Blast from the past - remind us of a thing

[blueg33]

Party telephone lines - you go to make a call and hear your neighbour talking to their friends

fax machines that used one continuous sheet of shiny paper. A 200 page contract was longer than the office!

Putting the distributor in a warm oven to make the car start in the winter

Spaceship shaped waxed cardboard containers full of sherbert

Hedgerow porn

[eskidavies]

AW111 said:

If you scrape the heads off matches, the scrapings do a good gunpowder impersonation, or at least they did in the 1970s.

That’s another reminder,used to get 2 bolts and a nut ,screw nut on bolt 2 threads then scrape match heads into nut ,screw other bolt in and carefully tighten,throw bolt hard at wall ,BANG

[DoctorX]

AW111 said:

bigpriest said:

Your local suburban record shop was a section in a small electrical appliance & repair shop.
Opening a new pack of weetabix, ignoring the food and delving down to reach the Dr Who collector cards (cybermen again).
Everything you sent off for (x-ray specs) took 28 days to arrive and disappointed you.
Single trifles from the local bakers with a tiny plastic shovel.

I remember digging in the cornflakes packet for plastic spacecraft (Apollo era).

My cruel and horrible mother said I should wait till the box was empty, instead of crushing all the cornflakes.

I loved those Doctor Who cards. Check this out. This web site is ace for a bit of nostalgia - search for your favourite cereals.

http://cerealoffers.com/Weetabix_Ltd/Weetabix/1975...

[Kuwahara]

P5BNij said:

Dad leaning over his armchair at 10pm saying ''right you get to bed, school tomorrow'' as the closing credits of 'The Sweeney' appear with the wonderfully melancholia tinged version of the theme tune.

Desperately hoping the heating oil tanker doesn't turn up at school during the winter of discontent, so we can slope off and go home early.

Dalek shaped paraffin heaters stinking the house out.

Dad shouting at the TV whenever Ted Heath appears on it.

Speed & Power magazine.

Saving up pocket money to buy the large scale Airifix Me109 kit.

Cracking tune that ,good times..

[Lotusgone]

Cardboard shoved in front of car radiators in the winter months.

Shiny loo roll (Izal).

The news on at 9pm.

[DickyC]

Oat Krunchies.

Then I checked. They are still made but are now called Oat Crispies. The texture looks different, too. And they're marketed as a source of fibre.

[cuprabob]

Lotusgone said:

Cardboard shoved in front of car radiators in the winter

Also the switching over the inlet to the air filter from hot to cold air.

I remember fondly trying to balance just the right amount of choke and throttle so the car didn't cut out or rev it's nuts off at the first junction in the morning. Young ones today don't know their born

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Lotusgone said:

Cardboard shoved in front of car radiators in the winter months.

Or, if you were posh like me

[brownspeed]

bigpriest said:

Yep - "Bookmark" I think it was called

WOW!!! Moorfield walk, just up from the fibreglass seals* (*WTF??)

[markymarkthree]

Readers wives, in Fiesta.

A large chested bird from the small town where i live posted a pic. Newsagents had to order more copy's.
Still see her about town.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Having playing cards stuck to your front forks & into your spokes on your bike to makes a clack clack clack.

Taking your bottles back for the deposit.

National anthem as the TV shuts down for the night.

Switching your TV from 405 lines to 625 lines to get the new BBC 2 service.

Redifusion TV where the channel changer was a wheel on the wall.

[markymarkthree]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Having playing cards stuck to your front forks & into your spokes on your bike to makes a clack clack clack.

Taking your bottles back for the deposit.

National anthem as the TV shuts down for the night.

Switching your TV from 405 lines to 625 lines to get the new BBC 2 service.

Redifusion TV where the channel changer was a wheel on the wall.

Used to also get a couple of radio stations on that channel changer thingy.

[brownspeed]

reaching 17 years old, buying a 250cc bike (good for well over the legal limit) with absolutely NO training. Usually fitted with terrible Japanese made tyres. Being surprised when you invariably fell off. and again.

[Still Mulling]

DickyC said:

Oat Krunchies.

Then I checked. They are still made but are now called Oat Crispies. The texture looks different, too. And they're marketed as a source of fibre.

I'd hope so! If they were still crunchy but not crispy, that'd just be plain false advertising!

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

markymarkthree said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Having playing cards stuck to your front forks & into your spokes on your bike to makes a clack clack clack.

Taking your bottles back for the deposit.

National anthem as the TV shuts down for the night.

Switching your TV from 405 lines to 625 lines to get the new BBC 2 service.

Redifusion TV where the channel changer was a wheel on the wall.

Used to also get a couple of radio stations on that channel changer thingy.

Bonus!

[bodhi]

Spokey Dokeys

Raleigh Wildcat

"Proper" Blue Smarties

Quattro (the drink, not the Audi thing)

[DickyC]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Or, if you were posh like me

Ooh, that plate! It could have been retained and I could have dreamt of Lotus 7s again.

[bobbo89]

Someone I follow on twitter posted this the other and it was a proper blast from the past. I was very young when they closed but can still picture the store up a Birstall retail park in the mid 90's



That then had me reminiscing over these places...

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

DickyC said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Or, if you were posh like me

Ooh, that plate! It could have been retained and I could have dreamt of Lotus 7s again.

It was wasted on me at the time

[harrycovert]

Reliant 6cwt Van delivering wet fish.