A bit of nostalgia. Remember these!

NotAGran55

I seem to remember a thick orange syrup that came from a clinic? Can anyone help me out with this one ?

Yes, ours came in a glass bottle with a blue top - I think it was for vitamin C.
We used to have a spoonful of that to take away the taste of the dreaded cod liver oil - I loved the orange syrup.

Oh, and collecting silver paper and taking it into school. Think it was for guide dogs. Collecting rosehip and giving them to the janitor - don't know what he did with them. Getting a series of books from the milkman, I think you had to purchases so many pints of milk. I had a one about making fancy dress costumes and another about making a mini museum. Little workbooks you completed at brownies - cutting the tops off carrots, and letting them grow long leafy tops and making a miniature wreath are the only 2 activities I can recall.

Harmony Hair colour in a triangle box.
Walnut whips that had a walnut on top and inside.
Victor Value Supermarket
Saturday morning pictures
Go in Cinema and move around so you could see both films twice.
Penny Arcades at seaside
Fish & Chips in newspaper

Little plastic monkeys, about two inches high. You popped a "cigarette" in the monkey's mouth, lit it and it made smoke rings! Tincans with a piece of rope threaded through. You stood on the cans, held the loop of rope and pretended they were stilts. Lots of clapping games you played with a partner - under the brambles, under the sea and have you ever, ever, ever in your long legged life are two of the rhymes I can remember. Collecting rubbers shaped like animals and Whimsies (little China animals. I was in a shop yesterday and they had Whimsies. The shopkeeper said folk are always saying they remembered them). Winning a toy monkey at the fair and being upset when told it was made with real rabbit fur. Winter tights with darned knees and the darning wool was never exactly the same shade as the tights. Mummy cutting the ties out of summer sandals, when they began to pinch so I could wear a little longer. A tv programme in the 1960s called the Munros. It was set in the wild west and my late brother is the only person I know who could recall it. Nearly everyone going home for lunch on school days as packed lunches didn't exist and lots of us had mummies who were housewives.

I seem to remember a thick orange syrup that came from a clinic? Can anyone help me out with this one ?

Anyone remember Beatles stockings? I remember walking behind a woman going to school who wore them and they fascinated me. Had the Beatles’ faces on them, dark coloured. Also, my friend and me had white (cheap flimsy) plastic heart framed photographs on our desks at primary school, courtesy of Blue Band margarine - she had Mark Wynter and I had Dave Clarke!

Oh I did enjoy reading those.. Thanks

Rationing
Clothing coupons

That’s it - enough!

Just remembered:
The Nappy Service(1958)

It should comeback - the poo went down the loo, nappies were collected, washed and dried and delivered to your doorstep
the very next day!
Climate Change would welcome it!

Yes Blinko Michael Ball and Cathy McGowan. Who'd have thought it. They met years ago when she interviewed him. I don't think they're married. She's about 78 and looks fabulous.

It was Jean Metcalf!

I use a fountain pen! And I still have some Green Shield stamps!

Air raid shelter
Doodle bugs
Blankets
Dried egg
No tv
Wind-up gramophone
Chilblains
Boarding School

I could go on but it would depress you all!

A program which I think was 'Juke box Jury' and a girl saying 'I'll give it 5'.

Janice Nicholls from Wednesbury in the good ole Black Country.

Singapore, it was Singapore...

hf59

“Two-way Family Favourites” - Sunday morning radio

Then at Christmas it was five way Family Favourites, with Hong Kong, Cyprus and I think Malaya or Borneo. Anyone remember? Presented by Cliff Mitchelmore and Julia Metcalf. I think they got married.

Speaking of which, I just discovered that Cathy McGowan has been married to Michael Ball for years. Who knew!

Carbon paper - I once had to type a letter with 8 copies!
Outside loos at Primary School
Inkwells
Frozen milk at Break Time
Smoking upstairs on the bus
Mum rushing outside to shovel up Horse poo to put on the roses after the Milkman had gone past
Living in a house with no central heating

mrsmopp your rag and bone man was much more generous than ours. I’d run out excitedly with my bundle hoping the day had arrived when he’d finally give me a goldfish. Or even something from the open suitcase of plastic tat on display. Every time I’d walk back to the house downhearted with another balloon!

The girl who said "Oile give it five" was on Thank Your Lucky Stars her name was Janice Nicholls

You must be, like me, in your 70’s ?
Loved my beehive hairdo, with a little bow fixed to the fringe. I used to wear stiletto winklepickers all day, my feet hurt now just thinking about it ! Was tottering around on 4 inch heels at college when I met my husband. The first time he saw me without my shoes on he exclaimed “oh, aren’t you small” ?

Re Children’s Favourites ‘I’m a pink toothbrush, you’re a blue toothbrush…’ (Max Bygraves)

Little White Bull (Tommy Steele)

The Typewriter piece. (Can’t call it a song, no words.).

I now want to go and find them all on YouTube…

Rag and Bone man came every week with his shire horse and cart. Like Steptoe. He would holler “Old Iron, Lumber, Rags, Bones!! What ever you donated he gave you a goldfish in a small plastic bag. The poor thing was invariably dead next day even though he was transferred to a bowl. Probably hadn’t been fed for a week.

Izal and Bronco
Jimmy Clitheroe
Having to sit quietly through the Archers, waiting for Listen with Mother

I remember when seamless stockings first came in; Mum bought my Gran some but she refused to wear them as she said there was no way of telling whether she had them on straight!
I was taught how to light the paraffin heater when I started secondary school so that the sitting room was warm by the time my parents got home.
I think 'pink' stamps were called by some initials- was it S & H? We collected them with petrol when we were courting and bought our first double bed with them when we got married.

Junior Choice on the radio, with Ed Stewpot Saturday and Sunday morning. Black Jacks and Fruit salad chewy sweets 4 for 1d. Egg and Lemon shampoo from Timothy Whites and Loose biscuits from Woolworths food hall