Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

[The exile]

Bird's Angel Delight (Banana, butterscotch or strawberry flavours, IIRC.

Still very much available

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Fennings Little Healers

 

[dangie]

The school doctor….. “cough….”
Elderly male forum members will remember this

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The original Fiery Jack muscle rub.
Would have mended a broken leg. Either that or you'd soon forget what it was you were using it for.

 

[Harvester]

The school doctor….. “cough….”
Elderly male forum members will remember this

Also the school ‘nit’ nurse who would regularly turn up in the classroom to do her round!

 

[dangie]

Also the school ‘nit’ nurse who would regularly turn up in the classroom to do her round!

All those purple heads. Absolutely no worries back then of the shame & embarrassment & ridicule given from fellow classmates….. “Oh look…… Spotty Johnson’s got nits….!!”

Too bl**dy soft nowadays

 

[DelW]

Waiting eagerly for the strains of Puffing Billy which introduced Children's Favourites on the Light Service.

Being picky, wasn't it Light Programme, but Home Service? Along with Third Programme which was also known as Network Three at times.

I remember radios with glass fascias with those and foreign station names printed on the tuning scale, along with numbers for wavelength and/or frequency. Hilversum and Strasburg were two that I seem to recall.

 

[Calthrop]

I remember radios with glass fascias with those and foreign station names printed on the tuning scale, along with numbers for wavelength and/or frequency. Hilversum and Strasburg were two that I seem to recall.

Kalundborg always intrigued me -- mystique of the Northlands and all that.

 

[GordonT]

The exceptionally loud "cap" guns that children used to play with quite extensively which emitted a smell of gunpowder when fired.

 

[McRhu]

Being picky, wasn't it Light Programme, but Home Service? Along with Third Programme which was also known as Network Three at times.

You're right, yes.

All those exotic names waiting to be invoked by a twist of the dial (once the valves had warmed up). Hilversum and Luxembourg are the two which stand out for me. Was Caroline there too? Mementoes from when the world was a larger, more mysterious place filled with remote placenames like the incantations of The Shipping Forecast, or the fragile 1960s Eurovision telephone voting. I still listen to Sailing By on my iPhone.

 

[AM9]

Still very much available

In the '70s there were also Instant Whips (cue bawdy puns and other comments ), which were slightly cheaper and less sickly than Angel Delights.

 

[Ostrich]

I remember radios with glass fascias with those and foreign station names printed on the tuning scale, along with numbers for wavelength and/or frequency. Hilversum and Strasburg were two that I seem to recall.

Listening clandestinely to Radio Luxembourg 208, and those various pirate trawlers just off the coast which used to fade in and out on my small battery-opated radio ....... Radio Caroline for one?

 

[GordonT]

Germoline for cuts and grazes. Smell of it was dreadful.

 

[75A]

The exceptionally loud "cap" guns that children used to play with quite extensively which emitted a smell of gunpowder when fired.

My cousin and I would 'borrow' matches from my Parents and set fire to the blue strips. We'd also disect fireworks and use my Fathers yellow can of Lighter Fluid to add fuel.

 

[Ediswan]

Germoline for cuts and grazes. Smell of it was dreadful.

Still widely available.

 

[najaB]

Still widely available.

Maybe it's memory being less than it could, but I'd say that it doesn't smell nearly as pungent as it used to.

 

[MotCO]

Maybe it's memory being less than it could, but I'd say that it doesn't smell nearly as pungent as it used to.

It's probably "new and improved"!

 

[dangie]

School Milk Monitor.
Of course that was back in the days of school milk.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

According to the old advert, but is it really true than a million housewives every day pick up a tin of beans and say....."Beans meanz Heinx".....yes, I do know the rude version.

In our home, we followed the opposition...."HP Baked Beans, the're the beans for me"......I was not aware that Hewlett Packard also did food items.

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School Milk Monitor.
Of course that was back in the days of school milk.

I wonder how many children thought that was a reptile with a taste for dairy products.

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Some adverts in the old days were blatantly untrue. I remember "You'll look a little lovelier each day, with fabulous Pink Camay". Tried it every day for a month, after wet shaving and saw no difference...

 

[Western Sunset]

School Milk Monitor.
Of course that was back in the days of school milk.

Still have them. Some of the older children, who arrive early in school, distribute milk to the younger children's classrooms. Tetris packs, rather than small glass bottles, now though.

 

[GordonT]

School Milk Monitor.
Of course that was back in the days of school milk.

I remember the old one-third pint bottles whose contents sometimes became a bit cheesy if the sun was shining onto the crate.
I also recall the slogan "Thatcher milk snatcher" when the free school milk was abolished.

 

[Trackman]

Dialling was 10 pulses per second signalling. So basically, if you dialled a 1, 1 pulse would be sent down the line . If you diall a 2, 2 pulses would be sent down the line. Tapping the switch hooks had the same effect. Tap the switch hooks once was equivalent to dialling a 1 Etc. That was the theory anyway.

Well I never.
I remember the old ring back for pulse phones, 174. Good for a prank.
It's still going these days.. 17070 I think.

Still have them. Some of the older children, who arrive early in school, distribute milk to the younger children's classrooms. Tetra packs, rather than small glass bottles, now though.

Bet it's not free.
Tetris packs eh? Corrected for you

I remember the old one-third pint bottles whose contents sometimes became a bit cheesy if the sun was shining onto the crate.
I also recall the slogan "Thatcher milk snatcher" when the free school milk was abolished.

So one third it was? Also thought it was a quarter. You live and learn.
Going back to free milk, I'm sure we had a 'straw monitor' too.

The exceptionally loud "cap" guns that children used to play with quite extensively which emitted a smell of gunpowder when fired.

On similar lines are those little small white paper crystal things you threw on a hard surface that made a loud cracking sound still a thing? Might as well throw stink bombs into the equation too.

 

[najaB]

On similar lines are those little small white paper crystal things you threw on a hard surface that made a loud cracking sound still a thing?

Yes. Bought some a couple weeks back.

 

[AM9]

So one third it was? Also thought it was a quarter. You live and learn.
Going back to free milk, I'm sure we had a 'straw monitor' too.

Well, I remember the inkwell monitor!

 

[McRhu]

Well, I remember the inkwell monitor!

I recall dipping bits of blotting paper into the inkwell, flicking the resultant pellets from a ruler and ruining somebody's brand new shirt collar, causing him to burst into tears. I still feel guilty despite it being straight out of The Beano.

 

[317 forever]

Blancmange

They haven't been in the charts for nearly 40 years

 

[Ashley Hill]

They haven't been in the charts for nearly 40 years

Neil Arthur still performs.

 

[DerekC]

Blackboards, written on with squeaky chalk. And wooden blackboard erasers — thrown at dreamy boys by our Latin teacher.

 

[BanburyBlue]

Old insults. Just heard on tv someone saying “shut your cake hole”. I remember being a kid and being told by my parents “I’ll have your guts for garters”.

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[Xenophon PCDGS]

Old insults. Just heard on tv someone saying “shut your cake hole”. I remember being a kid and being told by my parents “I’ll have your guts for garters”.

Often heard in the days of yore when a mother was being annoyed by her very young daughter..."Just wait till I get you home, lady".

 

[AM9]

Often heard in the days of yore when a mother was being annoyed by her very young daughter..."Just wait till I get you home, lady".

"I've Lost My Mummy" song by Rolf Harris.