Oink

Reading penny horribles.
Going down the pub to get the jug filled with ale for your dad.
Gobstoppers
Putting Brilliantine in your hair before school
Woodbines
Blokes with dancing bears
Italians selling hot chestnuts on the street

BristolUK

Jawbreakers here aren't they?
Is it that it's no longer Italians or no longer on the streets?
I bought some at Covent Garden a decade ago.

Siouxie

Sitting on someone's knee in the front seat of a car for a 5 hour journey at age 5 with no seatbelts.

1d and 2d bars of Cadbury's Chocolate; farthing chews.

Threepenny-bit jukeboxes

Knowing how much a florin is worth and what change you would get if you bought an LP for 12/6.

Milly Molly Mandy or Janet and John books.

Listen with Mother on the radio.

Standing in knickers and a vest with all the other girls - and boys - for the school nurse to weigh you.

Being spanked (in front of everyone) with a slipper for talking in class.

Going to the shop to buy the latest 45rpm record.

Oink

How postmodern.

Oink

I don’t mean to cast aspersions about your childhood but there does seem to be rather a lot of inappropriate behavior going on.

Simon Legree

There used to be an old Italian chap with a tricycle charcoal roaster thing on the corner of Yonge and Queen Streets in Toronto who would proclaim in a very load voice that "I gotta da hot nuts". Always a source of amusement to my kids.

Jingsamichty

Opening your door in the morning to let the dog out for the day.

BristolUK

Breadman, eggman, fishman etc driving a van around the streets?

Oink

Those were the days eh? We used to get our onions from a Frenchman who used walk up and down the high street with them around his neck.

Simon Legree

Listening to Radio Luxemburg on a home made transistor radio.
Listening to Alvar Ladell reading the BBC news.
Victor Sylvester and his Ballroom Orchestra playing requests on the BBC Home Service for folks all around the globe.
In Town Tonight with Cliff Mitchelmore
Quatermass

Oink

You must have had a very liberal mum. Mine would shoo me outside to play with the other urchins instead of "wasting my time listening to the wireless."

JonboyE

Watching the Open University because the other two channels had shut down for the night.

Oink

It'd be much better to be a child today. The old days were naffed up.

bats

Loon trousers, smoking on the top deck of a bus, Oxo crisps, Vesta chow mein.

BristolUK

Rag and bone man

daps/plimsolls

Card and peg on the spokes of your bike.