Things we don't see anymore

What about Lyons tea shops and the Lyons Corner Houses at Marble Arch and Tottenham Court Road. Not forgetting the Nippies.

I also remember coffee being sold in tins - I think 2ozs was the smallest.

Railway stations pre Beeching.

Malt and cod liver oil
Germolene and Calamine
Children being in hospital for months and parents only allowed to visit weekly
The slow grinding dentist's drill (horrors!)
Children being beaten at school
Mothballs

Those bottles were sticky and got clogged

When I was in my teens me and my friends used to save money buy spraying our hair with sugar water. We used to buy a cheap plastic spray bottle from the chemist. I can still see the horror on my mother's face when I backed combed my hair like mad and sprayed it with the sugar water.

Oh yes the breadman he used to come in a big van and have a long pole with a hook on the end to get the bread right at the back. I can remember the smell of the bread van too.

I thought the dog poo was white because it had been bleached by the sun! People very rarely cleaned up after their dogs back in the 60's and 70's,so in the summer,it could be left sitting for a week or so in the sun before the council cleared it up. I remember the first signs appearing on lampposts,warning about dog fouling,in the mid 70's.

Liquid hair lacquer that came in a tube. You snipped the end off and poured it into a plastic spray bottle. My backcombed hair was always as stiff as a board.

Ponds Vanishing Cream
Bucket toilets
Cycles with seats for kids on the cross bar
Camera's with film
Bakers who deliver to the door
Half a crown etc
Cars without seat belts
Woolworths

I remember when very young going to the local butchers with my gran.
I loved it.
First the floor was covered in sawdust.
I would make little 'heaps' with my feet while we were waiting in the queue.
Then the mince was wrapped in big cream paper and the butcher would roll me a couple of clean sheets to draw on.
Then best of all my gran would pay and the change would shoot down from a little office above.
The CO (co-op) was next door. Gran would get her cheese wrapped in wax paper. I was given a bit extra. My tracing paper!
Simple happy days

I remember heads looking out of the window!

Oh yes dolls hospital. All the eyes!

We used to have a dolls' hospital near us. I wonder if there are still any around.

Co-op divi - I bet you can all remember your mum's number, I know I can.

Provident checks/cheques?

Embassy cigarette coupons

In about 1962 when I was 14 my mum and dad looked after the little daughter of a family member because her mum had TB. We all loved this adorable little girl and as a bonus for me I would take her to watch the local boys play cricket on the field at the back of my house. She probably wasn't at all interested but I was - not in the cricket, of course, but in the boys. When she finally went back to her mum I would still go out to the back field to be with the boys. Result!

Pig bins and the smell!

And those tins joined together with string actually worked as a walkie talkie, but I still don` understand why.

And our local village butcher still has game birds n rabbits hanging outside.

Grandchildren have angel delight every week.
Agree hair conditioner (I loved the smell)

Tbs of Virol daily ?

I think the cousin was also*Granny2016*. When she was well she came to collect the baby. He was then 18 months old and had never known them. He called my Mum ' Mam* They took him away immediately and we never saw him again. How my parents coped I don't know

BBbevan....same with my aunt.Mum told me that she was in an iron lung ,which sounded quite scary.

National Savings stamps that you used to get from the Post Office and stick in a book. I think they were either sixpence or half a crown. Game hanging fully furred and feathered outside fishmongers shops. I think the EU put paid to that.

Sallyswin I saw Brush cleaner in Wilkinsons yesterday and was reminded of spot cleaning!

I remember the Esso Blue jingle. I also remember the poem Pam Ayres wrote, The Paraffin Man, which concludes "And they all went up to Heaven in a cloud of Esso Blue!" Probably already mentioned - Brylcreme, birch sap hair tonic (which my father swore would make his hair grow again - not!) and Carters Little Liver Pills!

Still available: Camp coffee,pack a macs, rain mates, hair rollers, sweet shops, angel delight, milk bottles on doorstep, Brillo pads, syrup of figs, etc.

My Mum kept flour and sugar in National Dried Milk tins until they rusted away.