We had a Hillman Imp, and loved driving along with the back window open. We also used to climb in and out of it when the car was parked.


Who remembers the Austin Maxi as well. With the back seats down you could fit a mattress in the back of the estate.

Cod liver oil, Virol, Scotts Emulsion, Rosehip Syrup. National Dried baby formula. Liberty boddaces, the ones with rubber buttons. Liquorice root and penny everlasting bars. Millets Army Surplus when it really was army surplus stuff. I'm feeling old !!! Not realy.

Oh yes?

Gasp.....Virol...yuck. My aunt thought I was far too thin and used to give me a tablespoon full of the horrid stuff evertime I visited her...which was several times a week.

Scotts Emulsion...again yuck.

Liberty bodices yep I remember them...and the rubber buttons. Felt so grown up when I no longer had to wear them.

I used to lurvee liquorice root.

Ah, I loved Worzel....


But I also loved Tudor Gammon Flavoured Crisps.....

what about those metal roller skates we use to call them flyers also the old push chairs red and white stripes blue and white stripes

helen

oh God yeah, also..those skates were deadly

Do you remember playing on Tumble Bars? Hand Stands and rap the doors and run away.....

How Cool was snooker when we were kids We never missed it I used to put cushions on the floor in front of the TV and sprawl out on them.

And Dave Allen

Oh yes, I had forgotten Milletts - we had one in Croydon and I loved looking in there. I took horse riding lessons and I wanted one of those hard black velvet hats in the worst way!

I think Millets is still around, isn't it? Gone upmarket a bit, like BHS.

We had a Millets in Hastings, it was thee place to buy,,, Parkas,Ben Sherman shirts, Air ware shoes and boots,and ya Two Tone Tonic strides
We also took some of the main brunt of the Mods and Rocker gang wars, i remember the windows of most of the town centre being smashed.. oops i ment

Ah, the good old days.

It has always racked me off that the scene in Quadrophenia showing the Mods approaching Brighton over the Downs wasn't shot anywhere near Brighton. Eastbourne, I think.

I remember going down to the Ford showrooms in London in 1960 to pick up a new Ford Anglia my dad had ordered from Canada before he came home.

Wasnt it shot at beachy head,

That was at the end, I think. The entry into Brighton bit had a view of a town that I cannot envisage from any bit of the Downs that I know.