Fashion / tech "never-again&qu ot;s

IC handthenback I hope you're not right but I get where you're coming from.

I think even young people will miss it when/ if it's gone. The sense of mission as well as profit. The World Service & all the "soft" influence & status that gives our small nation.

Hessian on the walls !

I had hessian in one house when we moved in. It was awful trying to get it off

I've said this four times so far about wide-leg trousers (loon pants, bell-bottoms, boot-legs, etc): "They're so hideous, they'll never come back..." Ho hum.
Those baggy "harem" trousers with the crotch just above the knee - which harems inspired those, exactly?
And skin-tight leggings that flatter absolutely nobody and never have - once they're gone, surely never again???!

Aldom

Blown Air central heating. We had it in a new house in the 1970's. I've never come across this method of heating since.

We had that in my parent's house ! Did yours have like big square cardboard filters with sort of chicken wire in them ?
There were vents at the bottom of the walls and you pushed a metal lever to open or close the vent to shut off heating in that room.
That brought memories back Aldom !

I don't think these will return....In the sixties and seventies, plastic loose tea dispensers that you fixed to a wall, they came in bright red or bright blue plastic and were shaped like rockets. A quick push on the button measured out a spoonful of loose tea leaves into the pot.
A very tempting diversion for a child to casually push the lever , thus depositing tea all over the floor !!

Rocketstop2 Glad the Blown Air heating has brought back memories for you. My children were seven and four years old when we bought our house with BA heating.
The vents were just above the skirting boards. There was a lever to open and close the vents.
Last week my daughter and I did a tour of the houses we lived in during her childhood. I wondered if the 70's house still had the BA system.

madeleine45

havent looked around ,much lately, but I think it was the 70's when there was that vogue for painting 3 walls and then having one wall papered with either bold stripes or zigzags of colour. Not my cup of tea then or now! And again about that time I think it was the brown and orange colours that were everywhere.

Yep we had 3 black walls and one orange, looked fabulous with white furniture. Can't imagine having that now. I have all white now, some would say equally crazy but easy to touch up.