21-07-2019, 05:10 PM
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Own up now, who remembers
The long, long ago days of the late 1950s and early 1960s when the following was part of life in those days: Free milk daily at school in one-third of a pint bottles
Free orange juice daily (in one-third of a pint bottles with green printing on the bottle?)
Free cod liver oil capsules taken daily
Free malt extract taken daily
Getting soaked walking to school, having to sit in wet clothes until they dried
Trams rather than buses
When families sat round the dining room table and ate together
We knew what day it was by the meal that was served
Receiving an apple, orange, crayons and other small items for presents at Christmas
Coal fires with a coal scuttle for the spare coal no central heating in those days
Bakers, butchers, greengrocers shops in every town, no supermarkets
Refrigerators they were luxuries in those days, no freezers
Shops closing half a day every week, often on Thursdays and didnt open Sundays
Returning empty cordial bottles to get the refund on them
The horse and cart used by milkmen in those days
The Rag & Bone man in horse and cart
A man on a bicycle selling winkles and other seafoods
Fish & Chips were the only takeaways
The first burger places Wimpy bars
Cross country running as part of regular PE lessons
21-07-2019, 05:30 PM
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Re: Own up now, who remembers
Much of it. But not all of it.I was brought up on a farm with milk cows so milk was available by the gallon.
We didn't have trams. Like now, I had a collie then too and we ran for miles. More than cross country runners.
No rag and bone man. The nearest chippy was six miles away. As was school. There was a school bus but I cycled. Up the steep braes.
No man on a bike selling seafood.
21-07-2019, 05:41 PM
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Re: Own up now, who remembers
Sugar sandwiches. Salad cream sandwiches. Bovril and hot water with cubes of bread in, cardboard in shoes. Wellies for weeks on end and the chapped legs that came with them.Many times darned Sox, camphorated oil, toast being sharpened first thing in the morning, ice inside bedroom window, Phillips stick-a-soles, steel things in the soles of shoes, clogs, kids with calipers as a result of polio,
TB, kids bandy by rickets, scabies, impetigo, sharp bog paper, Lifebuoy soap (red), Sunlight soap (yellow). And of course twice brewed tea. Not tea bags, tea.
But in spite of it all we're we unhappy?
Too bloody right. It shaped my character that's for sure.
21-07-2019, 05:42 PM
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Re: Own up now, who remembers
May I add.The oil man with his paraffin tank and measuring jugs.
The knife grinder on his bicycle which he would prop up on a stand and pedal away turning a small grinding stone on the crossbar.
The threshing machine puffing along the roads emitting clouds of smoke and upsetting the ladies who had just put the washing on the line.
The Walls Stop me and Buy one Ice cream man on his tricycle.
Johnny Onion on his bike with strings of onions hanging around his neck.
Nah!! You are all too young to remember them.
21-07-2019, 06:01 PM
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Re: Own up now, who remembers
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Sugar sandwiches. Salad cream sandwiches. Bovril and hot water with cubes of bread in, cardboard in shoes. Wellies for weeks on end and the chapped legs that came with them. Many times darned Sox, camphorated oil, toast being sharpened first thing in the morning, ice inside bedroom window, Phillips stick-a-soles, steel things in the soles of shoes, clogs, kids with calipers as a result of polio,
TB, kids bandy by rickets, scabies, impetigo, sharp bog paper, Lifebuoy soap (red), Sunlight soap (yellow). And of course twice brewed tea. Not tea bags, tea.
But in spite of it all we're we unhappy?
Haha, ice on inside of windows, I'd forgotten that
Too bloody right. It shaped my character that's for sure.
21-07-2019, 06:17 PM
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Thanks for all your replies, some I had overlooked but they soon came flooding back into 'the old grey matter' when reading about them.
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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Much of it. But not all of it.I was brought up on a farm with milk cows so milk was available by the gallon.
The nearest chippy was six miles away. As was school. There was a school bus but I cycled. Up the steep braes.
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Sugar sandwiches. Salad cream sandwiches. Bovril and hot water with cubes of bread in, cardboard in shoes. Wellies for weeks on end and the chapped legs that came with them. Many times darned Sox, camphorated oil, toast being sharpened first thing in the morning, ice inside bedroom window, Phillips stick-a-soles, steel things in the soles of shoes, clogs, kids with calipers as a result of polio,
TB, kids bandy by rickets, scabies, impetigo, sharp bog paper, Lifebuoy soap (red), Sunlight soap (yellow). And of course twice brewed tea. Not tea bags, tea.
But in spite of it all we're we unhappy?
Too bloody right. It shaped my character that's for sure.
Yes, I remember all those things in bold you mentioned and like you say all that shaped our characters in those days, that is for definite!
Originally Posted by big ben
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The knife grinder on his bicycle which he would prop up on a stand and pedal away turning a small grinding stone on the crossbar. The Walls Stop me and Buy one Ice cream man on his tricycle.
Johnny Onion on his bike with strings of onions hanging around his neck.
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