What tastes, sounds and smells do you miss from yesteryear?

The taste and smell of the huge beef tomatoes my grandmother grew. She would slice then across the middle and sprinkle with salt. I’m salivating at that memory.

The Banda machine! On work experience I often did preparation for staff. That machine gave off the most wonderful fumes and exercised your arms. Modern copiers age great, but odourless.

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The rattle of milk bottles being left on the doorstep. It reminded us that the milkman was out there keeping an eye on the neighbourhood.

We decided to go back to milk deliveries but he woke the dogs so we were up and about at 4,30 am

Church bells on a summer evening or after a wedding

There were little shops , where my Grandma lived, in peoples front rooms. One I remember had a wonderful sweet, sharp smell. Gone forever I expect

The rattle of milk bottles being left on the doorstep. It reminded us that the milkman was out there keeping an eye on the neighbourhood.

Plasticine and wax crayons, reminds me of my childhood.

The smell of steam engines. I lived near a railway as a child and liked to stand on the bridge as the train went underneath.

Tar. When they used to tar the roads. We used to watch the steam rollers rolling down the street.

Petrol. I loved it. And marker pens. I'd be sat at my desk at work breathing deeply. They've changed the smell of petrol and marker pens. Very sad. I also miss the lids off toothpaste. I used to chew them until they were unrecognisable. Can't do that any more either. They are hard and unyielding.

I have posted before about Symington Table Creams. They were lovely, an upmarket blancmange.

I miss boiled chicken. They used old hens for this, past laying. The meat was juicy and soooo tasty. Mum did it with white sauce with nutmeg in. Now all chickens are so young, with no taste.

Having the bedroom window open on a summers night and smelling grass and herbs.