General Chat

We used to write our names in the sawdust on the butcher's floor.
Can remember Mam's Coop. divi, to this day ( I have it as one of my pin nos.)
Coal man arriving and counting the bags as they were carried to the coal-house door :-D

I remember Sainsbury's when they only sold bacon, cheese & cooked meats.

Our Co-op butcher had sawdust on the floor too.

Just across the road was main Co-op shop, where little money cannisters used to glide on a wire above our heads to the young lady assistant in the glass-fronted office in the corner. She sorted out the change and popped it in the container and back it came along the wire, as if by magic.

A few weeks before Christmas Mum had a cleaning frenzy and Dad was called on to fix the rods and brush together to sweep the chimney' before Father Christmas comes'.
We children used to run into the garden and shout when the brush poked out of the chimney top.

Gwyn

Yes, hubby and I are nodding our heads remembering all the good oldies and yes Trish, I can remember our village Co-op store with the sawdust on the floor and the cash being whizzed on the wire into the cashiers box, and then the great excitement with pay-outs on Divi-Day. Lovely memories and happy days as I recall.

I still clean our fire grate and still hold a newspaper across the front of the fire sometimes to make it draw :-D

Lesley x

Who put a sheet of coloured cellophane paper over the screen of the B&W tv?

:-D

I used to hold the cellophane off a Quality Street sweet up to my eyes to pretend we had a colour TV :-)

We finally got around to getting a colour set in the early 1970's it was the size of a washing machine!

"Its great service you get
renting your colour set from Granada
Its better TV, we're sure you'll agree
rent Granada"

I was lucky enough to win a colour tv in 1974, just before colour was officially switched on in Oz.

Shared a flat with my brother at the time........ we would switch on the tv just to marvel at the colour test pattern lolol

:-D