Things we don't see anymore

Also flying saucers but I'd swear there is far less sherbet in them

I did see Spanish Wood recently.

'Spanish Root' liquorice root sticks to chew - in our school tuckshop.

Lyons fruit pies. I loved the pineapple one

Sainsbury's put sliced meat in brown paper bags now...

How about 'flying saucers' with sherbet in?

Chains on lavatories, gob stoppers, only hardbacks in bookshops, except for a few orange and white, or green and white penguins, so we bought few books

Not real ??? You cut me to the core.

If you prick us do we not bleed?
If you tickle us do we not laugh?
If you poison us do we not die?
And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Are any of us real ?

Malt and virol. Sherbet dips.fly papers. Brown paper bags ( seem only to find white ones)

He's obviously not real with a name like that! And you're far funnier GandT !

The cabinet of wide, shallow drawers, each containing different coloured sheets of blotting paper. 6d a sheet and it had to last a whole school year!

Ha ha ha!!!! It's made me laugh, anyway!?

Dicky, I'm the comedian here, don't you go upsetting our ladies.

Oh boy, the grans will be wetting themselves laughing.

You've seen it then !

Mother used to soak Senna pods in water and we had to drink it on Saturday night to keep us regular. Good sister used to drink hers (swears that why she has IBS) I used to,tip mine quietly down the sink .
Junket, used to be made with bottled rennet.
Cremona puddings

Yes number I think they still are, but I'm glad the Guinea has disappeared from shopping. It was the same with shoes at 59/11. How cheap thst would be now!

Oh boy, the grans will be wetting themselves laughing. Not.

I haven't seen my willie for years, is that what you mean?

I believe racehorses are still bought and sold in guineas.

I remember paying for things in guineas. I had booked a holiday by coach to Switzerland with a friend. Our holiday was 29 guineas but I was horrified when I came to settle the final bill to find I was paying nearly £31. In those days that was a big leap up. Guineas were a real con.

Sadly there are now children in this country presenting with rickets, it is linked apparently to over protection from sunlight, mums being so worried the child is covered in sunblock and wears a sun hat all the time. It took sometime for doctors to diagnose this because the disease is now so rarely seen.

I saw smeone the other day with legs you could have driven a bus through. I was tempted to ask him where he had left his horse.

Anyone here with badly bent legs from rickets.
I remember being told when I was a child why an old lady (in Welwyn Garden City)had such short and bowed legs.
I tried to find anything like to show my grandson what I meant, there is nothing online.
Children in undeveloped countries, yes. Adults here, no.

I remember drapers shops always pricing in farthings ie 19s 11 3/4d. just 1 farthing short of a pound, or whatever the price was, there was one near Maryland Station in Stratford.

trisher i remember the drapers shops!!!!! I loved the smell when you entered a shop of all the material. It was also a delight to check out all the different kinds of embellishments for dressmaking, sequins, beautiful buttons and trimmings. Now it is so much cheaper to buy ready made i guess that is why they have all disappeared. What a shame {sad}

Shops with shelves full of rolls of material in every colour and pattern you could think of. Department stores have one or two shelves now but I can remember shops which only sold fabric and sewing things.You could pick material for a dress and know there would be very little chance of seeing the same stuff because there was so much variety.