Words we don't use any more

Square. As in "my parents are soooo square!" Wonder what they are now?

Witzend

*JackyB*, do you mean it grates on you when you hear ‘train station’ instead? Because that does grate on me! Usually we’d just say ‘station’ anyway, unless it was a bus station.

@#£%&

Yes, sorry, on re-reading I realised I wasn't clear.

Scribbles

Suitor and swain

Courting.

Suitor and swain

Gas - 'life's a gas' (Marc Bolan)
Cat - A man. (I think)

Bread- money.
Fuzz - police.

Groovy, far out, dig it.

Exactly Witzend

JackyB, do you mean it grates on you when you hear ‘train station’ instead? Because that does grate on me! Usually we’d just say ‘station’ anyway, unless it was a bus station.

Wench
Mind you I never heard it myself, but apparently a grandfather used to say it.

Moth62

It was always pronounced gennel in my Yorkshire pit village, but yes, the little alleyway between blocks of houses.

I'm from East Yorkshire and we called them snickets.

A right Bobby dazzler

Just remembered ‘swanky ‘.

Oh, that's good to hear.
I used to have a bolster, i can't rememeber what happened to it.
I think it was that i couldn't get a cover at that time, and had to put ywo pillowcases on instead.

MissAdventure

And a bolster.

My youngest daughter has a bolster. I've recently bought her two new cases for it from Dunelm.
They had several colours.

Yep!
How about undercarriage for (Les Dawson face) "down below".

MissAdventure

And a bolster.

And a 'Gerry' or 'Gazunda' or 'Poe' for ahem..'Under the bed toilet pot' !!

Cardamom

"Put wood in'th 'ole" was regularly used in our house for shutting the door behind you.

Were you born in St Helens was said if you were obstructing the TV, the reference being to the home of Pilkingtons Glass.

A tit in a trance was one of my mum's oft used phrases.

Or "silly girl got none"

Magenta8

Does anyone still have high tea? If I remember rightly it was a sort of lunch/supper, eaten late afternoon or early evening. A bit like brunch only at the other end of the day.

Afternoon tea can morph into High Tea with the addition of a sausage roll and a piece of quiche.

Standing there like one of Lockharts, meaning doing nothing useful.
Don't know who Lockhart was or even if that's how to spell it. This was in the North West.

And a bolster.

What about a 'Counterpane' on the bed ?!!

We moved a lot when I was a child and things had different names in each new place. I wore sand shoes which became plimsolls then daps then pumps then tennis shoes and eventually trainers.
I wore home made frocks and so did my little girls in the 70s and 80s.

Magenta8

Does anyone still have high tea? If I remember rightly it was a sort of lunch/supper, eaten late afternoon or early evening. A bit like brunch only at the other end of the day.

Often served for children too young to stay up for dinner. My mum always called it 'nursery tea'