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  • Pathfinder
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    edited December 2017 #782

    I remember Liquorice wood

  • robsail
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    edited December 2017 #783

    I remember getting a second hand bike that my grandfather had done up! as a Christmas present and I was grateful as it arrived on the roofrack on my grandfathers car!

  • G Cherokee
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    edited December 2017 #784

    Lapping in inlet and exhaust valves with carberundum paste and a stick!!

     

     

    And Jimmy Clitheroe

  • HOTORMOMER
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    edited December 2017 #785

    I remember running along to the shop for my mum to buy a packet of five cigarettes usually Turf or Woodbines.

  • HOTORMOMER
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    edited December 2017 #786

    Does anyone remember the start of Rock 'n' Roll with Bill Haley Little Richard etc.? I do, it'll stay with me forever. Great times.

  • triky auto
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    edited December 2017 #787

    And Gene Vincent ,,,Chuck Berry,,,Buddy Holly ,,,Lonnie Donegan etc etc .

  • papgeno
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    edited December 2017 #788

    So do, I we bought it from the greengrocer. The other kind of liquorice that you bought to suck and stick in a bag of sherbet was always called "Spanish" round these parts.

  • robsail
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    edited December 2017 #789

    There was Spanish Gold which was a cinnamon flavoured Coconut 

    sweet tobacco 

  • triky auto
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    edited December 2017 #790

    Sherbert saucers .  (tongue stingers ) tongue-out.

  • HOTORMOMER
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    edited December 2017 #791

    Yeah triky the list goes on. I remember seeing Gene Vincent at Slough Adelphi, with I think Joe Brown and a few other greats from that era. He was in great pain which I think was the result of the car crash in which he was travelling with Eddie Cochrane who was killed!

  • HOTORMOMER
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    edited December 2017 #792

    Oops sorry about the typo Eddie.That should have read 'Cochran'

  • triky auto
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    edited December 2017 #793

    wink And Joe Brown is STILL doing show's etc !!.

  • robsail
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    edited December 2017 #794

    I remember when on celebrity mastermind

    a) you knew who the celebs were

    b) you understood the questions in the specialist section!

  • robsail
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    edited January 2018 #795

    I remember when Easter Eggs were in the shops near Easter not at Hogmanay!

     

  • HOTORMOMER
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    edited January 2018 #796

    I remember when my dear old mum discovered Vesta paella. It was a packet of dried vegetables and rice which when mixed with hot water swelled up to resemble something like food. We thought that this was how the other half lived and we had joined them!

  • triky auto
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    edited January 2018 #797

    I remember when after leaving home ,finding that Spaghetti did'nt come in tins with a watery sauce !!surprised.

  • Jo J
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    edited February 2018 #798

    I remember when tins of baked beans didn’t have ring pulls

  • ABM
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    edited February 2018 #799

    I  remember  ( just )  when  music  came " With  Vocal  Refrain "

  • Paulsy
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    edited February 2018 #800

    I remember in the early cold mornings having to push the car, along with helpful neigbours to get it started.

  • triky auto
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    edited February 2018 #801

    I remember "totters" (scrap men) collecting their haul using horse and cart !! (There's a video on 'facebook )

  • Navigateur
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    edited February 2018 #802

    I remember when caravans were pulled by horses.

  • robsail
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    edited February 2018 #803

    Farthings with that nice wren on one side!

  • triky auto
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    edited February 2018 #804

    Four farthings = one penny,

    six pennies = a six pence, (a tanner )

    twelve pence = one shilling, (a bob) or two at six pence.

    a florin = two shillings,  (two bob )

    half a crown =two shillings and six pence,

    a crown = five shillings, ( five bob )

    ten shillings = (ten bob ) i.e,two x five bob.

    a pound ,(240 pence) =two ten bob ,or four five bob,eight two bob etc..

     

  • ABM
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    edited February 2018 #805

    Trikey surprised!!  Have  you  been  looking  thro  my  Piggy  Bank surprised ??

     

    { That's  about  all  it  amounts  to  !! }

  • Navigateur
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    edited February 2018 #806

    You didn't mention the multi-sided three pence piece, which the new pound coin sort of resembles but I dont think it is worth as much.

     

     

  • Jo J
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    edited February 2018 #807

    What about pound notes then?

  • cyberyacht
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    edited February 2018 #808

    Half a crown was also known as 'half a dollar' when I 'twere a lad . When the $ was 4 to the £.

  • Paulsy
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    edited February 2018 #809

    I remember when my older Brother used to following the Horse and Cart man and shovel up the manure to put on our garden.

  • papgeno
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    edited February 2018 #810

    I remember going out milk sampling at crack of dawn. One milkman delivered with a horse and cart and the horse knew the round so well that it didn't need telling where to stop.

  • ABM
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    edited February 2018 #811

    and  that  big  white  Fiver smile

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