The Nostalgia Thread

[deptfordmarmoset]

and the guide dog ones with a great big golden retriever or Yellow Lab

There's a big guide dog one planted on Island Gardens. I got a bit confused when I discovered that it didn't have a slot for putting coins in.

 

[GaryA]

From my childhood...

 

[slowmotion]

Vernon's pools,Copes pools and Littlewood pools.5/- Postal order for your any 8 from 10 score draws ,four aways and six home results.Then you sat writing down the scores in the morning paper.
Arsenal 1 Aston Villa 1.
Burnley 2 Stoke City 3.
Leeds United 7 Southampton 0.
Those were the days.Football on a saturday at 3-00pm.

Horace Batchelor adverts on Radio Luxembourg

 

[GaryA]

 

[swee'pea99]

and the guide dog ones with a great big golden retriever or Yellow Lab

...and the ones where you brought your can, put in a florin, and out gushed a gallon of paraffin - blue or pink.

 

[Glow worm]

With this thread, (and the anti one), I can only conclude that the past was great, the present is crap and the future frankly doesn't bear thinking about !

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

With this thread, (and the anti one), I can only conclude that the past was great, the present is crap and the future frankly doesn't bear thinking about !

Just shoot yourself now ......

 

[Dave Davenport]

Being young.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month poppies with wire stems (they could be made to fit anything unlike the current plastic thing)

 

[Paulus]

The sound of an old British motorcycle. As opposed to modern British motorcycles that sound the same as Japanese bikes.

 

[Paulus]

When British Railways were known as British Railways, and not British Rail, or Northern Rail, or--you get my drift.

 

[subaqua]

...and the ones where you brought your can, put in a florin, and out gushed a gallon of paraffin - blue or pink.

florin, now thares a term you very rarely hear now. pre 1947 ones are apparently worth a fair bit more than 2 bob

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

When British Railways were known as British Railways, and not British Rail, or Northern Rail, or--you get my drift.

Steam Locomotives

 

[compo]

Press button B

That was also my nickname at junior school!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Whatever happened to Daren? He used to be all over south London.