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]

Oh, I loved Cabana bars. I remember when we got Jack Frost on the INSIDE of the windows! And when it was windy, the lino would lift in the kitchen. Anyone remember how boxes of chocolates were so pretty? People bought them for the picture on the front rather than the contents; usually a puppy, kitten or thatched cottage. My favourite choc's were "Weekend."

[ilove2patch]

Milk of Magnesia is still in a blue bottle but it's plastic! 

[wilsonhepple]

I grew up in Northumberland in the 1950's...my Father was a coal-miner, and yes, we were deprived of many things, but we didn't know it..

I recall the outside toilets, referred to as 'netties'..and neighbours keeping raceing pigeon's in Coop's out back behind the rows of stone houses. 

Like many families with young bairns, we were issued a free supply of Rose Hip Syrup, Orange Juice, and Cod Liver Oil on a regular basis, however, my memories of doses of Scott's Emulsion defy description...

We played outside every chance we could get, constantly on the go, from dawn til dusk, especially on the week-ends...and I don't recall one fat kid in the whole neighbourhood.

We were poor back then, yet, we were happy, and we made the most of it.

We were a close-knit family, and that's what kept us going.

[bitsnknots]

I remember Caramac chocolate bars.  Aztec bars which were similar to Mars Bars.  Black and Green's loose tea as there were no tea bags.  Glo-White which was used to make clothes really bright when they were washed.  I remember running errands for my mum and some of the neighbours.  You could play out in safety.  Those were the days.

[chickengrandma-2008]

My mum used a dolly blue bag in the dolly tub and bashed the laundry about with a posher. She positioned the wringer over the tub so the water ran back in. I remember getting my thumb caught in it once! She heated the flat irons on the gas cooker ring and ironed on the table first putting a blanket then a sheet on. I remember she used to do the ironing on Sunday afternoon for school the next day. She had 'two way family favourites' on the radio and on Sunday night there was 'Sing something simple' on, I think it was the black and white minstrels singing.

[ilove2patch]

I can't remember back that far. In my memory we always had a washing machine. The first one had a wringer on it that swung over the sink. I can remember my dad getting his first new car in about 1955. It was a Hillman Husky.  Not sure what we had before that. 

[carolyorkie2010]

I was 8 when my Dad got his first car, a Hillman Minx Convertible; I can still remember its registration number. (Mind you, ask me what I did yesterday and I'm stumped, LOL)

[bitsnknots]

I'd forgotten two way family favourits and sing something simple.

My mum used a mangle when she did the washing.  The washing was always done on a Monday morning.

[captainbovine]

oh rose...you hit it on the head there!!!

we would go strawberry picking and pea picking...I got chased by a farmer with a rather large shotgun, just for cycling up to his front door to see if he needed help on the farm frightened the life out of me!!!

the smell of pigs poo when they cleaned the barn out, cor  you never forget that...

cycling for ages down the country lanes, picnics in the corn fields in the lovely sunny afternoons of your summer hols.

Grandma's hen laying her egg on the wooden draining board, and it rolling right down into the little pan of water at the end of it!! the hen's name was Maggie!!!

[ilove2patch]

Cluck! Cluck!

[dark_castle1]

I almost forgot !

The rag and bone man coming round the streets of the village blowing his trumpet. Not that I ever took anything to him as we were too poor to give anything away.

[bitsnknots]

I've just remembered the old tin bath which was used in front of the fire once a week.  

[ilove2patch]

We had a bathroom with a bath in it with a geyser to heat the water. Was I privileged?

[the-ginger-ninja]

Our local Rag and Bone man also sharpened knives and mower blades.

More school ones - warm milk in little bottles with straws

school dinners, butterbeans, overcooked cabbage and pink custard for pudding. Bleugh

[chickengrandma-2008]

You lot didn't know you we're born did you!, fields and streams and picnics and strawberries, am I jealous???


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My mum's first washer had a power wringer that went over the sink Maggie. I think it was called a Hotpoint Princess. A big thing it was, it wouldn't fit in the kitchen, she had to use it in the back yard, sometimes in the freezing cold or rain!

[duck_a_lorange]

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@the-ginger-ninja wrote:

More school ones - warm milk in little bottles with straws

school dinners, butterbeans, overcooked cabbage and pink custard for pudding. Bleugh

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Little bottles of school milk that had frozen and the ice had pushed the tops off.

I liked school dinners.  Yellow custard with most puddings, pink custard was always with the chocolate sponge tray bake, and you needed every drop because for some reason it was always rock hard.

Putting a shilling in the meter.  And even forty years later still getting a little knot in my stomach when an exciting bit came up on TV - just in case it ran out in the middle.

Only BBC and ITV on the telly - and the very first Dr Who.

[bitsnknots]

With regards to school dinners, I use to love the chocolate cake and yellow custard.  It was to die for.  I don't know what they did with the cabbage though.  It was vile.

[rhubarbcity]

Dolly Blue came from Backbarrow works, also pub in Lancaster called the Dolly blue

[vamo48]

Arrow toffee bars, blackjacks and fruit salads, Spangles and Frollies;

Pretty boxes of chocolates and tins of toffees;

Washing with a blue glass washboard (we didn't get a machine till I was in my teens) and the big mangle in the garden with wooden rollers;

The shilling in the meter for the gas, the man coming round to empty it and give some of the money back. My aunt up the road had an older meter that took pennies;

Outside loo with scratchy paper called Ibcol;

Cosy coal fires, and the chimney sweep coming round;

School dinners - loved the chocolate squares with cold custard, hated the balls of mashed tattie with blueish lumps in!

[ilove2patch]

I recon you are all about 90 years old the things you are remembering.