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From 1957, an advert for the submarine.

www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/8280a94a-c8ea-4522-bc39-56e4cd0eca89

I remember that some product, perhaps a breakfast cereal, had a free toy plastic submarine, green, about an inch and a half long, and in the middle underneath was a compartment that one filled with baking powder and then it would sink in water, but as the baking powder reacted with water and poduced gas, the submarine rose to the surface and then as the gas was released would dive again and then would float to the surface when the baking powder was all used up.

I remember it said "Borthwick's is best".

Round about 1963/4, there was an ad on TV for Fairy Liquid, where a voice whispered "Pssst! Wanna kitten?" They gave away a Wades Wimsy kitten, later bush babies, with each bottle of Fairy Liquid, I`ve still got mine!

I recently bought a plastic lemon and a plastic lime. Not Jif but I don't know what make.

FarNorth

The plastic lemon ? is still on the go. ?

The plastic lemon was the subject of a famous law case.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reckitt_%26_Colman_Products_Ltd_v_Borden_Inc

‘It’s easy with Squeezy the washing up liquid, so easy with Squeezy to make dishes shine’. Possibly one of the first adverts shown when ITV began.

I remember being thrown out of a physics lesson after squirting a friend with a water filled plastic squeezy lemon whilst the teacher was writing on the board and being caught in the act! That was in 1953 I think.

I certainly do not remember the fifties being drab but full of excitement and change. Recollect, as a teenager, wearing orange drainpipe trousers with a lime green top, much to my mother’s disgust!

H1954

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Can remember in the 60s DGma collecting a free artificial rose with box of soap powder was it OMO.

I remember the plastic roses too but couldn't recall the detergent that they were with.

I clearly remember the dustbin men walking up everyone's path to get the old fashioned bins which they swiftly hoisted onto their shoulders to empty into the lorry. Often the bins got dented and the lids didn't fit afterward......Mum used to grumble about that.

I remember a lady once wrote somewhere that the dustbin men used to keep denting her bin, so she painted it pink and that seemed to have had some psychological effect as once it was pink they handled it gently.

The plastic lemon ? is still on the go. ?

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Can remember in the 60s DGma collecting a free artificial rose with box of soap powder was it OMO.

I remember the plastic roses too but couldn't recall the detergent that they were with.

I clearly remember the dustbin men walking up everyone's path to get the old fashioned bins which they swiftly hoisted onto their shoulders to empty into the lorry. Often the bins got dented and the lids didn't fit afterward......Mum used to grumble about that.

This brought back memories of the yellow plastic lemon for lemon juice.
We used to squirt it onto pancakes, with sugar. When was it phased out?
I also have fond memories of Helena Rubinstein bath cubes, they smelled divine but got all gritty in the bath.
Also, the free small records with, I think, OMO ( I could be wrong there). We got 'Climb Every Mountain.'
Another memory, the paraffin man, who called every so often. I can recall the smell of the pink paraffin as it sloshed into your can.
I was going to say 'happy days.' but there was a lot wrong with the fifties and sixties.

Oops just brought that memory back, London scene placemats,can picture DGMs teapot sat on one next to tea strainer in it's resting pot,also glass sugar basin with tube of sweetex laid on top. We loved visiting DGMs.

Sqezy bottle - not such a charming, nostalgic memory.

When the world changed to plastic we created a problem for ourselves that we're only just realising. I found this bottle on my local beach recently. Heaven knows how long it had been in the sea but the coffee set pictured on the bottle looks 1960s/70s to me.

Stardreamer I too remember that change to the second number on the right! I noticed it on the annual I was given for Christmas and remember thinking it was important and that I was living in exciting times.

Haha, I remember seeing posters saying Senior Service Satisky, or was it Satisfy?
I wasn't sure, from the squiggly writing, and neither made sense to me .

I’ve still got the set of placemats that came with Daz, cork backing with scenes of London, in metal, on the fronts. Late 50s early 60s I think.
We didn’t have a washing up bowl as we had a butlers sink, they were very common in the 50s and not posh. All Mums other bowls were made of china until we got Pyrex.
We had Fairy liquid, hands that quedishious (sic) can feel as soft as your face……..to my young ears.

I think each generation changers perhaps more so in the 60 s with music the pill and free love
I don’t remember tulips or daffodils and I don’t remember miracle mill
I do remember as a small child late 40 s going shopping with my Nan and the fantastic smell when we went to buy groceries the loose coffee, sugar weighed into little blue poke bags, cheese cut with a wire slicer p, the bacon sliced as you bought it and the little metal cup on a wire that took your money up to the cashier and back with the change
I also remember (to me) the horrific sight of huge carcasses hanging on big hooks outside the butchers often a pool of blood under them
And how my local sweet shop and the nearby stationary shop had a library in the back room where I d go with my grandad to choose his cowboy books and Nans romances on a Saturday afternoon ?happy simple days when the sun always shone ?

And we threaded them into our gondola baskets. I used mine for cookery at svholl. It was hopeless to get things into but it was a compulsory accessory.

Wasn't thet the big giveaway, the daffodil that came with Daz(?)

Can remember in the 60s DGma collecting a free artificial rose with box of soap powder was it OMO.

Change began in the '50's with Rock n Roll. Bill Haley and his Comets, 1952.

I don't remember Miracle Mill. The washing-up liquid we used was Squeezy - slogan: it's easy with Squeezy. But this must have been in the '50s because I remember using the empty Squeezy bottles. filled with water, to have water fights after school. By the time the 60s arrived, I had been at University since 1958. So in my memory, plastics had been around in the '50s. Remember the little plastic lemons which we also used as water pistols when the juice was finished.
Things did change in the '60s in terms of fashion and music. Although Elvis and Cliff were pre-eminent in the late '50s, I think the real turning point came with the Beatles.