Things you remember from back in the day? (5 Viewers)

[Sumo the Micky Quinn]

Those little furry snake things with wire that you ran between your fingers to pretend they were real

I worked for the company in Nuneaton which packaged them, I was their rep.

They were mainly sold in seaside resorts with a TV & Video sales promotion "Watch out, Watch Out theirs a wigglee about!"

 

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[dutchman]

I remember rag and bone men coming around the street with a horse and cart.

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.

 

[ccfc92]

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?

Banned in most schools due to health and safety I believe

 

[skybluedan]

These

 

[skybluedan]

And these monstrositys

 

[robbieray]

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

 

[skybluedan]

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

Hahahaha how old are you robbie

 

[robbieray]

15

 

[robbieray]

ish

 

[skybluedan]

Shit I thought you were gonna say 70 or something

 

[robbieray]

Lol 60

 

[skybluedan]

Remember someone saying they used to dig up bottles when they were a kid back in the day, thank fuck I was part of the PlayStation generation

 

[Houchens Head]

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!

Another Gulson Rd Hospital Baby! Snap! :happy:

 

[Houchens Head]

I'm gonna be brave and put up a picture of me riding a toy chariot. It was made by Triang Toys. This was in front of our house in George Street, Hillfields, around 1955/6. God! Wasn't I cute!

 

[robbieray]

You not nick Skelton are you

 

[Houchens Head]

You not nick Skelton are you

No, but I know where he lives!

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

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.

 

[henry the wasp]

These

Had a pair of pony linebacker around 83-84 ish.

 

[henry the wasp]

And these monstrositys

Ordered a pair in the clarks sale yesterday. Not purple though.

 

[Houchens Head]

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.

They've disappeared because they've all realised they were wrong! :emoji_laughing:

 

[rondog1973]

Hard but fair tackling in professional football applauded not red carded.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

Moon dust.

 

[skybluedan]

Ordered a pair in the clarks sale yesterday. Not purple though.

Yeah I looked at a Clarks sandy coloured pair

 

[Houchens Head]

Moon dust.

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 ............
Space Dust & Popping Candy - Space Dust, Sherbet & Sherbet Sweets - Buy Sweets

 

[Gazolba]

Anyone remember the guy in Broadgate with the huge balloon? He carried around this huge balloon and was selling uninflated ones. My father bought one once but of course none of the balloons he sold blew up to anywhere near the huge one he carried. One of the earliest scams I remember.

 

[Gazolba]

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'.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

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'.

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.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

Another pool meadow favourite - Sailor sam.
He used to scare me whenever I saw him. Always wore with sailors suit or Army gear.

 

[wingy]

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.

We used to have a guy with a metal hand out in the sticks.
Can't recall his name.
Might have been Frank.

 

[skybluejelly]

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.

I do this on the self service tills in asda with the recipts...about 50cm is my best so far

 

[skybluejelly]

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

 

[wingy]

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

Just your palette changes with age.

 

[torchomatic]

Mojos. A mint chewy sweet that cost 5 for 1/2p at the local VG.

Corona bottles where you could get 2p and then eventually 5p when you took them into an off licence.

Pretend tobacco pouches that contained sweets. Sweet cigarettes with a red end. None of this "candy stick" nonsense.

Screwballs and Lord Toffinghams.

Horlicks tablets.

 

[dutchman]

Mojos. A mint chewy sweet that cost 5 for 1/2p at the local VG.

 

[torchomatic]

I can't see the pictures on the hossy wifi. Bugger. Then again i would only crave them.