A bit of nostalgia. Remember these!

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!

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

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!

Singapore, it was Singapore...

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.

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!

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

It was Jean Metcalf!

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.

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!

Rationing
Clothing coupons

That’s it - enough!

Oh I did enjoy reading those.. Thanks

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Being bombed daily.
Anderson shelter
Ration books.
ID cards.
Clothing coupons.
Queuing
Make do and mend.
Being machine gunned on the evacuee train.

This is a wonderful thread. Thank you OP.

I remember nearly all of these, also our local dairy delivering milk in churns on a horse drawn cart. My gran sent me out with a large enamel jug to get about 3 pints. I loved going so I could stroke the horse.

The coal man also had a horse drawn wagon and I used to wonder how the poor horses could pull all that weight.

I remember too the knife grinder who pushed a hand cart around the streets. Again I was given the kitchen knives to get them sharpened, and watched in awe as sparks flew everywhere. When I took them home my gran would try to cut a piece of paper, if they weren't sharp enough I was sent back for him to do them again. I once asked why I had to go, she said because he wouldn't argue with a child. I was about 4 or 5 and gran obviously didn't worry about me running around carrying sharp knives!

Was anyone else given a spoonful of Virol every day to 'build you up'.

Going to the tobacconists to get my grandads pipe tobacco. I loved the smell in the shop.

The chemist's shop with all those small drawers and the huge, shapely, glass bottles behind the counter and in the window filled with coloured water.

My mum putting Acraflavine (a yellow coloured liquid) on guts and grazes. It stained your skin.

Buying butter by the ounce that was cut and shaped with butter pats and wrapped in greaseproof paper.

The big tub of broken biscuits in the local grocers. My mum was too proud to ask for them so the shop owner would put a packet of biscuits on the counter, and then surrepticiously slip a bag of broken biscuits into mum's bag with the rest of her shopping.

Anyone remember Je Revien and Evening in Paris perfumes, they were my gran's favourites.

I still write with a fountain pen and I always have Birds Custard Powder in the larder.

Yes I had Virol every day, also cod liver oil. I was given marmite a lot as it was good for you. For constipation there was Syrup of Figs or Nigroids [ugh]. Calamine lotion for sunburn and insect bites. Not sure if Virol is still around.

After having a tooth out there would be bread soaked in hot milk, after sickness I had Lucozade.

I can also remember the dash outside with a bucket and shovel for horse manure - for the roses.

We used to buy salt by buying a brick of it, cutting it into slices with the bread knife then smashing them down with a rolling pin, great fun. The amount of salt must have lasted for years.

Frozen orange juice {jubblies] were a treat in the summer.

Mum's perfume was Tweed. I still adore the smell and kept a bottle with some drops in it after she died. I take a sniff now and then....

Bottles of apricots and gooseberries in the cupboard and apples stored in trays under grandmothers bed [in coldest room in the house] to see us through the winter.

Witzend

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.

It has always been knownin our family as 'clinic orange'.

Oh yes - horrific, cod liver oil, then malt extract, then the strong orange - I hated them all and tried to hold them in my cheeks until I could spit them out (pretending to have a drink of water to wash them down.

Next the school milk (I'm lactose intolerant - not allowed back then). I'd pretend to drink it, then secretly swap bottles with my friend Mandy, who'd happily drink both!

Smokers allowed on one side of “the pictures” (cinema); and “ no smoking” on the other - and everyone making a mad dash at the end of the film to get out before the beginning / end of the National Anthem!

Kaolin & Morphine for a poorly tummy