A bit of nostalgia. Remember these!

From my mum.
If she hadn’t enough money for a pair of stockings, she would draw a line up the back of her leg with an eyebrow pencil, so
it looked like a seam.
Seamless stockings came later.

Getting a goldfish from the rag and bone man and winning one at the fair. Our rag man gave us a live chick once. Imagine

My mother using the end of a used matchstick for eyebrow pencil.

Wow! I feel ancient now.

I still play my LPs Oh and are you sure you meant LSD...hahahaha Was that supposed to be £sd

MaggieTulliver I still use Ponds Cold Cream as does my daughter. She buys large jars of it in America. Wonderful stuff.

Neighbours constructing a ‘vestibule’ by the front door of our two up two down. The size of a postage stamp, but it gave us a little space to play in with our friends.
My father throwing buckets of water on the bonfire purposefully situated outside our front door and blistering the paint.
Boy was he popular!

Dial a disc( teenage years)
Stickle bricks( loved them when I was a kid)
Spangles
Nestle Sweetheart( pudding)
Saturday morning TV- Banana Splits, White Horses, Robinson Crusoe, Arabian Knights
Bread man calling in his van on a Saturday morning and mum buying me a Paris Bun( I can bet a lot of you haven't a clue what that is lol, N.Irish large cakey bun with sugar on top, gorgeous)

Going to a department store called Keddies in Essex to buy a bag of very fancy handmade chocolates with my Mum eating them in the car together and her saying dont tell dad

“elastics” skipping/jumping game played in school breaks

The tv repair man who came round to adjust the vertical and horizontal holds

That triangle tool which you needed to use on both sides of a can to open it - then how sharp the edge of the hole was when drinking

Elastics to hold up your socks which cut into your legs

“Loon pants” ads in the back of Melody Maker”

Triangle inserts in trousers to make flares

Most of these memories but also, when staying with my grandparents - way out in the country - no electricity or mains wster -
Pumping water from the well
Boiler in the outhouse, fire underneath' to do the washin
Reckitts Blue in the white wash
Heavy hand mangle
Outside loo
Very longvwalk to the village school in all weathers
Collecting the milk from the dairy as the cows were milked
Stone hot water bottles or a hot flat iron to warm the bed before getting in.
Later on at Grammar School - the French master's accuracy with a piece of chalk or the wooden board rubber

Valderma soap for spots
Goya Gardenia
Yardley Jade Garden
Max Factor Electrique
Dorothy Gray Midnight
(I still have the plastic containers from the above that the perfumed talc came in, along with a powder puff)
Anne French cleansing milk
Woolworths Evette make up
Outdoor Girl make up
Mum scrubbing dad’s work shirt collars with hard green Fairy soap on the wooden draining board
Mum scattering Ajax powder round the stone sink to clean it
Red Lifebuoy soap
Clothes drying round the coal fire on a clothes horse if it had been a wet Monday which I hated, as it made the whole room damp and the fire didn’t go properly
My dad blowing on the fire or putting sugar on it to get it to go

I never knew stockings were professionally repaired. We just stopped the runs with a dab of nail varnish, and did a home darn later.

Witzend
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. ??

Mum making up the fire in the living room first thing in the morning, the only warmth in the house.
Mum making our clothes, including raincoats, from kits of ready cut out pieces.
Going to tea at relatives on Sundays, or return visits from the same, when we had tinned salmkn sandwiches, orange jelly with tinned mandarin oranges in it (known as goldfish bowl jelly), with evaporated milk poured over.
Walking up the road with Dad to the off licence at the top of the road on Sundays for a bottle of Cidrax (spelling?) g alcohol free cider I believe, then going back later for the return deposit on the empties.
Country dancing lessons in the playground at junior school, to records on the wind-up portable gramophone.
Having a party-line phone and not being able to use the phone if the other party (who lived 4 doors up) was using it. Desperately inconvenient for my budding social life!
Catching the bus to school, with a conductor, and walking home 3-4 miles so that I could keep the bus fare.

I remember all of these, plus, Mums legs scorched with marbled patterns from sitting too close to the fire. The school mouse which we were looking after during the holidays escaping from its cage and chewing all of the books of Green Shield stamps which I was saving to get a complete set of stainless steel cutlery. I did eventually get a six setting six piece set and still have a few bits of it left, mostly used in the garden now.
Ironing my hair to get that straight CathyMcGowan look. Also heated rollers that fitted on the base if the iron and left to get hot.

White dog poo!

Just remembered, Mum scorching sugar on a tablespoon in the fire to make gravy browning if she’d run out of Bisto or Oxo. We lived miles out in the sticks and Mum didn’t drive so if she ran out of anything she had to improvise. Her favourite saying was” Necessity is the mother of invention”
Soot and salt for teeth cleaning when the tooth paste ran out.
Gibbs Dentifrice toothpaste in a flat tin..
Zebra black lead for cleaning the range.
Cardinal red polish for the quarry tiled floor ( freezing cold on the feet)

Teasmaids for a morning cuppa.

Gosh, so many memories!

The ceiling airer in the kitchen that was worked on a pulley system.

Dolly blue cylindrical tubes for the washing copper.

Chicken at Christmas because turkey was too expensive.

The kitchen cupboard with opaque glass doors at the top, and a board which pulled down to make a horizontal shelf.

Helena Rubinstein bath cubes.

The first hair conditioner which was invented when I was about fourteen. I can't remember the name.

The pink parrafin man who filled up a metal jug with parrafin for the heater.

The only takeaway was fish n'chips on Fridays.

Switchbacks on rural roads, they made your stomach lurch!

Puffed swimming costumes.

Rubber buckets and spades.

Whip 'n top, when you made chalk circles on the top.

A spinning top with a push handle

Low waisted 'twist' dresses.

Syrupy 'government' orange juice.

Malt and cod liver oil.

'Liquefruita' cough medicine.

Vaccinations with huge needles, or so they seemed.

Appalling, never to be forgotten, dental fillings with no anaesthetic.

Round wire 'National Health' glasses.

Third pint bottles of school milk, delivered in crates.

Being terrified of arriving late to school.

Not all the memories were good ones!

Thank you for this lovely thread!

Bel-Air hair lacquer. I can still smell it.
Sun silk shampoo
Amami setting lotion

Forgot about cha-cha skirts with a frilled hem

I forgot - your Co-op Divi number! I still remember it.

Going to house parties in maxi dresses. The men taking party 7 tins of beer with them. Making lamps out of Mateus rose bottles.

Another vote for Kunzle cakes! I wish I had got one right now.

Anyone remember Harold Hare? I think that it must have been a comic. I know I was a member of Harold Hare's Pet Club and had a badge like a tiny bronze rabbit foot to prove it.

We had our comics delivered with the newspapers - my sister had School Friend and I had Princess. Later on, I had Fabulous (which became Fab 208, through some sort of merger with Radio Luxembourg) and Rave.

I am sure that I remember coal being delivered by horse and cart, though it sounds like something out of the 19th century. A visit from the sweep was exciting and we used to stand in the garden to watch the brush come out of the chimney. I don't know if kids today would find it very entertaining.

I remember going for our vaccinations, not to our GP but to some sort of gloomy hall where it was done by a nurse. I have no idea where it was. My big sister was stoical but I was a gibbering wreck long before my turn came.

My sister and I were big fans of Elvis and she persuaded Mum to let us go to see one of his films, even though we had both been off school, on the grounds that it might be our last chance if the world was going to end.

Love this thread! 1962 baby here, so…
Donny Osmond
Jackie magazine preceded by Twinkle comic
Tin bath until I was 8
Star Trek and The Waltons
Babe perfume by Faberge
Cig coupons - my mum got a Gplan table which I still have!
My daddy ??