz sauce (the brown stuff) was also sold.............''not alot of people know that''............7oz bottle about 2/-........... Edit.........think it was called Heinz Ideal sauce'........perhaps DavidW...Can recall........ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,071 Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Bee top sauce and Camp Coffee just two I remember. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,071 Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Master just came up with "Bobbies on the Beat" "Weekly bin collectors" "Chimney Sweeps" "Bob a Job week" "Rag Week" I think his brain is working over time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,085 Posted January 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 This Heinz 57 sauce was a light brown in colour. A bit like dark mustard. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Ever since a kid, I've always preferred brown sauce to ketchup. I'd completely forgotten about Heinz Ideal, it wasn't common at all. I remember my gran would only buy B-Top and OK which was very fruity. We always had Daddies and later Hammonds came out. I like HP best, originally from Nottingham of course. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Mary don't forget 'Bev coffee' in bottle like Camp,made by Lyons........and bottled 'Bon' coffee made by Brooke-Bond....... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,118 Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Thats right TBI..........HP then moved to Birmingham........remember the big sign just off the main rd into Brum...........OK Fruity forgot about that one........... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TBI 2,351 Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 This has reminded me of those saddle-bags that used to hang on the back of your bike, buckled onto the back of the seat, into two little holes provided. Because I had quite a big one on mine, if I was daft enough to let mam find me, she'd send me to Gem to get her shopping bits for the day, it was cheaper than Arky. Over suspension bridge and off up Loughborough Rd, a right palaver. Still, as a treat I used to get myself a bowl of crinkly chips and little button mushrooms in Gem's caff. Brown sauce on, of course 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,326 Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 On 17/01/2017 at 11:27 PM, Oztalgian said: Compo #3860 That picture would make a terrific jigsaw puzzle. Are the cigarette ads deliberately blurred or is it condensation in the window? Judging by the fog in the streets I would guess that the window was full of condensation. Those were the days when we awoke to ice patterns on the inside of our bedroom windows Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,089 Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 ....... and bedrooms had fireplaces but fires were never lit unless you were ill. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,594 Posted February 13, 2017 Report Share Posted February 13, 2017 .....or revising for exams! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.