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Bygone days ....

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Doesn't everyone love to reminisce now and then?

I remember gas lamps on the streets and even gas lamps in my grans house.
Electric light had been installed but the old gas lamps were still attached to her walls and she saw no reason to stop using them.
The gas lights in the streets would sometimes blow out in high winds and my dad would go out and strike a match and throw it at the lamp and whoosh ... huge fireball and the light would be lit again.
1960's would you believe!
 
It would appear there are still some lead balloons around ....
 
I still remember in the not too distant past smoking in aircraft ! Going to the pub and ordering a "light & lager", shoving 2p in phone box after hearing the "pips", the little white dot that stayed in the centre of your TV for ages after switching it off !
 
Hard to imagine now but the main beam switch in the car was on the floor.
Cold mornings the car wouldn't start without choking it and sometimes manually cranking it and at night a parking light had to be attached to the outside!
 
Remember smoking in the cinema ... all that smoke lit up in the flickering projector beam.
 
I remember smoking just about everywhere: buses, trains, cinemas and aircraft. - I also remember when there was no prior seat allotments on aircraft - it was every man for himself to plant himself on a seat - made for some wild shuffling and pushing when boarding!

annelise
 
dogs being allowed to roam the streets, no one seemed to walk dogs, they just let them out, unless im remembering wrong, that was estates, may have been different on streets


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The National Anthem being played at the end of the cinema film, when TV closed for the night, at pub throwing out time, at the end of other social occasions, when everyone stood up straight and sang.

The old 9" Bush TV sets, and if you were posh you had one in a cabinet, probably bought in 1953 for the Queen's coronation. Oh yes, and the coronation mugs given to every school child. I broke mine on the way home - walking with friends of course, no school runs in those days.
 
As a child of the 60s the closest I can get to your gas lamps are gas lamps in caravans. They always struck me as a dangerous thing, but then I was too scared to strike a match until I was well into my teens.
 
I remember the GMT +1 years -1968 -71 I had just started nursery and then the infants.. It was always dark going to school in the morning. It was like an adventure eating your Ready Brek then getting bundled into your duffel coat and sitting off to walk to school in the orange glow of the street lights.
 
mo1905 said:
I still remember in the not too distant past smoking in aircraft !
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Stopped in the mid 90s I think. Most airlines had smoking sections by row, but others (Iberia come to mind) had smoking on the left side of the aisle and non-smoking on the right

I can just about remember the last years of pea-souper fogs in London in the late 50s.

Free milk in schools (third-pint bottles delivered in time for morning break); shops before supermarkets (we had one of the early Safeways in SE London); banks with just counters, no screens; playing football and cricket in the street outside; leaving the house after breakfast (as a kid) and not returning until dusk, nobody was unduly concerned; the Corona delivery van; 2-bob Airfix plastic kits from Woolworths; foreign cars on the roads being 'unusual'; rag-and-bone men (with horse, like Steptoe); perfect memory ................
 
When you could only have a salad in summer ....
The electric light did away with night and refrigerated transport did away with the seasons.
 
Yay...the corona delivery van.....that's what started me off on fizzy drinks.....and diabetes.
And free plastic cowboys and Indians toys in the cornflakes packs
 
Ahh, The Corona Man !! We used to spend ages collecting R Whites bottles for 5p deposits, ( think it was 5p ). Those milk bottles in school still haunt me. They used to sit outside in the sun, they warm warm by the time we got them, and we HAD to finish them. Even now I struggle to drink milk lol ! I grew up in Bromley and I think we had one of the very first McDonalds in the country, they served root beer back then. My dad used to get those Watney's Party 7's ! About 6 of the 7 pints used to end up over the carpet lol !
 
I used to walk to school in those silent thick fogs in Manchester.
Shops! When a young person could consider opening a business of their own ... hardware shop ... shoe shop ... butchers ... not any more.
Staying out from dawn till dusk and not a bottle of water to hand!
I used to help the Corona man every Friday evening and got half a crown wages.
I used to deliver the milk on horse and cart from a small farm in Manchester surrounded by cotton mills ... the last one to survive the industrial revolution in that area ... gone now.
 
The first curry I ever had round at a posh kids house it was amazing!
It came out of a cardboard box and was called Vista.
His dad was an inspector on the busses and this kid says to me ... If you thought that was good you should try curry with bananas and sultanas in ... we had it round at a friends of my dads who's Indian .... yeah right sure you did!
 
Bread was delivered daily by a man in a little cubic van with double doors at the back. The whole thing was pulled by a horse. My brother was employed as "The Boy" on this van and sometimes he got permission for me to go for a ride. The smell of bread and horse seemed to be very natural and secure.

Looking back I wonder how I took it as so natural to ride around so close to a horse's **** but don't worry, my brother grew out of it.
 
2 star three star four star five star petrol.
Why so many kinds of petrol ... was it a con?
 
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zand said:
Yay...the corona delivery van.....that's what started me off on fizzy drinks.....and diabetes.
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I only really liked the Cream Soda!

mo1905 said:
My dad used to get those Watney's Party 7's ! About 6 of the 7 pints used to end up over the carpet lol !
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I daren't ask by which route Mo

Party 4s and Party 7s still de rigueur at uni in the 70s.

Hirondelle wine? Blue Nun ? Mateus Rose?

SPAM
 
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