I’m old enough to remember..

monami

seeing Victoria in her carriage

The Victoria? You must be 107.

125 ! Queen Victoria died in 1901.
This must have been said tongue in cheek.

I remember when I first went to school, learning to count with little cowrie shells (Health and Safety!) that were kept in old tobacco tins (Don't even go there!)

Helping Mum put the sheets through the mangle. Liberty bodice with squashed rubber buttons from also being mangled! Mum also had a corrugated wash board made of glass in a wooden frame. My son told me recently he remembers it hanging in her shed. Wish he had rescued it.
Remember looking at the bomb sites in London from the bus.
Meeting my Dad in June 1946, he came back with a dolls pram and doll for me but I wanted nothing to do with him. Poor man!
A big tanker used to come round the streets and suction up the water in the drains. He would then drive a bit further and swing the big suction pipe out and release all the water and we would scrabble in the deluge to rescue our marbles that had disappeared down the drain.
Ice on the inside of the bedroom windows. Sweeping the stairs with 2 brushes, one hard, one soft. Cleaning the brass on the front door. And most of the memories others have mentioned.

I remember being taken outside at night along with my whole boarding school to see Yuri Gagarin in space looking like a moving star.

Bob a job week. Certainly wouldn’t be allowed now!

Borrowing 5 shillings from the next door neighbour so we could buy our dinner for a family of 4. My sister and I buying my mum a tin of talcum powder for her birthday we didn’t have enough money to pay for it and a lady standing next to us offered to pay the difference. A bag of goodie waste which was the chips off the boiled sweets. Coates on the bed and your legs and feet through the sleeves of an old jumper to keep you warm.

Nannynoodles

Green shield stamps and cigarette coupons! I remember my Mum wanting something (think it might have been a Kenwood food mixer) and counting the books until we had enough to go to the shop to redeem them!!
You used to get catalogues to look through - very much like the old Argos one, great fun and part of Christmas.

I listen to 'Sliced Bread' podcasts to help me sleep. One of the podcasts is about Greenshield stamps and why they came to an end.

I remember the cream popping up on the milk bottles as they sat on the doorstep in the ice and snow, running round the back of our house where the garages were to take our bottles back to the fizzy drink lorry, teachers throwing chalk (or sometimes the blackboard rubber!) at pupils who were talking in class! Paper chains across the ceiling with balloons in each corner at Christmas. Licking out the bowl when my Mum made cakes (not allowed now!) So many happy memories of growing up in the 60s and 70s 🥰

Greenfinch

Babies( girls and boys) wearing long nighties day and night ( except when visiting when they would wear a matinee jacket) , swaddled at night and being put to bed lying on their sides. These were the days before babygros.

I’ve still got a lovely little white winceyette nightie with embroidery on the yoke - bought in a shop in Abu Dhabi in around 1980, for a dd who was born there. It was too hot for babygros!

I can remember D-Day and I wasn't yet two years old. I was sitting in the pushchair watching the planes going over.

Bazza

I remember being taken outside at night along with my whole boarding school to see Yuri Gagarin in space looking like a moving star.

Bob a job week. Certainly wouldn’t be allowed now!

Yuri seemed like an utterly charming man.

I often think about Bob a job.

Hi Greenfinch you've reminded me of my babies, a boy and a girl, born in the 1960's wearing long wincette night gowns with embroidered yokes.
I've remembered being taken to the sea front to hear the sound barrier broken by the aircraft piloted by Neville Duke.
Later being taken by the school to see the film of Bill Hayley's Rock around the Clock.
We were also taken to see the colour film of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11.

Winceyette!!

I remember going to see a film starring Tommy Steele. Late 50s probably. I wore the most wonderful green fluorescent socks .

Grannybags

Ten shilling notes
Half crowns
Florins

I took two half crowns to school every Monday for dinner money 😁

My younger brother, cunning little beast, used to write once a term to our paternal GM - because she’d write back, enclosing a ten shilling note.

JamesandJon33

I remember going to see a film starring Tommy Steele. Late 50s probably. I wore the most wonderful green fluorescent socks .

Was that Tommy the Toreador where he sang Little white bull? I went to see that too.

Greenfinch

125 ! Queen Victoria died in 1901.
This must have been said tongue in cheek.

My paternal GM remembered the death of Queen Vic. She said the church bells were tolling, and her father said in a very sombre voice, ‘The Queen is dead!’ - and poor little GM, maybe 6, thought the world must be coming to an end if the Queen was dead.

The lunar landings, and the first man walking on the moon. Decimalisation, I was cross initially, (as I had just learnt how to use the old money)! The siren for sheltering in the Cuban Missile Crisis. (Under the stairs, under a table..) The fuel crisis (in the 70s). Meat and milk deliveries. Paper rounds. Taking glass bottles back to get the "deposit". Telephone calls for 2p.

I was born in 1945 so know that rationing went on for a very long time. Going to Walter Wilson s the grocer, where they put sugar into those blue bags which they folded and it stayed like that with no tape on but only until you took it home. A notice in the window announcing "Danish keg butter" which was patted up by the assistant . That my mother had a page in the blue book so that she could send us for something forgotten or needed, without any money, as she would always go on friday and pay anything extra that we had been sent to collect. My granny having a co op divi number that you had to learn so that if you went for something for her you had to say the number. Milk delivered in glass bottles and put on the step. My granny also used to get tokens for the milk so that she then would leave out the tokens , different colours for different kinds of milk , but not money so no one took them. My mother always used to ask for "green " bacon which in our part of yorkshire meant unsmoked and her upset when "what was the world coming to when a large loaf went up from 10d to 1shilling!! Playing with hula hoops. playing 2 ball against the wall, with much complicated rhymes etc.In the summer loving to run barefoot in the "bumpy " field down to the beck and paddling and looking for sticklebacks.

AGAA4 Possibly. I think it was The Tommy Steele Story, but not sure. I can sing most of The Little White Bull though.

Nation dried Babymilk in blue and white tins and very orangey orange juice for infants. Both issued by the NHS. Full cream milk delivered to your doorstep and fish n chips for 1/6d.

Magenta8

JackyB

Double de-clutching.

I remember people cranking their cars with a starter handle and cars with running boards. Were all cars black way back then?

My old (1959) Hillman Minx wouldn't start on the day of my driving test so the examiner waited while I cranked the handle to start it. I think that was in 1974, which I think of as quite recent!

Boadicea

Magenta8

JackyB

Double de-clutching.

I remember people cranking their cars with a starter handle and cars with running boards. Were all cars black way back then?

My old (1959) Hillman Minx wouldn't start on the day of my driving test so the examiner waited while I cranked the handle to start it. I think that was in 1974, which I think of as quite recent!

I remember going on a Sunday School trip in the 1950s and we all stood up in the coach to look at a blue car, cars had always been black until then.
No seat belts either!

Symingtons table creams,
Cheese cut by wire,
Blue salt twists in Smiths crisps. If you were lucky you found more than one
Sweet rations,
Five stones (snobs)
Gears on driving wheel and flooding choke.

Happy days

I remember many of these from school, home and around our neighbourhood but one thing does stand out for me that I don’t think anyone has mentioned……….those dreadful chain letters! They were on a picture postcard and you were told to send a picture postcard to the name at the top of the list and then send several more cards to friends but remove the top name, move everyone else up the grid and add your own at the bottom. The theory being that in a certain period of time you’d received picture postcards from all around the world but if you broke the chain seriously bad luck would fall on you and millions of people would die! My mum used to chuck them on the fire…….I was never allowed to waste my pocket money! She could see the coercion but I was naive and thought the world might end!