Reminisce

I believe there are a few members here who are a little past their teens Would anyone like to post a few things that bring back memories...of course I can't remember these...I just remember my great grandad talking of them

sweets like

spangles, blackjacks, fruit salad, midget jems, palma violets, lucky bags, sweet tobacco, bazooka joe, potato puff crisps

coal house, outhouse, proper dustbin men that picked your metal bin full of coal ashes up over their shoulder from halfway down your back yard

watch with mother, noel gordons lunchbox, ford anglias, phones you stuck your finger in and dialled,

any more? ...........

 

sweet tobacco!potato puffs(around 1960)!!yummmm!

shrimps,4 for a penny,refreshers,sherbert dips,jamboree bags,imps?All from the little post office that sold paraffin.

[ 26. September 2005, 06:07 PM: Message edited by: Paladin ]

 

But why was Bob always whispering Nathan

 

Horlicks tablets, Victory V tablets, liquorice chewing wood, balaclavas

 

Making toast in front of the fire, it always tasted better that way.

 

roasting onions in the fire grate at grannies
then dipping them into vinegar.

 

Beer at 1 shilling and 4 pence, real beer not this keg muck, almost tt now any wonder.

 

Did you wear suspender belt and miniskirt at the same time Fran? photo if possible.

 

OMG.Yes please Fran...purely for old times sake..of course :rolleyes:

 

Corona fizzy drink in bottle with a strange top that flipped off and just hung there on a wire!
The shrimp man that came round on a bike with a box on front. You took your bowl to him and bought shrimps by the pint for tea!

 

Real ginger beer in dark brown, nobbly bottles with a funny nipped neck and a crown topper.
Woodman that brought logs for the fire round on his horse and cart and being allowed to 'drive' it when I was only seven!

 

glass syringes!

 

please - stop me someone!

 

could you tell stork from butter