Things that you just don't see now!

[owdlad 10]

Zubes

 

What about Victory V's ?

[Texas 10]

What about, wait for it, wait for it,........BILE BEANS?

[owdlad 10]

Ellimans Universal Embrocation:o

[cat631 10]

Fiery Jack!

 

Get that on your kn@ckers and you knew about it!

I remember Fiery Jack ointment, it really was powerful stuff. I don't think it cured aches and pains, it just substituted one pain for another to take your mind off the original one. I think it had some sort of pepper in it. An old bloke who used to go in my local was having back problems, he got his missus to give his back a good rub with Fiery Jack. When she finished, he must have asked her to rub something else and spent a few hours clinging to the bedroom ceiling.

Whatever happened to typwriters and 78 rpm records, or any other rpm.

[cat631 10]

My grandma lived with us for years and suffered with reumatism. She drank a horrible brownish liquid concoction called Waller's Backache Mixture. Apart from curing her bad back, it helped to wash down her daily dose of Carter's Little Liver Pills.

[scrabble 10]

Can anyone remember the cow in the dairy window on Broadfield Road just down from the clinic and the swimming baths? It ws in one of those cusrved windows! Happy memories going swimming on a Sunday after Sunday school and home for roast beef n yorkshire poudding!

[richardl21 10]

Can anyone remember the cow in the dairy window on Broadfield Road just down from the clinic and the swimming baths? It ws in one of those cusrved windows! Happy memories going swimming on a Sunday after Sunday school and home for roast beef n yorkshire poudding!

 

 

Yes, Express Dairies, the old cow was there for years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[scrabble 10]

I'm not half as old as some of you guys but here's a few things I remember from my childhood.

 

Old buildings with the kitchen in the cellar.

Coal Chutes.

Anyone remember the 'Johnny 7' guns from the sixties, posh kids had 'em.

Kids sat on the garden wall with a stick of Rhubarb and a cup of sugar.

Fire ash sprinkled over icy pavements in winter.

That really nice orange juice in a milk bottle which got delivered on Sundays.

The Lion, Tiger and Valiant comics.

Eating pigeon eggs for tea.

Steam trains.

Castle crisps with the little blue bag of salt in the bottom.

The pop man, ginger beer in those brown pot bottles and the mucky coal man.

Penny arrows and sixpenny lucky bags.

Izal toilet rolls (now please wash your hands)

Batman, Stingray, Thunderbirds and Fireball XL5 on the telly.

The testcard!

Really dangerous fireworks (Air bombs)

Those cast iron boot cleaners/scrapers posh people had outside their front doors.

Capstan full strength and Woodbines.

1001 cleans a big big carpet, for less than half a crown lol.

you can still use Izal toilet paper at the toilets at the bottom of the morr!

[richardl21 10]

Don't seem to see milk floats anymore either.

 

still plenty about but I agree you don't see them a lot. probably because we sensible people are asleep when they come down't road.

 

Dare I admit I used to sell them ? Oh yes!!!!!!! (in a churchill insurance dog sort of way)

 

Mind you I'm better now

 

What about those blue bags they used to pack sugar in at the Co-op

and huge great blocks of butter which they would cut a pound off and wrap it cleverly in greaseproof paper of some sort AND the cones of paper that sweets were sold in !

[flashbang 10]

I used to have a spoonful of brown sticky stuff, I think it was called malt and ???? cant remember what else was in it, but it tasted lovely, can anyone help with this and can you still buy it?

[keywest 10]

A penny's worth of wafers - when you didn't have enough money for an ice cream!

Howard's Dairies that sold strawberry ice cream with real strawberries in the middle of winter - after a swim at Hillsborough baths.

[cat631 10]

I used to have a spoonful of brown sticky stuff, I think it was called malt and ???? cant remember what else was in it, but it tasted lovely, can anyone help with this and can you still buy it?

Cod liver oil and malt, I remember it being in brown jars. I too loved it and would like to know if still available.