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What do you miss from the 'Olden Days'?

Bluetit1802 said:
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.
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I was so terrified of the coalman I used to run down the back garden and hide ... must have been his black face!
 
Workers playtime on the radio!
Bruce Forsyth .... oh wait ....
 
satindoll said:
Music While You Work, Billy Cotton Band Show, Round the Horn, Navy Lark, and many more long gone but not forgotten
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WAKEY WAAAAAKEEEY !

The Black & White Minstrels, The Clitheroe Kid,

and TV Bill and Ben, Andy Pandy, Sooty, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, then a bit later Bilko and later still M.A.S.H.
 
The very first TV programme I watched was our Queen's Coronation, which I bet was the same for many of us old enough. We saw it at my Nana's house with a load of other people. In the ginnel at the back of the terrace of houses the neighbours erected loads of trestle tables and chairs, all decorated with Union Jacks and red, white and blue buntings and balloons. It was a Jacob's Join, and all the kids from the neighbourhood were invited. I still have a photo of it, with me sitting there scoffing. Not long after we got our own TV set. A 9" Bush in a cabinet.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
The very first TV programme I watched was our Queen's Coronation, which I bet was the same for many of us old enough. We saw it at my Nana's house with a load of other people. In the ginnel at the back of the terrace of houses the neighbours erected loads of trestle tables and chairs, all decorated with Union Jacks and red, white and blue buntings and balloons. It was a Jacob's Join, and all the kids from the neighbourhood were invited. I still have a photo of it, with me sitting there scoffing. Not long after we got our own TV set. A 9" Bush in a cabinet.
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Was that the one you had to get a huge magnifying glass on a frame to put in front of the screen, We had one of those and you had to turn it on to warm up and the service closed down at 10pm, they had real people to introduce the programs with their plum in the gob voices. AAAAhhhh yes I remember it well
 
With the National Anthem playing at the end, and then nothing but the test card until the following afternoon for Watch with Mother. And only BBC.
 
Very first thing I saw on the telly was Popeye.
 
Peter Noone and the Hermans Hermits;

Making paper chains at Christmas;

Simple car engines;

My dungarees.
 
satindoll said:
Music While You Work, Billy Cotton Band Show, Round the Horn, Navy Lark, and many more long gone but not forgotten
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I got tapes from the library a couple of years ago of the Navy Lark, it was funny, I was ironing, well trying too, I absolutely loved it, such great times :D
 
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