Things people don’t do anymore

Something I seem to be doing much less as I get older and that's remembering.
Anything useful, worth-while, fun, joy, happy stuff? It fades with time.
And at the end of the day, all I'm left with is a head full o' 5hit.

life eh?

Lol dangleflaps.
mike hock indeed.

Liddell, happy days eh?

Lightly, and the haystacks of course.
pure pantomime.

Saturday morning pictures FOYLES,
my mate's mum sat in a little box office selling the tickets.
No sneaking in through the bogs for me.

Have never tried tripe gravy 12.

And all you other guys, brilliant thread.

ericster 12 May 23 11:21 
Something I seem to be doing much less as I get older and that's remembering.
Anything useful, worth-while, fun, joy, happy stuff? It fades with time.
And at the end of the day, all I'm left with is a head full o' 5hit.

................... 

Wonderful paragraph.

buy single cigarettes

collect cards with bubble gum

play conkers or marbles

read dirty magazines

suck on a lollipop

Collect Green Shield Stamps,you could get a Kettle if you had 50 books full

May 12, 2023 -- 12:31PM, tantpis wrote:

Collect Green Shield Stamps,you could get a Kettle if you had 50 books full

Kensitas coupons, the more you smoked, the better the prize

My Tongue is still suffering licking all those stamps

sell roasted chestnuts roasted in a brazier on the streets !

They were really good

i still got 3 books full  of those green shield stamps somewhere

i picked up a bagfull of chestnuts near my caravan/holiday home and roasted them on the gas hob ...........lovely and brought back memories .

make real yorkshire pudding in a tray on sundays mainly .......all aunt bessies little individual ones now .

Jump on and off buses when they had the open back.

Order from a catalogue and expect to wait 28 days for delivery.

for nostagia lovers theres a good looking docu on talkin pictures tv now .......its a lovely day tommorow about bethnal green during ww2 .sparrow will be all over it!

Eat blancmange.  Collect droppings from the rag-and-bone man's horse. Win a goldfish at the fair.

i ate blancmange a few years back bought a box with 4 or 5 different flavours in ,ya can still buy it and tbf its still as good as it was back in the day.

but agree its nowhwere near as popular as it was when i was a nipper ! ^^

go to sunday school .

make those soap box carts !

Embassy coupons and Pink stamps.

go to the coast  on beanos !

sparrow musta seen it umpteen times !

Queue up at the Cinema to see the latest Film

Sample the treats on the Wollies 'pick 'n' mix counter before the elderly security guard shooed you out of the door with your gob stuffed with fruit salads and blackjacks.

Buy a Jamboree Bag and hope for a good toy and Buy a certain Breakfast Cereal for the Toy inside,I used to like the Diver you filled up with Baking Soda which made it dive and surface again.

Not seen it before foyles but every East Ender knew about the 1943 disaster with so many killed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afdIgiNl_as

yeah sparrow one of many at that time!

Go with my mate to the Co-op to buy Lux soap flakes so the district nurse could give his dad an enema.

These days the enema would come in a sterile package, and everyone would be put on a register for even mentioning downstairs body parts to young kids, and possibly fined for sending youngsters on any sort of errand unaccompanied and, even worse, ON FOOT.

^^^^^^ When I asked an assistant in Tesco where the blancmange was she took me to the white wine section.

Have a bet online with a bookmaker.

use phone boxes

Lot of them  full of Shyte and Pish in Recent years , Don't remember that happening back in the day

Phone boxes still have their Progressive Culturally-Enrichng users in Stratford, East London

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rNM-hFXwVCA

Does PG Tips still give away 2 free collectors cards in packets of leaf tea ?


Used to collect those in primary school.

"Transport Trough The Ages"
"Flags and Emblems of the World"

etc

Watch the Greyhound Derby Final on the BBC.

Or the TV trophy

TV Trophy on Sportsview with Peter Dimmock and maybe Harry Carpenter.

Collecting beer mats.
Collecting soccer stars stickers and putting them in the album, but having absolutely no interest in the "international soccer stars" which came next.
Collecting discarded (or your own losing) racecourse bookies' cardboard tickets.
Putting apostrophes in the correct place, unless you are one of those sad ****s who still do.

Check out the football results in teletext

barstool 11 May 23 15:46 
Pluck and remove the innards from their chickens.
Catch and gut their catch.
Kill and butcher their meat.
Grow their own fruit and veg.
Bake their own bread.
Make jam, bottle pickles and beetroot.
Wear hand-me-downs and darn socks.
Pay in cash.
No credit card.


Here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdF-64yD-8U

"Pluck and remove the innards from their chickens".  AND make amazing gravy - and with the boiled remains - Gizzard for dad, Liver for Mum, Neck for me and Heart for my sister. Townie kids din't know what they were missin.

Fried bread from the bacon fat with Sunday breakfast.

Get free greens stuffed into your bag by the Greengrocer.

Add £'s Shillings and pence in their heads while pouring drinks behind the bar.

Sunday morning papers hoping for photos of Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice Davis.

Watching closely as your pint was poured to make sure the Landlord wasn't topping it up with dregs

from the drip tray.

Underage drinking in pubs dressed in suit and tie and behaving in an adult manner so you weren't

refused service. Me and 3 mates were in the local one day when a Bobby stuck his head round the door

and spotted us. He walked over to our table,didn't say a word, just looked us up and down turned

around and walked out. We got the message.

There was a pub in Penge not far from the Police Station that was so full of underage drinkers that

the Landlord would cry 'Time boys and girls please'. At chucking out time there would often be a

motorcycle cop keeping an eye on everyone. They knew how to Police in those days.

Doing a paper round to pay for your first bike.

Seeing who could shoot pee the highest up the school toilet wall.

One hour lunches in the pub then go into Lincoln's Inn Fields to watch the girls play netball or

listening to Henry the Socialist speaking on his soap box on the corner.

Ah yes. To quote Dickens, 'They were the best of times,they were the worst of times'.

I was 15 when I finally plucked up the courage my mates who were a few years older than me into my first nightclub, coppers were on the door that night, got to the kiosk sh1tting myself that I was going to get caught out but sailed through...walking in I thought was the dogs boll0x

follow my mates

blackbarn 12 May 23 17:08 
"Pluck and remove the innards from their chickens".  AND make amazing gravy - and with the boiled remains - Gizzard for dad, Liver for Mum, Neck for me and Heart for my sister. Townie kids din't know what they were missin.





We did all that and we were certainly "Townie" kids in Hackney, East London.

Too simplistic of me Sparrer!! No offence meant.

None taken of course, blackbarn.

I agree with the opening post except that in my case I have never done any of them so remove the anymore.

quicker to get to Faro or Malaga than Blackpool from where I live near Bristol Airport

Know all the verses of the ' Alphabet Song ' (you probably needed to play rugby or cricket back in the day ), and you would probably be arrested for singing it today .

Playing football on the green downstairs ,until the caretaker told us to get off the grass,
then going back on it again when he was out of sight

Gamages to see all the toys

Ringing extel to get the evening dogs results

Listening in to Radio 2 after the hourly news bulletins for the latest racing results.

yeah!
Forgot about that event when you'd be sat in the bar with someone who had had their radio stuck to their ear relaying the racing results.
Mark off the first three or four and pass the paper around.

As a contestant on The Golden Shot go into a phone booth outside the TV rental shop  ready for when Bob Monkhouse tells you it's your turn to take on Bernie the bolt.Left a bit right a bit fire!!!!

Checking the racing results on ceefax and teletext .

TommyWestofLanark 14 May 23 20:47 
Listening in to Radio 2 after the hourly news bulletins for the latest racing results.

Watching Pathe news before films at cinema.
Bobajob week.

Hear them play the national anthem at the cinema or at the end of tv for the night. They also dont say say “ Good night and Nor Stah “
( welsh ? ) before the end of programmes. There is no end now !

The Epilogue

the peanut man at the dogs . peanutsssssssssssssssssssssssss

Buy Corona lemonade from the mobile van
Have out of control dogs chase after you when out riding on your bike
Respect the Police
Listen to Radio Luxembourg / Caroline

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Go in a phone box and 'tap' 160 to hear a popular record on dial a disc (updated once a week)

Very impressive Saddo to remember that, it was run by the post office I seem to recall.
You're winning after that one for me.

Getting a free pack of chewing gun on the 4th turn on a chewing gum machine (you never knew which was the 4th turn when you would be given an extra pack for free along with the one you had already paid for)
Collectors of 60's /70's slot machines will know this fact.Gambling was hidden in these type of vending/amusement machines at that time ,That;s where you get the bars in fruit machines.The bars represent chewing gum.

getting paid out in brass tokens when you won the jackpot at the local arcade.
You could exchange the tokens for food or gifts.That's when the government cared about people.

The dogs chasing bikes is a good one. Just reminded me that with the price of dogs you don't get strays anymore, or mongrels as there are no strays to reproduce!

Milk tokens. No idea where you  bought these from but you left them on the step for the milkman , I think.

Davenports “ Beer at home “.

Getting johnnies from the barber.. "something for the weekend, sir?"

Reg I doubt many on this thread would find much use in a barber anymore

More barbers than customers these days, I sometimes wonder how they all turn a profit.

Me to saddo five in a row sometimes however like coffee shops it can’t be done online.

Jimnast, yeah, my barber takes about 2 minutes running the clippers over my bonce...
Then another 5 minutes poncing about to justify his fee...
Saddo, I understand that in certain cities and towns, the barber shops are fronts for illegal activities

More barbers than customers these days, I sometimes wonder how they all turn a profit.


Perish that thought immediately that there might be any money-laundering going on amongst the utter explosion in Culturally-Enriching Barber Shops up and down this compliant land. Couldn't possibly be going on.

NINE of a certain well-known type have opened in a town not too far from here this last year or so.

Hair has never been in such profitable hands.

Run after the greengrocers horse collecting the horse manure for my mums rhubarb!

Write letters with pen and paper and stick a 2p stamp on it and drop it in the letter box.

^^ and get delivered the next day.

Peel one off over page 3 or underwear bit in Freemans catalogue

Go to a bank on Friday to take out cash to pay wages. Not all employees had bank accounts in 1976 and those that did still preferred cash weekly (after legal tax and NI deductions of course)

I was a Chief Cashier for Lloyds Bank in the late 70s - early 80s. Fridays were manic. Not only firms withdrawing sometimes large amounts of cash to pay wages, but also lots of housewives cashing a cheque to pay for the weekly shop. I used to take great delight in asking the more attractive ones "How would you like it, Madam? On one occasion, I got exactly the answer that I was fishing for. Happy days!!

Excellent thread !

Bank robbers in their zenith
Driving away in a
JAG UAR

Using tights as a makeshift fanbelt.

using a guiness beerbottle label as a tax disc

write on betting slip...s £5 win tax payed = £5.50

Beetle drives. Play cribbage, maybe some still do ?

Taking back the bottle for my 3d.

follow my tips.

Stuffing Reader Digest envelopes,go with Dad to pick the boxes up from someones garage across town and take them back a few days later all full with the leaflets etc....
Happy days.

Play seven byes on a Friday night in the local park.  Play a never-ending "take-on" in the same park on a Sunday.  Get there late and wait for another late-comer so as to get selected by a "**** or a hen"!  Kid on you were Denis Law and hold your right cuff up aloft as you trotted away after you scored!

Listening to radio Luxembourg through the night.