mandpete

My Grandad used to run a Kay's catalogue and I'm sure that's where my Mum got them from. She only ever displayed the flowers. The figurines never managed to get out of their boxes in case they got broken by me or my brothers. By the time she decided it was safe for them to come out she realised she didn't really like them so it was straight back in the boxes they went and put in the back of a cupboard.

ScotsmanInTexas

A couple of good ones!

Yes, every sideboard had a lamp made from a wine bottle!



Yes, who can forget these little beauties or the large amount of people who were electrocuted or badly scalded by them whenever they exploded.



And everybodies auntie had a Lava Lamp in her fire surround.

***

I was looking for a photo of Sir Jimmy's chair but couldn't find one anywhere. Do you remember his chair was the 1970's dream chair. He'd press a button and doors would open and take about 30 seconds about doing it giving him a pot of tea and even the much covvetted Jim'll Fix it badge made of real gold plated tin!

Hey remember those brown and white ploughhorses with the plough thing that used to sit on top of people's telly's?

ImHere

This is very spookie.

Dimsie

Gotta love those lamps!!! What about the Chianti bottle with basket-type base, with a candle in the top, and candle-wax dripping down the sides - all very Bohemian. Even I had one!!!

mandpete

I have just remembered something that me and my Mum were helpless laughing at. My mum and her friends made small rocking chairs out of springy clothes pegs and then would put a plant pot on the seat. They also made
a christmas house thing by folding the pages of a readers digest a certain way, painted it and stuck a plastic robin on the top. Not forgetting the crap doll with a crocheted dress that covered a toilet roll and then was put on the cistern as an ornament.

ScotsmanInTexas

My mother had one of those dolls on the bathroom window, you shoved it's legs in the toilet roll tube and covered the roll with the dress.

Dimsie

A


Now that's a classic!!!

gruffbrown

mine were two tone!!!!

Dimsie

Eee-uwwwwww!!

Englishmum

Did anyone have to accompany their mums to the 'Autumn Fayres' or 'Christmas Bazaars' at their primary school, scout hut or local church hall?

There were often 'rummage' aka 'jumble sales' on at the same event and I wanted to die of shame when my mum would go searching through a pile of clothes looking for a bargain!

They always sold those woolly toilet roll holders (crocheted) with a doll's top torso on them. Yuck.

When I was little I was always fascinated by the 'china' cabinet in my gran's house...she had some ships in bottles which she'd picked up in various seaside resorts, postcards in souvenir frames with 'Skegness', 'Ilfracombe' or 'Torquay' , a musical windmill from Holland (you can guess the tune) and the glass bottles with the seashells stuck to the side of them LOL!

We also had a vinyl settee with orange cushions.....but ours was a cream colour. He he.

gruffbrown

groovy

ScotsmanInTexas

If I had a £1 for every one of these I've saw!

Englishmum

Ok everyone, for a trip down Memory Lane:

http://tv.cream.org/

You can read all about your fave TV programmes from the 70s....'Banana Splits', 'Jackanory', 'Joe 90'....and 'Jim'll Fix It' - complete with some (bad)photos...

Dimsie

Yep - must have been standard stuff for grandmas's!! LOL! Also, mine had a variety of those snowstorm thingies, where you had to shake 'em to make it snow.

ScotsmanInTexas

I downloaded lots of songs from that site once, got all the good ones Rentaghost, Barnaby etc... I think that's also where I downloaded a song by Mr Humphry's of Grace Bros. Quite camp lyrics. ;-) Check it out if it's there.

Yes, it is I just checked, worth a listen if you've never heard this spin off song and this is the link to it:

http://tv.cream.org/specialassignmen.../humphries.mp3

Usual routine double click if you plan on waiting for ages until it downloads fully or right click and save as... then click it from where you download it to.