Things you never see now

Bacon slicing machines in grocers shops. You could specify what thickness you wanted it. Loose biscuits in tins, weighed out into paper bags.

I used to hate those embossing machines because you paid like a penny for 3 letters and the limit was 9 letters. My name is 10 letters so my mother used to print out the shortened version which I never liked. I always used to loose the little printed strip.

Sunshinegirls

I remember on the seaside pier a 'What the butler saw' wind up machine lol how tame compared to what's on offer now, a different world, a better one I think.

I remember a pier penny-in-the-slot “amusement” called The Condemned Cell, which showed scenes of a condemned man culminating in his hanging. Absolutely horrific from today’s perspective, yet I, the least violent of children, watched it eagerly when I was about six or seven. This was in the 1940s.

Poor Kittycat it wasn't fair.

There were ashtrays everywhere. Between the cinema seats and on the back of bus seats.
Come to think of it there was a lighter in our car.

20:33Grandma70s

If only we could go back to those times.

Sunshinegirls What hanging and children watching enactments of a man being hanged?

Greyduster

Bacon slicing machines in grocers shops. You could specify what thickness you wanted it. Loose biscuits in tins, weighed out into paper bags.

I worked in the village shop from 14-16 and loved, loved , loved using the bacon slicer. “Number 4 please” was most common.
Almost as much fun as the cheese wire, trying to cut exactly 8 oz. Easy on a block of mild cheese, not so much on a circle of strong cheddar.

Don't know if it counts, but men whistling whilst walking

I never see dark chocolate Bounty bars now ☹

Casdon

Children’s sandals - remember the Clarks ones with crepe soles and cutouts, like this, my sisters and I all had a pair exactly the same every year, brown, red or navy. No longer seen I don’t think.

Joyance, if I recall correctly, Casdon.
Staple of our household- alternating red and blue each summer!

Greyduster

Bacon slicing machines in grocers shops. You could specify what thickness you wanted it. Loose biscuits in tins, weighed out into paper bags.

Some butchers still have those. One we go to certainly does - best bacon ever!

62Granny

Vending machines on the railway platform for Fry's chocolate, there was one that was five different flavours.

I think it was called 5 BOYS chocolate bar
I also remember chewing gum machines outside sweet shops.

When did you last see a motorbike and sidecar - outside of a transport museum, that is?

"On the Buses"
When Olive is pregnant and Arthur takes her to hospital in the sidecar.

Scribbles

When did you last see a motorbike and sidecar - outside of a transport museum, that is?

If you had asked that a few days ago I would have said over fifty years ago, but I actually saw one yesterday 😁

You could buy postage stamps from a box attached to the pillar box.

Oh gosh, I'd completely forgotten that!

This!

22:14 Oldnproud

If you had asked that a few days ago I would have said over fifty years ago, but I actually saw one yesterday 😁

Oh, wonderful! 😄👍
They were a huge part of my childhood, regarded as a bit eccentric even in the 1950s, but we had so many happy holidays and family outings - mom and dad in their leathers on the bike; little sister and me with the dog in the sidecar; luggage in the panniers and strapped to the open boot lid of the sidecar. On fine days, we'd roll back the sidecar's sun roof and cruise along, all singing loudly - anything from Ten Green Bottles to Daisy, Daisy. Most of the village thought us a bit bonkers but we didn't care. Sadly, my dad developed arthritis in his fingers and, in the mid 60s, the big old Panther motorcycle rig got traded in for a car. Sometimes, if I close my eyes on a quiet evening, I think I can still hear the steady thump-thump-thump of that bike's engin as it hauled us for so many happy miles.🙂

ViceVersa

Greyduster

Bacon slicing machines in grocers shops. You could specify what thickness you wanted it. Loose biscuits in tins, weighed out into paper bags.

Some butchers still have those. One we go to certainly does - best bacon ever!

Come to France and see the butcher and poultry stalls in the markets or shops, ready to slice bacon or any hams.

The yellow trafficators on cars.

There were 6 of us and the Clarks sandals were passed down from one to the next, I was the fifth child so they’d be pretty well worn by the time they got to me.

I remember Milk Tray from a chocolate machine 5 or 6 different centres, I loved the Turkish delight.

My grandad was in charge of the BAC or so I was told. I remember stories of him refilling machines at train stations and Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

62Granny my dad used to bring home a Fry’s 5 centres on a Friday and we were allowed to choose a flavour each. There was my 2 sisters and me. I assume my mum got what was left I never asked. So easily pleased

Always remember the excitement of going to put a sixpence in a machine near the beach in South Shields where we used to go most summers to visit our granny. Inside was a little elephant who went around in a circle then dropped a little rectangular white box with a small treat inside.Another machine for a few coppers played a laughing policeman which always had me and my sisters laugh along, such simple things back then made us happy.

One year I had a pair of white Clarks sandals. Loved them.
I would like a pair now.

Oreo

I used to like putting coins in the head of a model of a yellow Labrador with a bandaged paw RSPCA which stood outside a shop.

There's one of those in my local Asda