Things you never see nowadays

How dare he - what is there to be ashamed about?

Silly isn't it. I find it quite funny now.

My auntie and my step-sister both worked at the IZAL factory at Chapeltown, near Sheffield, back in the 1950s, we used it because they got it free!

Apparently, according to a recent BBC prog about servants, Izal loo paper was purchased for them to use, while their employers used the soft stuff. Mind you, my mother-in-law was still using it in the early 70s, considering it to be 'hygienic'. Since it was non-porous, perhaps she had a point. The roll used to sit on the cistern hidden discreetly under the frilly skirt of a Spanish-type doll.

We used it for tracing paper as well as for comb and paper 'music'. Andrex is no use for either. I still insist that soft loo paper is the 20th Century's greatest contribution to the comfort of humanity.

The other contribution is constant hot water on tap. Luxury - even when you restrict it to a couple of hours in the morning, as I do.

We had the shiny stuff too - in packets of separate sheets, held in a ceramic dispenser on the wall - I think Bronco was the brand...

We are having lots of roads being repaired in the town , today I saw a steamroller . I don"t think they can lay roads without them, flattening etc.

Nonu Are you sure it was steam powered?

A night-watchman sitting outside a wee hut, warming his hands over glowing coals.

Children under 14 out on their own.
Wet fish shops
Brown overalls
Dachshunds
Isinglass for preserving eggs (eggs were seasonal once!)
Running boards on cars (they must have been so dangerous!)
Guard's vans on trains
Soot
Turn-ups on men's trousers

Diptheria
TB
Polio

Refreshers (loved them!)
Spangles
Barratts Sweet Cigarettes (amazing, a packet of white sugar stick, each with a scarlet tip! Get children used to the idea)
Mackeson Stout
Concorde Wine
Babycham
Dripping ie beef fat (yuk!)

Dripping - yum!

Can you still get Horlicks sweets?

Sweet cigarettes were delicious!

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...

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

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

Antimacasters (sp)

Sweet ciggies not allowed to have the red end anymore!

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

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!)

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

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

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!