Things you don’t see/hear anymore

Plastic flowers given away with Daz soap powder also Christmas tree balls and colanders and I’ve still got a yellow one. The mystery man at the seaside carrying a newspaper if you spotted him you won £5 the sales of the daily mirror must have soared my dad was convinced he would win he never did.

Clearly OP doesnt live in the North😂The folk there often still roll their own

The greatest (mostly) no-see - dog poo! Yuck! I remeber so well walking on grass and even on pavements and this squelchy feeling underfoot... good riddance!

I was brought up in Blackpool. It was very useful for holiday jobs when a poor student BUT, even more so for the mystery men carrying newspapers

They were out every day but the sun did not always shine. I would leave home in the heaviest storm and buy the relevant newspaper and then walk along the promenade. The viler the weather, the better your chance of winning the money as there was only you and a soaking wet man wanting to get out of the rain I managed to find him twice
My father said that pre WW2 one had to learn the mantra ' "you are Mr Lobby Lud and I claim my Daily ? express? prize
Nobody seemed concerned then about 10 year olds accosting strange men

Cars with names across the screen...Chris and Jazz, Bryan and Julie etc...
Collecting my bottom drawer with tokens on petrol to buy glasses and soup bowls.
I wish I could miss church bells, sadly we have lived beside a church for almost 9 years - and the ringers ha ent improved in that time...
Nice restaurants, with tablecloths and folded napkins, as a run of the mill place not a save for a year special.

I’ve seen hopscotch at my DGD school playground.
Miss pick and mix sweets and biscuits
Buy by the 1lb fruit and veg
Haberdashery shop

Marcel wavers/green shield stamps/old cars/cave men/paraffin heaters/BBC computers/Remington manual typewriters/hand written legal documents with red seals and pink ribbon/manual filing systems/ gorgeous old fashioned Letter Headed notepaper/Lined envelopes/ postage stamps with the price on the front and a back that you had to lick to stick/do I give the impression I was an amanuensis in another life!

What an engaging thread, NanKate

Platform tickets.
Carbon paper.
Jamboree bags.

Your post made me smile, Celieanne86. I remember my Dad opening the door to find a knight on the doorstep. He was from 1001 carpet cleaner (which cleaned a big, big carpet for less than half a crown) and if you could show him a bottle of the cleaner, he gave you £5.00. I think my Dad pulled everything out from under the sink to find some dregs in a bottle. My Mum was so excited about the win - it must have been an enormous amount to them 60-odd years ago!

I used to hear a fog horn too but left the area 60 years ago. I still can hear it if i think about it. I think they were automated now with no noise? Don’t know why. It was a lovely sound - a shame not to hear it anymore

kittylester

DH told DGD today that he used to do a paper round. They were completely baffled.

Why? We still have a paperboy, on a bicycle

How I miss Hartnells In Love perfume but...I still wear American Tan tights.

Heated hair rollers. I think they were called Carmen.
The Tizer pop man.
Push along carpet sweepers.

Everyone rushing and sitting down together to watch a specific programme, at a specific time, otherwise you'd miss it! It's coming on! Hurry up! It was lovely, everyone together.

Lovetobenanna

Everyone rushing and sitting down together to watch a specific programme, at a specific time, otherwise you'd miss it! It's coming on! Hurry up! It was lovely, everyone together.

Yes, in our house it was The Muppets, I Claudius and Morcambe and Wise .

Grammaretto

Rare and endangered:
Banks.
Public lavatories.
Libraries.
Country pubs

Never see, thankfully;
Ashtrays
People smoking in restaurants ,on buses., trains, planes and in cinemas
Circuses with animals.

Gone:
Phones with dials.
Horse and carts.
Coach built prams

This is a good memory test. Thanks

Coachbuilt prams are still being sold by Silver Cross. Very expensive though! Although the one I used for my children cost £115 in 1980.

Heated hair rollers. I think they were called Carmen.
My friend still uses them

Bodach

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?

White dog poo occurred because dogs were fed on bones, nowadays they only get bones as treats (if at all) - I assume because of the risks of eating raw bones - food poisoning and splintering.

Large glass bottle of Lucozade with a yellow cellophane wrapper (only for when you were sick!)
Aluminium ice cube tray

On the subject of meat slicers - there was a myth that one grocers's shop sported a sign which said "Customers are requested not to give their children rides on the bacon slicer., as we are getting a little behind with our orders."

The Test Card on tv

Green Shield stamps

Rag and bone men in horse drawn carts. I can still hear the cries of ‘Rag, bone!’
The resulting piles of horse dung in the street!
‘The ‘coal man’ delivering huge sacks of coal, often emptying them straight in to the cellar via a removable grating ‘(grid). ‘Torchie’ the battery boy on children’s TV.
Showing my age here aren’t I! But it was a different world.

The national anthem on TV before bed

The call of the fire siren - usually followed by two volunteer firemen who lived in our street running up the hill to the fire station. I guess they use mobile phones to call volunteers now. Pagers have gone too.
Various delivery vans calling - usually weekly- and my mum watching out to catch them- the butchers, the fruit and veg and eggs man, the Tizer lorry, the fishmonger- and of course the milkman every morning. The tops would come off the milk in freezing weather as the milk froze, and the birds would peck at the tops to drink the cream.
Proper huge bonfires on bonfire night- on wasteland by the stream with potatoes wrapped in foil cooking in the embers. Catherine wheels - I don't think I've seen one for ages! Elvers in the stream. Rope swing in the trees over the stream. Sparrows- they were the commonest bird but now I rarely see them. Actually waste land is much rarer now- thankfully.

Dray horses delivery barrels of beer from the brewery.