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Old things we can't buy anymore
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Jacqui | Report | 27 Jul 2004 16:26 |
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Jim - youwant an apple that tastes like apples used to? where do you live, you can have some off my tree - they are scrummy - what did you use boracid for? Jacqui |
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Supergran | Report | 27 Jul 2004 17:18 |
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What about Liberty Bodices !! Anyone remember them! Brenda |
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Lynda ~ | Report | 27 Jul 2004 17:40 |
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What about liberty bodices and the RUBBER buttons, what was they all about? I think I can remember nearly everything everyone has mentioned. Nice to see you Jim C Octogenarian, bet you could tell us a thing or two!!! Gill I used to love aqua manda, thought it so sophisticated, wonder what I'd think of it now if I could smell it? Lynda |
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Sally | Report | 27 Jul 2004 17:48 |
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What about Indian brandee for an upset stomach, and dolly blue to keep your whites white, I'm not that old but I can remember my mum using it. I also remember a new setting lotion in the 60's called Dippitydo, made my hair as stiff as a board. Sally |
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Sprack | Report | 27 Jul 2004 18:34 |
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we used sugar water to spray our hair and put iodine on our cuts, it didnt half sting. jenny |
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Sue | Report | 27 Jul 2004 18:35 |
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Dorothy You can still buy Collis Browns liquid. I always have some in my cupboard, it's the only thing to cure upset stomachs fast. When I worked in a chemist shop in the 60s we had a customer who was addicted to it. He used to buy 6 bottles at a time! Mind you I think they might have changed the recipe now, it used to contain morphine and probably opium too. Sue |
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Nina | Report | 27 Jul 2004 18:46 |
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i remember californian poppy. i also remember my boyfriend asking was i wearing zoflora!!. i thought it was a good alternative to the very expensive opium perfume. such a shame for that one comment he was longer in the frame. |
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Jacqui | Report | 27 Jul 2004 19:55 |
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Dorothy - almost sure you can still get Kaolin and Morphine at the chmists (of course one asks for it rather softly, so that no one realises you have the trots, or are an addict!) Jacqui |
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David | Report | 27 Jul 2004 20:06 |
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What about that stuff we used to chew like wood and tasted like liquorish David |
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Geoff | Report | 27 Jul 2004 20:24 |
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You can still buy liquorice root. |
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Barbara | Report | 27 Jul 2004 20:42 |
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Did any of you try this for old fashioned sweets yet? http://www.aquarterof(.)co(.)uk/ It looks quite interesting although I haven't ordered anything from them yet Barbara |
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Annie | Report | 27 Jul 2004 21:02 |
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I've ordered stuff from www.a quarter of It was great fun! xxx ANNIE |
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Fairy | Report | 27 Jul 2004 21:35 |
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I used to have the 'I Spy Books' they were 6d each. (2 .1/2p today) When you completed it you could send it off to Big Chief someone, but I can't remember what you got for it now. Jo. |
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Sprack | Report | 27 Jul 2004 21:51 |
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cigarettes in diferent pastel shades, chocolate micki from the milkman, cremola foam |
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Debbie | Report | 27 Jul 2004 21:54 |
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SPANGLES there was always a packet of these sweets in my selection box at xmas |
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Debbie | Report | 27 Jul 2004 22:03 |
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11p for half a lager |
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sandra rogers | Report | 28 Jul 2004 21:54 |
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sports mixture 5 for a penny now in a bag for 55 p |
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Maureen | Report | 28 Jul 2004 21:58 |
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ARE YOU ON THE BEVVY SANDRA?? |
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sandra rogers | Report | 28 Jul 2004 22:27 |
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maureen yes and this is having a funny turn again haha |
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Bobtanian | Report | 28 Jul 2004 23:20 |
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A GALLON of petrol for less than a pound, nowadays we pay nearly that for a litre, a 454 % increase in price |
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