Things you never see anymore

[davieG]

Children sent to work down the mines.

[davieG]

Was anyone a Milk Monitor?

[ozleicester]

 

[Daggers]

2 hours ago, davieG said:

Was anyone a Milk Monitor?

No. But I was taken to hospital for stitches when I ran back in from playtime, slipped and dived headfirst into the milk crate. 
 

 

[davieG]

25 minutes ago, Daggers said:

No. But I was taken to hospital for stitches when I ran back in from playtime, slipped and dived headfirst into the milk crate. 
 

 

I don't know whether to   or  .

 

There were times when we had rumours that there weren't enough bottles, it having happened once and used to cause a mad rush with desks and chairs going flying people falling over, like it used to be when we scored a goal down Filbo as everyone rushed to get a bottle.

[Heathrow fox]

Not seen a cattle truck on the road for ages.Is something going on?Or have they started transporting livestock at night?

[The Syrup]

16 minutes ago, Heathrow fox said:

Not seen a cattle truck on the road for ages.Is something going on?Or have they started transporting livestock at night?

Come to Melton on a weekday, loads of cattle trucks going in and out of the livestock market.

[ThurmastonFox]

Multiple colours of toilet roll. All white these days. Gone are the days of walking down the toilet roll aisle in Co-op Thurmaston and there were blue, green, pink, yellow and some white. 

[Wolfox]

On 16/05/2024 at 11:56, davieG said:

I don't know whether to   or  .

 

There were times when we had rumours that there weren't enough bottles, it having happened once and used to cause a mad rush with desks and chairs going flying people falling over, like it used to be when we scored a goal down Filbo as everyone rushed to get a bottle.

I  think I was amongst the very last (51) to get those little bottles of milk (warm in the summer)

 

Mrs T put a stop that…. Thatcher the milk snatcher 

[filthyfox]

5 minutes ago, Wolfox said:

I  think I was amongst the very last (51) to get those little bottles of milk (warm in the summer)

 

Mrs T put a stop that…. Thatcher the milk snatcher 

I had milk at school (I'm now 42).   Don't know if it was school funded, but it was ****ing horrible in summer

[Wolfox]

1 hour ago, filthyfox said:

I had milk at school (I'm now 42).   Don't know if it was school funded, but it was ****ing horrible in summer

Margaret Thatcher withdrew free school milk from children over seven in 1971
 

i only remember it in nursery school to be honest…. I think it was fully fazed out in the 80’s?

[Free Falling Foxes]

14 hours ago, ThurmastonFox said:

Multiple colours of toilet roll. All white these days. Gone are the days of walking down the toilet roll aisle in Co-op Thurmaston and there were blue, green, pink, yellow and some white. 

Remember coloured bathroom suites too? Looking back they were hideous.

To my eternal shame, I remember berating my dear old dad for having a new white suite back then.

He had taste, I didn't.

[filthyfox]

11 hours ago, Wolfox said:

Margaret Thatcher withdrew free school milk from children over seven in 1971
 

i only remember it in nursery school to be honest…. I think it was fully fazed out in the 80’s?

Must have been a school funded thing.   I DEFINITELY had it in First School

[NAKC20]

1 hour ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Remember coloured bathroom suites too? Looking back they were hideous.

To my eternal shame, I remember berating my dear old dad for having a new white suite back then.

He had taste, I didn't.

Fitted many a coloured bathroom suite a lot of them being whisper pink, grey, cream etc.. The worst by far where the dark brown ones they were disgusting. A lot of people used to have the plastic shelving around the baths as well to put all your bottles on. 

[SemperEadem]

Many skateboarders

[davieG]

5 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Remember coloured bathroom suites too? Looking back they were hideous.

To my eternal shame, I remember berating my dear old dad for having a new white suite back then.

He had taste, I didn't.

 

3 hours ago, NAKC20 said:

Fitted many a coloured bathroom suite a lot of them being whisper pink, grey, cream etc.. The worst by far where the dark brown ones they were disgusting. A lot of people used to have the plastic shelving around the baths as well to put all your bottles on. 

I've seen a few grey baths lately in houses that have been completed overhaul where the whole house is all grey and white.

[Trumpet]

The Queen Of The Skies (747) are a dying breed. There is a 747-4 that seems to be in out of East Midlands daily at the moment. Eventually they’ll be no more.

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, Trumpet said:

The Queen Of The Skies (747) are a dying breed. There is a 747-4 that seems to be in out of East Midlands daily at the moment. Eventually they’ll be no more.

Yep. Airline industries prefer a stiletto to a warhammer these days. Range and efficiency over size.

[Wymsey]

A lack of chewing gum on streets.

Birds singing.

Edited 20 May 2024 by Wymsey

[Daggers]

I don't go cycling at the moment, so...

 

 

[fox_favourite]

Things you don't see anymore. Initiative and common sense. 

[Free Falling Foxes]

Somebody asking you for the time.

Can't remember the last occasion.  Guess folk have their phones now.

[NAKC20]

7 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Somebody asking you for the time.

Can't remember the last occasion.  Guess folk have their phones now.

And people stopping in their car and asking for directions

[Jon the Hat]

A windscreen full of dead insects.

[rugbyblue]

Topless calenders in garages/ workshops