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What do you miss from the 'Olden Days'?

satindoll said:
I wish. in my mind I'm sill only a third of my age but...... the mirror doesn't lie :arghh::(o_O
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I think my mirror needs updating as it only shows old images now.
 
Robinredbreast said:
My favourite was the dog :)
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Yah i liked him too but my fave was Drooper he had a goofy laugh. :)

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Robinredbreast said:
Going into town in the early 1970's, especially at Christmas time, snow and frost too.;) Going to the small local chemist to buy some bath cubes in a pretty box for presents, also buying a perfumebottle that was in an outer black cat case, and you could take the top off( cats head).
Going to the Saturday morning pictures, buying sweets from the next door newsagents ( Nicioson's) queuing up with excitement, looking at the boys( looking at us) from other schools and feeling so grown up and independant. Couldn't wait to go back the next week after the thrilling installment of 'Flash Gordon' or something similar ( Rocket Man ?) because they always stopped it at the crucial time, over a cliff, or his power rocket stopped :eek: I wish I could go back sometimes.:happy: :joyful:
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Oh yes, how I loved going to the chemist shop! I used to get the Turtle Oil Soap, it came in pretty pastel colours. And Silivikrin Shampoo and Hint of a Tint in the little sachets to fix a botch bottle blonde hair colour!
 
poohtiggy said:
I remember Timothy Whites, we had one in the centre of Manchester and it stayed opened all day on Sundays so prescriptions could be collected if you had to get the doctor out over the weekend (your own doctor then) not a locum who didn't know the family. I still miss Spangles, the fruitiest sweets ever made, pink spearmint bars that used to last for ever and Trebor herbal tablets mmm. In the early 50's you could go to George Mason and get peanut butter loose on piece of greaseproof paper,that used to be my after lunch treat on my way back to school. Playing kick the can, ralivo and rounders in the street and making bogey carts out of old pram wheels and bits of wood. Today's technology, computer games and mobiles don't give kids of today a fraction of the fun we had then and all for free![/QUOT
poohtiggy said:
I remember Timothy Whites, we had one in the centre of Manchester and it stayed opened all day on Sundays so prescriptions could be collected if you had to get the doctor out over the weekend (your own doctor then) not a locum who didn't know the family. I still miss Spangles, the fruitiest sweets ever made, pink spearmint bars that used to last for ever and Trebor herbal tablets mmm. In the early 50's you could go to George Mason and get peanut butter loose on piece of greaseproof paper,that used to be my after lunch treat on my way back to school. Playing kick the can, ralivo and rounders in the street and making bogey carts out of old pram wheels and bits of wood. Today's technology, computer games and mobiles don't give kids of today a fraction of the fun we had then and all for free!
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I think we had to use our imagination more than kids do today
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Robinredbreast said:
I remember when we had a Timothy Whites in our then Market town, does anyone else remember this ?

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Of course! Well, not that exact one .. this is a bit off topic but for some reason it reminded me how I loved going to WH Smith or Boots after Christmas to spend my gift vouchers. A new record or a book, new felt tip pens or sketch pads ......
 
Black Jacks and fruit salad four for a penny.
 
millysue said:
And I am sure it never rained
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It bloody well did ... every other Sunday in the summer when we went on our picnic to the New Forest with our cousins. We ended up sitting in the car eating soggy tomato sandwiches, homemade cake and orange squash from a flask. Ehh ... they were the days!
 
Jumping on and off buses whilst they were still moving and not a frown or a tut in around as it was considered perfectly normal.
 
JACKTHELAD said:
I wonder where the yellow went
when I brushed my teeth with Pepsident.
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The Esso Sign Means Happy Motoring ....Sorry Mate You're Too Late, the Best Peas Went to Farrows! I sometimes launch into a sing song of TV ads from my childhood .... I think one day my husband might have me committed!
 
satindoll said:
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Or maybe banana split toffee They used to make a mint one and a chocolate one too
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Cor .. Yum! We have English sweet shops here and they have the Walkers toffees but no banana split. Have to make do with the Treacle or Walnut. Well ... used to :-(
 
Lesleywo said:
The Esso Sign Means Happy Motoring ....Sorry Mate You're Too Late, the Best Peas Went to Farrows! I sometimes launch into a sing song of TV ads from my childhood .... I think one day my husband might have me committed!
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Crazy how that stuff sticks in your head innit!
 
Bubble gum machines outside the sweet shops with cheap plastic gifts if you were lucky. I got engaged to a boy with a ring out of one of those machines. We were 10 I think.

Mum had a small notebook in which she wrote out her weekly order of groceries, dropped it off at the corner shop to be delivered the next day. The fish man came every Friday with his fresh fish in his van, green groceries came by cart (hand pulled), the pop man of course, dog meat man in a van (raw meat), coal man, rag and bone man and his horse, milk man, and others.
 
JACKTHELAD said:
Crazy how that stuff sticks in your head innit!
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I know ... what about that ad for the Cadbury Chocolate Finger biscuits .. the kids counting them and the little brother saying to his older brother "I wish I was as clever as you Brian .. I do, I really do". Or the Milky Bar Kid ... mmmm love Milky Bars!
 
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