Things you never see now

Casdon

I’ve just thought of something else that’s now a real rarity, the Victorian bedding plant schemes in parks and public spaces. Roundabouts often had them too, big swathes of marigolds, begonias and geraniums, but now it’s all low maintenance, wild flowers and grasses.

Or more commonly big weeds.

Park keepers, they yelled at us kids to keep off the grass😲

Goldfish in water in plastic bags given by rag and bone men for garments.

We can get these at our local corner shop, but only the plain ones and the peppermint. They are addictive!

That was in response to Fry's chocolate bars!

Goldfish in water in plastic bags given by rag and bone men for garments.

Yes. Especially the ones that used to jump out of the bowl and disappear down the back of the china cabinet!!😱

My mum would give me 2d for the Sunday school collection plate. Then the corner shop installed a Beechnut chewing gum machine. It quickly became 1d for collection and 1d for gum. I never did own up 🤭

Flea Circuses. Thank God.
Like the ones on the Golden Mile at Blackpool.

ASK ALICE - I read the article regarding white dog do and it said it was because dogs used to eat bones - I can remember asking at the butchers for dog bones. Not sure if that really is the reason.

As kids:

We would put pennies and glass marbles on the tram track to get sliced in half.

We used to burst the tar bubbles in the road on hot days like today.

We had "dipping games" to decide who was to be IT when we played hide and seek and similar games

Dip dip dip, My blue ship
Sailing on the water
Like a cup and saucer
O U T spells OUT!

and another

Ingle angle silver bangle
Ingle angle out
If you had been
Where I have been
You'd have seen
The fairy queen
So ingle angle silver bangle
Ingle angle OUT!

Midgey Oh yes, I remember it well! My Dad used to do that for us as well, usually around the start of the summer holidays. There are 4 of us siblings, I am the eldest and was born in 1950. Although Dad had a good job, money was always tight. He didn't want to have to buy us new shoes before the autumn term started.

friendlygingercat those rhymes reminded me of skipping ropes and the rhymes we would say. You don’t see those nowadays

What if you didn't want a goldfish and had no goldfish bowl to put it in? Daft payment.

Boyes shop in Hull on Hessle Road had the zipwire system to a central cash desk overlooking the whole shop.

Motor bikes with sidecars. I would love to have a ride in one. I believe there are places where you can.

Curlers and rollers. My friend only took hers out when she went to Bingo and they were always covered with a chiffon scarf.

Talking of signs: No spitting! on Glasgow municipal trams, trolley buses and buses,

And seats reserved for disabled war veterans.

There used to be another one which began Eeny meeny miny moe but never mentioned now because it contained the N word.

As kids in the 1940s/1950s we knew no better.

Blocks of butter in grocery shops where the assistant (usually a male) used wooden butter pats to shape the lump of butter into a rectangle for you to buy. Loved watching that. Some had a stamp that they pressed onto the top, can remember one of a cow.

AuntieE

Talking of signs: No spitting! on Glasgow municipal trams, trolley buses and buses,

And seats reserved for disabled war veterans.

I well remember being appalled at seeing ‘Defense de cracher’ (No Spitting) signs on the Paris Metro when I was 14. Did they really have to tell people not to spit?

But now it would appear that footballers spitting on the pitch have made it seem OK here…

Aids warning posters. I was Administrator in a large public office building late 80s and had to place an Aids poster on the inside of every toilet cubicle. The posters were everywhere then.

My dad used to cycle from work, I’d meet him on the street and he’d put me on his crossbar then we’d go to see the steam train pass at the bottom of the street before going home for tea.
I still love steam trains 🙂🚂

I haven’t seen a mangle in use since we had one when I was very young. I have seen the odd one in a museum but that's about it.

Waltz nail varnish with a tiny lipstick in the top. Sold in Hammonds in Hull in the sixties

Going into the co op, which had two counters with all goods on shelves behind, and assistants to fetch what you wanted. One counter was for dry goods, and the other for bacon, cold meats, butter and cheese, and of course, you gave the assistant cash for the till!
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