General Chat

You are old when you can remember:

Black and White TV as the norm
Mothers 'walking' their children to school
The excitement at the arrival of BBC2
Children playing in the streets
Christmas starting in November not the middle of summer
The milkman, breadman and pop man all delivering to the door
Money back on empty pop bottles
TV closing down at 11pm with the National anthom and a reminder to ''please remember to turn off your set...good night'
Pearl & Dean cinema ads
Sundays with the shops closed and people sitting down together for lunch
Remembering to buy the dog licence
Outside loos
No hot water on tap
Red phone boxes
Party lines if you were lucky enough to have a phone at home
BT being part of the GPO and a 3 month waiting list to have a phone installed
Cigarette advertising being glamourous
Shops with a chair by the counter to sit on
The rag and bone man - he would give you a balloon as a kid if you gave him something
Summer holidays being days out or a trip to the seaside - abroad? you must be joking
Tin baths in front of the fire
Utility furniture
Radio grams
Mono
Men wearing suits and ties just to go shopping
Playgrounds in the parks (pre Health & Safety police)
Open air lidos
Police phone boxes
Buses with conductors and no door at the back!
Footballers appearing only on the sports pages not in the gossip columns
Footballers shaving their faces not their legs!
The Pathe newsreel at the cinema
Circus's with animals
Gay meant happy
Working mens clubs 'no women allowed'
BlackBerrying was fruit picking not playing with a smartphone
Bacolite being a modern marvel
Weekly pay in cash (the lovely little brown envelope)
Sweets by the ounce from big jars
Same scales used to weigh everything from sausage to cheese without cleaning!
Fish & Chips on a Friday evening from the chippy
Forces Favourtites on a Sunday lunchtime radio
and Sing Something Simple before bedtime
School milk - frozen in winter curdled in the summer!
Plus Adders - not calculators
No VAT
Half a Crown, Sixpence, Threppeny Bits and Farthings
Ten Bob notes
Out of town meant countryside not retail parks
Hospital Matrons ruling with a firm hand
Britain being Great
Britain having an Empire

Ah memories...what are yours?

I can remember all those easily Col except we didn't have an outside loo and di have hot water on tap.
Not sure about the Pearly and Dean adverts though.

Yep remember all them,
And cold lino to jump out of bed onto on a frosty morning then scrape the ice off the INSIDE of the windows.

I remember dad buying our first colour TV. It was red.

Ok - I'm going!

Waiting for the valves to warm up on the radio & come to that on the tele, then after it went off watching the little white dot disappear off the screen.

Think I am old, no I know I am old, remember most !!
:-D

All of the above plus

Tea, sugar and biscuits all sold loose
Milk and bread delivered by horse and cart
Tripe and chitlins from the cook shop
Rationing
A coal house
Using a newspaper as a draw tin when lighting the fire
Clearing the ashes from the grate

And so many more.

We were poor but we were happy.

I can remember all of them. The worrying thing is yesterday in the middle of talking to a friend I completely went blank when I went to say someone's name. :-(

School milk put me off milk for life.

In the winter they used to put the crates near the big old fashioned radiator to thaw out as the cream had pushed the tops off

Hello Col, I can remember every one of these, yes! I'm that old.
:-D :-D :-D xx

Can remember all thos Col and Jonesey.
Remember Mam renting our first tv from Radio Rental same as the wireless.

Now I am old..but don't feel it..LOL

Can remember all those Col and Jonesey.
Remember Mam renting our first tv from Radio Rental same as the wireless.

Now I am old..but don't feel it..LOL

And the Postman doing a delivery on Christmas Morning. Usually had a drink at most houses, and was pretty well oiled by the time his round had finished.

Listen with Mother
Andy Pandy
And the Woodentops
Wakey Wakey the Billy Cotton Show.....

And in our house a true favourite 'Dick Dot in the Dreen' - Dixon of Dock Green, I could not pronounce it properly and was known by my title forever in our house.

The local Co-op grocery section having a long long counter where everything was sold loose and given in brown paper bags apart from butter which was cut from a large slab and wrapped in greaseproof paper.

Door key hanging on a piece of sting through the letterbox.

Try that nowadays !!!

Biscuits sold loose by the pound, - not sure that all hands that dipped in were that clean.

Christmas parcel post often was delivered from the back of a removal lorry hired from a local firm. I worked on one as a student needing cash.

Hey, wotchit - I still clear out my grate :-D

Paula - you're lucky - I don't just forget names, I forget simple words when I'm talking to someone :-(

Yep can remember all of them and Pearl and Dean adverts were at the cinema.

Mcb we had a key on a string til we discovered a new neighbours boy found out we did so took it down.

Funny thinking about the tv shutting down at 11pm. Imagine if we went back to that .lol.

Guess we are getting old its just some of us dont feel we are!!

Florence
In the hebrides

I remember all of them,haha,I must be old.
In our local Co-op,there used to be sawdust on the floor,the children used to shuffle it about,whilst waiting for our Mums to do their shopping.
Who remembers that one??????????????
:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

I do remember the sawdust in the Co-op and I also remember when my nanna sent me there with a little list she used to write her divi number on it (it was 44158) and I had to tell the lady I gave the money to.

I also remember us having Rediffusion telly and a little box with a dial on.

When we moved into a new house (about the late 50s/early 60s) my mam was so proud that we had an open fire that had gas jets under it so that you just put the coal or coke on and lit it. That was the only heating in the house so we still had ice INSIDE the windows when it was really cold.