Things we used to do

[User19783]

Pay to walk along the seaside pier!.

 

[vernon]

With a gallon of onion gravy.

Topped off with a large pie.

 

[vernon]

....that's the starters. Now let me think.......perhaps some ribs for a main course.

Big enough to create this

 

[mybike]

That's great news! Could you post a link to them? Are they still called Cumberland or have they morphed into another brand? Thanks.

I think @vernon shortcut will eventually lead you here.

 

[KEEF]

Comb my hair

 

[swansonj]

Buy birdseed from a stall in Trafalgar Square to feed the pigeons.

Tuppence a bag?

 

[Sara_H]

Write your name in the ice on the INSIDE of your bedroom on winter mornings.

 

[Hyslop]

That's great news! Could you post a link to them? Are they still called Cumberland or have they morphed into another brand? Thanks.

They are now manufactured by Derwent(Acco) at Lilleyhall in West Cumberland,moving there in around 2007 if memory serves.The museum continues,and despite the odd snotty review in the broadsheets weekend "what to do as an offcomer" supplements,remains popular.

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

..............or listening to the top 20 on the radio and getting ready to press record and play when the song you wanted to tape came on.

And hoping the DJ wouldn't talk over it

 

[Illaveago]

My dad used to send me to the offy with an emptregrettably the pub only le and i would get it filled with sherry from out of a big red plastic barrel.

My wife and I did that once. We went to get some medium Sherry for her parents from the local pub,regretably the pub only had sweet or dry. How did we know that by mixing sweet and dry you wouldn't get medium sherry. You should have seen her parents faces when they tried it.

 

[Illaveago]

Some things don't scale down.....

What like very small skyscrapers.

 

[Illaveago]

Watching snooker in black and white and not knowing what coloured ball they were talking about.

 

[Mrs M]

Getting "the belt" at school.
Never got it myself though .

 

[Gravity Aided]

We were still hit with something like a cricket bat, in middle school in the early 70s.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Tuppence a bag?

Sold by Jane Darwell?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrRxQVUFN4

She was quite ill, at the time of filming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Darwell