FabSwingers.com forum: Things from yesteryear you remember well

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

everything is electronic these days and out of date the week after it comes out, so just for old times sake try and list 10 things you enjoyed and remember from the past

1) Raleigh grifter

2) Birds angel appeal (orange drink)

3) Star wars figures

4) Record players

5) Speak n spell

6) Real coal fire

7) Matchbox cars

8) Betamax videos

9) Chips from the chippy wrapped in newspaper

10) 70's porn movie music!

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

Gonna have to make it nuber 11 as one of my favourites

11) Tudor crisps

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

12 " vinyl singles

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

"Gonna have to make it nuber 11 as one of my favourites

11) Tudor crisps"

Gis a canny bag o Tudor!

Salt and Shake crisps

Texan Bars( a mans gotta chew)

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

"Gonna have to make it nuber 11 as one of my favourites

11) Tudor crisps

Gis a canny bag o Tudor!

Salt and Shake crisps

Texan Bars( a mans gotta chew)

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They still do the salt n shake crisps dont they?

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

Thought of 2 that would have been popular on here back then

1) polaroid camera

2) the discreet photo developing lab in the back pages of porn mags

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"Gonna have to make it nuber 11 as one of my favourites

11) Tudor crisps

Gis a canny bag o Tudor!

Salt and Shake crisps

Texan Bars( a mans gotta chew)

They still do the salt n shake crisps dont they?"

Yep

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

1. Spirograph

2. Etch a Sketch

3. Tressie

4. Casey Balls

5. Yo Yo's

6. American Skipping

7. Two balls

8. Clackers

9. Roller Skates

10.Chopper Bikes

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

Pods

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

Couple of TV series, used to like "the gentle touch" and also "We ll mmet again"

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

The "smash" adverts.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Sapphire and Steele

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

Sweeney

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By *ostcauseMan
over a year ago

dukinfield

getting a meet

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

1.Ice Cream Man with, a horse & cart.

2.Bread delivered by the bread man everyday.

3.Coal man going to every house in the street.

4.Coppers the really did know your dad.

5.Nieghbours that knew everyone else in the street.

6.Chip shop with salt & vinegar on the counter.

7.Pie shops that actually made their own pies.

8.White dog doooo.

9.Kids camping out in the back garden.

10. Taking a bowl to the chippy for puddings with gravy.

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

More (cigarettes)

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

The tomorrow people

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By *uncouple981Couple
over a year ago

ayrshire

I think I'm reliving my youth. We have put a coal fire in our house recently and the last few weeks I have been going to a roller disco with the kids. Great fun x

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

yeah old tv shows

super gran

cats eyes

million dollar man

dempsey and makepeace

bullseye

blankety blank

tiswas

portland bill

rainbow

terrahawks

manimal

the cosbys

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

Rubix cubes.

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

In some way... the time before mobiles took over.

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

sex

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

The pop man

Corona

Glass bottle refunds

Marathon bars

Jif

5 1/4 inch disks

C:\dir /w

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

"The tomorrow people"

Oh god I remember this programme!

It used to give me nightmares

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By *ady4ladyWoman
over a year ago

liverpool

Pete Dual and Ben Murphy, Alias Smith and Jones. swoooon

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

Fuel being less than 1£ per litre...

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

Tiger tokens

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

Green shield stamps.

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

"Fuel being less than 1£ per litre..."

Was less than £1 a gallon when I passed my test

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

twister

kerplunk

the purple people eater

crossfire

frustration

monopoly

game of life

top trumps

marbles

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

Fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.

Trio biscuit bars

Castrol gtx oil advert

Jiff

Chopper bikes

Records

Cassette players, anyone remember trying to record there favourite tune using one of these?

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

black and white piano key style tv with the test card on bbc most of the time

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Green Shield Stamps

Co op Dividend Numbers

Loose Tea

Lifebuoy Soap

Sunlight Soap

Star Drops

Flash Powder

Bacon being sliced

Canal boats

Ice Cream Man on a Bike with Dry Ice

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

playing space invaders...

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

Tape the TOP 40 on Sunday, shhhhhhhhhhhhhh cause you had to use a microphone in front of the radio.

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

Cassette players, anyone remember trying to record there favourite tune using one of these?

Yep the top 20 on a Sunday night. Used to sit there with your finger on the pause button, to try and miss the talking

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By *iver_iew1Couple
over a year ago

gourock

working in newquay in 1980 they had steam beer and festival vat cider miss it all

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

remember food with actual tasty stuff inside when we could eat without being told what was good for us by the do gooders

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By * pool 1Couple
over a year ago

Liverpool

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

Butlins red coats with the beaver club for kids

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

spitting image

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

whooping cough

polio

nits

no central heating

power cuts

Harold Wilson

the cold war

cod balls

kaolin and morphine

cod liver oil

max wall

nostalgia ain't what it used to be

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

neighbours that know your name

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

Tomorrow People was also one of my fav programs along with The Monkees, Love Boat, I dream of jeanie.

Now gonna go on You Tube and take a look lol.

I used to love Tudor Crisps especially Pickled Onion flavour

Gill

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

The bread man coming for payment on Friday, meaning we could have cake.

Clackers

Black and White tv

Outside Toilet

CB radio

Zip fire lighters

Alpine pop man

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

Cadbury's "Strudles" or "Stroodles"

Bits of apple covered in chocolate.

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol

crown court tv programme on my lunch break from first school then rush back to school as I was always late .. doh !!

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

The top 20 with Tom brown

Spangles

Picture discs

Red bus rovers

The mad Jaffa cake eater (there's orangey)

Humphrey's

Wooden tops

Starskey and hutch

The led zep top of the pops theme tune

Matchbox cars

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

you could sit in your seventies egg shaped chair, wearing your jump suit and white thigh boots smoking an embassey no6 while drinking from a glass bottle and watching an episode of some mothers do have em on you huge black and white tv while sitting next to the open coal fire, probably burning sea coal lol

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

Demon Headmaster (CHildrens' TV but I always found an excuse to sit with them and watch it

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

Some random stuff

Dempsey and Makepeace

Moonlighting

Walkmans with no rewind button

8 ball jackets

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

Fantasy Island

Boss, boss, the plane !

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

"Some random stuff

Dempsey and Makepeace

Moonlighting

Walkmans with no rewind button

8 ball jackets"

Could nt think of the name... Dempsey and Makepeace was a class act!!!

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

Wrestling on a Sunday with big daddy and giant haystacks :o)

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

"Fantasy Island

Boss, boss, the plane !"
Tattoo scared me.

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

Blakeys hammered in the heel of your lofa's

My lovely ford capri , not a ghia lol

sodastream , where everything just tasted fizzy no flavour

Summers !!!

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"Fantasy Island

Boss, boss, the plane !"

Ahhhhh Good Ole Tattoo

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

The pop man

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

Kit car and the Hulk

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

Outside loo

Hopscotch (occasionally chalked with white dog poo)

Tin bath

Mangles

Twin tub washers

Shag tobacco

Sobranie Cocktail & Black Russian cigs

Putting a tennis ball in the foot of a stocking and swinging it against the wall

Marsh's Sass from the pop man

Skipping rhymes

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

Cassette players, anyone remember trying to record there favourite tune using one of these?

Yep the top 20 on a Sunday night. Used to sit there with your finger on the pause button, to try and miss the talking

That would have been the late Tommy Vance .

The BBC radio was only medium wave then and only broadcast VHF for the top forty on a Sunday .

I was working in Denmark in 1985/6 and I , to my delight, found I could listen to the top forty when on VHF .

Down south in the early evening the BBC signal would fade and the French stations would bleed over .

God I must be old !!.

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

Public safety films where the specky fat kid always coped it, wether flying a kite near the power lines or playing near water.

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

Monkey

The Banana Splits

WDY

Willow the Wisp

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

Radio Caroline..............

Now I know I am old

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By *inxi62Woman
over a year ago

northwest

Whip and tops

God I feel old lol

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

Deputy Dawg

Vision On

Jackanory

Double Deckers

Why Don't You

Hey Look That's Me

How

Tom and Jerry

Yogi Bear

Hong Kong Phooey

Top Cat

Great Ape

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By *iver_iew1Couple
over a year ago

gourock

"Blakeys hammered in the heel of your lofa's

My lovely ford capri , not a ghia lol

sodastream , where everything just tasted fizzy no flavour

Summers !!!"
ford cortina 1600e was our joy

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By *r and mrs sanddancerCouple
over a year ago

BOLDON COLLIERY

"Fuel being less than 1£ per litre..."

i remember when it was 50p per gallon

but then i'm kin old

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

When I started drinking a pint of bitter was 50p and , if I felt flush, a pint of Mackesons was 99p .

I was earning £25 a week then, gave my mother £10 in keep and was well off .

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

"Blakeys hammered in the heel of your lofa's

My lovely ford capri , not a ghia lol

sodastream , where everything just tasted fizzy no flavour

Summers !!!ford cortina 1600e was our joy"

In brown with a black roof?

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

The pop man

Walkman

and having to run round to the neighbours with some change in exchange for a 50p for the electric meter lol

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

I had a saturday job in our Co op and used to go and get 10 No 6 fags for 12 1/2 pence when i got paid, it made me feel so grown up lol I was 14 !!!

I used to tape the top twenty from the radio on a sunday night and drove my parents mad lol

Gill

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

Rara skirts.

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

"Rara skirts.

Cavalry shirts

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

"Rara skirts.

Cavalry shirts"
neon boobtubes

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

Stingray

Joe 90

Captain Scarlet

Thunderbirds

Cigs @ half a crown for 10

4 black jacks or fruit salads for the old penny

Showing my age now lol

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

On white horses

Robinson Crusoe

The tomorrow people

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

clackers - probably now too dangerous

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

Izal

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

"Izal

ouchy

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

"Izal

Aghh , what was the point in that stuff ?.

We had it at school and it was like tracing paper with absorbency of a brick .

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

1. Global hypercolour t-shirts

2. La gear trainers with lights in the heel

3. Adidas popper joggers

4. Bmx's

5. Half penny sweets

6. Proper blackjack and fruit salads

7. Beano and dandy

8. Snakeboards

9. Kickmaster

10. Atari

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

Grange hill and roller blades but not together!!!

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

"Stingray

Joe 90

Captain Scarlet

Thunderbirds

Cigs @ half a crown for 10

4 black jacks or fruit salads for the old penny

Showing my age now lol"

They started smoking young back in the day

52 minus (2013 - 1971)..

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By *hris633Man
over a year ago

oldham

Clangers

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

Crests fizzy drinks....."it's frothy man!"

Smith's Crisps

Arrow bars

Commando comics

PG Tips cards

Bin men that actually carried your bin to the bin wagon!

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

proper seasons - definate winters and summers what happened to them

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

Tamla motown music pie&mash shops long life cans and draugt beer ice cream vans wimpy bar when chelsea had no money footbal specials the old pound note the summer of 1976 mini skirts news of the world as mary hopkins would say those were the days my friend oh and my hair

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

"yeah old tv shows

super gran

cats eyes

million dollar man

dempsey and makepeace

bullseye

blankety blank

tiswas

portland bill

rainbow

Don't forget Saturday swop shop

And shall we mention jim'll fix or not!!

terrahawks

manimal

the cosbys

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

"Crests fizzy drinks....."it's frothy man!"

Smith's Crisps

Arrow bars

Commando comics

PG Tips cards

Bin men that actually carried your bin to the bin wagon!"

Cresta

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

"Crests fizzy drinks....."it's frothy man!"

Smith's Crisps

Arrow bars

Commando comics

PG Tips cards

Bin men that actually carried your bin to the bin wagon!

Cresta"

I think you can still get cresta in some areas.

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

mint custard

imps

horlicks tablets

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

Refundable deposits on drinks bottles

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

"Refundable deposits on drinks bottles"

40p a for 2 pints of yellow lemon ade from Ben shaws round here and 10p back on the bottle.

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

Tonic suits

Jason king is department S

Warninks aadvokaat

Monkey boots

The national anthem when the telly finished

Alexis korner on radio 1

The persuaders

On the buses

Charlie cairoli

Harry worth

Monica Rowe

Hr puff'n'stuff with jack Wilde and witchypoo

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

Porn stars with pubic hair.

Porn mags - the local lanes and lorry stops used to be full of them.

35mm porn films that needed a projector.

(They were always German)

Old brick public toilets in out of the way lanes off High Streets that always had a group of men hanging about them.

The outrage when a TV show showed a bit of tit.

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

HAIRY GROWLERS. Rip. Gone but not forgotten

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

The excitement of queuing outside a record shop when one of your favourite bands realised a new album.

Pound notes, if you had a wad of ten you felt rich.

Hanging around in gangs.

Writing letters.

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

"Fuel being less than 1£ per litre...

Was less than £1 a gallon when I passed my test

Bloody hell, that makes me feel old. It was 48p a gallon when I got my 1st car

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

I've been beaten to most of the things, but what about hiding under the bedsheets with your trannie (radio LOL) with the radio Luxemburg signal drifting in and out. Sponsored by Valderma of course.

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

One of my memories from my childhood is going into our cornershop an buying a toffee crisp for 2 an a half pence lol, no idea why that's stayed with me

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By *etanreadyCouple
over a year ago

dover

space hoppers

stilt

pogo sticks

FS1E DX

hidding behind cushion watching doctor who

mister ben

magic roundabout

platform shoes

76 summer

village disco`s

youth clubs

first colour tv

No6 fags

space invaders

party 6

flying saucers

ford capri ghia

glam rock

world of sport

animal magic

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

"Stingray

Joe 90

Captain Scarlet

Thunderbirds

Cigs @ half a crown for 10

4 black jacks or fruit salads for the old penny

Showing my age now lol

They started smoking young back in the day

52 minus (2013 - 1971).. "

I know I was 10 the first time I bought a packet of cigs...remember being violently sick as a result lol

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

When women didn't have a clitorous and the G spot was a night club in town. They were the glory days. Simpler times awwww where have they gone x

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

The Birdseye beef burgers ads with the kid and his brother Ben

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

Anyone else remember The Flaxton Boys?

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By *pecifically1Woman
over a year ago

Hull

Cremola Foam...

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

Gold top milk.

Monster munch that were huge!

Proper fresh cream doughnuts brought from the mobile baker.

A sixpence.

Proper SUNNY summer holidays.

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

"Gold top milk.

Monster munch that were huge!

Proper fresh cream doughnuts brought from the mobile baker.

A sixpence.

Proper SUNNY summer holidays. "

Oh and R Whites lemonade adverts. 'I'm a secret lemonade drinker, R Whites, R Whites. lol

Black beauty.

The ice cream interval at the cinema.

Strawberry sherbet sweets with lots of sherbet inside.

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

Cream soda

mojo's

Lucky dip bags

Charlie says

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By *inky BunnyMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

My list of 10 things I enjoyed and remember from the past :

1 Britain as a sovereign state

2 Real UK borders

3 Imperial weights & measures

4 Proper regular fogs

5 Proper regular star-strewn night skies

6 Sharp dressers

7 Proper football grounds

8 Sealink ferries

9 No road markings at all in streets

10 No litter

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

No "no swimming or diving" signs along side every stream ,river or ditch .

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

Hilman minx not Minxie minx

Tri ang toys

Tanners

Golden wonder crisps for a tanner

Thrupenny bits

Half crowns

Tomfoolery on Sunday mornings

The big match on Sunday afternoon

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

Contact magazines with PO Box Numbers

Porn magazines in the undergrowth

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

Looking at some of these I think some of you may be telling wee porkies on your ages

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

Happy rummaging in scrap yards with no bloody Health and Safety .

Waiting for the TV to warm up and also watching the picture going to a dot when switched off.

Waking up with the high pitched tone on the TV as it had closed down whilst you slept .

The Morcombe and Wise Christmas special .

Being able to talk to kids without being under suspicion of being a paedophile .

Top trumps

Marbles

Lolly Gobble Choc Bombs (ice lolly)

Merlins Brew

Swiss Kit

Ice Breaker

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By *uncouple981Couple
over a year ago

ayrshire

I miss woolies.

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By *plpxp2Couple
over a year ago

Middlesbrough

"The tomorrow people

Oh god I remember this programme!

It used to give me nightmares

Keep it as a memory, a friend bought the box set and it isn't what you remember

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By *plpxp2Couple
over a year ago

Middlesbrough

"Contact magazines with PO Box Numbers

Meet today took 3 weeks, thank god for the tinternet

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By *ukus 62Woman
over a year ago

Essex

petrocelli

mind your language

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

" petrocelli

mind your language"

god yeah petrocelli do you think he has finished building that house yet lol ,

mind your language had many a private time watching the french woman lol

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By *ukus 62Woman
over a year ago

Essex

" petrocelli

mind your language

god yeah petrocelli do you think he has finished building that house yet lol ,

mind your language had many a private time watching the french woman lol

think there was once a campain from fans to each donate a brick for petrocelli's house

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

"Fuel being less than 1£ per litre...

i remember when it was 50p per gallon

but then i'm kin old

36 pence a GALLON for 4* when I started work!

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

"Fuel being less than 1£ per litre...

i remember when it was 50p per gallon

but then i'm kin old

36 pence a GALLON for 4* when I started work!

God yes, I forgot about star rating fuel .

My parents had an early Sherpa camper that ran on two star .

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By *UNCHBOXMan
over a year ago

folkestone

Ro-land from Grange Hill

I remember a kid at school having the surname Rowland and everyone would call him Ro-land like the girl in grange Hill used to.

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

Old Jamaica chocolate bars ! Loved em

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

Charlie red

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

"The tomorrow people"

thought I was the only one who rememberd them

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

Days when a quid could be made up of a set of three half crowns, three florins, two bob, five tanners, four thrupenny bits, eight coppers, half a dozen ha’pennies and four farthing.

When you got change out of a pound for 4 gallons of petrol, plus reams of Green Shield Stamps.

When there was no speed limit on main roads, but there were no motorways.

When Minis were real Minis, and could be made to go like stink!

When there were no Japanese motorcycles.

When kids dramas on tele (two channels, no colour!) included fabulous productions like “Stranger on the Shore” and “The Dark Island”.

When Crunchie bars were new and had lovely foil wrappers and twice as much chocolate as they do today.

When we met the horrors of the first instant foods like Vesta Savoury Rice....

When the latest “must have” toy was a new piece of stick....

When you could walk home from school safely....

When, if you did something wrong, and got caught, the local Bobby (PC Akerman!) just gave you a smack round the ears and you didn’t dare do it again!

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

"Old Jamaica chocolate bars ! Loved em "

Those were the ones with ginger in right? Can't you still get them?

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

"Old Jamaica chocolate bars ! Loved em

Those were the ones with ginger in right? Can't you still get them?"

Weren't they rum & raisin?

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

" petrocelli

mind your language

god yeah petrocelli do you think he has finished building that house yet lol ,

mind your language had many a private time watching the french woman lol

Francoise Pascal Mmmmmmm

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

I remember those days on the Butlitz escape committee ...............

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

fuzz buzz books

chip, biff and the girl???? books

flash gordon

through the dragons eye

round the twist....

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

A life without mobile phones...eeeek!

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

The tuffdy club.. (think that's what it was called) little squirel badges were given out when you joined lol

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

Tomorrow's world on a black and white TV with only three channels.

An TV meant television.

The Golly wog on Robertsons Jam jars, collecting the labels to get a golly wog badge/pin.

Playing marbles in the gutter.

Playing cards up against a wall, using cigeret cards of football players.

Going for a swim in a river.

Watering can rose on the end of a hose pipe over the washing line during the summer.

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...

The Midnight Mechanics.

I only vaguely remember them from when I was a little kid, but they used to turn up regularly at my great aunts house.

Anyone else remember what the were?

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

"The tuffdy club.. (think that's what it was called) little squirel badges were given out when you joined lol"

Yay ! The Tufty club .

I still have my badge

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By *xpresMan
over a year ago

Elland

Half pence coin

Smoking on busses

Cars with charecter

Wearing trainers when training not all the time

Donkey jackets

Only 3 tv channels

Police cuffing the ear of a young scamp

Teachers teaching without being sewed

My dad bringing home fish n chips on a friday night..

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

Wolves winning games

Bastards

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By *aughtywifeandhimCouple
over a year ago

bedford

Now you tell us,,thank feck for digital

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By *aughtywifeandhimCouple
over a year ago

bedford

Remotes attatched to tv ,if you had long arms would be quicker

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

Pong

Cars backfiring

French onion sellers on their bikes

We had a fruit and veg man who drove around in a Morris 1000 van

Top loading VCR's

Hand cranked pencil sharpeners

Watch out there's a Humphrey about

Milk has gotta lotta bottle

Party sevens

Every one is a fruit and nutcase

Nimble balloon

I'd like to teach the world to sing (coca cola)

It's chewy , no, it's crunchy ( double decker advert with Willy Rushton )

Splash it all over (Brut)

Hamlet adverts (Carlos Fandango etc)

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

Buying a can of top deck shandy for 25p

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over a year ago

"Fuel being less than 1£ per litre..."

I remember when it was just over £1 a gallon, oops showing my age now lpl

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over a year ago

"Fuel being less than 1£ per litre...

I remember when it was just over £1 a gallon, oops showing my age now lpl"

What on earth were you searching for to bring this thread back to light

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By *ficouldMan
over a year ago

a quandary, could you change my mind?

Wired remote for the video recorder.

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over a year ago

"Fuel being less than 1£ per litre...

I remember when it was just over £1 a gallon, oops showing my age now lpl

What on earth were you searching for to bring this thread back to light

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

"sex "

Lol

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

Pubes

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

talking properly

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

Musical talent

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

Getting 10p for a ginger bottle at the local shop

Single cigarettes for 5p x

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By *echnosonic_BrummieMan
over a year ago

Willenhall

'Proper' chips fried in lard.

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

Cornflakes and silver-top milk. With the cream from the top

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

"Fuel being less than 1£ per litre...

I remember when it was just over £1 a gallon, oops showing my age now lpl"

When I started w*rk I did a short time on the fuel pumps at a garage and it was 36 pence a gallon for 4*!

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By *etmelickyou40Man
over a year ago

kent

Number 9 I thinknow I'm to young for everything else

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

This thread?

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