Products you miss

[Mr Celine]

1,1,1 trichloroethane, a truly wonderful solvent.

Carbon tetrachloride was even better, but unfortunately worse for health. We used it at school for cleaning electrical contacts.

 

[Fnaar]

Bit of pirate theme here...
Spanish Gold sweet tabaccy:

Old Jamaica chocolate:

 

[jefmcg]

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Ah!

Did they freeze them in summer?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Banjo/Trophy chocolate biscuits

 

[classic33]

Warbutons "Toasty" and "Crusty" loaves. Brown bread, not this wholemeal they sell now as brown bread.

 

[classic33]

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Having a 2lb bag of the Texan to myself. Cost, 16p.

 

[Cycleops]

Replaced by model rocket motors.

https://www.jetex.org/

Plus you can also still get a great range of rockets from Estes:
https://www.estesrockets.com
Don't know about mail order though!
Used to sell loads when at Hobbystores but they don't seem to do them anymore, maybe due to the aforementioned.

 

[Cycleops]

I saw an old casio digital watch today. Made me nostalgic for the one I used to have in the 80s

Can still get them today and they're rather cool.

 

[classic33]

Plus you can also still get a great range of rockets from Estes:
https://www.estesrockets.com
Don't know about mail order though!
Used to sell loads when at Hobbystores but they don't seem to do them anymore, maybe due to the aforementioned.

Hobbystores closed up shop the end of 2015. Get mine from the flight centre, Leeds.

On the street, not online, model shops.

 

[Dirk]

Park Drive fags in packs of 5.

 

[Smokin Joe]

On the street, not online, model shops.

You beat me to that.

Going into a good one was like dying and waking up in heaven.

 

[Nigeyy]

Co-op Bronchial Cough mixture, it looked like a very pale liquid Marmite (mmm, Marmite!). Put the kettle on to boil, put a teaspoon or two into a mug and pour the hot water in. Tasted delicious. They stopped making it a time ago, so I wonder if it had crystal meth/heroin or similar substance in it (either that or they found it had a carcinogen no doubt).

It made having bronchitis or a nasty cough almost a pleasure.

 

[Nigeyy]

I'm also giving a shout out to Cola flavoured Spangles and Nuttall's Mintoes as well (and you'd still get change out of half a sixpence).





It were all fields it were.....

 

[Drago]

The ice cream man outside the school gates used to sell fags to kids for 10p each. Those were the days.

 

[Mo1959]

Fry’s 5 centres chocolate bar.