Things you don’t see/hear anymore

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

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

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

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

Trout hall grapefruit tins also ditto nearly all of above

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.

*gold charm bracelets

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

Spats

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

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.

The Corona man
Ladies wearing gloves as an accessory not just to keep warm
Blocks on bicycle pedals
Garters
Eggs with the little lion stamp

Walls ice cream, the small rectangle of hard ice cream either between two wafers or in a cornet.

There was also Eldorado ice cream.

2 cv's
District Nurses on bikes
Street traders with push barrows
Coalmen with a sack 'hat'
Nit nurses
Women painting door steps with Red Cardinal
Women in rollers and headscarves in the street
Cigarette holders
Cigarette cases
Face compacts being used in public

Men walking on the road side of a woman (I remember as a teenager the first time that happened I felt so important)
Smoking in cinema and upstairs on buses (a great miss)
The baker with his basket of bread
The calls of the scrap man
Two way traffic through town
Church bells
No one eating on the hoof
Fishing boats
Drinking fountains
Terry towelling nappies
Post offices in their own buildings
Toys in cornflake boxes
Green shield stamps
Doctors coming to the house
Playing conkers

Slatted wooden seats in buses ( for the miners or workers )
Chapped legs in the winter.
Bread and butter eaten with tinned peaches.
Piles of shiny black coal
Fry’s Five Boys
Silver tops on milk bottles
Ice inside bedroom windows