We used to say:

We used the word fab a lot and I remember asking a friend why she was wearing sandals in the snow and she said 'cos I want to be a mod'. Also far out man, keep on truckin, be there or be square, buzz off, dolly bird, it's a drag, flower power, it freaks me out, hip, psychedelic, let it all hang out, she 'had to' get married, I'm gonna split now. Obviously some of these are 'Americanisms' or were only used in songs but I can remember my friends and myself using them in a jokey way or to try to be cool.

Anything anyone can remember. My head is full of more modern words like cool and mint and wicked. I realised I have no idea how we used to talk.

slang as in?

I remember the one about not washing your hair when you had a period, Flowerofthewest. We used to say GordonBennett but your version makes more sense.
Can anyone remember what the slang was in the sixties. I need it for a story and I can't remember now.
There was swinging but ...

My aunt used to let us walk on the railway line behind her house picking up coal!!! It was also the haunt of the occasional adder.

Are yu lacking art toneet

My DDH used to take his grannies bread dough to the local bakers to put in his oven.

When I was very little, the old lady next door used to give me a paper bag and take me for a walk alongside the main road that we lived on, collecting coal that had fallen off the then-numerous passing coal delivery lorries, for her to use on her little stove.

I used to go up the canal with a wheelbarrow!

I hope you enjoy it Tegan. My mom used to make me go to Saltley gas works with a pram to fetch coke. I used to be mortified in case anyone from school saw me!

We saw Malcolm Stent when he was a supporting act at the theatre [the main act were rubbish] and he talked about Saltley Gas Works, so I was hooked from then on! We went to Brum with a group of people from Derby [I was in a singles group at the time] and they all loved it. I wonder if it's on utube? My driving is awful; the S.O. is driving us there [he used to be a rep so is happy to drive anywhere]. We're leaving really early so should find somewhere to park easily.

Tegan - No I didn't see that play. Saw it advertised and didn't go. Regret it now. As for car parking - I'm hopeless as I don't drive. DH says there is a large multi story on Thorp Street which is almost opposite the Hippodrome. We have used one in Bromsgrove Street also which I think is two side roads down to the left of the theatre. Sorry this is a bit vague. To be honest we usually get the bus or someone to drop us in. I've only lived here for 60 odd years !

Did you ever see Malcolm Stent's wonderful play 'Go and Play up your Own End'? It was so funny; saw it at the Hippodrome I think. By the way, KatyK; where's the best place to park for the Hippodrome? We're going there on Saturday.

Go and play up yer own end

Keep your hand on you h'penny!

"Get off and milk it", said to someone deemed to be riding their bike too slowly.

undone flies-flying without a licence.

My mum said to me before I married "there's many a slip twixt cup and lip!"

Go off and play, and don't come back till teatime!

It's black over Will's Mothers

Piece of topside beef 8/6d please

Gord and Bennet!

Flippin' eck

Cor Luva duck

up the apples and pears to Bedfordshire

You can't wash your hair if you have your period!

My mum used to say " dont anticipate the marriage" ie dont you dare have sex before you are married.
In fact she had a lot of phrases which ended before you get married, like
" you cant use tampons before you get married"
" you cant go upstairs with your boyfriend before you are married"
The way she used to say these phrases was as if they were actual legally binding laws written down somewhere.
She still says " shes anticipated the marriage" if she hears about a new mum who is single.

Horace Batchelor had a foolproof system for winning on the football pools, which he would impart to you for a small consideration. We always wondered why he would need to sell the secret, if it was that good, as with that system he should have been rolling in it.

Crikey, not goin' back to Mumsnet now........I belong here, innit?

Horace Batchelor and Keynsham, wasn't it some type of lottery or something like that. I remember listening to Radio Luxembourg, how it used to fade away then come back. A transistor radio, my DGC's would look at me blank if I started talking about them, you can do everything on your Iphone now.