When I wer a lass/lad (game)

Being able to buy bacon bones to make soup. No prepacked bacon in those days!

Pressing button A or button B when making a call from a phone box.

Blimey! Two for the price of one - didn't think it had posted the first time!

The uniformed man from the water board who used to listen to the water pressure on the street stop tap with a long metal rod he put in his ear! He let us have a listen once. You could hear a whooshing noise. He said you could tell by how loud it whooshed whether there was a leak anywhere .

Listening to 'Listen with Mother' on the radio.
"Are you sitting comfortable? Then I'll begin. Once upon a time .............."

Using a slide rule and log tables. No idea how to use either now !

Having a perm with wires going from your head up to the light fitting in the ceiling, circa 1950.

Proper coach built prams to show off your baby.

The uniformed man from the water board who used to listen to the water pressure on the street stop tap with a long metal rod he put in his ear! He let us have a listen once. You could hear a whooshing noise. He said you could tell by how loud it whooshed whether there was a leak anywhere .

An adding machine where you pulled a handle to enter the amount once you had punched it in on the keyboard.

Know what a roneo was, no idea about donkeys!!

Queuing for school milk
Daily tablespoon of Virol ( malt ) ?

Children being able to buy cigarettes ( for an adult)
Anyone being able to buy just one or two cigarettes at a time ( the tobacconist used to just open a pack of ten and sell them loose.)

Going to the corner shop for a bag of broken biscuits and a twist of sugar for nan's tea .

'Spending a penny'.

Getting a threepenny bit ( threpny bit!) for pocket money.

Going to school on a trolley bus.

Watching my Grandma in the yard of her back to back house, put washing through the old iron mangle.

Watching assistants in dept stores put money from the till into metal tubes which were whizzed away overhead up to the counting room.

Putting old shoes on fire to keep it going when coal had run out .danniray I enjoyed family at war as well .

Lovely thread thatbags Several items I was going to mention have already been added but what about a gozunda, which 'goes under' the bed at night time?

My maternal grandma used to plug her iron into the bulb socket. She had a double socket so could use any 2 out of light, iron or radio but never all three!

Roller skates that were a solid metal base with heel and toe pieces that you tied over your shoes.
A "copper" - a wash boiler in the cellar that mum lit a fire under to boil-wash nappies, tea-towels, dishcloths, etc.
Bus conductors
Inkwells in school desks

And one for the ladies: sanitary belts

P.S. I just Googled it. Apparently they do. Gosh!

Learning Pitman's shorthand. Does anyone do this anymore?

Mum lighting the gas oven and hanging our clothes over the open oven door to keep us warm as we dressed.

joannapiano I LOVED the Grove Family too!

A bit off thread but I loved Family At War too in the 1970's.

Dip pens. No biros or gel pens!