When I wer a lass/lad (game)

Going to the Italian greengrocer with a bowl and tea towel to collect ice-cream to go with our jelly for a birthday party and then running home before it melted.

Slides placed on overhead projectors, and manually operated for work or business presentations.

Sheet of metal would be more accurate.

Grannyknot it's actually a piece of metal known as a 'blazer'

Outside loo... and no bathroom !!

Being a wallflower at a dance.

tiggypiro what the heck do you mean a blazer as in item of clothing?

Going out the coal shed to fill the bucket,and scritching the place down because a spider run up me arm

Paraffin stoves for heating.

Using black lead on the range.

A Flit gun.

Getting the fire going by putting a blazer covered with a sheet of newspaper in front of it.

Squeezing water out of clothes with a hand operated mangle

Doing the front step with Red Cardinal.

Grannyknot I had to Google a roneo machine.

Copying information letters off the blackboard to be taken home.

No computer print outs then.

Waiting outside headmaster's office for the 'ruler' (primary school)
Only got severe telling off he was a nice head

I think physical punishment may have been stopped by the time I went to high school
Does any Gnners recall when it was phased out in state schools ?

Ice patterns on the inside of bedroom windows.

Donkey stoning the front step.

Covering school books with brown paper

Being the class ink monitor.

Using carbon paper for copies

Putting the washing through the mangle

Use a Roneo machine.

go to the hardware store for some 'elbow grease'