Things you don’t see/hear anymore

Our local butcher has grouse and pheasant hanging in the windows…

Bob-a-job-week!

Mongrel dogs.
When I was a child my friends’ dogs had usually been brought home by their dads, who had got them from a friend or colleague.

I remember just about everything above. What I miss a lot are steamrollers. I still love the smell of the tar and would often go and stand as close to the steamrollers as possible just to get wafts of the tar boiling

Daddima

Mongrel dogs.
When I was a child my friends’ dogs had usually been brought home by their dads, who had got them from a friend or colleague.

Yes, it was relatively rare for people to have pedigree pets - mostly they were Bitzers, as we called them (bits of labrador, bits of chihuahua, bits of Great Dane)

If I may lower the tone for a minute: Urmstongran mentioned white dog poo. I also remember clouds of flies on dog poo. Why not now - is it a lack of flies or something in dog food? I’m afraid it may be the former and yet another sign of falling biodiversity.

We still have a proper sweet shop , milk men and paper boys.
What we do not have and I rember them are lamp lighters who lit the gas street lamps and gas lit houses. We still have a gass mantle which is very fragile . No longer are there pass books, access to our local bank by phone or in person or bank tellers who know all their customers. There are still nit nurses and much needed too .

‘Running in. Please pass’.
Quite regularly seen in the back window of new cars when I was a child.

For some reason I thought about that today when we were out in the car.

Oh yes - I’d forgotten that one . There was often a nodding dog on the parcel shelf too.

Full cream milk so that the top of the milk could be used on tinned fruit (we never bought cream). Never thought of calories of course.

Wheniwasyourage

If I may lower the tone for a minute: Urmstongran mentioned white dog poo. I also remember clouds of flies on dog poo. Why not now - is it a lack of flies or something in dog food? I’m afraid it may be the former and yet another sign of falling biodiversity.

You partially beat me to the draw there. I was just about to ask about the reason for the demise of white dog poo; ie where the poo was white - not the dog. What has changed in dogs' diets to bring this about?

Where do you live Venus? You do seem to still keep traditions.

I like to think there is less dog poo about now that most owners pick up. Could that be a factor in fewer flies?

Mongrel dogs are still about but they are fancy crossbreeds.-cockerpoo etc.

.

Deliberate crossbreeds are not mongrels or Bitzers. The ‘purebred’ dogs they were bred from are just mongrels who have been interbred to fit Kennel Club standards. A labradoodle or cavapoo is every bit as deliberately bred as his parents were.

Steam trains- yes, but not as regular train services. Our friend is helping to renovate a train and a defunct railway line!

Smoke coming out of chimneys - there is quite a lot hanging around in the valleys here, I presume from wood burners. (We don't have one.)
Cottage hospitals - there are a few, but what a pity they are few and far between now.

Ink bottles and fountain pens
Typewriters
Beer at Home Means Dvenports
Corona (the fizzy pop, not the disease!)
Gas fridges
Twin tub washing machines
Dolly tubs
Playtex roll-ons.
Outdoor lavatories.

Davenports

Mascara in a little tin with a brush. You were supposed to damp it with water, not spit as some people did!
Pancake makeup
Rollers
Hair dryers with a plastic hood

White dog poo is when they had eaten lots of bones instead of ultra processed kibble

Church bells - I live next to a church and the bell ringers start ringing out hymns at 10am every Sunday.

Postcards - definitely miss them. We always sent and received picture postcards. It was part of the holiday to buy some, along with the stamps, and settle down to tell everyone what a wonderful time you were having. I sometimes sent one home to remember our holiday. We still have our postcard collection, and I hope the grandchildren will enjoy reading them one day.

Porters at railway stations

Local farmer collected the pig bin (food waste), rag man with his horse and cart shouting 'Any old rags', Ajax powder, carbolic soap, blue bag for whites, ordinary iron without steam, bus conductor and inspector, cigarette machines, bubble gum machines, gas and electric coin in slot meters, Styx perfume - I loved it when I was a teenager.

Women with strange red blotches on their legs from sitting in front of a coal fire.

Dolly blue for whitening clothes
Wash boards for laundry .(Used differently by Lonnie Donegan)
Twin tub washing machines
Train porters who carried suitcases for travellers.
Rag and Bone men
Postmen in long trousers..........ha ha!

Protein 21 shampoo - it was supposed to repair split ends
Pogo sticks
Soap on a rope - great idea. I wish it would make a comeback
Liberty bodices
Meat slicers - in our local Coop to slice huge lumps of ham etc.
Crocheted doilies
Virol - I loved it. I think it was some kind of malt

Like a previous poster, I also remember the flowers that were given away with washing powder. I think they also gave away inflatable toys, or maybe I dreamt it.

Gwyllt

White dog poo is when they had eaten lots of bones instead of ultra processed kibble

Thanks, Gwyllt.

Golliwog badges and figures that you could collect with Robertsons jam. I appreciate that they are no longer acceptable

Hopscotch or as we called it in Scotland peever-beds are still going strong in Denmark. Here it is only played in the spring, but every year there are scores of children, both girls and boys these days, playing it. It is so popular that school-playgrounds and kindergartens have painted peever-beds.

We ride bikes nearly as much as the Dutch do, so if you are anywhere near a Danish university, hospital or any large place of work you will see dozens of people cycling home after work, or to work in the morning, or whenever their shifts start and end.

What we don't hear or see any more is tram-cars ringing their bells to warn unwary cyclists or pedestrians of their appoach as we no longer have trams.

Nor do we see women "hinging oot" their kitchen windows to chat to their neighbours.