Things one does not see anymore...

[Minotier]

Esso Blue paraffin sold from a self service unit on garage forecourts.
Plus 4 star petrol at 8 shilling (40 pence) a gallon!

 

[Archie_tect]

A Loo in the back garden, with a pull chain.

A flushing toilet? Posh....

 

[Rob3rt]

Doc Marten boots. The must have accessory when I was at school. Haven't seen a pair in years.

Are you for real? Where do you live? Wearing tights as pants (trousers/leggings), jumpers way too big for you, big fat framed granny glasses with no lenses and doc martins is the height of female fashion! They look absolutelly ridiculous, their parents or someone, a teacher perhaps, ought to tell them that everyone can see their business! Maybe not a teacher, they would probably end up on charges!

 

[Archie_tect]

Never wise to flush a toilet below sea level...

 

[colly]

Ooh, my dad used to love playing about with them bombs!

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Did your dad ever bring his work home with him ?

 

[Minotier]

[QUOTE 2466261, member: 259"]I often toy with this idea. I've got a massive shed with running water and it's only a few feet away from the septic tank. [/quote]

Take the shed roof off though or fit a skylight, there is nothing to make you marvel at the universe whilst looking at a starry sky, feeling at your most vulnerable sitting on the toilet!

 

[Ciar]

A Loo in the back garden, with a pull chain.

ahh the golden years, popping outside and using newspaper while freezing your cods off, don't miss that ;-)

 

[Beebo]

Barbican Alcohol Free Lager

The stuff is all over the Gulf, mainly because 99% of the population are Tee Total. They call it Malted Brew, it now come in lots of fruity flavours too, like Strawberry, Pinapple and lemon - Yuk!!!

 

[ColinJ]

Did your dad ever bring his work home with him ?

Obviously not one of those big parachute mines, but he did keep a German incendiary bomb under our stairs!

Like this one:

 

[Archie_tect]

It might not shatter but I bet it'd burn well....

 

[ColinJ]

[QUOTE 2466445, member: 259"]They don't like it up 'em! Sorry, @Fnaar

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It's about a foot long, but I don't use it as a rule!


I've just had a flashback to taking the incendiary bomb in to school as part of my contribution to "What our parents did during the war". The teacher freaked out!

 

[tyred]

Are you for real? Where do you live? Wearing tights as pants (trousers/leggings), jumpers way too big for you, big fat framed granny glasses with no lenses and doc martins is the height of female fashion! They look absolutelly ridiculous, their parents or someone, a teacher perhaps, ought to tell them that everyone can see their business! Maybe not a teacher, they would probably end up on charges!

Never noticed them around here. Haven't even seen them in shops in ages either.

 

[pawl]

I remember as a kid in the 60's and 70's you would often see stuff that you don't see anymore like Flock Wallpaper in folks houses, or Avacado Dunlop Vinyl floor tiles. Ronco Record Cleaners and the "Buttoneer" . When going for walks along a river bank, or in the reception of a cheap hotel, there would alway be Bull Rushes, I never see them anymore..what happened to all them all? And Ken Goodwin was all over the telly...

What else do we not see anymore?

Those little blue bags mother used to put in the copper on wash days.You don't see coppers any more For the younger among you coppers were used to boil the clothes before putting the clothes through a mangle. All pre washing machine

 

[tyred]

Typewriters! Is there anyone who still uses one?

 

[asterix]

Yes, how do you think I post on CC?