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What do you miss from the 'Olden Days'?

Dibbles1 said:
Mmmm that's a hard one.
Well I do miss those little hooks for doing up the buttons on my gloves.
I also miss not having to vote, it's so hard to use my pretty little head working out who to vote for.
Oh and not being allowed to own property, it was so much easier when only men were allowed to vote and own property.
All that paperwork, having to read and deal with people! Exhausting.
I miss being helped down from the carriage and those delightful Dalmation dogs that used to run underneath.
I miss the oil lamps and those lovely little candle snuffers.
Oh, and marcasite jewellery.
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And no maid :p
 
Robinredbreast said:
Another favourite of mine with Brinsley Ford and the little girl, tiger ?? hope I've got that right. I used to love Follyfoot farm, the guy was dreamy and the girl was just too pretty:cool: and Black beauty as well :)
Does anyone remember a foreign childrens programme with a surly, demanding, high maintenance girl who was put in this place with a singing ringing tree and a dwarf type person. Was it called 'The Singing ringing tree?' Nordic perhaps, this is all from memory and not from Googling.
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There was a tv programme I can recall about , horses , white horses , something like that , anyone know ...
Yes I now recall the singing ringing tree ....:happy:
 
Spencer67 said:
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That's you that is. :happy:
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I've got a mini one of these that fits on the end of my pen, my granddaughter wants it but being a meanie grandma I won't part with.
 
satindoll said:
Been there done that, watch out for the science experiments lurking under the bed in mugs and on plates, and the rain forest of tissues laying about.
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Ha Ha, Yes i'd forgotten about those delights. Tissues in boys bedrooms should definitely be handled with care though :oops::eek:
 
And talking of telephones, I miss tel numbers being only four numbers in total. I can remember our first phone no. was 7125 and we had to say it in a pseudo posh voice every time somebody called :)
 
Janiept said:
And talking of telephones, I miss tel numbers being only four numbers in total. I can remember our first phone no. was 7125 and we had to say it in a pseudo posh voice every time somebody called :)
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2468, Our first phone number when we go married, 44 years ago.
 
I miss the times when old people, the disabled and pregnant women were safe to walk our streets.

Worried sick about the World my grandsons will grow up in.
 
millysue said:
2468, Our first phone number when we go married, 44 years ago.
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My mum and dad's number was, 23026 :) My first proper job when I left school was with the GPO, I was a telephonist
" Number please" "Directory enquires, which town please ?" and sometimes we would be on the emergency terminus, 999" "Emergency, which service do you require"? I was just 16 then and so excited with my job, we had to sign the Secrets Act :wideyed: also it was all free too :D
 
millysue said:
I don't think todays children have the same freedom we had. They may have more material things, but I think we happier.
Dens in the woods, and playing in the corn fields, paddling in the stream. Getting so muddy, and it cost zero
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Yes & one day they will find out that material mean nothing, they break & can be taken away, we own nothing in this life but our life it's self, yet so many are now wasting it instead of living it.

I miss ice skating, roller skating, stilts use to walk miles on them, water skiing off blackrock sands north wales, aged 16, youth club dancing to Tiger feet lol & meat & taddy pie & chips with curry sauce, Oooo how I miss that. School. Training as a manufacturing jeweller to take on dads business one day, sadly he decided to get out for personal reasons & took on a mini market White rock Paignton so we moved from the midlands, probably the mistake he mad for us all, it,s never been the same. Might seem a great place to visit but living here sucks.
 
Robinredbreast said:
My mum and dad's number was, 23026 :) My first proper job when I left school was with the GPO, I was a telephonist
" Number please" "Directory enquires, which town please ?" and sometimes we would be on the emergency terminus, 999" "Emergency, which service do you require"? I was just 16 then and so excited with my job, we had to sign the Secrets Act :wideyed: also it was all free too :D
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I was only telling my son the other week, that back in 1970 you had to book an international phone call.
 
Robinredbreast said:
My mum and dad's number was, 23026 :) My first proper job when I left school was with the GPO, I was a telephonist
" Number please" "Directory enquires, which town please ?" and sometimes we would be on the emergency terminus, 999" "Emergency, which service do you require"? I was just 16 then and so excited with my job, we had to sign the Secrets Act :wideyed: also it was all free too :D
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I was with the GPO when I left school at 15, "International services, continental calls, how may I help you?" What a mouthful!
I hated the strictness, the awful supervisors, timed when you went to the loo and punished if you took too long, punished for being more than 4 minutes late in the morning, I lasted 8 months and walked out one lunchtime and never went back! Met my first husband there though, he was an engineer.
 
rowan said:
I remember when there were just 2 tv channels, BBC and ITV with only one tele in the house and everyone had to watch what Mum and Dad wanted to watch. No videos of course.
Now we have an endless choice of channels, catch up, +1 hour, series link, instant & timer recording etc and teles in every room, so there's no risk of ever missing anything. Shame there's so few unmissable programmes on now though ;)
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I know ... we have cable and free to air TV totalling over 100 channels .. yet 9 times out of 10 there's nothing worth watching. Mainly only watch the UK TV so I can see Corrie and Eastenders, Casualty and the like. What I don't get is we pay about $120 per month for this priviledge because there were no ads. on .... now there are ads on and we still have to pay! :mad:
 
poohtiggy said:
Oh violets, that just reminded me of the tiny little sweets you could buy called Palma Violets from the chemist we always had a pack to freshen breath, especially if we had an eye on a certain someone, they tasted like perfume
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You can still get them, I bought some last year, Parma Violets :)
 
I keep reminiscing about the 1970's as a teenager, but today when at my dad's, this came flooding back and I loved him so much back in the 1960's and I had the badge, :joyful:

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Janiept said:
And talking of telephones, I miss tel numbers being only four numbers in total. I can remember our first phone no. was 7125 and we had to say it in a pseudo posh voice every time somebody called :)
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My husbands cousin lives in outer London and she still answers her phone with "9282" which was her 4 digit phone number and now the last 4 digits.
 
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