FabSwingers.com forum: things you don't see nowadays

By *oma OP Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Kids playing footie on the street.

Old men hobbling on the built up shoe

White dog shit

OMO washing powder

A Rediffusion Telly

Fish n Chips wrapped in newspaper

Glass milk bottles

Chopper bikes

Metal dustbins

Anymore?

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley

Kids playing Whip and Top or Hulahoop

Shop delivery bikes

Knitted swimwear that your Mum knitted.

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

Rickets

Honest politicians

Iron lungs

Gas lamp lighters

Good interest rates

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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Kids playing Whip and Top or Hulahoop

Shop delivery bikes

Knitted swimwear that your Mum knitted.

Never had the pleasure of knitted swimwear. . . Had jumpers knitted with one arm slightly longer than the other though.

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

smoky chimneys.

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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Pay rises

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

"Kids playing footie on the street.

Too much traffic these days as there's more cars on the road!

Old men hobbling on the built up shoe

More advanced surgical techniques/more discreet footwear?

White dog shit

Largely caused by dogs eating fresh uncooked bones from the local butchers. There's less butchers now due to the number of supermarkets - hence less white dog shit!

OMO washing powder

Do they still make it?

A Rediffusion Telly

No longer exists. At the end of the 1980s the company was broken up, The rentals business went to Granada, and the cable network systems were sold to the Maxwell Communications.

Fish n Chips wrapped in newspaper

Wrapping fish and chips in newspaper fell foul of health and safety watchdogs in the 1980s

Glass milk bottles

Entirely an environmental thing! The proportion of milk put into glass bottles has fallen from just under 95pc in 1975 to under 4pc in 2012.

Chopper bikes

No longer made - but worth a lot if you've got one in good nick!

Metal dustbins

You can still buy them - but the council will only empty their own - so bugger all point!

Sorry - lunch break was dull.

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

Spira's, why did cadburys stop making them? WHY!?

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

I thought they'd stopped making fruit polos, but my sister found a triple pack and gave me them for Xmas

Do you still get happy feet ice cream lollies?

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

Just fruits pastilles and gum. Much better than rowntrees

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

"Spira's, why did cadburys stop making them? WHY!?"

as they are alot like twirls

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

cottaging in public toilets

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

Dodos

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By *onkers 76Man
over a year ago

pontypool

Rolf Harris

Freddie Starr

Max Clifford

Stuart hall

Where did they all go ?

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

"Spira's, why did cadburys stop making them? WHY!?

as they are alot like twirls "

A twirl is like a flake covered in chocloate, you can't suck nothing through a twirl. I could drink hot chocolate through a spira like a straw, very different to a twirl.

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

Mr loves Frys Orange Cream bars, but they've been discontinued. Having trouble getting them now

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

"Rolf Harris

Freddie Starr

Max Clifford

Stuart hall

Where did they all go ? "

Lmao xx

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

Men wearing top hats

Women wearing bonnets

Men smoking a pipe

Women's petticoats

Suspenders for men's socks

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

Cheap houses

Cheap petrol

Honest politicians

The police

Empty post offices on monday mornings

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

"Cheap houses

Cheap petrol

Honest politicians

The police

Empty post offices on monday mornings

When we're there ever honest politicians?

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By *bony in IvoryCouple
over a year ago

Black&White Utopia

Coal bunkers and horse drawn rag n bone men

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

My brother has a Chopper bike in good condition. It's his pride and joy. When we were children he got my hand me down one. You don't see many hedgehogs nowadays

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

Dinosaurs.

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

Manual hand drills,my dad always had one and used it even when he got an electric one for Christmas

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

They still play footy I'm my street the same with kerb ball.

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

Shell suits

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

"Dinosaurs."

I like your thinking

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

This cheese grater thing my nan had. You put the cheese inside, turned the handle and this wheel thing grated the cheese!

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By *om8420Man
over a year ago

Sunderland

Spangles

Lucky Bags

Kids playing hopscotch

Dogging

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

"Rolf Harris

Freddie Starr

Max Clifford

Stuart hall

Where did they all go ? "

They're just inside, do you want to see them?

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

SPG vans

People being interrogated under suss laws.

People falling downstairs in custody.

Blaggers in boiler suits escaping from bank jobs in transits

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

"smoky chimneys."

We still have a few of these round where I live!

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

"smoky chimneys.

We still have a few of these round where I live! "

Can you bottle the smell for me please

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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Cheap houses

Cheap petrol

Honest politicians

The police

Empty post offices on monday mornings

When we're there ever honest politicians?"

The words Honest and Politician are a contradiction in terms

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

Saturday night Discos in village halls and churches

Telephone boxes all over town

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

"Cheap houses

Cheap petrol

Honest politicians

The police

Empty post offices on monday mornings

When we're there ever honest politicians?

The words Honest and Politician are a contradiction in terms "

See Dennis Skinner.

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

People playing Curby

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

I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk

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

"People playing Curby"

My aon and his friends play that sometimes!

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

I've written a poem of a 100 lines long called the 1970's

It's on another website

I've no idea how to copy and paste it into here

It's currently entered into a national poetry competition

Help anyone?

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

Anyone remember the Corona or Alpine man?

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

"Anyone remember the Corona or Alpine man?"

Yes I was an alpine man/boy lol

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

"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk"

Coffee and chicory syrup

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

"Saturday night Discos in village halls and churches

Telephone boxes all over town

Youth club discos on a friday evening - usually in church halls - they were great! Anyone else remember these? Xx

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Type writers

Dog shit is no longer white beacuse a lot of it is that dry healthy dog food stuff, bakers complete or whatever

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

"I've written a poem of a 100 lines long called the 1970's

It's on another website

I've no idea how to copy and paste it into here

It's currently entered into a national poetry competition

Help anyone? "

Wow that's brill!! Go you!! Look forward to reading it ifyou can get it on here!

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

"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk

Coffee and chicory syrup"

Horrible stuff looked like gravy browning didn't it lol

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

"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk

Coffee and chicory syrup

Horrible stuff looked like gravy browning didn't it lol"

Tasted somewhat similar

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

Natural, or neatly trimmed pubes.

So much nicer than clean-shaven, more hygienic too.

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By *octor DeleriumMan
over a year ago

Wellingborough

"Shell suits "

Still very popular in Doncaster.

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By *abes in the woodWoman
over a year ago

wales

Spanners dont see any more

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

"I've written a poem of a 100 lines long called the 1970's

It's on another website

I've no idea how to copy and paste it into here

It's currently entered into a national poetry competition

Help anyone?

Wow that's brill!! Go you!! Look forward to reading it ifyou can get it on here!

My friends typed it up

I'll get this on Friday

I'll pop it on here then xx

You'll love it.. Promise

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

"Rolf Harris

Freddie Starr

Max Clifford

Stuart hall

Where did they all go ? "

Haha

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By *issmorganWoman
over a year ago

Calderdale innit

Pop men delivering to you

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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago

Catthorpe

Marathon chocolate bars, they're snickers now, since 1990.

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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Pop men delivering to you"

Oh yes, good one. Used to be the highlight of many a kids week.

Cream soda would have been my choice then.

far too sweet for me now

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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Green/cream Smeg fridges and matching single tub washing machines with the electric mangle on top.

My old gran had these

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By *utumnWoman
over a year ago

leeds

Copper boilers, all our washing done in one when we were little then rinsed and mangled!

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

"Rolf Harris

Freddie Starr

Max Clifford

Stuart hall

Where did they all go ? "

Freddie Starr wasn't charged with anything

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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Saturday lunchtime on TV . . World of Sport (with Dickie Davis) and Grandstand On BBC 1

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

Crimewatch with Shaw Taylor

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

Don't see many down to earth nice women on here any more ,there all stuck up and snotty haha

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

"This cheese grater thing my nan had. You put the cheese inside, turned the handle and this wheel thing grated the cheese! "

My nan still has hers. Bright orange, best chees greater invented as you don't loose your finger tips doing it.

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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Ever tried explaining the role of a clippy on a bus to your child? She said "why didn't the driver take your money?"

She couldn't get her head around the fact the driver was sat locked in his own little cab on the double deck busses.

She still doesn't get it

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

A washboard and Mangle and typewriter

Although I have all three

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

Witch trials and dunking!

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

"Witch trials and dunking! "

Hang on this is cumbria .. We still have them!

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

Integrity

Respect

Consideration

Tolerance

Oh cynical me

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

The guy going.... And that concludes tonight's programme listing, broadcasts will restart at 8am.... Tiny little white square, high pitch whistle

And homemade bikes made from a hundred different parts salvaged from the local tip

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

Rag and bone men

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

Decent stuff on TV

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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Witch trials and dunking!

Hang on this is cumbria .. We still have them!"

That's one reason I moved from Cumbria . . . Where men are men . And sheep are on vallium

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

Cold snowy winters.

And hot sunny summers...

Or springy er springs

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

"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk"

You can still get it. I have some in the fridge

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

The original cheese flavour pringles

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

"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk

You can still get it. I have some in the fridge"

Omg can you ? And your crazy enough to drink it or do you collect bottles

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By *bony in IvoryCouple
over a year ago

Black&White Utopia

Green shield stamps!

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

Tax discs

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

"Green shield stamps!

Good call we used to collect them lol

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By *lactontogMan
over a year ago

Clacton on Sea

Marathons, Jublies, Scooby Doo's, Conkers, Esso Blue, Jamboree Bags, Spangles...and lots more lol!

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

Pantries with a cold shelf.

Flat irons.

Back ovens.

Outside loos.

Porcelain potties under the bed (a guzunder).

Wooden draining boards.

Games of jacks.

Coal holes.

Real lino.

Black and white television with a tuning dial.

Rotary dial telephones in red phone boxes.

Buses with an open platform at the back.

Bus conductors with a ticket machine slung round their neck.

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

"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk

You can still get it. I have some in the fridge

Omg can you ? And your crazy enough to drink it or do you collect bottles

I like it now and then as I don't drink tea or coffee. So I have a cup sometimes with a drop of baileys in it lol have to have milk in it though.

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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Embassy coupons.

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

You don't see an old man eating a twix

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

Heelys, used to love going to asda with them on lol

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

"Mr loves Frys Orange Cream bars, but they've been discontinued. Having trouble getting them now

B "

My 4 yo loves the mint ones. We get mint and orange ones from b&m bargains.

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

"Spira's, why did cadburys stop making them? WHY!?"

There's a shop in Glasgow sells them, under the canopy at Central Station/ Argyll street. Only place I've ever seen with them. I love the crack of a Spira. Great chocolate.

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral

"Pay rises "

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By *tevepicmanMan
over a year ago

South Wales

Yes, even TV aeriels are disappearing

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

Chocolate bars used to be bigger for a start, and cheaper!

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

Rickets

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

I used to like going in the newsagents for a 10p mix!

Or I'd fill up my bag with sweets take it to the counter and say "20p's" worth in there, and they would take your word for it.

Now they empty everything out and count! Buggers!

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

Rag and bone man on his horse and cart.

Milkman delivering milk bottles to your door.

Tin bath in front of the fire on a Sunday night.

Journey into space on the radio.

Street gas lamps.

Copper boiler for boiling the water.

Good old mangle.

Twin tub washing machine.

Push along carpet sweeper.

Is that enough so far........

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"I used to like going in the newsagents for a 10p mix!

Or I'd fill up my bag with sweets take it to the counter and say "20p's" worth in there, and they would take your word for it.

Now they empty everything out and count! Buggers!

I'm older than you, a 10p mix bag would last half the weekend when my Uncle John or my Dad used to take us round the Offie on the way home from Gran's house

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Prisoners with balls and chains, especially when escaped from jail.

Local phone call rates.

Cellnet, One2One etc.

TV aerials on top of the TV.

Woolworths

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

TDK C90

Scotch E180

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"TDK C90

Scotch E180

And fhe requirement to have a pencil,if you were listening to tapes that would get chewed up by your cassette recorder

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

I remember teaching a class a couple of years ago (primary school) and I got out a VHS to show them a programme...they were all like "what's that?"

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

Smallpox

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By *uby0000Woman
over a year ago

hertfordshire

"Pop men delivering to you"

10p back on emptys

DODOs not seen one in ages lol

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By *exywheelsCouple
over a year ago

inverness

Dot matrix printers (except at work wear we still have some in daily use)

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

"The guy going.... And that concludes tonight's programme listing, broadcasts will restart at 8am.... Tiny little white square, high pitch whistle

And homemade bikes made from a hundred different parts salvaged from the local tip

Go carts made from pram wheels and bits of wood!

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

"This cheese grater thing my nan had. You put the cheese inside, turned the handle and this wheel thing grated the cheese! "

Thats a mouli grater u can still get them

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

Ripped up porn mags stuffed in hedges

lol

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By *inkyboots84Woman
over a year ago

east yorkshire

"Spira's, why did cadburys stop making them? WHY!?

as they are alot like twirls

A twirl is like a flake covered in chocloate, you can't suck nothing through a twirl. I could drink hot chocolate through a spira like a straw, very different to a twirl. "

I miss them 2

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

"The guy going.... And that concludes tonight's programme listing, broadcasts will restart at 8am.... Tiny little white square, high pitch whistle

And homemade bikes made from a hundred different parts salvaged from the local tip

Go carts made from pram wheels and bits of wood!

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ya beat me to it! I remember the axles had to be square to bolt them on properly!

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

Short pants on boys.

Home made mittens connected by a string and put through the sleeves.

String vests.

Blankets and eiderdowns.

Dolly pegs.

Wooden props for propping up the washing.

Hopscotch chalked on the pavement.

A bag of scratchings from the chippy.

Shops which used the old fashioned scales with the brass weights.

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk

You can still get it. I have some in the fridge

Omg can you ? And your crazy enough to drink it or do you collect bottles

We used it mixed with baby oil a while back for a shoot...needed something that looked like old engine oil but wouldn't stink to high heaven and would wash off skin easily!

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By *ifornowCouple
over a year ago

East Lincs

TV detection vans !

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By *inkxRabbitWoman
over a year ago

Mostly in GU24

You're all showing your age lol

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

Heavy duty steel cigarette machines bolted onto walls in the high streets.

Police tit head helmets.

Playground slides with a wooden hut on top, so high and long it was worth having a go.

Seesaws and the dreaded ping over the handle bars and batter ya back when ya big brother doughnuts ya lol

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By *uninlondon69Man
over a year ago

Tower Bridge South

"Pop men delivering to you

10p back on emptys

I don't understand why we don't still do this. As kids it got us all keen to recycle instead of throwing plastic bottles into the bin.

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By *bony in IvoryCouple
over a year ago

Black&White Utopia

£1 notes...

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

"Pop men delivering to you

10p back on emptys

I don't understand why we don't still do this. As kids it got us all keen to recycle instead of throwing plastic bottles into the bin. "

Because you put your recycling in the recycle bin.

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

"Pop men delivering to you"

We have one of them!

"OMO"

Ah the box of 'old man out' on the window of married quarters inviting 'visits'! LoL

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By *aro7Man
over a year ago

wickford

Pebble mill at 1

25 aside football down the park

Power cuts

2 star petrol

Lord Anthony trousers

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By *aro7Man
over a year ago

wickford

I still have a milkman, glass bottles as well,,,,,,,solidarity brother.

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

Tiswas

Space Dust

Fifth-formers on Yamaha FS1-Es

'Yorkshire Rider' buses (or orange and white SelNec ones when I lived in Manchester)

kids in Harringtons, tartan 'lumber jackets' with fleecy collars, or navy-blue 'snorkel' parkas

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By *aro7Man
over a year ago

wickford

I still all three of them coats now, from my local army and navy,,,,,,,lol

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By *aro7Man
over a year ago

wickford

Kids bunking off school to ride motorbikes

Illuminous fluffy socks

Kids walking home from school smoking

A town without CCTV cameras

Dads cleaning spark plugs on a Sunday afternoon

Tarmac driveways with white fleck

Kids doing wheelies down the road seeing how many squares they could do

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

used to get a lift home from junior school some days on my mate's dad's flat-bed truck - a load of us kids would sit on the back, legs dangling over the side, while he cruised down the main road... you don't see that any more, it's health and safety gone mad I tell you!

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

"People playing Curby

My aon and his friends play that sometimes!

xx"

My boys love that game

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

"Manual hand drills,my dad always had one and used it even when he got an electric one for Christmas "

Its called a brace & bit. I've got my dads!

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

"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk"

You can still buy it. Why?? Nobody knows.

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

"Anyone remember the Corona or Alpine man?"

All the neighbours in our street seemed to have corona deliveries. We made do with vimto cordial. But er were 'appy!

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

"Spira's, why did cadburys stop making them? WHY!?

as they are alot like twirls

A twirl is like a flake covered in chocloate, you can't suck nothing through a twirl. I could drink hot chocolate through a spira like a straw, very different to a twirl. "

this i used to drink my milk with a spira twirls arnt the same

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

"Spanners dont see any more"

How do you undo YOUR nuts then?

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

"Marathons, Jublies, Scooby Doo's, Conkers, Esso Blue, Jamboree Bags, Spangles...and lots more lol!"

You can still get jublies. Not as big as they were....or is it just because my hands are bigger than when I was 11?

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

"Rag and bone man on his horse and cart.

Milkman delivering milk bottles to your door.

Tin bath in front of the fire on a Sunday night.

Journey into space on the radio.

Street gas lamps.

Copper boiler for boiling the water.

Good old mangle.

Twin tub washing machine.

Push along carpet sweeper.

Is that enough so far........"

I've got a uebank carpet sweeper. They still sell them. Probably only at Arkwright's "open all hours" shop though.

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

"Smallpox"

I'll see your smallpox with TB, and raise you....cholera!

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

"Short pants on boys.

Home made mittens connected by a string and put through the sleeves.

String vests.

Blankets and eiderdowns.

Dolly pegs.

Wooden props for propping up the washing.

Hopscotch chalked on the pavement.

A bag of scratchings from the chippy.

Shops which used the old fashioned scales with the brass weights."

Still get dolly pegs, my mum used a wooden clothes prop, a maiden and my mother in law has an " up and over overhead indoor airer", my chippy always has scraps.

Pea wet, scraps and gravy..that's a cheap meal!

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

Knitted loo roll dolly covers

Knitted Hot Water bottle covers

Knitted Tea cosies

Knitted draught excluders

PS I knit and sell them all

Don't all stampede lol

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

Wooden stoves

Bell bottoms

Tea made on the stove

Records

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

"Wooden stoves

Bell bottoms

Tea made on the stove

Records"

A wooden stove? Wouldn't it burn to the ground???

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"Short pants on boys.

Home made mittens connected by a string and put through the sleeves.

String vests.

Blankets and eiderdowns.

Dolly pegs.

Wooden props for propping up the washing.

Hopscotch chalked on the pavement.

A bag of scratchings from the chippy.

Shops which used the old fashioned scales with the brass weights.

Still get dolly pegs, my mum used a wooden clothes prop, a maiden and my mother in law has an " up and over overhead indoor airer", my chippy always has scraps.

Pea wet, scraps and gravy..that's a cheap meal!"

Yeah, some of these some people may still have and use but they are more and more rare. I also used dolly pegs, clothes prop, wooden maiden and a ceiling mounted one lowered by rope. But that was 30 years ago.

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

That ceiling mounted one? That's an up and over overhead indoor airer !

You can still buy them! You have to know where to look................up

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By *oconut2Woman
over a year ago

Nether regions of the back of beyond

"Rolf Harris

Freddie Starr

Max Clifford

Stuart hall

Where did they all go ? "

Jail ??

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By *lttattoocoupleCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

Affordable housing

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

Just an erratum message. They DO still make chopper bikes....but they aren't the same. Halfords sell them. De railieur gears and a bog standard saddle.

I had one as a kid. 2 seater saddle and 3 stick shift gears!

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

"Rolf Harris

Freddie Starr

Max Clifford

Stuart hall

Where did they all go ?

Jail ??

not Freddie Starr..... take care there. He is doing a UK tour in April!!

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By *oconut2Woman
over a year ago

Nether regions of the back of beyond

"Rag and bone man on his horse and cart.

Milkman delivering milk bottles to your door.

Tin bath in front of the fire on a Sunday night.

Journey into space on the radio.

Street gas lamps.

Copper boiler for boiling the water.

Good old mangle.

Twin tub washing machine.

Push along carpet sweeper.

Is that enough so far........"

Still have milkmen delivering bottles here, saw a brand new twin tub in a shop in town and the same shop sells the carpet sweepers too lol

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

My mate buying a round

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By *icked weaselCouple
over a year ago

Near Edinburgh..

"My mate buying a round

Was there Anyone in the Pub..

Probably not..

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden

"Anyone remember the Corona or Alpine man?

Yes I was an alpine man/boy lol"

I did an Alpine round as well, back in 1976/77. No bloody power steering on the old Bedford TK!

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

Cod liver oil uggggg, genson violet for your warts or ring worm let every one at school know what you've got the nit nurse, the cane "ouch" castor oil,green blocks of soap,I could go on for ages but it's so depressing " the good old days" one word crap

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By *amslam1000Man
over a year ago

willenhall

"Coal bunkers and horse drawn rag n bone men

still a few rag n bone men on pony pulled carts round here

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By *amslam1000Man
over a year ago

willenhall

"Green shield stamps!

Good call we used to collect them lol"

Morphed into argos

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

people rushing out with a shovel scooping the horse shit up for there rose bushes (

)

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

Headmaster's caning the kids

Damn shame I say lol

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

"Headmaster's caning the kids

Damn shame I say lol "

lol

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

"Kids playing footie on the street.

Too much traffic these days as there's more cars on the road!

Old men hobbling on the built up shoe

More advanced surgical techniques/more discreet footwear?

White dog shit

Largely caused by dogs eating fresh uncooked bones from the local butchers. There's less butchers now due to the number of supermarkets - hence less white dog shit!

OMO washing powder

Do they still make it?

A Rediffusion Telly

No longer exists. At the end of the 1980s the company was broken up, The rentals business went to Granada, and the cable network systems were sold to the Maxwell Communications.

Fish n Chips wrapped in newspaper

Wrapping fish and chips in newspaper fell foul of health and safety watchdogs in the 1980s

Glass milk bottles

Entirely an environmental thing! The proportion of milk put into glass bottles has fallen from just under 95pc in 1975 to under 4pc in 2012.

Chopper bikes

No longer made - but worth a lot if you've got one in good nick!

Metal dustbins

You can still buy them - but the council will only empty their own - so bugger all point!

Sorry - lunch break was dull.

During the war married women used to leave a box of OMO washing powder on the window cill as a sign to there bit on the side that her husband was away

i.e Old Man Overseas

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"My mate buying a round

Was there Anyone in the Pub..

Probably not..

Oh yes, there were plenty there, and I have witnesses

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

Cheque books

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

The lady selling ice cream and drinks during the adverts at the pictures (it wasn't called the cinema back then)

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

Shake n Vac.

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

Steam trains .... Hang on , one just chuffed past

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By *hechairman18Man
over a year ago

Salford Quays , Manchester

The District Nurse AKA Nitty Nora the bug explorer, on her push bike, before Nurse Gladys Emnanual, got her car

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By *its_n_piecesCouple
over a year ago

a free festival at stonehenge which goes on for the entire month of june

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

Many independent stores on the high street.

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

"Wooden stoves

Bell bottoms

Tea made on the stove

Records

A wooden stove? Wouldn't it burn to the ground???

Yes,,,,,you should see the state of my chocolate teapot lol

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

"Just an erratum message. They DO still make chopper bikes....but they aren't the same. Halfords sell them. De railieur gears and a bog standard saddle.

I had one as a kid. 2 seater saddle and 3 stick shift gears!"

ah yes, the chopper stick-shift - or bollock-catcher, as they were otherwise known...

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

Dutch charrow

Knock down ginger

Had

Trip ups , kiss chase , kurby

Home made go karts

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Two stroke motorcycles, like the lunatic RG500.

Texan bars, what happened to them.

Manners, that seems to have gone.

community spirit, that seems to have disappeared in places.

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By *MaleMan
over a year ago

....many feet on the ground happy inside people free of issues

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