Things you never see nowadays

School milk in those bottles. A third of a pint each. In winter they froze and the tops were pushed off due to expansion. But the milk wasn't wasted as we thawed them on the radiator.
I had some kind of pink powder, strawberry flavoured and I used to put it in the milk for a milkshake. Probably just coloured sugar.
Were you a milk monitor? What were your duties?

Mustard poultices.

There are some strange people in this world!

I loved Virol! I noticed you can still get something like it at the chemist's - but I don't I need it any more, as I'm really quite 'robust'!

Virol- yeuk, just the word makes me want to puke.I had tried to erase that memory

Eugh! I hated Virol. The other stuff that made me gag was Smith's Cremola. It was like cold semolina and I think was supposed to boost our calcium levels but I couldn't swallow it.

Isthis, you actually LIKED Virol? It was VILE!!

Forgot to say Whoops!

Thanks...I think! 1940 vintage.

Good grief Alie you're wearing well!

Old people with rickets!
I looked for a picture on line, to show my daughter, and all I found was children from poor countries - no old people with bent legs, but I remember seeing them, and my dad explained.

The little boy I played with next door got polio in 1847 and ended up with a leg iron.

Gum boils treated with borax and honey
The smell of methylated spirits..to light the primus stove on picnics...to light the hurricane lamp in the outside lav after lagging the pipes with strips of old army blanket enhanced with the smell of damp izal toilet roll...condensation dripping on your head throughout any procedure in the outside loo...

Taking a drive along the M. 25 , !

Chilblains,I suffered from then all through my childhoods he treatment was to. Bathe them in your own urine...many hour spent with my feet in the po....

Remember the corned beef coloured legs with scorch marks,most of the older ladies had them ..with their stockings rolled to their ankles and their bunions cut out if their checkered slippers...

Wow! What a thread!
We do see people in Sunday best here. They are either Caribbean or African families. Some pretty stunning African outfits sometimes included.

Darns (i remember learning how to do them, possibly for brownies)
Corsets and rollons worn by nans and mums
Styes
Really bad acne
People with leg irons
Streets with no parked cars (can see clearly in my mind's eye, new yellow ford anglia belonging to my mum's boyfriend.)
People going out for a "run in the car" just because they can
Dads on the beach with their trousers rolled up and hankies on their heads
Women carrying their children "Welsh fashion" - with a big welsh shawl wrapped around mother and baby.

Think y'got chilblains from toasting your toes in front of the coal fire . We all had red blotchy marks on our legs from doing that.

isthisallthereis, I read some terrible things about Uncle Mac on the internet the other day !
(http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n21/andrew-ohagan/light-entertainment)

Chilblains. Do they still exist? I was racked by them. Neither of my children has ever had a single one. I think perhaps central heating banished chilblains!

Scratchy wool blankets. Indeed any wool blankets.

Chilblains and scratchy wool blankets DID NOT MIX!

Quink! Even just the name brings back the smell and the inky fingers!

Virol. I used to love it. Anyone else remember it?

Children's Hour. Uncle Mac. "David" reading Rudyard Kipling stories. The most gorgeous, reassuring voice anywhere!

Especially if you were left handed! I used pencil for much longer than anyone else in my class because I smudged the ink.

I saved up my pocket money and bought my own bottle of ink. You were really somebody if you owned your own bottle of Quink, mine was Royal blue.

More like joined-up splatters, with gaps where the ink ran out mid-word.

Yes they have evolved a bit banana - we don't have a "normal" high street here in Mk, so not sure where they hang out generally. But on the internet, as well as offices.
Oh it was pretty miserable trying to learn joined up writing with those dippy pens wasnt it.

Not in Miss Roots' class you couldn't Elegran or at least, not more than once.

Yes!