Where are they now?

[pubrunner]

Mintolas & Munchies
Does anyone rember the Fry's Chocolate Sandwich ? - one layer of plain chocolate, encased in a double layer of milk chocolate - it had a red wrapper. There was also a single milk chocolate layer, encased in a double layer of plain - which came in a blue wrapper.

Trebor mints - the ones that were hard mints and roughly the same size as a polo mint, but with no hole in the middle. The packet was the same as a polo packet.
Timothy White's shops

 

[Falwheeler]

Omo washing powder, no longer available here for obvious reasons but you can still buy it in France

 

[TVC]

Renamo and Frelimo

Had to google that one. Mugabe is still going though (just, if you believe the newspaper stories about his health).

 

[redcard]

I remember I used to always buy this drink in a clear can. Sure it was just called Seltzer. You got it in raspberry, lime, cream soda, and a couple of other flavours. One row of my bookcase was filled with the cans cos I thought they looked cool and didn't want to thrown them away.

 

[Night Train]

Unigate Dairies milk bottles

Rag and Bone men (Arch?)

Wooden cobbles (I knew I wasn't imagining them!)

 

[Arch]

The IRA
Black September
Baader-Meinhof
the Red Brigades

I caught the end of the 70's programme on Monday (annoyingly, as I'd meant to watch it and forgot it was on), and there was footage of the Birmingham pub bombs. I found myself almost... not nostalgic, obviously, but transported back to my childhood, by the sight of firemen in big yellow old fashioned helmets, picking through rubble. Growing up in Belfast, the local news was often full of such scenes*, quite apart from any mainland bombings.

For the same reason, I get a shiver when I hear a proper old fashioned nee-naw siren.

*It was only when we moved back to England when I was ten that I realised that the local news was local. I assumed everyone got a half hour of news about all sorts, which sometimes included Northern Ireland, and half an hour of stuff all about Northern Ireland.

 

[Arch]

Rag and Bone men (Arch?)

Which one am I?

Actually, I saw such a thing about a year ago. We were working our normal Tang Hall round and a couple of blokes from the travellers' site on James Street were plying the streets with a proper horse and cart, and shouting 'Rag booonnnnnnnnne! It was the first time I'd ever seen one, and I was quite excited! I remember one of the 'through the windows' films on Play School was a film of a rag and bone man, I guess in the 70's they were coming to the end of being common, but I'd never seen one, I guess we were too suburban.

(There are a couple of blokes who still drive round Tang Hall, in a pick up van, with a tannoy that plays a bad quality tape loop of something that sounds like "eeioooo ooo raahhhh"

 

[pubrunner]

Affleck & Brown's Department store in Manchester
Lewis's Department stores anywhere.

 

[subaqua]

Affleck & Brown's Department store in Manchester
Lewis's Department stores anywhere.

spent many a happy saturday in afflecks palace in my younger days. Train to Manchester from Chester and then hours in Eastern Bloc listening to new records and buying more than i could really afford. bought a fair few little gauzes there too

 

[marshmella]

Mintolas & Munchies
Does anyone rember the Fry's Chocolate Sandwich ? - one layer of plain chocolate, encased in a double layer of milk chocolate - it had a red wrapper. There was also a single milk chocolate layer, encased in a double layer of plain - which came in a blue wrapper.

Trebor mints - the ones that were hard mints and roughly the same size as a polo mint, but with no hole in the middle. The packet was the same as a polo packet.
Timothy White's shops

Saw Munchies in Tesco the other day and they were some ridiculous price like 60p or something.

 

[cookiemonster]

Tizer is still about In my local Asda's

Sperry Computers
Sinclair
C&A
Hofmeister Beer

C&A are still around albeit on the continent.

 

[Davidc]

The News Chronicle
The Daily Herald
The News of The World

 

[Doseone]

Ironfist, Kendo Nagasaki, Rollerball Rocco, Kid Chocolate, Mick McManus.....

 

[smokeysmoo]

I miss the the old days in general.............................when I could stand upright, glance down, and actually see my feet

 

[subaqua]

Ironfist, Kendo Nagasaki, Rollerball Rocco, Kid Chocolate, Mick McManus.....

Fit Finlay and Princess Paula.


I had a munchies Easter egg this year