Things we don't see anymore

With rubber buttons on the sides for suspenders don't you know!

WW, stop it don't mention the "S" word.

A French friend asked me the other day 'do CurlyWurlies' still exist? Do you know the answer?

AA men on motorbikes saluting
Pink & blue hairnets
Children playing with hoops and sticks
Underskirts
camphorated oil for wheezy chests

Men setting up their equipment one night a week and mending the family`s shoes.

setting up their equipment and only once a week. ??? Well I never.

Sorry, couldn't help it.

Cor! I used to love that Gibbs Dentifrice and used to lick it!!

Much nicer than that Euthymol toothpaste!

Sherbet dib-dabs

Jamboree bags

Black Jacks and Fruit Salads farthing each

Pac-a-macs and plastic fold up rainhats
Walls ice-cream in individual rectangular blocks, with flattened, rectangular cones to fit them! (or was that Lyons Maid?)

Suburban roads without a continuous line of parked cars.
Scrap metal horse and cart.
Racist, discriminatory signs outside flats/houses for rent.

Rainmates. Bring them back!

Door blinds to stop paint blistering. I remember popping the blisters.

White Fire perfume in lovely red bottle,
Knitted swimsuits
Metal hair clamps for permed waves.
Mary Quant daisy
Catapults
Camp coffee
Virol.

oops....Can still buy Camp coffee !

We used Camp coffee in the canteen where I worked, it was vile!

Granny 2016, I had one of those awful knitted swimsuits when I was about 7, when they got wet they dropped alarmingly, showed an embarrassing amount of body!

gj yes Curly Wurlys are still around and you can get them in packs of 5 from most supermarkets for about a pound. Firm favourite of Slimming world members!

Creamola foam
Everlasting Toffee Strip
American Tan tights

Sterilised milk. Sweet tobacco and sweet cigarettes. Barley Sugar sticks and Palm toffee bars.

the knife / shears sharpener man, the paraffin man, the tally man. the rent man.

Monica the milk lady. She used to come in a black van and we'd go out with our jugs for the milk - straight from the farm. I can remember the smell of the milk

Being able to run and jump on a bus. Also jumping off if it is stuck in traffic. ( not agile anymore however)