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| Iceboy53 Quote | Reply | | Things you dont see anymore posted on: 7/6/2005 6:28:11 PM Lucky rabbit's foot Linoleum roll up flooring Petrol pump attendants Blue flash bulbs Darned socks Eight track player Eight track tapes Platform shoes H shaped Ariels Has anyone else any mememories of what they see anymore in this day and age. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 7/6/2005 7:20:59 PM Trolley Buses. Wermacht. British Motor Cycles. Cigarette (fag) Cards. Transistors. Ford motor company. Boiled Wormwood juice (HOORAY). Hula hoops. Noso. Black ford 'T's. Black lead fire ranges. Gas mantles. House Gas lights. Street gas lamps plus post. Paraffin lamps. Paraffin heaters. Tin baths. Brick Coppers (fire). DEEP Snow. 12 inch black and white TVs. PC Plod. Washing mangles. Three pronged Ponches and Ponch tubs. Nibs and pens, as in school. Ink pots. Free school milk. Free sustaining school dinners, with pudding afters. The school cane. Davy Crocket's 'Racoon' headwear. -**Castle Crisps**-. Loose yeast. LANGLEY SWIMMING BATHS - HIP HIP HOORAY. The old insurance schemes of the 1940s, the dues usually collected in the pubs on one particular night = 'The Lord Nelson' on Nelson Street. The Lord Nelson Pub. Tandems. Smashed-up pianos on Heanor Market. 1950s style electrically propelled milk-carts/lorries. Coppice, Woodside and Ormonde Collieries. Miners. The swamp in the Dumbles. It suddenly dried out/away, years ago. Loose balm. Loui's Milkbar. Jukebox. Stereograms. Whitened doorsteps. Flit fly-spray can sprayers. Black fire-places, oven on one side, hot water boiler the other. Hot brick bed warmers. The Eagle comic - Dan Dare. Small yellow plastic? Ducks, perpetually bobbing up and down in shop windows. (A glass of water included). Box-sided, solid tyre prams. Tudor's tea-bar, on Heanor Market. The name - 'The King of Prussia'. Caps, for cap-guns. The blue twist of waxy paper, containing salt, in crisps. Mussel broth. The old 'Sir John Warren', Loscoe. Pit-hills. The Loscoe Road Boys School garden allotments. Ink monitors. The old Heanor Market, brick built toilets. Heanor Co-op. 'Number 6' cigarettes. The Heanor Observer newspaper. Fairview houses, Heanor. Morley's factory. (Shades of Frederick). FWK shops. 1940/50s Dustbin lorries. Steam trains, in regular service. Aspey Sic. Wireless. Wireless accumulator. Accumulator recharge shop. Wireless valves. Trolley bus over-head electric cables. Trolley bus conductor's cable pole. The Empire and Cosy cinemas. Fletcher's factory. Shipley Hall. The 'OLD' Heanor Church. The 'Cat's whisker' home-made Wireless. The superb 'Skin-Deep' drumming performance. Will add to later. Azzabuv. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 7/6/2005 7:37:57 PM flip out orange indicators on cars sweet chewing tobacco broken biscuits tea caddy good chips like elliotts |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 7/6/2005 8:03:31 PM Eh eh, Ice. Tea caddy - got one here in use. We only drink loose tea. None of that new teabag paraphernalia here. I like the REAL stuff too much. Azzabuv.  |
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suzard
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replied on: 7/7/2005 12:05:03 AM Carters little liver pills, Jubblies, snobs,liberty bodices,spud guns. Azza-you do see marbles(they are now sold with a booklet explaining the rules of the games), skipping ropes (although you seldom see children skipping on the street-they are confined to their own gardens for their safety), and you do see snuff in little round tins (I know a shop which still stock them-mainly sold to senior ladies!). Iceboy-you still can buy broken biscuits in Heanor! They are now called mis shapes! You can still get good chips at a chippy near me-cooked in lard-and they also sell home made rabbit pies! |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 7/7/2005 12:10:34 AM do you know suzard, i saw a spud gun in derby market the other week, i was amazed.mis shapes, now that is a new one.don't mention marbles to azza, he'd only loose em. what you don't see much suzard, is anything made in this country. |
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suzard
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replied on: 7/7/2005 12:30:24 AM True-very little is seen made in this country-but a lot of the cheap toys we had were "Empire made" |
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RMMee
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replied on: 7/7/2005 1:39:15 AM Methinks there's a fair number of rose coloured spectacles out there! Of the list given so far, I thought I'd go through and list the one's I've seen in the last week or so.... Petrol pump attendant (garage opposite where I work) Platform shoes (my daughter's) Prop Plane (don't know what it was doing there, but saw one on Sunday!) Roller skates - yes, still much in use Police Officers (but most of the time they're doing the paperwork that they never used to have to do) Savoury Ducks - found a second butcher last week that sells proper ones - are they making a come back? Skipping ropes - still very much there, but, as Suzard says, not often in the street) Jeeps - still in the rural areas Broken biscuits - one of my colleagues works in a biscuit factory, so we see them regularly! Marbles - got a fair few in our house (and no, they're not mine) And as for the things you don't see so much of... well, there's rickets, and polio, and deaths in childbirth; 14-year-olds going down the pit, outside-only loos, 4 kids to bed; to name just a few! Things haven't all changed for the worse (though I too would turn back the clock in some respects if I could). |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 7/7/2005 9:06:47 AM maybe there are a few things still left then from what people have wrote, but. you won't see women in aprons women scrubbing steps women wearing those turban things people using tin baths.... now don't tell me someone still see's that.. if they do, then beam me up ^ ice |
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suzard
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replied on: 7/7/2005 10:38:04 AM Iceboy, how do you know so much about my lifestyle and dress sense? You don't see open coal fires very often-but if you do spot one I doubt there would be a spill jar full of spills on the hearth. |
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patsyann2
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replied on: 7/9/2005 5:16:35 PM Pkts of "Omo" (which mum faithfully used for handwashing) Bottles of P.L.J. Pure Lemon Juice, for any young ones looking in. The wee books you were able to get at the post office! and put your 6d stamp in it, when you were saving for xmas, but my all time favourite is the pawn shop. Mum used to keep me off school to go every Mon morning, and i was such a regular! that me and the manager were on first name terms . I would take it first thing on Mon morning, then on Fri i would go straight after school and pick it up. My dad never ever knew, what happened to his suit during the week. He only ever wore it on Fridays. Mum used to watch him getting dressed to go out to the pub on a Fri and shed always say a wee prayer that he wouldnt spill any of his drink on it. We laughed about it many times in later years.
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patsyann2
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replied on: 7/9/2005 5:48:02 PM Hello Ice, what about Sunlight soap? It was a real all purpose soap too it was used for all the washing, giving us children a bath, and it was used to wash our hair as well. Were they really "the good old days" i think not.
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 7/9/2005 6:00:02 PM funny that patsy... i have one them old adverts for that soap in a frame. we those reproduction cards and frame them. like cadburys/morris minor etc, i love them. ice |
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suzard
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replied on: 7/9/2005 6:29:31 PM Sorry again Iceboy, but you can still get Omo-it is now advertised as an anti allergy powder and called Omo Sensitive. As for Sunlight soap-it is still on sale in Australia-so if anyone's going on holiday......... |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 7/10/2005 12:58:20 PM well, you'll not see those disabled cars that we're used in the 60s. the one's with the handle bars in side the three wheeler car and a zip down door..remember.obviously motability was introduced later and did away with these dangerous vehicles. ice |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 7/10/2005 1:33:11 PM The ugly 'Bubble-car'. Whoever invented that jolliality, should have been made to live inside one for life. Azzabuv. |
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