Things you never see nowadays

baubles my mother bought me a gaberdine school coat when I started at the grammar schoo. It was very expensive and came down to my ankles but I wore it till I was 16 (I think I may have moved on to a duffle coat in the 6th form where the rules were slightly relaxed). The detachable lining was great and I wore it under all sorts of coats long after I left school. Have to agree about the hood!l

Three dairies delivered in our avenue... two with horse-drawn floats, and the Co-op had a battery-driven box on wheels, with the milkman where the horse should have been, on foot... We were United Dairies, and the horse was called Rosie...

There was a knife-grinder who came round (I wish there still was) on a pedal tricycle arrangement - the same pedals drove his grindstone - an amazing Heath Robinson contraption!

The coalman delivered coal and coke into our back-garden sheds, humping the sacks up the sideway - my job as a child was to count the sacks as they arrived.

Mention of the steam-roller here; what elegant machines they were! I liked the way the boiler made a noise like my mother's Sunday joint in the oven when it would spit fat...

Deedaa We don't have delivery horses any more but we do have the occasional pony and trap trotting smartly through the town where I live.

Gaberdine school coats with, if my memory serves me correctly, detachable hoods and linings. Mine was navy, wouldn't mind a long version now - sans hood!

Thin white bread, margarine and sugar sandwiches when I got home home school. Cheap, cheerful and of no nutritional value whatsoever.

Our first TV after we got married was a coin in the slot. At the end of the month they`d empty it, take out the rental fee, and we got the rest back. Ours took 2 shilling pieces, not one shilling.
Going back to the liquorice, at Christmas we used to get liquorice selection boxes, not chocolate, must have kept us regular!

Coin in the slot TV sets ( a form of hire purchase).

All the lights and everything going off suddenly because the 'shilling' had gone. Followed by a frantic scramble in the dark to find a shilling and feed the meter.

Oh yes! I remember it too! (Cue Hermione and Maurice in Gigi!)

Bread and dripping used to be a great treat in our house. If I was really lucky we sometimes had golden syrup sandwiches The thing I miss is the horses. Ever4yone seemed to have a horse and cart - the milkman, the baker, the coalman, the greengrocer and the rag and bone man. Now and again we would see barge horses being walked down to the canal and I remember once seeing a long line of real Romany caravans - all horse drawn of course.

Yes I am off to watch it too mmm it did taste good though didnt it!

Oh yes!
Stop it. You're making me hungry. I'll watch that California girls utube again to bolster my willpower!

Bread dipped into the meat juices from the Sunday joint.

I still would love a slice of toast with beef dripping and marmite [drool] in the Black Country bread and dripping or lard was called bread and scrape!

Yogagran my mother used to love bread and dripping! (Stomach heaving emoticon) that might have contributed to me being vegetarian.

Can liquorice pipes still have the red sprinkles on them though?
Used to love liquorice - pipes, Catherine wheels, shoelaces, whatever shapes they came in.

they just call them candy sticks now

No artificial flavours either, so they probably don't taste as good.

(I'm sure we don't get them round here!)

Ah! I thought they looked different! They still come in a cigarette-type packet though.

Sweet ciggies not allowed to have the red end anymore!

Antimacasters (sp)

isthis Eastcoast still has a guard's van on their trains. TB is on the increase in this country. Refreshers are still around.

Seeing a baby in a pram (with a cat net on) left outside the shops/front door/in the garden.

You can still get sweet cigarettes! One of my GDs recently sat in the back of my car pretending to smoke one, and when it was down to the last half inch casually threw it out of the window! I blame her father...

Sweet cigarettes were delicious!

Can you still get Horlicks sweets?

Dripping - yum!