Things you don’t see/hear anymore

Great memories, thank you!

Amami setting lotion
Men raising their hats as a greeting

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

I was a whizz at two-baller . ‘A sailor went to sea, sea, sea. . .’

Skipping ropes
Two balls
I'm trying to get my granddaughter to learn both but they take practice and she doesn't seem to have the patience.

Plastic flowers given away with washing powder? ( I can't reliably remember what they were given away with, but think it was detergent)

Oh goodness I was scalded or frozen many a time with those useless rubber tap attachments Doodledog!!

Urmstongran

A petrol pump attendant.
White dog poo.
Plastic toy gifts in cereal boxes.
Caddy-matic on kitchen walls for dispensing loose tea at the push of a button.
Knitted doll skirts to cover a spare loo roll.
Gas fridges.
Anne French cleansing milk.
Hopscotch grids chalked on pavements.

Another one here who remembers all these except the caddy-matic. I remember being so pleased when my aunt, who thought she was a cut above us, gave my mum one of those toilet roll covers 🤣 My mum thought it was pretentious rubbish even back then but used it to please me.

Urmstongran

A petrol pump attendant.
White dog poo.
Plastic toy gifts in cereal boxes.
Caddy-matic on kitchen walls for dispensing loose tea at the push of a button.
Knitted doll skirts to cover a spare loo roll.
Gas fridges.
Anne French cleansing milk.
Hopscotch grids chalked on pavements.

We had a tea leaf dispenser it was yellow and I can picture it now on the wall of the dining end of the kitchen. I must have been about 6. Ours was a very 60s kitchen at that time☺️

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

Hopscotch? I gave 2 six year olds a box of pavement chalks and a request to keep the chalking within my small front garden. They immediately chalked a hopscotch grid, found a suitable stone and played. They hadn’t met before either. Hopscotch is still around!

Our 'milkman' is a woman - who brings bread and oatmilk at 2am, twice weekly. (You'd only see her if you were out and about at that time.)

I don't hear the dawn chorus now, sadly - too much traffic/plane noise about. We used to hear a foghorn here (no idea why) but no more. I never see those cute little bubblecars either.

Terry towelling nappies. ( Often folded using the “kite” method)

Milkmen
motorbikes with sidecars

They still do paper rounds round here kittylester

Men whistling tunes in the street
Everyone cycling home when the factory closed for the day
Policemen on the street
Steam trains
Ghetto blasters on the beach
A decent government
Red phone boxes
Smoke coming out of chimneys
Cottage hospitals
Shops

Briefcases!

policemen on bicycles
men wearing bowlers
platform tickets at railway stations

Lots of people around me roll their own cigarettes!

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

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

A petrol pump attendant.
White dog poo.
Plastic toy gifts in cereal boxes.
Caddy-matic on kitchen walls for dispensing loose tea at the push of a button.
Knitted doll skirts to cover a spare loo roll.
Gas fridges.
Anne French cleansing milk.
Hopscotch grids chalked on pavements.