A bit of nostalgia. Remember these!

Quatermass and pit. Nightmares for weeks after

Dandy comic on Tuesday and Beano on a Thursday.
Then swap with the girl next door!
The comic was only 2d !!

Ooh, the feeling of sheer luxury of being allowed to use my mother’s precious, ‘fabulous pink Camay’ soap - the one with the cameo of a lady embossed on it, remember? - for my Saturday night bath in front of the coal fire in the kitchen, our only form of heating.
Lovely thread. Many thanks, OP.

Paraffin heaters
Nylon sheets
Wooden potato mashers
Frying with dripping
Strip of Elastic in fold of long school socks to keep them up.
Conductor on buses issuing long white paper ticket.

Wooden stilts and pogo sticks

Mum standing me up in the Belfast sink to wash me down.
A chamber pot under the bed.
Only posh people had a bathroom!

Or was he a dwarf? stuff of nightmares whichever!

Picking up cigarette cards from the gutter on the way to school...British Wild Flowers, Footballers etc

Playing marbles along the gutters on the way home from school

Collecting the cards which came in the packets of bubble gum...about different countries, their flags, how to say hello on their language, the capital city etc

Observers books of all sorts. I had Horses and Ponies, British Birds, Dogs, Wild flowers

Loved my Noddy books and my Noddy bricks which I would play with for hours, reproducing the 'buildings' illustrated in the books

Weaponary, probably frowned on today: A rifle and guns [with caps] for playing Cowboys and Indians, a bow and arrow [Robin Hood], a pea shooter and a catapult with which I would aim peas and small stones at a sheet of corrugated zinc in the next doors garden...driving my grandmother mad.

Roller skates, metal ones which were strapped onto shoes and could be extended to fit. I was told not to put books on one, sit on it and ride down hills...which I promptly did and twisted the skate.

The scary goblin un The Singing Ringing Tree!?

Leather /plastic Beatles cap
White PVC knee length boots
American tan tights
Rolling the waistband of my skirts up as short as I dare

Going to the local bakers to pick up a crusty loaf and buns.
Queuing for hot cross buns at the bakers on good Friday morning didn’t get any before or after only on good Friday.
Christmas sock nuts and if your luck tangerine, painting book and pencils. Then in the 60s, mini skirts, boots, mini dresses.
Going to party’s and sleeping over at friends house.
Great times.

Uncle Mac playing The Laughing Policeman on the radio on Saturday mornings
Spangles
Paying 2 pence “subs” every week in Brownies
Turning the handle on the mangle for my mum and breaking buttons on my dad’s shirts
Being sent home from school because the toilets were frozen
Drinking Oxo at the outdoor swimming pool
Happy days !

Born in 63 I remember a lot of things mentioned, Green Shield stamps - my little brother was born at home and dad was in the kitchen sticking them in the book.
Watch With Mother - anyone remember Pogles Wood? One episode scared me, the one where bears kept appearing in the mouth of a cave….
Only having a coal fire for heat, black and white telly, ice inside the windows (still had this when first married in the 80s, still have a profound dislike of being cold).
Bristows shampoo and conditioner, Izal hard paper loo roll, static clothes because there was no fabric conditioner.
Bread, sugar and hot milk in a bowl (we called it Pobs).
Playing 33rpm records on 45 rpm because they sounded like Pinky and Perky.
Diana, Jinty and Bunty comics, Fab 208 magazine, Disco 45 and Look In.
Tressy and Sindy dolls, Mary Quant Daisy doll.

Kate1949

Yes Bluecat our coal was delivered by a horse and cart. I also remember our milk being delivered by horse and cart!

I can just remember the milkman coming with a horse and cart too - dds always found this hilarious, like something from the Stone Age! I wouldn’t have been more than 6, since we moved a few miles away when I was that age.

Mum ironing with the iron plugged into the light socket. Washing drying on the fire guard in front of an open fire. Being made to stand outside and count the empty sacks as the coal man delivered the coal.
Beef dripping sold in greaseproof bags.
Snow coming under the front door.
Glass corona bottles filled with hot water as a substitute hot water bottle.
The Bunty girls comic delivered every Monday morning.
The free gifts in cereal packets .

Yes Bluecat our coal was delivered by a horse and cart. I also remember our milk being delivered by horse and cart!

DanniRae

My mum seemed to often set the chimney on fire! I can't remember how the fire was put out?

Chimney fires often burned themselves out but if not the fire brigade would be called!

Sorry, clicked too soon. Was going to say that this was during the Cuban missile crisis.

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 ??

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.

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

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

Forgot about cha-cha skirts with a frilled hem

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

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!