Those little furry snake things with wire that you ran between your fingers to pretend they were real
There was also the knife-sharpener man with the special tool which he used to straighten out garden shears and scissors so you didn't have to buy a new pair when they became bent.I remember rag and bone men coming around the street with a horse and cart.
Collecting cigarette cards. Used to get them in tea too.
Free gifts in breakfast cereal boxes.
Boys playing marbles and girls playing hopscotch or skipping rope.
Do kids still play conkers?
Did anyone make those winter warmers ? Made holes in a old paint can then filled it coal and firelighters with wired handle and swung them round and round
Another Gulson Rd Hospital Baby! Snap! :happy:When I was little, we played in the bombed out houses at the top of Gulson road, opposite the hospital where I was born. If that was nowadays, our parents would be arrested!
No, but I know where he lives!You not nick Skelton are you
Had a pair of pony linebacker around 83-84 ish.
These
Ordered a pair in the clarks sale yesterday. Not purple though.
And these monstrositys
They've disappeared because they've all realised they were wrong! :emoji_laughing:People outside football matches with signs saying 'The end of the world is nigh' and the like. Always used to see them and they've all but disappeared these days.
Ordered a pair in the clarks sale yesterday. Not purple though.
I thought it was called Space Dust? That's if you mean that stuff that sent the insides of yer gob into a frenzy when you tasted it! If it is, you can still buy it ............Moon dust.
Another bygone thing ... bus conductors. They had this ticket contraption on a leather strap around their neck and would wind a little handle to eject a paper ticket. A well-worn leather pouch held the change. Then I think on some more advanced ticket machines, the conductor just had to press some buttons to eject a ticket.
Then they eliminated the conductors entirely and 'pay as you enter' arrived, first they would give you change but later it became 'exact fare only'.
We used to have a guy with a metal hand out in the sticks.As kids we used to pull the tickets out of the machine really hard as it printed to see who could get the longest one before it cut the ticket off.
As kids we used to pull the tickets out of the machine really hard as it printed to see who could get the longest one before it cut the ticket off.
Just your palette changes with age.Fish paste ...for some reason I thought I remembered it as nice in the 70's ..well I seen some in the supermarket today ..come home made 2 sandwiches .. Took 2 bites ( was convinced it couldn't taste that bad after one bite)and it went straight in the bin...bloody disgusting ...I must have been really hungry in the 70's
Mojos. A mint chewy sweet that cost 5 for 1/2p at the local VG.
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