A bit of nostalgia. Remember these!

Girls Crystal and School Friend girls comics. Loved them!

Watching the Coronation with all our neighbors crammed into the living room. Only one family had a TV. - the screen was 12” square. Curtains closed all day.

Brooke Bond collecting cards that came in packets of tea. Wild animals were my favourites, but oh the disappointment when the latest packet contained a duplicate of one I already had. I seem to remember lots of great crested newts ...

I was given a School Friend ‘Pets’ Annual for Christmas in 1957, and was delighted some years ago, to find an identical copy in a 2nd hand bookshop.
The only pets I had at the time were a couple of goldfish - Timmy the tortoise arrived a bit later - but I loved that book.

I recognise almost everything mentioned.

Frost on the inside of the windows made beautiful patterns, like ferns.

How I longed for “School Friend”! My parents didn’t allow comics. Not sure if it was exactly a comic, but they thought so.

This has been so good to read through, just so lucky we survived it all ( she said tongue in cheek. )

Lassie on TV
Rawhide! I was in love with Rowdy Yates at about 12, and only finally went right off Clint Eastwood decades later, when he was too chicken after some terrorist attack, to get on a plane and come to a premiere in London. Some tough guy - not!

Loved sticking in the Green shield stamps when I came back from shopping with my mum.

I still use a fountain pen.

Sunsilk shampoo
Amami setting lotion
Wig hats (a very brief craze)
Z Cars, Wagon Train and 77 Sunset Strip on tv
Tubes with sherbet in that you sucked up through a liquorice straw
Lucky Numbers sweets
Gunmetal grey pointed toe stilleto shoes

Farthings

Saturday morning cinema for children.Smiths crisps with those little curled up 'paper twirls of salt to sprinkle over.

Tokens for the Coop milk delivery.
Wearing red knee socks and blouses in the sixth form with a red felt hat that had a tassel to our shoulder, boys wore cricket caps with the school initials on them. How the secondary school laughed at us.
Collecting snow at school and keeping it in the luggage hold for 8 miles, to be thrown off the bus when we were pelted with snowballs at our own town the buses had no doors.
mums remarking on the colour of other peoples net curtains.
Red or White carinal for steps and window sills
Old brass armament shells and miners lamps as ornaments on mantlepieces

Ashcombe

Liberty bodices!
Chapped legs.
Wagon Wheels

Liberty bodices the bane of my life especially the ones from the Co oP that had rubber buttons every year mum would promise I would not wear one if I put Knee socks on and every year she made me wear one.
Vests with cap sleeves and shoulders like babies.
Navy blue Knickers for PE with a pocket it you were lucky.
Airtex school P.E tops.
Divided skirts for PE that had to touch the Gym floor and were thick and hot

Your grandpa slipping half a crown in your hand at the end of a visit (maybe twice a year ?)?

On the other hand….sanitary belts ☹️

Kunzel cakes!
Collecting the coloured cardboard tickets on bus journeys, after they had been punched by the conductor/tress.
AND never being allowed those much admired fingerless gloves they wore.

Family conversation in winter consisting largely of, ‘Shut that door!’ when we had only coal fires for heating

Reminded me of Larry Grayson there Witzend!
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Bouncing a tennis ball against a wall, with your friends in a line behind you waiting for their turn.
We didn’t have many toys.
Hopscotch on the pavement.

The tortoiseshell paraffin convector stove in the hall
dialling the number on the phone
party lines
postal orders sent specially to buy fireworks; half a crown, five shillings, ten shillings (if you were really lucky)
fire irons
the coal scuttle
the coke hod
the coal hole
the velvet curtain on the back of the door to keep out drafts
unfitted carpets laid over black painted floorboards
stair rods
(many to do with trying to heat houses without central heating; climate change protesters have no idea)

Taking snaps with film cameras (pre-digital). Then the wait to have the film developed knowing that half the prints would come back useless because somebody moved or blinked at the wrong moment.

Shops with orange stuff (?cellophane) over the window, presumably to prevent goods fading in the sun. Inside, hanging from the ceiling, sticky fly papers covered in dead victims or cardboard parrots impregnated with DDT designed to poison insects (and humans too, probably!).

Drene shampoo
White enamel washing up bowl which made awful scraping sound if your fingernails ran across it!
Camp Coffee
Paraffin heaters
Mother having once a week shampoo and set and trying to make style last until next appointment
Making rose petal perfume
Tricycle with a boot!

Thank you Danni. I loved those Marys.
Going with our mum to collect her Co-op divi. We used to go to the Co-op offices in Birmingham to collect it. I can remember little pots on wires whizzing over our heads.
Grocery shops selling loose biscuits and crisps from tubs. Butter being taken from a large slab and patted into shape for you.
Bacon slicers.

My baby brothers nappies hanging on the "pully" in the kitchen to dry and a bucket full of napisan soaking them to get them white.
Pale lipstick that made you look like a ghost when you wore it.
White sandals every Easter,new ribbons for your ringlets.

I think "The Four Marys" was in Bunty - It was the only comic I used to get. My brother got "The Eagle". My dad used to get "Titbits" and "Revelle" and my mum had "Woman" and "Woman's Own
I have a very vivid memory of being tiny and sitting on my mum's lap as she read out loud an article about Margaret Lockwood and her daughter Julia from her magazine.

Spong mincers
The pink and blue tins of curry powder, which were used sparingly,
Foraging for food (we still do that!)
Christmas lights that took ages each year to check and repair
A tangerine and bar of Cadburys in your stocking' (pillowcase!)
Running boards
Candlewick bedspreads
Red Clarks sandals

That comic, Bunty I think, with the paper doll and clothes on the back that you could cut out. Very annoying as I recall as the paper clothes never stayed on. Reading the exploits of The Four Marys. Was that in School Friend? I had School Friend, my sister had Girl.