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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago
Glasgow |
Kids playing footie on the street.
Old men hobbling on the built up shoe
White dog shit
OMO washing powder
A Rediffusion Telly
Fish n Chips wrapped in newspaper
Glass milk bottles
Chopper bikes
Metal dustbins
Anymore?
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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"Kids playing Whip and Top or Hulahoop
Shop delivery bikes
Knitted swimwear that your Mum knitted.  "
Never had the pleasure of knitted swimwear. . . Had jumpers knitted with one arm slightly longer than the other though. |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
"Kids playing footie on the street.
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Too much traffic these days as there's more cars on the road!
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Old men hobbling on the built up shoe
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More advanced surgical techniques/more discreet footwear?
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White dog shit
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Largely caused by dogs eating fresh uncooked bones from the local butchers. There's less butchers now due to the number of supermarkets - hence less white dog shit!
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OMO washing powder
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Do they still make it?
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A Rediffusion Telly
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No longer exists. At the end of the 1980s the company was broken up, The rentals business went to Granada, and the cable network systems were sold to the Maxwell Communications.
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Fish n Chips wrapped in newspaper
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Wrapping fish and chips in newspaper fell foul of health and safety watchdogs in the 1980s
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Glass milk bottles
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Entirely an environmental thing! The proportion of milk put into glass bottles has fallen from just under 95pc in 1975 to under 4pc in 2012.
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Chopper bikes
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No longer made - but worth a lot if you've got one in good nick!
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Metal dustbins
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You can still buy them - but the council will only empty their own - so bugger all point!
Sorry - lunch break was dull. 
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Spira's, why did cadburys stop making them? WHY!?
as they are alot like twirls "
A twirl is like a flake covered in chocloate, you can't suck nothing through a twirl. I could drink hot chocolate through a spira like a straw, very different to a twirl. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My brother has a Chopper bike in good condition. It's his pride and joy. When we were children he got my hand me down one. You don't see many hedgehogs nowadays |
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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"Cheap houses
Cheap petrol
Honest politicians
The police
Empty post offices on monday mornings
When we're there ever honest politicians?"
The words Honest and Politician are a contradiction in terms |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
Titz Towers, North Notts |
"Cheap houses
Cheap petrol
Honest politicians
The police
Empty post offices on monday mornings
When we're there ever honest politicians?
The words Honest and Politician are a contradiction in terms "
See Dennis Skinner.  |
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I've written a poem of a 100 lines long called the 1970's
It's on another website
I've no idea how to copy and paste it into here
It's currently entered into a national poetry competition
Help anyone? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk"
Coffee and chicory syrup |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Saturday night Discos in village halls and churches
Telephone boxes all over town
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Youth club discos on a friday evening - usually in church halls - they were great! Anyone else remember these? Xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've written a poem of a 100 lines long called the 1970's
It's on another website
I've no idea how to copy and paste it into here
It's currently entered into a national poetry competition
Help anyone? "
Wow that's brill!! Go you!! Look forward to reading it ifyou can get it on here!   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk
Coffee and chicory syrup"
Horrible stuff looked like gravy browning didn't it lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk
Coffee and chicory syrup
Horrible stuff looked like gravy browning didn't it lol"
Tasted somewhat similar |
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"I've written a poem of a 100 lines long called the 1970's
It's on another website
I've no idea how to copy and paste it into here
It's currently entered into a national poetry competition
Help anyone?
Wow that's brill!! Go you!! Look forward to reading it ifyou can get it on here! "
My friends typed it up
I'll get this on Friday
I'll pop it on here then xx
You'll love it.. Promise |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"This cheese grater thing my nan had. You put the cheese inside, turned the handle and this wheel thing grated the cheese! "
My nan still has hers. Bright orange, best chees greater invented as you don't loose your finger tips doing it. |
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By *oma OP Man
over a year ago
Glasgow |
Ever tried explaining the role of a clippy on a bus to your child? She said "why didn't the driver take your money?"
She couldn't get her head around the fact the driver was sat locked in his own little cab on the double deck busses.
She still doesn't get it
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The guy going.... And that concludes tonight's programme listing, broadcasts will restart at 8am.... Tiny little white square, high pitch whistle  ..
And homemade bikes made from a hundred different parts salvaged from the local tip  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk"
You can still get it. I have some in the fridge |
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over a year ago
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"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk
You can still get it. I have some in the fridge"
Omg can you ? And your crazy enough to drink it or do you collect bottles |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
Pantries with a cold shelf.
Flat irons.
Back ovens.
Outside loos.
Porcelain potties under the bed (a guzunder).
Wooden draining boards.
Games of jacks.
Coal holes.
Real lino.
Black and white television with a tuning dial.
Rotary dial telephones in red phone boxes.
Buses with an open platform at the back.
Bus conductors with a ticket machine slung round their neck. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk
You can still get it. I have some in the fridge
Omg can you ? And your crazy enough to drink it or do you collect bottles "
I like it now and then as I don't drink tea or coffee. So I have a cup sometimes with a drop of baileys in it lol have to have milk in it though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Mr loves Frys Orange Cream bars, but they've been discontinued. Having trouble getting them now
B "
My 4 yo loves the mint ones. We get mint and orange ones from b&m bargains. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Spira's, why did cadburys stop making them? WHY!?"
There's a shop in Glasgow sells them, under the canopy at Central Station/ Argyll street. Only place I've ever seen with them. I love the crack of a Spira. Great chocolate. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I used to like going in the newsagents for a 10p mix!
Or I'd fill up my bag with sweets take it to the counter and say "20p's" worth in there, and they would take your word for it.
Now they empty everything out and count! Buggers! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Rag and bone man on his horse and cart.
Milkman delivering milk bottles to your door.
Tin bath in front of the fire on a Sunday night.
Journey into space on the radio.
Street gas lamps.
Copper boiler for boiling the water.
Good old mangle.
Twin tub washing machine.
Push along carpet sweeper.
Is that enough so far........ |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
"I used to like going in the newsagents for a 10p mix!
Or I'd fill up my bag with sweets take it to the counter and say "20p's" worth in there, and they would take your word for it.
Now they empty everything out and count! Buggers! "
I'm older than you, a 10p mix bag would last half the weekend when my Uncle John or my Dad used to take us round the Offie on the way home from Gran's house |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The guy going.... And that concludes tonight's programme listing, broadcasts will restart at 8am.... Tiny little white square, high pitch whistle ..
And homemade bikes made from a hundred different parts salvaged from the local tip "
Go carts made from pram wheels and bits of wood! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"This cheese grater thing my nan had. You put the cheese inside, turned the handle and this wheel thing grated the cheese! "
Thats a mouli grater u can still get them |
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"Spira's, why did cadburys stop making them? WHY!?
as they are alot like twirls
A twirl is like a flake covered in chocloate, you can't suck nothing through a twirl. I could drink hot chocolate through a spira like a straw, very different to a twirl. "
I miss them 2  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The guy going.... And that concludes tonight's programme listing, broadcasts will restart at 8am.... Tiny little white square, high pitch whistle ..
And homemade bikes made from a hundred different parts salvaged from the local tip
Go carts made from pram wheels and bits of wood! "
ya beat me to it! I remember the axles had to be square to bolt them on properly! |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
Short pants on boys.
Home made mittens connected by a string and put through the sleeves.
String vests.
Blankets and eiderdowns.
Dolly pegs.
Wooden props for propping up the washing.
Hopscotch chalked on the pavement.
A bag of scratchings from the chippy.
Shops which used the old fashioned scales with the brass weights. |
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"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk
You can still get it. I have some in the fridge
Omg can you ? And your crazy enough to drink it or do you collect bottles "
We used it mixed with baby oil a while back for a shoot...needed something that looked like old engine oil but wouldn't stink to high heaven and would wash off skin easily! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Heavy duty steel cigarette machines bolted onto walls in the high streets.
Police tit head helmets.
Playground slides with a wooden hut on top, so high and long it was worth having a go.
Seesaws and the dreaded ping over the handle bars and batter ya back when ya big brother doughnuts ya lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Pop men delivering to you
10p back on emptys
I don't understand why we don't still do this. As kids it got us all keen to recycle instead of throwing plastic bottles into the bin. "
Because you put your recycling in the recycle bin. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Tiswas
Space Dust
Fifth-formers on Yamaha FS1-Es
'Yorkshire Rider' buses (or orange and white SelNec ones when I lived in Manchester)
kids in Harringtons, tartan 'lumber jackets' with fleecy collars, or navy-blue 'snorkel' parkas
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By *aro7Man
over a year ago
wickford |
Kids bunking off school to ride motorbikes
Illuminous fluffy socks
Kids walking home from school smoking
A town without CCTV cameras
Dads cleaning spark plugs on a Sunday afternoon
Tarmac driveways with white fleck
Kids doing wheelies down the road seeing how many squares they could do
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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used to get a lift home from junior school some days on my mate's dad's flat-bed truck - a load of us kids would sit on the back, legs dangling over the side, while he cruised down the main road... you don't see that any more, it's health and safety gone mad I tell you! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I feel so old reading this thread as I remember so many oh yes including the dinosaurs but no one has mentioned ........... Camp coffee !!!!! Yuk"
You can still buy it. Why?? Nobody knows. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anyone remember the Corona or Alpine man?"
All the neighbours in our street seemed to have corona deliveries. We made do with vimto cordial. But er were 'appy! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Spira's, why did cadburys stop making them? WHY!?
as they are alot like twirls
A twirl is like a flake covered in chocloate, you can't suck nothing through a twirl. I could drink hot chocolate through a spira like a straw, very different to a twirl. "
this i used to drink my milk with a spira twirls arnt the same |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Marathons, Jublies, Scooby Doo's, Conkers, Esso Blue, Jamboree Bags, Spangles...and lots more lol!"
You can still get jublies. Not as big as they were....or is it just because my hands are bigger than when I was 11? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Rag and bone man on his horse and cart.
Milkman delivering milk bottles to your door.
Tin bath in front of the fire on a Sunday night.
Journey into space on the radio.
Street gas lamps.
Copper boiler for boiling the water.
Good old mangle.
Twin tub washing machine.
Push along carpet sweeper.
Is that enough so far........"
I've got a uebank carpet sweeper. They still sell them. Probably only at Arkwright's "open all hours" shop though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Short pants on boys.
Home made mittens connected by a string and put through the sleeves.
String vests.
Blankets and eiderdowns.
Dolly pegs.
Wooden props for propping up the washing.
Hopscotch chalked on the pavement.
A bag of scratchings from the chippy.
Shops which used the old fashioned scales with the brass weights."
Still get dolly pegs, my mum used a wooden clothes prop, a maiden and my mother in law has an " up and over overhead indoor airer", my chippy always has scraps.
Pea wet, scraps and gravy..that's a cheap meal! |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"Short pants on boys.
Home made mittens connected by a string and put through the sleeves.
String vests.
Blankets and eiderdowns.
Dolly pegs.
Wooden props for propping up the washing.
Hopscotch chalked on the pavement.
A bag of scratchings from the chippy.
Shops which used the old fashioned scales with the brass weights.
Still get dolly pegs, my mum used a wooden clothes prop, a maiden and my mother in law has an " up and over overhead indoor airer", my chippy always has scraps.
Pea wet, scraps and gravy..that's a cheap meal!"
Yeah, some of these some people may still have and use but they are more and more rare. I also used dolly pegs, clothes prop, wooden maiden and a ceiling mounted one lowered by rope. But that was 30 years ago. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Just an erratum message. They DO still make chopper bikes....but they aren't the same. Halfords sell them. De railieur gears and a bog standard saddle.
I had one as a kid. 2 seater saddle and 3 stick shift gears! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Rolf Harris
Freddie Starr
Max Clifford
Stuart hall
Where did they all go ?
Jail ?? "
not Freddie Starr..... take care there. He is doing a UK tour in April!! |
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By *oconut2Woman
over a year ago
Nether regions of the back of beyond |
"Rag and bone man on his horse and cart.
Milkman delivering milk bottles to your door.
Tin bath in front of the fire on a Sunday night.
Journey into space on the radio.
Street gas lamps.
Copper boiler for boiling the water.
Good old mangle.
Twin tub washing machine.
Push along carpet sweeper.
Is that enough so far........"
Still have milkmen delivering bottles here, saw a brand new twin tub in a shop in town and the same shop sells the carpet sweepers too lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cod liver oil uggggg, genson violet for your warts or ring worm let every one at school know what you've got the nit nurse, the cane "ouch" castor oil,green blocks of soap,I could go on for ages but it's so depressing " the good old days" one word crap |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Kids playing footie on the street.
Too much traffic these days as there's more cars on the road!
Old men hobbling on the built up shoe
More advanced surgical techniques/more discreet footwear?
White dog shit
Largely caused by dogs eating fresh uncooked bones from the local butchers. There's less butchers now due to the number of supermarkets - hence less white dog shit!
OMO washing powder
Do they still make it?
A Rediffusion Telly
No longer exists. At the end of the 1980s the company was broken up, The rentals business went to Granada, and the cable network systems were sold to the Maxwell Communications.
Fish n Chips wrapped in newspaper
Wrapping fish and chips in newspaper fell foul of health and safety watchdogs in the 1980s
Glass milk bottles
Entirely an environmental thing! The proportion of milk put into glass bottles has fallen from just under 95pc in 1975 to under 4pc in 2012.
Chopper bikes
No longer made - but worth a lot if you've got one in good nick!
Metal dustbins
You can still buy them - but the council will only empty their own - so bugger all point!
Sorry - lunch break was dull.
A"
During the war married women used to leave a box of OMO washing powder on the window cill as a sign to there bit on the side that her husband was away
i.e Old Man Overseas |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Wooden stoves
Bell bottoms
Tea made on the stove
Records
A wooden stove? Wouldn't it burn to the ground??? 
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Yes,,,,,you should see the state of my chocolate teapot lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Just an erratum message. They DO still make chopper bikes....but they aren't the same. Halfords sell them. De railieur gears and a bog standard saddle.
I had one as a kid. 2 seater saddle and 3 stick shift gears!"
ah yes, the chopper stick-shift - or bollock-catcher, as they were otherwise known... |
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