The Nostalgia Thread

[Glow worm]

Wavelength instead of frequency . radio 1 was 275 /285 metres not 1053 Khz and 1089Khz ( 1107Khz on Merseyside !!)

Caroline on 319........ding ding!...sigh.....

 

[Doseone]

Mary, Mungo and Midge

 

[vernon]

Pugh, Pugh, Barney Mcgrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb,

 

[wobbler]

Indian Crete (I think you say it cerete)
Camomile lotion
Rag, Tag and Bobtail

 

[mrandmrspoves]

Anything narrated by Oliver Postgate. ....Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Pogles Wood .....and of course the Clangers. He really was the voice of so many of our childhoods.

 

[mrandmrspoves]

Forgot Bagpuss off my list...

 

[slowmotion]

untipped fags

Passing Clouds, oval shaped?

Also....

Kia Ora orange and Pearl and Dean, and big red curtains in cinemas. The back stalls

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Gauloises and Gitanes.

 

[slowmotion]

Gauloises and Gitanes.

....with Canadian Club and Coke, of course..

...for extra sophistication.

 

[Psycolist]

Taking back Dads empties and getting the price of a LuckyBag or some FruitSalad

 

[colly]

Really interesting chocolate adverts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Rk5wz_OLl1U&feature=endscreen

Saving foil milk bottle tops for charity.
Milk in bottles with the cream settled at the top

 

[slowmotion]

Starting handles, and a paraffin heater under the bonnet to keep our Morris Thousand warm on frosty nights.

Trafficators anyone?

 

[colly]

Yes. Trafficators. Only just mind.

The sound of a steam shunting engine marshalling coal wagons.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Anything narrated by Oliver Postgate. ....Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Pogles Wood .....and of course the Clangers. He really was the voice of so many of our childhoods.

Definitely! I remember it well.
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNiimC07_Ac

 

[Accy cyclist]

Mincemeat that's not full of gristle, baahh!