Things you don’t see/hear anymore

The siren on the fire station, calling in the on call fire fighters. We had a totally silent gsd, never barked, but when the siren sounded she'd put her head back and howl at the top of her lungs. Scared the hell out of my sister and me every time.

Home made walking stilts. I loved balancing and walking round the garden on mine.

Spats

Took my 2 Yr old granddaughter out for a walk yesterday. I used reins, provided by her mother. My GD can run faster than me!

Trolleys made from pram wheels and planks of wood steered with rope, great fun.
Trolley buses.
Fish sellers and knife sharpeners.
We still have scrap men, you can understand about half a dozen words of what he's shouting. Another sings.
Funny a chap just walked passed whistling.
Usherettes in cinemas.
Ice cream sellers on the beach.
Motorbikes and sidecars.
Chocolate machines outside newsagents.
Starting handles for cars.
Canopies over shops.
Being able to roam the countryside and staying out till all hours. Playing ball in the road.
Being dressed like my sister.
The Thrift shop, we rarely had new clothes.
Taking turns in the bath on a Sunday, I was third.
Chains of shoe shops.
Writing letters. Fountain pens.
Coal range.
Darned socks and darned elbows in jumpers.
Blue bag for washing, twin tubs, mangles, washboard.
Playing two ball.
Spending more time standing on my hands against a wall.

I may think of more.

Grammeto.
I bought a second hand coach built pram(navy Silver Cross) before my first grandchild was born 10 years ago. Whenever I took her out in it, everyone my age used to stop and reminisce about their own prams. The babies were so comfortable in them and even if it poured down with rain they remained nice and dry, although I used to get soaked.
The pram was also used for her younger sister and then I sold it on to another grandmother who lived in the same town.

Jacks, anyone else used to play this?
Sock suspenders, my Granny’s man friend wore them.
Dripping bowl, used to be one in our fridge for dripping on toast.

I know quite a few people who roll their own cigarettes, we still get paper rounds, rag n bone has been replaced by scrap metal collectors.

I haven't seen some breeds of dog for ages e.g. pekingese, afghan hound and old English sheepdog. I guess they need too much grooming.

Horrible dangling flypapers have disappeared from food shops, thank goodness.

No wolf whistles around here. Maybe that's a good thing, but I'd happily be on the receiving end!

Grannynannywanny

Home made walking stilts. I loved balancing and walking round the garden on mine.

Oh yes!

My older brother made mine. How I loved to show off walking up steps on them!

Nell8 my friend has a huge Old English Sheepdog (delux dog)
My dad made my stilts and I was quite good on them GNW

Meat hanging on big hooks outside butchers, blood dripping on the pavement ( yuk glad that’s gone)
Sweet shops ( just sweets )
Smoke coming out of chimneys
Road sweepers (all machines now)
Church bells (none in my area anyway)
Queues at cinemas
Pipe smokers

So many mentioned and of course the milkman’s horse.
My dh always walks on the roadside. Makes an important point of it.
I do miss delivery boys whistling tunes.

Rabbits hanging outside butcher shops
Bows in kid’s hair
Long plaits for girls
Mandatory Playground spaces left in all building developments
Brylcreme

Trout Hall tinned grapefruit segments.
Boxes of dried Vesta meals - beef risotto was my favourite then chicken curry (with tiny square bits of chicken!) had sultanas in it if I remember correctly.
Parker Bradburn bakery shops.
Ditto ‘Silvano’s’. ?? They did an amazing dome-shaped sponge cake with a custard filling, covered with pale green marzipan. Mum used to buy one every Saturday.
Pitman’s shorthand (still do it in my head sometimes).
Ladies wearing American tan tights with white peep toe sandals (I always think of tiny Princess Margaret when she got out of a limousine visiting the hospital where I used to work to open a new unit).
Good charm bracelets. ‘Pandora’ has the new take on them I suppose.
Suitcases without wheels. My dad used to carry the big heavy one.
Holidaymakers coming back from the Costas carrying a large toy donkey in the late 60’s (with castanets in their bags).
Receiving postcards from said folk on their holidays.
Pull chain toilet 🚾
Playpens for baby toddlers (I couldn’t have managed without one - no wonder grans on here have to have eyes in the back of their heads when minding small grandchildren ).
Records and players. 78 rpm and LPs were 33 rpm.
‘Bullseye’ on tv of a Sunday teatime.

*gold charm bracelets

You can still buy those cakes you mentioned Urmstongran the domed ones with the green marzipan. Morrisons sell them and I adore them but I daren’t buy them too often they are so delicious. That’s the only place in these parts I’ve ever seen them on sale.

Trout hall grapefruit tins also ditto nearly all of above

From my earlier teaching days:
Roneo duplicators
Banda machines
Reel to reel tape recorders.
Even blackboard rubbers and chalk, long gone.

The sound of manual typewriters: Clack, clack, ping.
"Rabbit ear" tv aerials sitting on top of the set.
Cigarette advertising, on the telly, on billboards, in the newspapers.
Petticoats. M&S used to sell ones with a built in bra.
Long John's - which suddenly became fashionable in the 1960's under mini skirts.
Suspender belts

Chip pans, I know there were chip pan fires but am amazed there were not more of them.

Errr, I have a chip pan. Used, possibly, once a month. Never had a
hip pan fire.

Have, however, a fire when I was doing steak flambé

Never had a chip pan fire- not a hip pan.

Those stamp presses to put your address on letters

Men's braces
Children playing marbles in the street.
Conkers on a string competition.
Children with one eye on their glasses covered by elastoplast
Pink wire NHS children's glasses
Dogs let out in the morning to roam the streets
Washing greens.

We still have police on bikes and on horses!

Also plenty of students still roll their own - not sure if it’s 100% baccy though 😉

We have electric milk carts... They bring milk cream cheese also eggs orange juice rashers sausages and bread for a brekkie fry up.
We also have paper rounds daily or weekend delivery, and a local parish magazine delivery.

I wear gloves… and carry a parasol.

Anne French cleansing milk is available in my local boots, also ponds cold cream.

People in my city talk with each other and make eye contact 😂
You can always have a nice chat on the bus, or in the shop, or in the pub!

I also have a return address stamp for my letters and cards.

I’m just wondering if I live in the 1900s?