When I wer a lass/lad (game)

I love Beamish.

Swilling the yard.

You can see all this at Beamish Museum.

Reckitts

Receipts blue dolly to whiten your whites and a wash board ..used both as a new bride in late 70s

Donkey stone is a sort of soft sandstone...it came in various shades. You scrubbed the step then rubbed the stone on it until it was all covered. Was my job as a child and I hated it when anyone stood on my step and ruined it (which someone always did because it was a wide step).

The rag and bone man used to call with his horse and cart

Going outside to the loo. Ours was a wooden box type thing with a bowl in the middle. Stips of newspaper fixed with a nail instead of toilet paper.

I used to go to bed with rags in my hair

My Mum used a dolly tub

My Great Uncle used to give me two and six when we went to visit him

Sunday School Whitsun marches

No supermarkets, just the butcher, greengrocer, grocer and a boy delivered on a bike with a basket on the front.

So many on here I remember .
Collecting a coin from the local shop when you returned a drinks bottle - a good way of making some money if you could collect them from other people - recycling before it was known as that.
Taking a packet of sugar to the local sweetshop to be able to buy some sweets but the scrappings from making sweets such as pear drops were sold off without this.

We used to have to do our school books with old wallpaper

Saving the wrapper from the butter to use in the bottom of a sponge cake tin, we didn't have parchment paper in those days.

My mum getting her first fridge and it was a gas one, oh the excitement in our house that day as mum made us some ice cubes!!!!

Cars with running boards, and those little indicators that used to flick out at the side when you needed to go round a corner. And starting handles for when desperation set in!

Platform tickets

Sellotaping my 'kiss curls' to the side of my face when I went to bed so that they would stay in for the morning and sellotaping my fringe so that it didn't stick out

putting my jeans under the mattress to keep them warm for the morning

Watching my mum putting sheets through a mangle. Going to the grocers for half a pound of butter which he took from a big slab and patted into shape with two wooden patter things.

Ooh yes, a block of 'Cornish' cut into portions and sandwiched between two wafers. My grannies favourite.

kitchen cabinets with glass doors at the top and a drop down leaf for cooking on. Wrapping a block of ice cream in newspaper to try and stop it melting before tea time.

Ooh, greyduster! We had someone from the water board doing just that recently. The only reason I know is that they couldn't find the fire hydrant on our bit of lane and I had to show them where it was. I'd never seen this "listening for leaks" done before, and perhaps may never again.

It reminded me of my siblings and me putting our ears to the local train track to feel/hear the rumble of a train ?

Maizie I remember that... buying on "layby".

Writing a letter by hand on lined paper and ending it with:

I remain,

Yours faithfully.

How quaint that seems now

No credit cards. Paying cash or getting it on the never never.