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By *ryan... OP Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

Car starting Handles..

TV series Callan with Edward Woodward..

Radio Luxembourg ( 208) .in & out signal but the latest pop songs on a transistor radio..

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By *d4fun73Man
over a year ago

Shipley

Radio Tirana on short wave.

The soviet Union.

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Pressing a button on the floor with your foot to dip the headlights

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ring 3 times when you got home

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By *ryan... OP Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

Loose tea leaves..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I was well known on here.

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By *oeBeansMan
over a year ago

Derby

"When I was well known on here. "

You just need to contribute more. You get out what you put in, after all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When I was well known on here. "

Who are you

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By *oeBeansMan
over a year ago

Derby

Total 90s being the must have football boots

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Waiting till 6 o'clock to phone or receive calls.

Coal men - I tried to tell a dirty joke to the bairns today and jock the coalman went right over their heads!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Smoking on an airplane.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A carburetor and only 4 gears.

Radio Atlantic.

Black & white telly.

Trimphones.

100 watt bulbs

Cassette recorders

Waiting a week or so to get every 24 or 36 photographs developed.

Renting a TV

Only having 3 TV channels

Paraffin heater to stop the outdoor toilet from freezing up

Being sophisticated if you ate prawn cocktail and drank Hirondel or Babycham.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Three wheeled cars around football stadia.

Grocers shops run by old guys wearing white coats.

Irish jokes on primetime TV.

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

No remote controls

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"No remote controls

I was my parents remote control.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The speaking clock

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Taping Top 40 off radio on Sunday afternoon

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By *aughty but nice...Man
over a year ago

Staffs

"No remote controls

I was my parents remote control."

We had remote control for the video player that had a wire connection

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By *aughty but nice...Man
over a year ago

Staffs

Betamax videos

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Putting 50p in the electric meter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gypsies offering to sell you clothes pegs or drown any unwanted cats.

Swapping your mother's good coat for a balloon from the rag man.

Parents giving their kids a kick in the arse when they misbehaved.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Betamax videos "

Video 2000 was the best

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Putting 50p in the electric meter

Which 50p?

The original big 50p or the current slimline 50p?

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

Coming home on the milk float

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By *mmMandyTV/TS
over a year ago

Southampton

somebody blue up some buildings in america

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Putting 50p in the electric meter

Which 50p?

The original big 50p or the current slimline 50p?"

Original

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Talking clock on the phone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Putting 50p in the electric meter

Which 50p?

The original big 50p or the current slimline 50p?

Original

Oh, ok.

I preferred the shilling.

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By *aughtyangel3Man
over a year ago

North West

Pocket full of 2ps to ring your girlfriend from the phone box,

Taking the pop bottles back so you can take her to the pictures,

Trying to record the top 40 without the DJ talking,

Having to turn the cassette over to play the other side.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pulling the c h o k e out when you first started the car.

Burtons (the clothes shop)

Paying for things with a Postal Order (Dennis the menace fan club)

Wiping your arse with tracing paper toilet roll.

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

1p sweets from woolworths

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Coming home on the milk float

Good times… when you get in the house and realise your clothes now stink of stale milk.

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

"Coming home on the milk float

Good times… when you get in the house and realise your clothes now stink of stale milk."

HaHa now you have reminded me of waking up with my hair smelling of cigarette smoke although I didn’t smoke, now that’s something I don’t miss

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

"1p sweets from woolworths "

Awww Woolworths was brill, well apart from my mum trying to convince me their black trainers with three white stripes were Adidas kick when they really weren’t

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Coming home on the milk float

Good times… when you get in the house and realise your clothes now stink of stale milk.

HaHa now you have reminded me of waking up with my hair smelling of cigarette smoke although I didn’t smoke, now that’s something I don’t miss

Yeah, it was nasty not being able to avoid it in those days.

You just can’t even imagine people smoking in confined public spaces like that can you?

Bus, trains, planes, taxi’s and worse… restaurants!

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

Getting the last copy of the latest vhs at xtravision

our version of blockbuster

they all had a very distinct smell also I don’t know what it was

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

Not being able to use a card to pay in any stores unless it was over £10.

LvM

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

"Not being able to use a card to pay in any stores unless it was over £10.

LvM"

Oh yeah ir them saying il make it up to a tenner so ya could

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Going to the petrol station or corner shop to buy a receipt to top up your PAYG phone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

10p for a bag of space raiders from the tuck shop at school

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Mobile phones the size of a brick and snake game

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By *ryan... OP Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

Green shield stamps..,( got mine from Tesco's)

Women wearing head scarves

(seemed every woman at the time)

Pipe smokers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

White dog poo and porn mags left in bushes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rubik cube.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dustbin

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

"Not being able to use a card to pay in any stores unless it was over £10.

LvM

Oh yeah ir them saying il make it up to a tenner so ya could

Ah yes, so nice of them to help us out like that wasn't it?

LvM

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Joining the membership of the video club at your nearest corner shop because it was cheaper than Blockbusters. Then renting the whole "confessions of" video series, Blue Lagoon & Emanuelle before the dirty pervy shop owner asks "Would you like to rent something else, Sir?" And then getting access to what seems like the entire back library of the vintage category on xgerbil.

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

"Coming home on the milk float

Good times… when you get in the house and realise your clothes now stink of stale milk.

HaHa now you have reminded me of waking up with my hair smelling of cigarette smoke although I didn’t smoke, now that’s something I don’t miss

Yeah, it was nasty not being able to avoid it in those days.

You just can’t even imagine people smoking in confined public spaces like that can you?

Bus, trains, planes, taxi’s and worse… restaurants!"

No you can’t, I certainly recall ashtrays on planes, imagine all that smoke inside the plane lol, not a chance you would even be allowed a lighter on there now. Glad it stopped especially in restaurants like you say, sorry smokers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Putting 50p in the electric meter

Which 50p?

The original big 50p or the current slimline 50p?

Original

Oh, ok.

I preferred the shilling.

Customers used to make ice coins to add gas which made the meters rust in the coin tray. I still come across old coin operated meters. This year I got 2 with some old shillings in them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The house phone (with a long cord) attached to the wall in the kitchen..

The only way to get privacy was to sit in the utility room with the door closed.

Dial up internet…

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By *aughtyangel3Man
over a year ago

North West

Kay's catalogue,

Pay packets,

Woodbine's

House of Holland,

Parker coat's

Evel Knievel

Thunderbirds

Captain scarlet

Joe 90

Spirograph

Mouse trap

Guinness book of records

Making go carts from old pram wheel's,

Jam buttys for tea,

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By *lasherMan
over a year ago

Faversham

Saying goodbye to any chance of a fuck lol... Cats whisker radio

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

"Not being able to use a card to pay in any stores unless it was over £10.

LvM

Oh yeah ir them saying il make it up to a tenner so ya could

Ah yes, so nice of them to help us out like that wasn't it?

LvM"

Extremely

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield

Ordering an early morning call.

White dog poo.

Frozen milk coming out the top of bottles on your step.

Contact magazines.

Backing your school books with Anaglypta wall paper.

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield

"Kay's catalogue,

Pay packets,

Woodbine's

House of Holland,

Parker coat's

Evel Knievel

Thunderbirds

Captain scarlet

Joe 90

Spirograph

Mouse trap

Guinness book of records

Making go carts from old pram wheel's,

Jam buttys for tea,"

I bloody loved House of Holland. Difficult to find any trace of it, even on google.

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By *ango and gashCouple
over a year ago

bilston

When you had the sniffles and didn't have to hide away for days on end,

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aye, anything that we took for granted in December 2019!!!!!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Renting your tv from Rumbalows.

Being given 10p for sweets, and coming home with a bag full.

Taking a neighbours baby for a walk in the pram when you were only about 10

Playing out all day long.

Dogs loose on the streets all day.

Going on holiday, car packed to the roof, and travelling sat on top of the cases as a child.

Seatbelt use being optional.

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By *ristobaltMan
over a year ago

penryn

"Renting your tv from Rumbalows.

Being given 10p for sweets, and coming home with a bag full.

Taking a neighbours baby for a walk in the pram when you were only about 10

Playing out all day long.

Dogs loose on the streets all day.

Going on holiday, car packed to the roof, and travelling sat on top of the cases as a child.

Seatbelt use being optional.

Perfectly put

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Press button b for ur money back in the phone box!

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Ohh and newberry fruits! Although I actually saw them back at a garden center other week! My dad would bring my mum a box were her fave fond memories x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sapphire and Steel

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By *uckslut and MCouple
over a year ago

Poole

"No remote controls

I was my parents remote control."

That was me, when my twin brother and I had Chicken pox. I was the one who had to change it, to one of the other 2 channels. I was just as ill as him.

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By *xtcMan
over a year ago

b ham

Dial a disc

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

Buying an affordable house in London area my first one cost £11500.00 now going for 110500.00

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By *tarflyLouWoman
over a year ago

Preston

Winding up your watch

The pop man, the pools man, the insurance man and the butcher all calling at the house

Drawing 100 crosses on the Spot the Ball coupon and then being excited when my dad bought a stamp to do it instead!

Twenty sweets in your 10p mix

The neighbour popping in to use the phone at leaving 10p to pay for it

Taking a tenner on a night out, getting d*unk, food, the last bus home and still having money left!

I see somebody mentioned your hair and clothes smelling of cigarette smoke - also ending up with the occasional burn in your clothes or on your skin from fighting your way through a packed pub or club

Polyphonic ringtones

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By *ryan... OP Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

Winning a goldfish in a plastic bag

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By *atcherofmyballsMan
over a year ago

hereford

Black and white comedies on a Saturday morning. Such as Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Keystone Cops etc.

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By *elsh-guyMan
over a year ago

The land of the Dragon and loads of sheep

The tracksuit trousers which had buttons all up the sides.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

70’s record players where you could stack 7’’ singles for ‘auto play’

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

"70’s record players where you could stack 7’’ singles for ‘auto play’"

And a record player with 3 speeds, 45 33 and 78.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Friday Rock Show at 10pm. Our weekly dose of all things heavy led by Tommy Vance. Much missed.

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By *mmMandyTV/TS
over a year ago

Southampton

Viz

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Good old euro trash such a random program

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By *otBunsHunWoman
over a year ago

Yorkshire

Hang up after 59 minutes on a Friday night then ring back

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By *ayK1Man
over a year ago

rochdale

Big chunky TV that didn't have remote controls. Just a dial to change the only 4 channels

VHS machines with a controller connected to a wire.. We thought we were so posh ??

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Now that’s what I call

Music, without any numbers after it

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By *ayK1Man
over a year ago

rochdale

"Now that’s what I call

Music, without any numbers after it "

The tapes or the CDs in the massive case ??

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Whoopie cushions

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Sapphire and Steel "
I have the box set on dvd!

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

At the fairgrounds, there would be a stall that had oversized pound notes, with the faces of The Bay City Rollers faces on them.

Radio 1 only being on FM for a few hours a week on Radio 2. It was called the stereo sequence.

Library tickets with handwritten name and address on them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Friday Rock Show at 10pm. Our weekly dose of all things heavy led by Tommy Vance. Much missed."

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By *ellhungvweMan
over a year ago

Cheltenham

"Whoopie cushions

They still exist - perfect for Christmas stocking fillers this year

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

"Whoopie cushions

They still exist - perfect for Christmas stocking fillers this year

Endless fun ...glad they've not been forgotten then

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By *ryan... OP Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

Grandfather clock chimes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Black and white TV

No internet

No home computers

Cars you could actually maintain yourself

People talking face to face

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"At the fairgrounds, there would be a stall that had oversized pound notes, with the faces of The Bay City Rollers faces on them.

Radio 1 only being on FM for a few hours a week on Radio 2. It was called the stereo sequence.

Library tickets with handwritten name and address on them.

Library tickets with handwritten names on them.

My hometown back then was provincial, but it had a town hall, and a library, and a magical barcode reader with a wet print date stamper neatly on the end of it.

I remember often visiting my town library to borrow books about UFOs' Project Blue Book, Simeon Simon, but this one, starchy librarian would glance over her glasses, towards my fixated gaze on her pert titties, clearly showing through her blouse.

The Lord only knows what exactly happened when I chanced upon the library shelves with a rentable copy of Arthur Miller or Anais Anin.

I can only say that it's a good job the library didn't have any Nancy Friday.

Hope That Helps.

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By *uby StarCouple
over a year ago

Durham

Woolworths

Having to do research for homework in a library

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By *olarbear73Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Findus Chicken Curry Pancakes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Waiting till 6 o'clock to phone or receive calls.

Coal men - I tried to tell a dirty joke to the bairns today and jock the coalman went right over their heads!!!"

Was that when you got free calls? I remember hanging up then redialing to receive the free call over again.

I still have a coal bunker in my garden and an outside toilet!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Black and white TV

No internet

No home computers

Cars you could actually maintain yourself

People talking face to face"

My parents brought me a black and white TV for Xmas on year. I remember my great Aunt having dial up internet.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

3 TV channels...

Every night...

The queen followed by

"and don't forget to switch off your set"

And the little white dot.

Whistle kettles.

A larder.

Milk in bottles that the birds had pecked to get the cream.

A and b buttons and reverse charges calls from phone boxes that didn't stink of piss.

Seeing a Bobby on the beat and being scared of being reported to plod for littering....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Good old euro trash such a random program "

Lol I remember that. I'm sure it was after a program called Sexcetra! Funny show. Mind boggling with what some people were sexually into. My favorite presenters on that show were Frank and Holt.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Playing marbles in the sewer grate.

One armed bandits that took the old, big one pence pieces.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Waiting for the chart show on the radio on Sunday nights

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Stereo 8 cassettes

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By *aughtiness69Couple
over a year ago

Kinmel bay

"Good old euro trash such a random program

Lol I remember that. I'm sure it was after a program called Sexcetra! Funny show. Mind boggling with what some people were sexually into. My favorite presenters on that show were Frank and Holt.

Them two shows got me through the beginning of pubity lmao

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Black and white TV

No internet

No home computers

Cars you could actually maintain yourself

People talking face to face"

Black and white TV huh?

Is that a bit wake or should it be multi coloured TV even though black and white TV had only one greyscale.

Internet huh?

The internet is only a moderner, faster version of the trimphoneing your girlfriend whilst sitting in the lobby, Royal Mail, pigeon post, Galleons which sailed the seven seas whilst carrying important messages.

No home computers?

Home computers began with one simple game - Pong.

Cars you could actually maintain yourself - well actually, the MK6 Ford Fiesta is quite self maintainable. Drop links, brake pipes, taking the gearbox out to replace the master cylinder are all tasks which should not be beyond the home mechanic. Less than 35 quid buys a device on fleabay which can turn off the engine management light as many times as the engine management light can turn itself on.

People talking face to face.

Oh, erm, you mean like at prime ministers question time?

No thanks!

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By *gentJMan
over a year ago

East Lancashire

"Loose tea leaves..

I still buy these. Didnt realise i was that old

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loose tea leaves - still plenty on the shelves of supermarkets

Car starting Handles.. you'd have to be over 80

TV series Callan with Edward Woodward.. -still gets repeated on some channels

Radio Luxembourg ( 208) .in & out signal but the latest pop songs on a transistor radio.. - and radio Caroline, and radio North Sea

The soviet Union. - um you must be bloody young

Black & white telly. - our first when I was young

Trimphones. you can still get them, albeit digital pushbutton versions

100 watt bulbs - i have some left if you want them

Cassette recorders - I have two, my housemate has one with 2 decks. Just repaired them recently

Having to turn the cassette over to play the other side. - can't forget that if you still use them

Renting a TV - first ones we did

Only having 3 TV channels - yep the 70s

Paraffin heater to stop the outdoor toilet from freezing up - heaters are still around, not sure about outdoor loos

Rubik cube. still a thing

Parker coat's - do you mean parka? still available

Evel Knievel - who can forget him?

Thunderbirds Captain scarlet Joe 90 - still get repeated on TV

Spirograph, Mouse trap - think you can still get mouse trap

Guinness book of records still going

Sapphire and Steel - repeated on TV but it is something you would want to forget it was so shite

Winding up your watch - High end are usually wind up

Taking a tenner on a night out, getting d*unk, food, the last bus home and still having money left - tenner? ha, try a fiver, but i didn't need the bus

And a record player with 3 speeds, 45 33 and 78. - still available

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By *ryan... OP Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

"Loose tea leaves - still plenty on the shelves of supermarkets

Car starting Handles.. you'd have to be over 80

TV series Callan with Edward Woodward.. -still gets repeated on some channels

Radio Luxembourg ( 208) .in & out signal but the latest pop songs on a transistor radio.. - and radio Caroline, and radio North Sea

The soviet Union. - um you must be bloody young

Black & white telly. - our first when I was young

Trimphones. you can still get them, albeit digital pushbutton versions

100 watt bulbs - i have some left if you want them

Cassette recorders - I have two, my housemate has one with 2 decks. Just repaired them recently

Having to turn the cassette over to play the other side. - can't forget that if you still use them

Renting a TV - first ones we did

Only having 3 TV channels - yep the 70s

Paraffin heater to stop the outdoor toilet from freezing up - heaters are still around, not sure about outdoor loos

Rubik cube. still a thing

Parker coat's - do you mean parka? still available

Evel Knievel - who can forget him?

Thunderbirds Captain scarlet Joe 90 - still get repeated on TV

Spirograph, Mouse trap - think you can still get mouse trap

Guinness book of records still going

Sapphire and Steel - repeated on TV but it is something you would want to forget it was so shite

Winding up your watch - High end are usually wind up

Taking a tenner on a night out, getting d*unk, food, the last bus home and still having money left - tenner? ha, try a fiver, but i didn't need the bus

And a record player with 3 speeds, 45 33 and 78. - still available

Nope .. I'm 63 and we'll remember car starting Handles being used..

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By *ryan... OP Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

Goldfish in plastic bags as prizes

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

People not crossing the road and shoe/phone gazing.

Holding phones to your head and not holding it like a slice pizza.

twin tub washing machines. My parents never had anything else.

Dog licences.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having to go home when the Street lights came on

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By *ingle ex cuckMan
over a year ago

chester

Man Utd being a competitive team

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By *wistedsaintMan
over a year ago

Hotel Near You

A ball in your mouse and that random fluff/gunk you needed to clean out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm in my early 30s and used to drive a dumper truck on the farm I had my horse on when I was a kid that had a starting handle ??... I also remember tying the horse up at the pub when going for a pint too though and I'm not old enough to live in the old wild West hahahaha

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Typewriters.

Speech marks above the number 2 and not the @ symbol. Some body swapped the good ols qwerty layout and never told anyone.

Cars with proper indicators, with orange lenses.

2/3/4 star petrol.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"I'm in my early 30s and used to drive a dumper truck on the farm I had my horse on when I was a kid that had a starting handle ??... I also remember tying the horse up at the pub when going for a pint too though and I'm not old enough to live in the old wild West hahahaha"

Wild West (Derby)?

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By *irginieWoman
over a year ago

Near Marlborough

Tapping the top of the house phone…. You could get round the lock on the number dial

V x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having to press button A then button B in a public phone box

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wild West (Derby)?"

It was actually the pub down by Huyton quarry, used to ride the horse over statd moers Park and come out at the pub at the bottom have a pint and ride back... oh the good old days haha

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Boiling the saucepan for a hot bath

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Tapping the top of the house phone…. You could get round the lock on the number dial

V x "

Damn it!!! Why didn't I work that one out at the time!!!

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Telephone directories

Books for phone numbers with fake rotary dials on the front

Tea chests when house moving day arrived.

Affordable housing!

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Wild West (Derby)?

It was actually the pub down by Huyton quarry, used to ride the horse over statd moers Park and come out at the pub at the bottom have a pint and ride back... oh the good old days haha "

I worked in Link lane Ind Est, that was the wild west.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wild West (Derby)?

It was actually the pub down by Huyton quarry, used to ride the horse over statd moers Park and come out at the pub at the bottom have a pint and ride back... oh the good old days haha

I worked in Link lane Ind Est, that was the wild west."

For totally different reasons yeah hahaha

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By *exy Ruby 100 300Couple
over a year ago

unknown

My ma used to heat d water in d Twin Tub,n drag it over as near as she could to d bath ,n turn on d pump to fill d bath,we thought it was normal, lol

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By *istalloverCouple
over a year ago

Pays de la Loire -Normandie -Brittany borderFrance

Vista meals yuk

Playing knock door and run

Cb radio , aerials appearing overnight on most houses and cars

14 for a copy and pleased when you got a few miles up the road

Then some of us bought sidebanders and talked to the usa and oz.

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By *oding1Man
over a year ago

marlow

French onion seller, on his bike.

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Blankets (an extra one in winter) and candle wick bed spread I had a bright orange one x

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By *ryan... OP Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

Tin baths

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Having to beat the birds to the milk bottles left by the milkman so they hadn't pierced the foil tops to get to the cream bit

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By *itygamesMan
over a year ago

that lovely smell when my dad lit a cigar in the house.

men in pubs with a pint in a jug smoking a pipe.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Watneys beer

Party sevens beers

Shake n vac advert...

Hi karate, tabac, denim

The shell fish man coming round the pub

One armed bandits in pubs

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

King's Crustacean

"Putting 50p in the electric meter

We used to put shillings and florins in the meter.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Having to beat the birds to the milk bottles left by the milkman so they hadn't pierced the foil tops to get to the cream bit

Or on very cold mornings going out to find the cream had frozen and lifted the bottle top off.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

King's Crustacean

"My ma used to heat d water in d Twin Tub,n drag it over as near as she could to d bath ,n turn on d pump to fill d bath,we thought it was normal, lol "

Pre washing machine affordability - we had a huge boiler in the kitchen that was heated using gas.

Anything up for a boiling like sheets /towels were then put through the mangle.

All other washing was done in the sink and a few years later in a single electric tub washer with an electric roller on the top ........

Many a flattened finger in those days.

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

"Having to beat the birds to the milk bottles left by the milkman so they hadn't pierced the foil tops to get to the cream bit

Or on very cold mornings going out to find the cream had frozen and lifted the bottle top off.

...when we had actual winters

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Mobile shops, bring and buy sales.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

King's Crustacean

The ice cream man on his bike with a box of ice on the front.....

All they sold in those days were oblong slabs of ice cream for cornets... Cornets were not round they were oblong cos there was no whippy ice cream ......

'Hey mister can I 'ave some dry ice?'

He'd give us some and it would stick to your fingers n take your skin off if not careful.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

50p shops.

!/2 pennies, hated those pointless buggers

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"The ice cream man on his bike with a box of ice on the front.....

All they sold in those days were oblong slabs of ice cream for cornets... Cornets were not round they were oblong cos there was no whippy ice cream ......

'Hey mister can I 'ave some dry ice?'

He'd give us some and it would stick to your fingers n take your skin off if not careful. "

There was on on the Grand Union canal in Milton Keynes, just next to the iron trough Aqueduct.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

King's Crustacean

"Typewriters.

Speech marks above the number 2 and not the @ symbol. Some body swapped the good ols qwerty layout and never told anyone.

Cars with proper indicators, with orange lenses.

2/3/4 star petrol.

I have " above 2

Have you got an American key board ?

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I grew up in a fairly rural area. Our mobile shop was horse drawn.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A carburetor and only 4 gears.

Radio Atlantic.

Black & white telly.

Trimphones.

100 watt bulbs

Cassette recorders

Waiting a week or so to get every 24 or 36 photographs developed.

Renting a TV

Only having 3 TV channels

Paraffin heater to stop the outdoor toilet from freezing up

Being sophisticated if you ate prawn cocktail and drank Hirondel or Babycham.

"
Add to that, dial up internet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chokes on cars

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By *aleforfun22Man
over a year ago

Lancashire

Zx spectrum 48 k taking forever to load a game

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By *he love catsCouple
over a year ago

South Wales

5yr old cars full of rust. X

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

2 star or 4 star petrol

Changing your own spark plug gaps using that stupid tool

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Typewriters.

Speech marks above the number 2 and not the @ symbol. Some body swapped the good ols qwerty layout and never told anyone.

Cars with proper indicators, with orange lenses.

2/3/4 star petrol.

I have " above 2

Have you got an American key board ?"

I have about 4 of them from different makes, but even the UK ones are getting Yankified.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"When I was well known on here. "

Same here

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"!/2 pennies, hated those pointless buggers"

Me too, put them in a proper piggy bank, the sort you have to break to get the money out

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"!/2 pennies, hated those pointless buggers

Me too, put them in a proper piggy bank, the sort you have to break to get the money out

Didn't you learn the trick, about balancing the coins on a blunt knife blade?

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over a year ago

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"Me too, put them in a proper piggy bank, the sort you have to break to get the money out

Didn't you learn the trick, about balancing the coins on a blunt knife blade?"

No, I didn't want to see them again

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Having to get up to turn telly over and only having 3 channels to choose from

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By *ifornowCouple
over a year ago

Skegness

Thinking you were sophisticated if you brought a bottle of Blue Nun or Black Tower !!

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By *alty surpriseMan
over a year ago

Uttoxeter

Car aerials replaced with coat hangers ,pound notes,

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

Marathons and Opal fruits.

Meeting friends somewhere, just knowing they would be where they said they would be.

And not taking photos of everything we did

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Those horrible blue sticked fountain pens, with a short black cap absolute tosh: hated them more than any other moisture magnet,shirt staining leaky fountain pens ever.

Gimmee Parker rollerball and jotters anytime.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Having to get up to turn telly over and only having 3 channels to choose from

Eeeh! Fancy that, whatever next? Touch screen tellys?

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Tipping the bin men at Christmas, and the shouts and grunts when they came down your path to the house , lifted the metal bins onto their backs and shouted , “what you got in here fucking rocks! ‘

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

Being able to jump off a double decker bus before it had fully stopped

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

"Marathons and Opal fruits.

Meeting friends somewhere, just knowing they would be where they said they would be.

And not taking photos of everything we did

Meeting friends at huge festivals without mobile phones , how did we do it?

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"Marathons and Opal fruits.

Meeting friends somewhere, just knowing they would be where they said they would be.

And not taking photos of everything we did

Meeting friends at huge festivals without mobile phones , how did we do it? "

I know, homing instincts maybe?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Having to get up to turn telly over and only having 3 channels to choose from

Eeeh! Fancy that, whatever next? Touch screen tellys?"

Lol. I have a touch screen laptop that folds over to become a proper screen. I watch tv programs on that. I would love a holographic projector type tv and phone! Hope I said that correctly lol. I think seeing people pop out of the screen and my phone to talk with me, would be great! Star wars invented it so come on world

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Smash ... just add hot water instant potato mash

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Zx spectrum 48 k taking forever to load a game "

Did you never browse in W H Smiths, buy a mag with a program listing, type in the whole bloody listing only to find the magazine printers had forgotten to include some machine code?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Smash ... just add hot water instant potato mash

For mash get smash

Cue laughing from higher intelligentsia because we can't even make mashed potato

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anyone remember making Dutch Arrows. (that's what we called them). A bamboo cane, used beer mats as flights and they were thrown using a shoe lace

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

King's Crustacean

"Car aerials replaced with coat hangers ,pound notes,"

Oh the shame ! My radio aerial is a coathanger.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Anyone remember making Dutch Arrows. (that's what we called them). A bamboo cane, used beer mats as flights and they were thrown using a shoe lace

No.

But it's a cracking good idea!

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Scratchcard bus tickets. Merseyside and Tyne and Wear had them.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Other bus companies, before that rot called Stagecoach took over.

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

Making mixed tapes ...

...everyone was their own DJ

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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago

Paisley

When I started working people smoked at their desk

I remember people smoking in the cinema

Using the ch*ke when starting the car when it was cold

The days of knowing how to check my spark plugs

Nylons didn’t cost a fortune in the 80’s

You could buy a snakebite in a bar

Roadside AA phones

The penny sweetie tray now costs a fortune.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

It's Friday its 5 o clock and it's crackerjack

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"It's Friday its 5 o clock and it's crackerjack "

Were you truly wafted her from paradise?

Nah Luton Airport

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Half pennies

5p bus ticket.

18p portion of chips

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By *Booboo-Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"Half pennies

5p bus ticket.

18p portion of chips

Remember when the 5p was as big as the 10p and the 10 was twice as big?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Half pennies

5p bus ticket.

18p portion of chips

Remember when the 5p was as big as the 10p and the 10 was twice as big?"

And when 20p's came out they looked weird.

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By *Booboo-Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"Half pennies

5p bus ticket.

18p portion of chips

Remember when the 5p was as big as the 10p and the 10 was twice as big?

And when 20p's came out they looked weird.

Totally

...and then thinking that pound coins would never take off because we had pound notes.

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By *ymaleMan
over a year ago

nr Bradford

Nevermind the birds, actually having full fat milk with cream on top! I'd fight ostriches off for that again, let alone a few sparrows.

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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago

Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?)

"Nevermind the birds, actually having full fat milk with cream on top! I'd fight ostriches off for that again, let alone a few sparrows.

You can still get gold top!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Good remembering everyone.

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