Things we don't see anymore

Old fashioned Sweet Shops

Cherry B
Camp Coffee,

Michelleblane...We used to fold the velours as soon as we were away from school and stuff them in satchels.Often the Panama went the same way !

Oh, Kunzle cakes!! Wouldn't it be wonderful if they came back.

Nice to have a trip down memory lane...........

PAC A MAC Mine was transparent with coloured thistledown.

@ Numberplease The knitted swimsuits were heavy when wet too.Do you remember the rushed nylon ones ? I loved mine.

@Hulahoop Whitefire was really lovely ,I can almost smell it !!

Yes,why was dog poo white ????

Re birds on electricity wires.We were told the buzz of the telegraph poles was fairies cooking their dinner.

Older ladies out with hairnets on. Girls with skipping ropes or boys playing football in the road.Housewives redding their doorsteps and polishing the door knobs / letter boxes with Brasso. Bob a job week. When you get going there are lots of things.

Bus conductors

Dogs used to be fed scraps and bones. Now they get tinned food. I think that is why the colour changed in their poo. hugs

We wore velour school hats in winter and panamas in summer and were in mega trouble if a teacher saw you not wearing it. (State school, not private)....and the boys all wore caps!

As a child can remember going to Coop with mum and when she paid the money went into metal tube which went on wire up to an office and then change came down with receipt.anyone remember that or was I three year old with an imagination!!

We had a Walls ice-cream man who came on a Sunday pushing a cart up the street.

I remember the Corona man coming once a week.mum used to get three bottles fizzy pop for weekends our treat.

I've got a milk bottle on my doorstep and our postman always wears a uniform.

Loved chicken in the basket but my favourite was scampi in the basket. Whenever I mention these to our kids now 34 and 30 they are hysterical with laughter.
Findus seafood pancakes, local shop used to sell 5 cigarettes out of a pack of 10.
Loved a Bar Six and a Five Boys. All Jaffas and tangerines in tissue paper at Christmas. Little boxes of Milk Tray with pictures of kittens on a Christmassy sleeve.
You can still get love hearts online, son had them as favours in his wedding. Have rediscovered Babycham in local Morrisons and had some at Christmas with a cherry of course, loved it!

AA boxes, still have my key

Party seven cans

Brylcreem

School knickers over regular knickers

Hair rollers

Birds on electricity wires

Izal toilet paper for tracing. Lace caps with beads on for over the milk jug. Rail carriages with compartments and a corridor down one side, smoking on buses, (thank heavens), eggs in isinglass, hair ribbons on most girls, pop man as well as the milk man.

They most certainly do

I wondered that too Grannee - - white and crumbly - - anyone know the answer??

I was just going to say Liberty Bodice Nana - remember the rubber buttons? I had to get dressed for school in front of a one bar electric fire and I remember the fiddle of thos buttons!

village post office
(and I live in an 'urban' village, too)

The white dog poo made me laugh out loud! (But why was it white? I never found out. Excuse my ignorance - and going off piste....)

Steamrollers

The muffin Man, with his bell

Mobile shops

Izal toilet paper - ugh!

Feather beds - although we now put the feathers on top in a duvet.