The do you remember thread for oldies

Soubasse

Soubasse

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:lol: :lol: @ Mike! Where do you get those emoticons? :lol: They don't show up on my "more" panel (or does one have to be in the SW club for that?);)

I can remember when the champagne I liked cost more than the beer I like. Now it's the other way around. (As for that, I can also remember when we were permitted to call it "champagne" - we're not anymore, unless we're French!)
 
JHC

JHC

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Dorsetmike said:
You and me both!!
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I believe you are ex military so, is it true that you can tell a man of the military by the way he holds himself ?
 

elderflower

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Anyone here remember Monk and Glass custard powder? Veloute powder creme? June perfume? No Guys, Don't expect you'll remember the last two!!!Sylvie
 
Dorsetmike

Dorsetmike

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Remember seeing the Monk & Glass in shops and adverts, but mother was faithful to Birds. Veloute rings a bell faintly, just the word, I probably saw it in shops.

How about the round packets of sherbet powder with a tube of liquorice for a straw?
 
teddy

teddy

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Mike, do you mean flying saucers with sherbert. Sylvie, we to only used Birds custard powder. And of course Bronco toilet paper. With a TV western serious of the same name (Bronco Lane) all sorts of rude songs were thought up.

teddy
 
Dorsetmike

Dorsetmike

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Nah, the paper cylindrical shaped packets, pale yellow with red writing. You sucked the sherbet powder up through a liquorice "straw". The liquorice gradually got mangled as you sucked your way through the sherbet, so you had to bite off the end to trestore the flow!
 
teddy

teddy

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Yes, I remember them Mike. Sherbet Fountains I believe they were called. Blackjacks were my favourite. At four for a penny they were good value for money. My grandmother worker for Mr Callard (later to be Callard and Bowser) in the West End of London when she was sixteen. He invented the first sweets for diabetics as his daughter suffered. Nedless to say my grandmothers favourits sweets were barley sugar twists. There always seemed to be a supply in the house

teddy
 
marval

marval

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I remember Sherbert Fountains, Blackjacks and barley sugar sticks. My Dad used to love the coconut ice, pink and white.


Margaret
 

elderflower

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There was a Wrigley's spearmint vending machine outside our sweetshop and we used to check the position of the arrow on the knob, hide around the corner, wait and watch it being used until we knew the arrow would be at the top, at which time the machine used to pay out two packets of spearmint for one coin.
Was this the beginning of the BOGOF's?;):rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: Sylvie
 
teddy

teddy

Duckmeister
Do you remember... when January sales really were sales. All the items that had not sold that year were marked down and people queued from the crack of dawn for a bargain. No specially brought in lines in those days. And the scrummage when the doors opened. And the pushing and shoving that went on. We had to travel twenty four miles to reach the big shops so my mother always made sure the trip was worth while. It was quite an exciting, if tiring day out for us kids.

teddy
 
marval

marval

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Yes, I remember the sales. Nowadays they seem to have a sale on all the time, especially the furniture shops.


Margaret
 
teddy

teddy

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Sylvie
You have jogged my memory. A friend and I walked two miles to the next village because we had been told a chewing gum dispenser was dishing out multiple packets. We came back with our pockets bulging, and a slightly guilty conscience

teddy
 
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methodistgirl

methodistgirl

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Oh I heard some old song I haven't heard since I was a kid.
One of them was Sure is Lonesome Downtown, Pick me up
On your way down, and Why am I so shy. These songs were
popular in the early 60s. Man how music has changed!
judy tooley
 
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