Great brands time forgot

Crazyaboutmagazines

Fine fare - what happened to that store ?

Liptons another one 

Matchbox cars  ,Tonka toys ?

Rediffusion

John Menzies

ferranti

ICL

Can you still get Player's No6?

no went quite a few years ago

camp coffee
betamax
lada
ratners
pearl insurance
winfield

Ice breakers choccy bar

Blobs

Tudor Crisps

camp coffee you can still buy 

Yes - saw some in Sainbury's recently

Golden Wonder crisps
R White's lemonade
Smith's crisps
London Weekend Television

HH Pepsodent bought 2 tubes last week

Waterstones.

Oh sorry, that's next month...

Atari

blackjacks
fruit salad
aztec bar
chocolate logs
tins of Heinz vegetable salad
double diamond beer
watneys red
harp lager
the sketch (newspaper)
old moor's almanac

The newspaper  was called the  Daily Sketch

ICL

I worked as a programmer on ICL mainframes back in the '80s......great days.

Oh and Golden Wonder Cheese 'n Onion are still the greatest crisps.

I used to work for ICL, 626

In the 80s too

ooof , small world

ICL 2955 , 2958 , Trimetra ...

tins of Heinz vegetable salad
_________________________

that sounds absolutely disgusting

Doesn't mean a lot to me - I worked in finance.

They moved me about a bit. I was based in Letchworth, Putney, Bracknell, Reading and Slough

I forgot Stevenage

Pretty good company to work for though. Got on very well with 99% of the people. Good social activities. Like you say, great days

Yes we had many a big drinking session with ICL engineers & played footy with them.

Yes. When I was based in Bracknell I used to plat 5-a-side football and snooker at lunchtimes. There was a nice snooker club in the town centre.

I'm getting all nostalgic

A mate of mine still works for them. He's been there 26 years.

I remember when there was a re-organisation circa 1989. Programming (software) would be done in Bracknell and Reading. Manufacturing (hardware) in Manchester and Kidsgrove. The hard northerners and the soft southerners

Texan Bar

Don't know if any of these still exist but to my knowledge

Flowers best bitter
potato puffs
Saucy sponges
united (biscuits)
Vesta curry (can you still get it?)
Austin cars (maxi, allegro)
moorlands matches
Topic chocolate bar
Walnut whips with the coffee cream centre
Funny face ice creams
C&A clothes
Foster menswear
Chelsea man clothes
diamond white
K (cider)
Eagle Star
Pearl
Midland
ATV
Abbey National
National & Provincial
Woolworths

Baldwin65     09 Mar 13 00:23 
Don't know if any of these still exist but to my knowledge


Topic chocolate bar


Had one not 30 min ago

Loads of C & A  all over Europe but not in UK

funny feet ice cream? the one with 5 toes?

http://www.childofthe1980s.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/funny-fe...

parachute 09 Mar 13 00:31 Joined: 28 Jun 03 | Topic/replies: 502 | Blogger: parachute's blog
funny feet ice cream? the one with 5 toes?




Mine only had 4 toes,it was on disability benefit.

woodpecker cider

Lots of things mentioned that you can still get.

One thing you can't is 'Bluebird toffees'.

Best sweets ever.

"Blue Bird Toffee is a brand of toffee, founded in Worcestershire, England, in 1898 by Harry Vincent.
Vincent had similar ideas to Cadbury and the Frys with regards to the workplace being a pleasant environment to work.
Vincent's toffee was originally called Harvino, but after watching Maeterlink's play 'The Blue Bird of Happiness' he renamed the product Blue Bird.
Bluebird Toffee left their West Midlands site in October 1998, and the company now trade in Hull as part of Needler's.
Needler's changes name after acquiring Blue Bird to become Needler Bluebird. In 2002 Needler Bluebird was purchased by Ashbury Confectionery and discontinued all lines previously made by Needler's and Blue Bird.
Ashbury donated the company's collection of historic Blue Bird packaging to the Black Country Living Museum."

And the best cakes ever were Kunzle Cakes made by J.Lyons and co.

*Kunzle Showboats - the best cakes ever.

TT

http://www.bringbackshowboats.co.uk/uploaded_images/cakes-739733.jpg

http://www.kzwp.com/lyons/kunzle.htm

Blue Bird factory was 1 mile off J3 of M6 outside Halesowen.

You can still get Vesta.

I used to LOVE Potato Puffs.

M5 - if anyone cares - lol

Wayfarers - shoes, complete with compass in the heel and animal paw prints as the tread.
Cresta - it's frothy man!
Mambos or Mamboes - triangular ice pops

Hofmeister

Colt 45

Breaker

Heldenbrau

Long Life

Worthington E

Barbican

Lord Toffingham - best lolly ever

Lollygobble Chocbomb - 2nd best lolly ever

Pink Elephant (strawberry ice cream choc ice)
Beech Nut Chewing Gum - from a vending maching (one free every fourth turn!)

Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum

Ayds slimming sweets, or whatever they were. Disappeared without a trace for some reason.

Findus Beef Lasagne

Hemeling.

Pan Yan - similar Branston Pickle (can you still get that?)

Wimpey

few mentions of vesta. I don't know it it's still going or not.
Back in the 70s used to love a vesta chow mein. My first introduction to "foreign food"

5p meanies,stopped buying them when increased to 6p.

pacer mints,essentially a minty opal fruit sweet.

Gola

Cheers Pumpy!

I've seen the pictures online before when I looked Kunzle Showboats up a while back - I also read this piece from an engineer who worked at the factory and he tells how they will never be made again as the production costs are too high, which is a great pity:

http://www.kzwp.com/lyons2/diamond2.htm

Mar 9, 2013 -- 11:24AM, BillyBunnsLane wrote:

Hemeling.

And the Jimmy Case / Emlyn Hughes joke that went with it.
'He's not drunk. He' fcking Emlyn'

Hansa
DAB


"great"

Spectrum 48k /128k with joint on tape deck

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5p meanies,stopped buying them when increased to 6p.

pacer mints,essentially a minty opal fruit sweet.


this poster reminds me of gob stoppers.

Chocolate/chewing gum machines that would give you an extra bar every fourth turn.

cresta soft drink,with the polar bear and the slogan "its frothy man". check out the advert on you tube, still awesome after all those years

"OMO"

Unigate - Watch out, watch out - there's a Humphrey about!

Orange Hand Jeans

Brutus Shirts
Blue Stratos Aftershave
Corona Pop

Facebook...

Oops....sorry....that's in June...

i_agree_with_nick     09 Mar 13 11:33 
Pan Yan - similar Branston Pickle (can you still get that?)


Discontinued in 2002 but

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/pan-yan-pickle-may-be-set-for-comeback-288685



Though I have checked Premier foods site, as of now its not on the market

Thanks Pumpy. Wasn't even sure if Branston was still available tbh.

Going slightly off-topic, Lea & Perrin (famous for their Worcestershire sauce) used to produce a very tasty chilli and garlic sauce.

It was in a similar shaped bottle to the Worcestershire sauce. Bright red in colour but no artificial flavourings. You could use it as a dip or add it to your cooking.

Used to get it at Tesco's. Disappeared off the shelves about three years ago

Cremola Foam.

...and Angel Delight.

that reminds me of that god-awful potato power stuff, Smash, i think the ads stared casper n pollox.

Angel Delight is still readily available in various flavours.

Smash readily available too.

Community Classic

Pan Am

Lunn Poly

Imps.

Denim after shave

bar six,penfold commandos, birdseye crispy cod balls, vesta packet currys, cresta soft drinks(its frothy man)stingo barley wine,walters puffs

Vesta still going.

mint cracknell, birds eye crispy cod ,vesta beef curry ,spangles ,mojos ,

blancmange !havent seen it in the shops for years  used to have it on a sunday afternoon after dinner !

monkey boots ! if you trod in dogs shyte it was a bastrd to get it out of the treads !

Brentford Nylons
Fry's Five Boys.

party 7

Jaws Crisps - 80s crisps stunning flavours - spicy tomato, roast beef and pickled onion.

Brentford Nylons is a great shout.

Dayville's ice cream.

Anyone remember these chocolate/confectionary bars:

Welcome
Drifter
Nutty

Ayds

imperial leather.  i remember it from my childhood, in the days before shower gels.  used to have a little sticker that would eventually come off in the bath.  on a side note, the best soap i had was in the shape of a dinosaur's egg and in the middle was a little baby dinosaur toy.

Bush
ITT
Caramac

in the early 90s there was a chocolate bar called secret.

Tiptheodds you can still get Caramac.
My favourites were Texan Bar and Toffee Treets.

Highland Toffees, from the era in which 5p would get you about 2 hours worth of chewy sugarary badness.

They stopped selling the good stuff in favour of some dumbed down only takes 20 mins nonsense. Didn't even begin to threaten to rip my teeth out. Not happy.

I still call Opal Fruits, Opal Fruits by the way. My mum, God bless her long buried cotton socks, never let the word Snickers slip from her mouth - Marathons were Marathons, and that was that, b*gger the packaging.

Farah trousers

...or should I say slacks?