Originally Posted by BC Hopefuls

As a young apprentice plumber, OH was sent down the drain to smash up the tippler toilets when they were putting inside bathrooms in. Made his eyes water

I remember the coal man, the rag & bone man and the Corona man We used to buy Dandelion & Burdock from him.
Grans co-op number was 3058. I could never remember my Mum's number so Gran always got the divi!!

I also remember being changed from town gas to natural gas and having 'something done' to the gas cooker so it would work!

Going to the newsagents for 20 Everest for my Mum and to the bakery for a split tin and getting into trouble for eating the crusts on the way home. I got tuppence pocket money and always wanted to buy a Mars Bar but they were sixpence and I wasn't disciplined enough to save up for one so it was years before I ever tasted one.

Originally Posted by Trophy

Anyone alse remember Calypso ices, shaped like a pyramid, took ages to eat, even in the summer.

Originally Posted by BristolUK

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Originally Posted by BristolUK

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Originally Posted by Yes-can-do

I remember:

• The day we got our very first coloured TV ..................
  
• The first day of decimalisation..............
  
• Being the proud owner of a video recorder with 'remote control' that was actually on the end of a long piece of cable and was a tripping hazard as it snaked its way across the living room floor............................
  
• Feeling very trendy getting a 'trim phone' (with an annoying ringtone)
  
• Taping the top 20 off the radio on a Sunday night onto my cassette player, trying to cut out the DJ's voice between the tracks.
  
• My boss's new mobile phone back in the late 80s which was actually the size of a normal phone and twice as heavy - how convenient

Lastly, the women of the 1960s and 1970s (and dare I say 80s) - why o why did they wear your hair in rollers night after night, day in, day out, never actually exposing those curls because they permanently wore a headscarf. Now, many did comb out the first 2 rollers to expose a wavy fringe and of course the lumps and bumps under the scarf did nothing to discuise the fact you had 100s of rollers in your head. Some ladies did finally remove their rollers and style their hair but would then put the headscarf back on again incase a teeny tiny breath of wind blew their lacquered bouffants flat

Originally Posted by Dave+Jules

It's FRIDAY,
It's 5 o'clock
It's CRACKERJACK!!!

I used to love watching the kids trying to balance the cabbages as they collected their prizes