From my younger days I remember .............................................

[dark_castle1]

1d caramels that were huge, 1d to use some toilets, putting money into a public phone and pressing A if connected or B to get your money back , syrup of figs , kaolin & morphine for upset tummies and one CB brought to mind, camphorated oil.

So what sort of things do you remember ?

[carolyorkie2010]

Penny arrows; Frother bars; Blackjacks and Fruit Salads, 4 for a penny; 3d Lucky Bags; a big bar of Galaxy was 6d; Derbac soap if you got nits! Indian Brandy for Colic. There'll be many more that I'm sure will jog my memory when others reply. Whip 'n' toys as toys. And most of all, happy, uncomplicated days before health and safety went mad.

[dark_castle1]

carol, yes days when children went out to play, climbed trees, got dirty and skinned knees. Yes happy days and missed.

[merc1_clocks]

A penny dainty, which could last all day...sooked , put in pocket, sooked & so on.

Taking the glass battery out of the wireless, & going to the corner shop to have it charged, & picking up 10 Woodbine for Grandpa...hence the penny dainty reward.

Every Monday morning, the washouses out the back, with the women nattering & gossiping...& so steamy.

Helping the women put the sheets through the mangle...another penny dainty reward.

Bringing in the metal bath tub, putting it in front of the range ( on which a kettle was always boiling )...the littlest got the bath last !

Best of all, the sing-songs round the piano

No H&S...gord knows how some of us survived...we would make rafts & launch ourselves into the loch ( Lomond )

My parents, myself & 2 brothers, & my grandparents all lived together in a one-bedroom terrace...the happiest days of my life...& I had no idea that we were so poor

[dark_castle1]

Looks like we were in the same boat merc ! We were that poor I think the church mice used to bring us stuff .

Another thing I remember is looking forward to weddings in the mining village we lived in so us wains could hopefully get a couple of pennies at the scramble.

[ilove2patch]

I remember all those Corgi mentioned in the OP except Camphorated Oil. What was that? 

Walnut Whips had a nut on top & inside, Twiglets were only available at Christmas & bags of crisps were full of crisps! 

[fishpieface]

Wow Merc, what nice memories.  It shows that if you have love and carefreeness it rises above material things anytime.

I remember going in Sainsbury's (which was then a little high street store) and buying a jelly then eating the squares

on the way to school - we loved them, especially blackcurrant ones!

Like others, being around before 'elf & safety and political correctness.  We were careful but carefree, we larked about, ran about and made dens over the fields, dammed the stream and played in an old car that was abandoned there.  We messed about in the stream, ran around in the pouring rain, I was outside whenever I could be.  Yet I was never ill.

But I loved the seaside (still do) and whenever we went I'd swim and play in the sea for hours, beachcomb and make stuff with the lovely shells I found.

[ilove2patch]

My three cousins & I were sent to Grans for the summer on Canvey Island. We ran wild exploring stranded boats & derelict buildings. This was just after the 1953 floods so plenty of things to explore. All a bit Enid Blyton! lol None of us came to any harm thank goodness. I remember that Grandad drove a bus on the island.

[captainbovine]

camphorated oil you use to rub on your chest if you had a cough or cold, it had a fantastic smell (from the wood..camphor) it really worked.

goose grease on  your chest then a piece of brown paper slapped on, then your pj's and to bed...eeuurrgkkk they used to do that to ME...

penny arrow bars. golden nuggets..bits of chewy in a wee bag.

going to the Co-Op to get the messages and remembering to give the "divy number" for your dividend. Anyone remember the tea you bought in a packet and you got a stamp to put on a card so you could save them to buy tea towels etc? oooh the stamps were orange but I can't remember the name of the flippin' tea this has nothing to do with this thread at all but I just wanted to post it.....how sweet is he? Rescue...that's your fault talking about church mice heeeeeee hee

[dark_castle1]

CB, was that not Liptons tea that had orange stamps you saved ?

[dark_castle1]

Oh and Green shield stamps

[ilove2patch]

That looks like a rat eating a baby rabbit!

[chickengrandma-2008]

I don't remember many things before I was 10 because there was nothing much to remember. I remember none of us ate our Christmas dinner one year after my dad let slip it wasn't chicken or turkey, it was our pet rabbit. I didn't miss toys, magazines, holidays, fields and streams because they didn't exist, we didn't know about them.
When I was 10 my mum and dad had the opportunity to rent a corner shop, that's when I first knew about toffee and chocolate and fizzy pop. Even then it was in a slum area where people used to come in and buy one cigarette, half a pound of sugar, 1/4lb margarine and one slice of spam! Those were the days!!!

[the-ginger-ninja]

blackjacks and fruit salads 🙂 

Walking to school regardless of the weather, outside toilets and unheated swimming pool with unheated changing rooms there. 

Getting a smacked bottom from the headmaster for talking in the dinner queue, friends getting the cane.

Playing cricket in the street, moving the wicket to let the odd car through. 

Keeping hens in the back garden, council housing estate, fresh veg from the garden or allotment complete with wildlife.

[rhubarbcity]

Popping tar bubbles on the road, on a warm summers day, blackberrying and mushrooming in the fields, raking cockles on the shore, my den was in an old hen hut, in the front paddock, we used to light a fire outside it and boil water for a brew, i once put a solid silver tea pot on instead of the kettle and came back and the handle had melted, swings hanging from the rafters in my cousins barn, they where very high.

There was a little shop in the village and the post office also sold those Dean books, but the Co op van came round on a wednesday and saturday, occaisionally it would drive up  to our house, oh the excitment

[ilove2patch]

Going out for hours on my bike around the country lanes that is now Thorpe Park!

[rsjlew]

Oh I loved camphorated oil, don't think you can get it now

I hated vapour rub, made me feel cold but the oil always seemed warming and soothing. Tiger balm is the closest I've found to it, but it stains if you're not careful!

Proper gripe water was great too, until they removed the alcohol from it

[duck_a_lorange]

Milk of magnesia in the blue bottle.

Summers without hay-fever (funny how I had to move to London to get hayfever...)

The smell of tar, exhaust from the ice-cream van and my strawberry lolly.

The smell of cut grass. (Hardly any of that now - too many gardens covered in graveyard chippings).

Family days out to the allotment to dig up potatoes for the winter, Dad burning the haulms and the largest potatoes baked in the ashes.

My Granny's garden - she grew everything.

[izzy*eckerslike]

Walking home from primary school with my best friend. Calling at my house and asking my Mum for threepence to go to the shop. Calling at my friend's house so she could do the same. Going to the shop and getting three penn'orth of sweets each and then sharing them in the park. Long summer holidays playing out all day and only going home when you were either hungry or wanted the loo! Playing in the street on a sunday afternoon when all the parents would join in. We would play cricket or rounders or someone would fetch the washing line from the garden and we would skip. Hardly any cars on the road so we could play games there. Mothers would 'cant' (gossip) on the front wall. Mum sending me to the shop on a Saturday evening with 10 bob to get sweets and pop. Chocolate bars were 6d each apart from Milk Tray which was 7d. Bottle of pop would be a shilling!  Looking back I think they were the good old days!

[rose2008-2008]

I was just going to post MILK OF MAGNESIA but i see someones beaten me to it!! ha ha . It can still make me shudder when i think of it i used to hate that Blue Bottle. I used to have Zubes for a bad throat.

I remember baking hot summers, tar melting, the smell of creasote my dad used to put on the fences. getting our first colour television and our first phone. I could not wait to race home from school and phone my friend who was waiting expectantly for my call. Top Of The Pops on a Thursday i think. Bruces Generation Game on a Saturday?. Our old coal fire and when the sweep used to come to clear it out, going outside to see the brush sticking out of the chimney ha ha ha. Being cold in the bedroom and mum warming my school clothes on the clothes horse downstairs in front of the fire so i could dress down there!!. Spam for tea which i loved and Ravioli (which i know you can still buy). Artic Roll.. Birds Eye Mousses in the little round plastic cups, Cabana bars, Texans, Spangles. Ohhh dear. memories.