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

[Proto]

Tyre Saver Flint Catchers

 

[Proto]

Riding to an event carrying your best wheels

 

[Proto]

Hairnets

 

[Proto]

Seat tube gear lever

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Vimto

 

[youngoldbloke]

Long, hot, dry summers

 

[meadows]

Not sure if this one is in here but my favourite cartoon as a child "Bod" remeber trying to show it to my eldest when she was about 5, her expression. Safe to say we didnt watch much of it.

 

[andabby]

A Now music cassette without a number

 

[Tin Pot]

[QUOTE 5022163, member: 259"]Postal orders.[/QUOTE]

I am only vaguely aware of what they were/are, and no, I don't want to know

Cheques of any sort.

Letters.

 

[Onthedrops]

And there’s more!

Bloody hefty Ever Ready cycle lights.

White dog turds

Black &white telly

John Cravens Newsround

Balaclavas knitted by your Nan.

Roads full of mainly British made cars

Bank books

Kids in wellies in the summer

Smoking in pubs and other public places

Impetigo(kids with shaved and purple painted heads)

When politically correctness was unheard of

Star jumpers and side pocket trousers with 3” waist bands

Windows iced up on the inside

Getting the cane at school

 

[screenman]

I would like to add that a lot of things on he lists in this post are still the norm in Lincolnshire.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Airmail.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

England (seniors) won a World Cup (apparently).

 

[Paulus]

Still got my ration coupons !

Same here.

 

[Paulus]

And there’s more!

Bloody hefty Ever Ready cycle lights.