Can you name things that youngsters of today won't know?

[Dirk]

Chocolate 'Young Smokers' kits at Christmas.

 

[screenman]

A breakfast trip. Or the Breakfast bus.

I think this is black country thing.

During the early 80s while doing my tool making apprenticeship the annual works outing was a trip where the bus (coach) picked you up at around 9.00am where the drinking started. Depending on where you were on the pick up route resulted how much you'd had to drink! Once everyone was onboard it was off to a greasy spoon or transport cafe for more beer and and a full english to line the stomach for a full day of pub to pub drinking with the coach/bus taking us between each one. Those that could make it through to mid evening at the final pub for tea, normally a fish and chip supper. Wonderful memories...

If I drank that much memories would be would be something I would not have.

 

[Eribiste]

1/64" , 1/32" , 1/16" etc.
94lb/yard bullhead rail.
Lucas black and yellow striped copper wire ignition leads.
Castrol R40 oil (Oh, that aroma.....)
And other dinosaur stuff like that.

 

[tyred]

The fun of setting contact-breaker points.

 

[Dirk]

Villiers two stroke engined lightweight motorcycles.
James, Francis Barnett, Ambassador etc.

 

[Dirk]

Siba 'Dynastart'.*



* That's one for the Bond Minicar owners.

 

[roadrash]

getting a selection box at Christmas with a bar six in it

 

[classic33]

Cabana's

 

[TheDoctor]

Malibu and pineapple.
Pernod and black.
God, what were we thinking?

 

[slowmotion]

Bus conductors and their fantastic ticket machines. Ratchet click heaven.

Edit: It's a Gibson A14 ticket machine. They go for £500 to £800 on eBay. The magnificent S&M-style leather sling can cost a couple of hundred more.

 

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Conversing with a relative born in the 19th century, my grandfather was born in 1896 & my grandmother 1899, clearly I don't now, but hopefully you understand the sentiment.

 

[Dirk]

Conversing with a relative born in the 19th century, my grandfather was born in 1896 & my grandmother 1899, clearly I don't now, but hopefully you understand the sentiment.

One of my grandmothers was born in 1883 - 30 years old when WW1 broke out.She died in 1977. Lovely lady. The changes she must have seen in her lifetime!
Both my grandfathers were born in 1894 and both served during WW1; one in the trenches (Post Office Rifles) and one in the Royal Navy.
I can still vaguely remember my great grandmother who was born in the late 1860s!

 

[Proto]

 

[midlife]

Rock tumbling in the garage

Although I see you can still buy them......

 

[pplpilot]

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Found boxes of these in the loft when we moved into current house.