Things we don't see anymore

The buttons were for suspwnders and they replaced corsets/stays I think - hence'liberty'

I could never understand liberty bodices. What on earth were they for? I wore them when I was a small girl , and if I remember rightly there were some buttons on them, so I presume you must have been able to attach something to them but I don't know what.,

Thawpit and dabitoff stain remover - discontinued because of H&S, I think. Just had an olive oil related mishap with some nubuck shoes

Baggy cotton knee socks held up by knotted elastic. The elastic left red marks on my legs. Gymslips which had to be worn above the knee!

NanKate - you may not see chicken in a basket any more,but have you looked at Buzzfeed's 'We want plates - 34 totally absurd things that restaurants have served food on' ? OMG I was nearly crying with laughter at some of them!

Green Shield stamps

Cardboard library cards
Can you still get Tizer? My Gran went to her grave certain that it was alcoholic and that my poor Granddad was on the slippery slope!

Radio 4 making a special announcement during the 'Today' programme for people, usually 'on holiday', who needed to contact a certain hospital - what a heart sink moment. Mobiles have taken care of that.

'And yes - whatever did happen to white dog poo?????

Or the baker man? He used to call every Saturday morning in his van. It was where had my first taste of Tunnock's caramel wafer bars.

Those little sweeties make to look like cigarettes
Coty perfumes I think they were that had a flock cat cuddling the bottles
Talc to match your favourite perfumes
Telex machines

Does anyone remember the Corona drinks delivery man?

Coal/greengrocer/rag and bone horse and carts.

"In love" perfume in pink heart shaped boxes Hartnell I think ...

A horse-drawn icecream van. Rag and bone men who would give us colouring books when my Mum gave them stuff we were throwing out. A dessert-type stuff in a can called 'Sweetheart' - it was syrupy with strawberries in and you just mixed it with milk...mmmmm!

My horribly surgical knee socks for swollen ankles look just like lisle. I call them my Nora Battys. Marathon Bars - somehow I am put off by the name Snickers. I used to use Polyclens paint brush cleaner as a spot dry cleaning fluid after it got a best buy for spot cleaning in Which. Last time I tried to get some from Homebase they had never heard of it. A bottle did last a long long time and even removed beach tar when nothing else did.

Bright blue ice lollies from the icecream man and the different colours/flavours of sherbet in a plastic tube. My dad bought me those.

Sue01.....That will cause a few laughs !

Wilmaknickersfit....mine was red too.

Elysium....Bunty every Tuesday.I once had my clothes designs printed on the back page with the Bunty cut out doll.

Radio Luxenbourg
Roller towel attached to back of kitchen door
Tiffin bars
10 mile traffic jam at The Shap returning home from holidays in Southport
Packets of 5 Bristol cigarettes (Mum used to pretend to smoke!)

Nux Bars. Oh I loved them !

Topaz perfume from Avon.

Pants with a plastic gusset into which you threaded a sanitary towel half the size of Cleethorpes !

Was going to say Aqua Manda perfume but having just Googled it, apparently it has been revived and is available online. Wonder if it still smells the same. It was the height of sophistication in the 60's and 70's!

Evening in Paris?

Sally Army marching down the street on a Sunday morning ...my dad bringing home the War Cry on a Saturday night .....the shrimp man on a Sunday afternoon (meant shrimps and bread and butter for tea !) ...plus a jelly which had been made on Sat morning and left to set on the marble mantelpiece ! in summer, the Stop me and Buy One man from whom we bought a '1/6d block of ice cream (only vanilla, I seem to remember !)...feeding the milkmans horse with crusts of bread ...and trying to entice the cat from under the cart .....

Although it was only the 50's, there was much more SERVICE available !

Manual typewriters, carbon paper, Gestetner dublicating paper, and the bottles of pink correction stuff. You can tell, I was a secretary in the seventies.

Cornish Icecream that came in round blocks.
Phyllosan - fortifies the over forties!
Pepsodent
Bomb sites
Bunty
Toddilocks
Tizer
The list is endless......

Tobacco tins. We kept everything small in them: buttons, nails & screws, widgets, you name it. No idea where they came from as dad smoked cigarettes not rollups.