things from the past you dont see now

Cremola Foam .

Cigarette cards

Thermogene - like a sheet of pink cotton wool, impregnated with some kind of vapour which was laid on my chest when I had a cough. Likewise kaolin poultices put on one's chest scalding hot. I had enormous ones applied when I was in hospital with pneumonia in 1946. Torture!

Rhum Baba's, Arctic Roll, Seed cake, Suet puds.

kaolin poultice's. Borax/boracic. Carters liver pills. Seidlitz powders.

Yes, I remember collecting plastic daffodils from Fairy Liquid, I think. The soup cubes were great and I loved the Vesta dried ready meals, especially the noodles that you fried!

Specky then your time has come Snickers are rebranding as Marathon for their 50th anniversary ..now when you ask for a marathon the shop assisitant wont look puzzled ...lol

Free plastic flowers with washing powder.

There was a milk machine close to us. The milk was in tetracartons.

My mum used Tide for the laundry - bright orange pack, as I remember.

Those little pleated transparent plastic rain hats mentioned upthread by Loulelady were part of our school uniform. We had to have one tucked into the breast pocket of our blazers (actually, no other pockets on our blazers so that we couldn't stick our hands in them!) so that if it rained our school hats wouldn't get wet and lose their shape.

Green shield stamps

Oh yes KatyK, I remember Mums divi number and my Grans too! Gran always used Oxydol for her laundry and Mum used square deal Surf.

And ciggy machines in the street... I seem to remember that you could buy 2 Woodbines and one match!!!

OXO flavoured crisps. They were delicious. Queuing up with my mother to collect her Co-op Divi. I bet most of you can remember your mum's Divi. number

Can you still get Vim? I also still call Cif Jif and Snickers Marathons...just because I can!

Petticoats

Water fountains in the street.

Long bars of laundry soap which you cut up with a strong kitchen knife then used to scrub clothes on a wash board.

Hot bricks wrapped in an old towel to heat the bed in icy bedrooms.

Symington's Table Creams. Not that we ever had them, but used to see them in certain shops.

Omo!
And Rinso - who remembers that? My mother used to have some really old mags from the 50s and I still remember the ad - a girl going off to a party (proud mum looking on!) in her freshly-Rinso-washed horribly old fashioned frock.

Some boys at the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow 1938.
Dressed exactly like adults.

(Sorry it's not a good photo)

National dried baby milk and NHS orange juice. Tins of Glucodin.
Ration books.

Summer sandals with the fronts cut out with a razor blade, to make room for toes.

Criddles treacle/ molasses--mum used it in her Christmas puds. Also on a teaspoon with sulphur powder to " cleanse the blood " if you had heat-spots. Double yukky.

Blocks on bicycle pedals, kunzle cakes, syrup of figs, cone shaped bags with penny sweets
Radiogram, broken biscuits.

Skipping, hopscotch, jacks, marbles and the hoola hoop craze. I never liked roller skates.

Viral
Haliborange
My mother had a tiny hand held mincer, for mincing up mint leaves to make mint sauce ...
Decorative powder compacts ( mother had a musical one which played the Blue Danube ).