Words we don't use any more

Cardamom

"Put wood in'th 'ole" was regularly used in our house for shutting the door behind you.

Were you born in St Helens was said if you were obstructing the TV, the reference being to the home of Pilkingtons Glass.

MissAdventure

And a bolster.

And a 'Gerry' or 'Gazunda' or 'Poe' for ahem..'Under the bed toilet pot' !!

Yep!
How about undercarriage for (Les Dawson face) "down below".

MissAdventure

And a bolster.

My youngest daughter has a bolster. I've recently bought her two new cases for it from Dunelm.
They had several colours.

Oh, that's good to hear.
I used to have a bolster, i can't rememeber what happened to it.
I think it was that i couldn't get a cover at that time, and had to put ywo pillowcases on instead.

Just remembered ‘swanky ‘.

A right Bobby dazzler

Moth62

It was always pronounced gennel in my Yorkshire pit village, but yes, the little alleyway between blocks of houses.

I'm from East Yorkshire and we called them snickets.

Wench
Mind you I never heard it myself, but apparently a grandfather used to say it.

JackyB, do you mean it grates on you when you hear ‘train station’ instead? Because that does grate on me! Usually we’d just say ‘station’ anyway, unless it was a bus station.

Exactly Witzend

Groovy, far out, dig it.

Bread- money.
Fuzz - police.

Gas - 'life's a gas' (Marc Bolan)
Cat - A man. (I think)

Suitor and swain

Scribbles

Suitor and swain

Courting.

Witzend

*JackyB*, do you mean it grates on you when you hear ‘train station’ instead? Because that does grate on me! Usually we’d just say ‘station’ anyway, unless it was a bus station.

@#£%&

Yes, sorry, on re-reading I realised I wasn't clear.

Square. As in "my parents are soooo square!" Wonder what they are now?

GreyKnitter

Vestibule - entrance hall and quilt for duvet.

I seem to remember they were originally referred to as "continental quilts".

Oreo

Dolly Daydream

That's what my dad used to call me, as well as "butterfly brain".
(Turned out it was because I have ADHD)

Thoro

My parents used to say to change from our school uniforms into mufti

I think that came from the Armed Forces, changing out of their uniforms.

sarahcyn

watermeadow

Up in’t north a ginnel were a snicket.
My mother used to call synthetic cream Zinc ointment, which was used for nappy rash. Babies also used to posset and had three month colic.
Horses got strangles, puppies caught hard pad, old men died of apoplexy. Migraine was a sick headache.
Teeth were gnashers, a nose was a conk. If brainy you were a big head or a smart-arse.
At school Domestic Science was cookery and Swedish Drill was exercises. The 11 plus was the Scholarship exam. Prefects were Monitors.
This could go on forever.

Babies still posset, though annoyingly the American "spit up" is used rather more.
I've never heard of "three month colic" but all my clients seem to have heard of "colic" even though it's a vague collection of symptoms rather than an actual disease.

My dd2 had classic three months’ colic!

Groovy, far out.

Thank you all for a wonderful, evocative thread. I can’t add anything to it but have learned a lot and have some new words to try out.

I have been reading all the posts and I would like to say thank you to all of you for making this thread so interesting and enjoyable so far.