things from the past you dont see now

Evening in Paris. I used to buy it for my mum every year for her birthday. It was about 3/6d in Woolies

Iced gems and Arctic Roll are also still for sale.

Sea-side trips on a steam train. Remember the sound, clickety - clack, clickety-clack.

DoraMarr - you can still buy Caramac in any shop which sells chocolate.

Oh and Kraft cheese in tins

Oh yes - Rum babas - yummy

Hopscotch on the streets
Flat dry iron
Those gas lights that you pump(petromax ?)
Lace head scarves in church (everyone covered their heads)

Comics....oh yes. Beezer, Topper, Dandy, Beano, then the girls' ones Bunty and Judy followed by Princess which was for very grown up young ladies of 11 or 12. I was also a member of Muffin the Mule Club but lost my Muffin badge out of a train window. I was heartbroken seeing it sitting such a long way down on the ciders below.

I also had several I-Spy books and loved looking for things and answering the questions. Sights of London, The Seaside, In the Street, The Farm, The Country.

I don't remember the cut out dolls of the world Amagran but I had a few, maybe half a dozen little dolls about 6 inches tall in national costume for birthday and Christmas. I loved them
I never used the Izal I would have imagined squares of newspaper would have been kinder.

Oh gosh yes, Feelingmyage55, Gibbs Dentifrice in round tins, blue or green. Orange juice in medical flats with turquoise blue lids. Izal toilet paper had to be crushed and crumpled and worked in the hands to try to soften it before use....!

Does anyone remember the dolls of the world cut-out dressing up costumes on the back of Rice Crispies packets? I remember my mum going through all the packets to trying to find one I hadn't got.

I remember the Corona man too - and cap guns and rockets and pretend cigarettes. They were fun, but they didn't encourage me to smoke. So many things on here that I remember - tin/zinc baths in front of the fire, kaolin poultices, great big mangle, cigarette cards and bubble gum cards. Oh, and Smiths crisps with that elusive salt in a screw of blue paper.

Small round tins of solid toothpaste - Gibbs? It was very abrasive.

Collecting cards from the packets of loose tea - was it Brooke Bond? You could buy a book for the cards for a sixpence - if you had one!

Amagran and loulelady Those rain hats were called rainmates. Sometimes free with a magazine.

You can still get iced gems. I remember them as being very nice but, in my view, they taste horrible now.

Pretend cigarettes. I used to love them as a child and felt very grown up pretending to smoke.

A copper to do the washing in.
A mangle.
Tin bath,
My nan used to have Izal toilet paper in the outside loo. (Awful)
Ice cream man on a bike with the fridge at the front.
Colourful transfers you'd put on your arm, lick the back then peel them off . I loved them.
Cap guns and rockets.
The Corona man coming round on a Saturday morning.
Jack the baker who used to come round delivering bread in his van.
The milkman.
Coal man.

Sachets of shampoo. I used to make mine last two washes.

I think we still get arctic roll?

Armani hair wave lotion.

Home perms. My mum had trained as a hairdresser and used to give her friends perms at home. Our house would stink of perm lotion. Remember the ad : 'Which twin has the Toni'?

Junket and malt.

Yes, Spangles. Old English Spangles were my favourite, especially the black one, liquorice flavour. The Beezer Comic that sometimes came with a free gift. Happy daze......

I got some iced gems in for the DGC in Asda, just the other day Scribbles

TRAMP perfume from boots chemist.

Iced gems - tiny little biscuits with a blob of very crunchy coloured icing on top.