General Chat

Stan - 1/-?????

You're so lucky!!!! I got 6d and bought a comic, a bar of chocolate and another sweetie, with it!!!!

Aw!!! Hayley!!! I still convert!!!!

A packet of Chocolate Digestives was 2/6 at decimalisation. Now they're £1.55!!!!

Isn't it strange, we can all visualise 18ins but not 45cms !

I remember nearly all of these things and I'm only 44 - but feeling ancient reading this!!

What about:

Saturday morning pictures
Champion the Wonder Horse
Skippy
Bill & Ben
The Woodentops
White knee length socks with flowers up the side
Sheets, blankets & eiderdowns - being tucked up so tight that you couldn't move in bed
Snuggling up in front of the fire and cooking toast or toasting marshmallows
bread and dripping for Sunday tea
Frying food in lard!
Eating food only when it was in season
When the only frozen foods you could buy were peas, fishfingers, lollies and icecream (remember raspberry ripple and neopolitan blocks)

Wonderful days.

AL

Thats Just reminded me of when the price of Potatoes would go up in the spring and down in the winter....these days the price just goes up....has been like that for many a year now.

Susan
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But I do still use yards feet and inches...and lbs...

my 1st week wage was £48.00....I was loaded....

Old aunt meg´s huge black leaded range, with 2 ovens, plus bread oven, iron hooks hanging from top by chains to attach pans to cook over open fire. Iron bars on hinges which dropped down over the fire to cook or griddle things on, a special drop bar for the kettle (always on) and even one for the flat iron in the shape of an iron. It would be worth a fortune nowadays!

Awesome thread. I remember most of these, and I'm almost 25. I love things like this, get you feeling nostalgic!

I'm going to go to sleep now and have nice dreams about 'way back when...'
!

Laura

I remember Torchy, Marion...hated it lol


Susan
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playing records 45's and leaving the arm so they went on and on...till your mother went beserk...lol

Have enjoyed all your memories ! The other day I was in the Docs waiting room and picked up a magazine dated Dec 2007. The dietary advice to lose weight for xmas was to eat the way people did in the 1950's!!

Kaz (not around in the 50's to comment)

when we lived in west ham..just after the war........a trip to southend was an outing to remember, we'd pile into the car.........drive for about an hour stop at the roadside,....for whatever..........LOL, a pot of tea on the go and then continue the trip...........lol it was only about 30 miles FGS and we had to stop for a toilet break!!!!! LOL
Bob

Annuvver trip woz to 'oppin' three or four fammlies in the back of a lorry goin darn to yaldin' in kent, darn seven marl lane...........get there to the farm and sort out yer 'ut, n get the fire on the go.............ah!! memries.........moanin' abart the bloke doin the mesurin' takin the bushels 'eavy an all that.........us kids goin scrumpin, and the old'ns.spendin the evenin's in the Bull........every village had a pub called the BULL!!

Bob

Oh I can remember lots of those things, what about Strawberry Mivvi icecreams lol
Tying a rope to a lamppost to play skipping games and only having to stop once for someone to drive by, only a few people in the street had cars.
Going fruit picking at the age of 12, several miles on my bike with my sarnies and a bottle of squash, bean picking too.
Mum frying chips in lard and wrapping in twists of newspaper for all the neighbour's kids I was playing with, or she would make toffee or coconut ice, and yes for Sunday tea,
we had salmon sandwiches then fruit and evaporated milk, or just the fruit and milk with bread and marg. Mum was good at baking so we always had cakes and buns etc, or coconut pyramids, made with condensed milk? and coconut, some cochineal so pink, and some left white!
Happy days, we were satisfied with so little.
We had metal framed windows in the council house I was brought up, they would be frozen with ice in winter, and coats on our bed so the bedclothes weighed a ton! The house was brand new when we moved in - I was 2 and a bit and had a baby brother. The floor was concrete covered with red tile paint and it had to be done with Cardinal red polish. Dad made rag rugs for the floor.
Used to have a wooden frame in the living room, the only room with heat from an open fire, and dad would put the frame on lots of newspapers with a stone hot water bottle in the corner with an old cardi round it, and baby chicks from the market would huddle in the cardi at night, and peeppeep all day,eating chopped up boiled eggs, till they grew big enough to go outside in the chicken run. Then the big pot would be on the fire cooking pototo peelings for the hens, they used to stink and would always boil over with a hiss.
I can smell them now ugh!
Lizx

oh and having to wait for the butler to make sure your PJs were the right temperature before helping you into them

Having kaolin poltices back and front because of
bad chest,always red hot !!

leaving work in Manchester at 3 not arriving home
till 8 at night because of the fog,

I remember all the other things (very old)
lovely memories

LOL. I was telling my husband about our old tv when I was a kid, last night!! I was born in 1976, not that long ago, but our tv was from the dark ages. We'd switch it on and say 'Mum, the tv's not working!' 3 mins later it'd flicker to life. I wouldnt bring any friends home as I was too embarrassed!

Don't forget Radio Luxemburg and having to twiddle about with the dial to keep reception.

Followed later by Radio Caroline.

Wow what a nostalgic trip this has produced!

I remember tinned fruit with evaporated milk for sunday tea, and we were posh if we sliced a banana on it lol

How many kids can go down to the local stream or river with a jam jar and catch sticklebacks or minnows these days?

Or find a secret den in the bushes?

Lovely thread, thank you TW:-) My first wages was £2, Hayley!! lol