Things you don’t see/hear anymore

White dog poo was collected and used to make soft leather gloves or so DH tells me! Wonder what is used now.

Newspaper for toilet paper

Lino
Sherbert dips
Saturday morning pictures
Cigars (Christmas smell!)
Paper Christmas decorations
Coins in Christmas pudding (Health and Safety!)
Comics
Happy days!

Kids with the front of their sandals cut out as they got too small
Oh, I see you already said that, LittleGran. 😃
I think my Dad did it with a Stanley knife.

Clarks sandals and having the toes cut out towards the end of the summer to make them last.
Xray machines in Clarks shoe shops 😲

A lovely thread. So many memories.

Sawdust on the butcher’s floor
Butcher’s blue and white striped apron and white hat
Beechnut dispensing machines
Chocolate bar dispensing machine on station platforms
Men wearing a sort of elasticated metal bracelet up their arm to keep shirt sleeves up
Drip dry bri-nylon shirts
Nylon sheets in orange or purple from Brentford Nylons shop
Paper underskirts that rustled
Butter cut to desired weight with a pair of wooden implements with lines on and wrapped in grease proof paper (my mum’s cousin once won a competition for her accuracy and neatness)
Tv drawing to a close with a dot and then a buzzing noise if left switched on
The newsagent at the top of my school street kept a halfpenny tray, a penny tray and a twopenny tray of sweets under the counter for you to choose from after school
Victory V lozenges
Smog
Smoking chimneys on a Monday morning from wash day fires
Seasons for playground games
American (or French?) skipping where you tied together lots of elastic bands to form a long hoop and a person stood inside it at either end keeping it taut while you did over and under movements while singing a song

To Jaxjacky: I used to play jacks. On the ground, in the school playground. There was also pick up sticks (with a magnet.) If you moved more than one stick at a time you were "out". There was also a fad for weaving sets (from a toyshop), and a scaled -down version using wool and a cotton reel with 4 pins bashed into the top.

Love this thread!
Jumping Jack shoes.
Kids with the front of their sandals cut out as they got too small.
Cremola foam.
Loose butter sold in Sainsburys.
Kids with callipers and great big hearing aids, thank goodness.
...and still missing Anne French cleaning milk.

One of the memories that has just come back to me (from the sixties/ early seventies, is of little 'shops' run from people's houses, from their actual living accommodation.

BlueBelle

Open fires holding a sheet of paper ( God forbid) to ‘draw’ it
Twisting and ‘tying’ paper to make brickettes
Toasting the bread on the end of a toasting fork
Darned socks
Radio Luxembourg
Sailing boats on ponds
Kids on reins
Babies with a soft toy instead of a screen
Soda streams
Queuing at the red telephone box at 6 when it was a cheaper rate
Beehives ( hair I mean)
Washing on high lines

Both my GDs, now teens, had lots of soft baby toys, and my 14 month old GS has lots of soft toys. Every shop I've been to that sells baby items has, at least, one or two types of baby soft toy.

Soda Streams are still available too. My youngest GD asked me to get one a few weeks ago but they're very expensive now.

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

You can still buy phones with dials. They're not "gone". There are two types; those manufactured specifically for the current phone system or original dialers that have been converted for use with the current system. I have one on my Xmas/Birthday wish list

madeleine45
Gobstoppers too!

I was only talking about tea dispensers the other day. Look at the price of them on Ebay!!

Doodledog

I remember all those things except the Caddymatic.

I have one - those rubber attachments for bath taps to rinse your hair. If one pinged off you were scalded or frozen

Those rubber hoses for taps are still widely available, they definitely haven't disappeared. I had one until earlier this year, which I replaced every couple of years, to facilitate washing the dog. A couple of jubilee clips, one on each tap, solved the "popping off", problem.

I love good quality ice cream. So good memory was of a lovely lady who lived over the field from my aunties house who made her own delicious icecream. When we knew we were visiting my aunties we would save threepence (that is 3 old pennies for those who dont remember pre decimal money!) and ask if we could walk in the field and then rush down the lane to get one of these lovely icecreams,
Much preferred to Walls or Lyons icecream and do you remember the (to me) horrible 3 colour icecream where it was vanilla, strawberry and I think either chocolate or a green colour, so that you cut slices to put in the wafers and had the three colours! Think it was Lyons
Then of course the sunday tea which consisted of bread and butter and perhaps ham salad or in winter pikelets , which we loved to toast on the open fire and fill with butter but whatever was then followed by fruit salad from a tin with evaporated milk to put on it. Maybe trifle would be an option.
Walking to school (about 1/2 mile) always - no dropping off in cars then.! Buying for one penny , 4 blackjacks, or 4 aniseed balls , or there was a bright pink stick of spearmint which had little squares in it. Of course there was also the wonderful black licquorice catherine wheels, or bootlaces where we sometimes each put an end in our mouths and ate towards each other!!

Getting Record Tokens or Postal orders in a birthday card
Square hard bath cubes or bath salts in fancy bottles that never smelt of anything much
Children wearing Timex watches with a leather strap (most of the kids used to have one in our class)
The man who came into the pub selling seafood & the Salvation Army coming in to sell War Cry & the Young Soldier.
Clingy Wet look boots
Goldfish at the funfair (thank goodness)
Birds Eye Frozen chocolate or Strawberry Mousse

Panstick makeup, men standing up when a lady walked into the room ( pub ) cigarette machines, chocolate machines, bubble gum machines mascara you had to spit into the tray to make it moist,hair lacquer in a squeeze bottle, rag n bone man.hairnets,women walking about in rollers.

Spitting prohibited signs on buses - yuk!

I remember Jumping Jack fireworks which made bonfire night a misery. My brother threw them on the ground and they leapt around erratically making a horrible racket. Wafting a sparkler around was my limit before I ran off in terror.

Miners walking home from the pits with black faces and pink lips.
Hat pins.
Trolley buses
Boxes of chocolates with still life pictures on them - my grandma framed one and put it on her wall, it was lovely.
Baby prams that actually look comfortable for tiny babies.

Dray horses delivery barrels of beer from the brewery.

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.

The national anthem on TV before bed

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.

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