Remember when - for some of we older grapes

[Potstubsdustbins]

AP #15 Izal loo paper, They must have had the contract for Nottingham schools because they all used it, personally I think it was specially designed to be a real pain in the arris.

Auntie Flo #19 That was my job after tea, sit to table, listening to the radio cutting up yesterdays news paper, thread the squares on a shoe lace tied with a bow so it could be used again. People of our generation didn't recycle for fun, it was a necessity.

The smell of the paraffin lamp in the outside loo to prevent freezing.

Starting work for EMGAS Jan 1962 and finding that people in Nottingham Park still had butlers, and housemaids etc. Also that there were people a lot worse off than me and my friends.

Coming down in a morning for a strip wash and mother had lit the gas oven to warm the kitchen, Not much Elf & Safety there then

[Lumpy]

My Grandma was a gold leaf cutter - she took me to the factory with her one day when I was very little. 3 buses with clippies and proper ticket machines later we got to the end of the terraced street where the business was located and you could hear the noise from there. Bang Bang Bang etc.
Going through the back of the converted house we went into a room where there were 3 huge men, naked chests and arms, huge wide, thick belts using their forearms and chests to flatten out large lumps of gold that had been covered with vellum. Then they would start with the hammers.
It was amazing how they were flattening that gold.
The company still exists in Birmingham but now with a huge factory to work in and I suppose machines to do the manual labour.
I do however have very fond memories of the boss Mr Meadows who gave me chocolate buttons every week.

[JanieB]

My grandma didn't trust washing machines and used dolly tubs, water heated in a copper, scrubbing brush, fairy soap, washboard and a slopstone sink. In wet weather the washing was dried on racks pulled up to the ceiling.

[Potstubsdustbins]

That sparks another memory for me, my mother was a `smocker` at Bairns Wear. If you remember the little children's dress's with the intricate hand stitched patterns on the front that seemed elasticated, that's what her and her colleagues produced. They were on piece work and paid by the dozen produced, I remember Dad built her a frame at home and she would sit for hours at night listening to the radio and stitching away and woe betide me if I broke her concentration.

Like Lumpy at certain times I was taken to the factory. My mother worked in a huge room and next to her line of workers were the machinists also on piece work. A hundred plus industrial sewing machines all going hell for leather, the noise was so horrendous that you could not hear your neighbour speak so all the women could lip read and carryon normal conversations just as if they were outside.

I learnt at a very early age you did not say anything naughty if Mum could see your lips no mater how far away you were. When you got close enough a clip round the 'lughole' was a certainty.

[skeggijon]

Lol as a kid, I used to do a milk round, delivering those thick glass, wide necked bottles - having to carry three bottles in each hand.

[Lumpy]

the nit nurse...

[Aberdeenplotter]

oh and we boys had to cough for the District nurse . Mind you, boys maybe still have to cough for the District nurse

[JanieB]

I forgot to mention the mangle. This particular granny was the district nurse and midwife.

[Potstubsdustbins]

oh and we boys had to cough for the District nurse . Mind you, boys maybe still have to cough for the District nurse

Well you do for an army medical LOL

[JanieB]

Well you do for an army medical LOL

What still? My dad was the only local doctor that had been in the forces when conscription was still around so did all the medicals for the conscriptees. That's when I learnt to play dominoes and crib. The medicals were done in the TA hall on Saturdays after his morning surgery. I used to go swimming whilst he was in surgery then I was left with the watchman when he was doing the medicals.

[Lumpy]

maths with paper and pencil
my first insulin syringes that are now part of a museum display
omo washing powder

[Nicos]

Wind up metal toys..

[Bill HH]

The first tv soaps "The groves" and the "Appleyards" The "crackerjack" show. Running home from school for my dinner when I was 6 and listening to the "goon show" on the wireless. Dan dare on Luxemberg in the evening.
Valves in the Tv and wireless packing up every other day.
Our outside loo was a two holer, kinky or what! I learnt never to shine the torch down there because all you could see was rats eyes reflecting back.
Bread being delivered daily, petrol stations where they filled up for you and checked your oil water and tyre pressures for you. The AA and Rac saluting members. Watching a field being ploughed by a steam engine (Already replaced by tractors but still a few around). eeeee them were the days.
"Andy pandy" ans "Loobyloo" (She was no better that she ought to be), "Ivanhoe" and "Robin Hood"

eeeee them were the days.

[Lumpy]

8 black jacks or fruit salad for a penny
marathon not snickers
jif not cif
proper liqourice
Grandma cooking tripe (pong)

[roitelet]

8 black jacks or fruit salad for a penny
marathon not snickers
jif not cif
proper liqourice
Grandma cooking tripe (pong)

Flying saucers, shrimps and sherbert dabs with the liqorice straw