What things are you old enough to remember?

[hotfeet 10]

Outside toilet up the garden with squares of newspaper held on the back of the bog door with a nail.

Pee pot under the bed.

Tin bath in front of the coal fire.

Dad taking us up the garden to the outside bog at night and telling us ghost stories when we were constipated.

It worked better than any expensive laxative.:hihi:

[Jim Hardie 534]

I often mention the black jack and fruit salad rip off, when we went to decimal money you only got 8 for 1 new pence thus making them nearly 300%dearer.

 

You're miles out.

[Rampent 10]

Outside toilet up the garden with squares of newspaper held on the back of the bog door with a nail.

Pee pot under the bed.

Tin bath in front of the coal fire.

Dad taking us up the garden to the outside bog at night and telling us ghost stories when we were constipated.

It worked better than any expensive laxative.:hihi:

 

This sounds like my flat right now - without the dad bit.

[Allen 38]

All three ponds on the Rivelin nature trail not being overgrown, and were actually fishable.

Rivelin post office at the top of the trail selling ice cream.

[hotfeet 10]

You're miles out.

 

Why?..........240% ok for you.

Edited March 19, 2013 by hotfeet

[Nagel 10]

I'm old enough to remember the shoe fitting x-ray machines in the shoe shop. You put your feet in the bottom of the machine and looked at the screen on top and you could see the bones in your toes wiggling.

 

I must have seen one of the last ones still around, as they've long since been banned on safety grounds. As a toddler I would spend ages looking at by bones whilst my mum was buying new shoes for my brother.

 

This kind of thing -

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope

 

https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/shoefittingfluor/shoe.htm

[Allen 38]

Jeez you must be ancient Nagel.

Never heard of them. Very interesting to see.

[Nagel 10]

Jeez you must be ancient Nagel.

Never heard of them. Very interesting to see.

 

Haha, yeah ancient

 

I remember the shoe fitting fluoroscope from a shoe shop in Liverpool around 1963. I think some survived until the Seventies, but they're now sought after collectors items.

 

Does anyone remember them from Sheffield?

[gnvqsos 10]

What ever gave you that idea?

 

The references to laundrettes and BW TV,both introduced during the late 1930s.Also the vagueness seemed to confer a certain antiquity to events.

[Vague_Boy 10]

Yorkshire TV's pioneering experiment with breakfast TV in 1977.

 

They showed cartoons and Peyton Place, which was a bit weird, just before school. Also a news program called Good Morning Calendar.

[Rupert_Baehr 10]

Having to learn to speak English because the English weren't smart enough to speak our Language.

[LeMaquis 10]

Yorkshire TV's pioneering experiment with breakfast TV in 1977.

 

Some of us can remember getting Granada and ABC Weekend before Yorkshire TV was founded. We also used to be able to pick up Tyne Tees which was good as they showed highlights of different football matches on Sunday to what Yorkshire showed.