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Jackie, What a lot you remember. Also wallpaper that you had to cut the edges off to just leave the patterned bit. Tony, Angora jumpers, that brought back a memory, my boyfriend's parents went to the pictures and we were sat at his house, with the lights off. When his parents came home, they switched the light on and he was covered in angora hairs, lol Saspirella, There used to be a tiny shop on Central Drive, Blackpool. they had ceramic barrels of saspirella etc. there was a bench that sat about 4 or 5 people and we used to meet in there drinking this lovely home made saspirella. Every Sunday afternoon, the 'done thing' in Blackpool was to to go to the Savoy for coffee then the Tatler cafe and then Dodinos on the prom, We all thought we were the bees knees, all dressed up to kill! Peter Dudley in Perth,Oz remembers this too. June xx

Milk delivered by horse and cart. You used to take your jug out to him and he would ladle it out of a big churn for you by the Quart. The milk was so good in those days. Liqourice Root. Toasting Forks Rag and Bone Man Ice cream Man on a bicycle with Hokey Pokey Penny a lump. Horse Manure you picked up of the road for your garden. Paper Aeroplanes. Cucumber cut in to slices and soaked in Vinegar. There was always a smell of it at my Grandma's in her Cellar head as we called it. Was a set of shelves which served as a pantry as you went down to the Coal Cellar. It was the coolest place in the house. Saspirella in big stone jars. The jars also served as bed warmers instead of Hot water bottles. Teets that didnt screw on baby bottles you had to pull them on. Spilt milk many a time when it was a new one lol. Dandelion and Burdock and Tizer. Only had it on Sunday lunch time with the big Roast Dinner. ( was our special treat for the week) Props to hold the washing line up. Indelable Ink Pencils Does anyone remember them. If you chewed them they made your tongue go Blue and tasted foul. Anyone ever play CONKERS ( Horse Chestuts) Collecting Cigarette cards Gypsies that used to come to your door selling pegs. Gas Meters that you put shillings in and every so often a man would come and empty it and you would get a rebate. He would tell you off if he found a washer in there. Wooden Knitting needles. Wool on a hank that you had to wind. Took 2 people one to hold the other to wind. Thank you for this thread it is most interesting and get's your old mind a thinkiing lol. I can't beleive I remembered all of those things. Certainly keeps your mind active. Regards Jackie Have a nice day folks.

Gwyneth in Kent. Aaaahhh....Pink Angora jumpers and Pony tailed hair. I remember a time at the Saturday afternoon 'flicks' ( Pictures ). Roy Rogers was playing.......or it may have been Hop-a -long Cassidy.....I was sitting in the back row with 4 mates, and remembered 3 girls sitting two rows down, on there own. I jumped the seats and sat next to the one in the Pink Angora jumper...( can still smell the perfume woffting off her....lol) She offered me a chewing gum ( Juicy fruit ) The 3 of them were giggling ( we were all about 12/13 years of age. ) I did eventually get her phone number......and 9 years later i married her......lol Tony Oz

hiya maggie and swissmaid lol . a double diamond works wonders works wonders works wonders pmsllllllllll and cherry b cherry b thats the drink for me. till i threw up and thought i have busted a blood vesael ahhhhhhhhhhh . those were tha days my friend thought they would never end. sadly they did, lets keep this thread going x

Oohh Sandra, I remember Pony - horrendous hangovers etc. Barley wine and Babycham.......then I became old enough to drink lol!! The lads used to drink 'Double Diamond' (well it allegedly worked wonders) lol maggie

hiya all. thanks to you all adding we have all gone back. i think a lot of us are in our 50s. i remember on sundays evening . listening to the black and white minstralls on the radio before me and my boyfriend( GOD I AM SHOWING MY AGE) went to church, we had to go evry sunday so we could get wed in the church cos we lived out of the parish . we came out of church and went to the pub across the road. for a pint of mild and a pony (the little drink with a big kick) lol x

Jackie - The prams were called Silver Cross and were very posh !!

Fibre glass curtains Park drive cigaretts Coalmen / Rag & bone men School milk Greenshield stamps

Oh and Ink and spit balls that you fired with an elastic band in the classroom see how many you could make hit the ceiling. Not that I ever did it of course lol. Navy Blue Knickers for sport God how I hated them. Gym Slips yuk Having to walk about two miles to the swimming baths in the freezing cold for school swimming lessons. Those lovely big Baby prams Silver???? I forgot what they call them now its been so long. Walking to school and having to dig our way out of the snow to get there. Banging the front door , then an avalanche of snow falls off roof and smothers you in snow. Selection Boxes at Christmas And the ever popuar Annuals like Beano and Dandy Singing around the piano with my Dad he had a great voice. Snogging under the midden when I was about 12 lol Mum and dad didn't know lol This is a lovely thread been reminiscing all night. Off to bed now goodnight all Regards Jackie

I remember Amami. Wasn't there an advert 'Friday night is Amami night' What about Dreen... The shampoo of the stars. Remember sharing a tin of Gibbs toothpaste? ....A little round tin of solid pink paste, which you all rubbed your toothbrush on.

flouresant socks...green and pink back in the eightiesxxxx(:

Crikey... Billy Cotton Band show-used to listen to that sunday lunchtimes and Forces favourites! I loved watching Mr Ed the talking horse and saturday teatime 4 it would be wrestling and then the Clitheroe kid-remember him Jimmy Clitheroe Can anyone remember Amami setting lotion ?Aqua manda perfume-I loved it then bet it stinks now lol Oh happy days :)) Diane:))

Bread and dripping Salmon and Shrimp Paste yuk how I hated it. My mums Cornish Pasties My mum's Yorkshire Puddings. Going what we called CHUMPING for Bonfire night went and collected whatever we could get to burn on a big Bonfire. Fireworks, Toffee Apples, Roasted Spuds and Mushy Peas. Scraps on your Fish and Chips from the Chip Shop Dick Barton Special Agent on the radio The Goon Show ' Going to the Saturday Matinee 3d to go in and 3d to spend Some of the movies that were on. Darango Kid Johnny Mack Brown Tarzan Flash Gordon Three Stooges Roy Rogers and Trigger The list goes on lol Regards Jackie

Hot Hot Summer hols, plimsolls, shorts and Aertex shirts, leather Satchells . Bread toasted in front of the fire and eaten with salt and dripping!! Bread pudden' with lots of sultanas. Great big Libraries where you didn't have to prove your 'reading age'!!! and long tables with 'Arthur Mees' encyclopedias, National Geographics and childrens newspapers. Going to the cinema in a mixed gang and singing our way down the High Street. Saturday night hops and walking 5 miles home in the early hours. We had fun and some heartaches too. Jane

Beano, Dandy, Whizzer & Chips, Beezer and Topper comics. Chopper bikes. Vinegar dripping out of the bottom of your bag o' chips with scraps. Bringing frogspawn home. Elastic twist, whipping tops, hide & seek, treasure hunts, apple raiding, progging for bonfire night, getting up to no good on mischief night. Bay City Rollers. Sledging until you couldn't feel your feet they were that cold. Those were the days...... Debby

Does anyone remember thosed awful swimming costumes we kids used to wear - all made by using sheering elastic in a quare pattern so it clung to you regardless of your size. A cause of great giggles amongst us kids when we stripped them off to find outselves covered in square marks where the elastic had clung to us ? I do believe our enterprising mums actually made most of them on their sewing machines with a nylon type material. Still they were an improvement on their predecessors - the navy blue woollen job which when wet reached down to your knees !!!

Tony Oh yes Angora. I had a pink bolero for parties. It's a wonder we weren't all sneezing because of the moulting fur. I also had a hat,- handknitted and made of similar wool. It only fitted on the back of my head and was a sort of half-hat with a metal Alice band threaded through the front hem. Finished with a fetching tassle at the back, I was 'it'.

Trying to tune in to crackly old Radio Luxembourg - bit different to the digitised music today! A dozen or so mates congregating at mine to have egg and chips cooked by my Dad while we got ready to go to the local dance hall (Ironing my mates hair under brown paper to get it straight!) We never stopped laughing! Those were the days! Jo

1950s.Rockers, Black leather Jacket, Red shirt, White studded belt, Black pants,( tight as ) White socks,Pointy toed high heeled boots, Bryl-creamed slick back hair, Widgies - Bodgies, 1948 FX Holden, Drive-inn movies, Cracker night, Beach parties, Pony tails,Angora jumpers,Pleated skirts,Bobby socks, 45RPM Record night's, and.........Spin the bottle ( my favourite )....lol Tony Oz :>))