Things you never see anymore

[Torquay Gunner]

2 hours ago, Foxdiamond said:

Just about remember these

Just slightly before my time.  I do have a strong memory of standing behind the driver holding on to the long rail and pretending I was driving it.  My mum told me to sit down, mind you I was 23 at the time!  No, I was probably nearer 8 or 9. 😂

[leicsmac]

But on topic...

 

Nestle Vice Versas. And smallpox.

[Free Falling Foxes]

Carbon paper.

 

Edit: Just Googled, you can still buy it.

Edited 29 January by Free Falling Foxes

[Daggers]

1 hour ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Mel C

 

I feel like you see all the other Spice Girls but she never seems to pop up these days. Hope you're well if you're reading, Mel

I am, and I hope you and your 1yr old daughter are doing well. 

[Izzy]

37 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Not sure the times were any simpler in terms of hardship actually happening.

 

Rather, we just didn't get to know about a lot of it. Which I guess is simpler in its own way.

I think those hardships made us stronger, more resilient, more responsible, less entitled.

 

Simpler in terms of fewer inputs, less noise, less distraction, fewer options.

 

Maybe ignorance was bliss...

 

 

 

Edited 29 January by Izzy

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

33 minutes ago, Daggers said:

I am, and I hope you and your 1yr old daughter are doing well. 

 

My 1 year old daughter celebrated her 6th birthday at the weekend, they grow up so bloody fast

[Zear0]

6 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

My 1 year old daughter celebrated her 6th birthday at the weekend, they grow up so bloody fast

Baby when you're gone

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

2 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

Baby when you're gone

 

Going to listen to Northern Star (album) by her right now and light a candle for Are Mel

[leicsmac]

7 hours ago, Izzy said:

I think those hardships made us stronger, more resilient, more responsible, less entitled.

 

Simpler in terms of fewer inputs, less noise, less distraction, fewer options.

 

Maybe ignorance was bliss...

 

 

 

For the ones that made it, certainly. Those who didn't sadly don't now have any voices we can interpret to offer an opinion to the contrary.

 

Totally agree with the second and third lines. For the longest time I thought knowledge could only be a blessing, but the more I've accumulated makes me think it is at least equally a curse. Wouldn't have it any other way, though.

[boots60]

Just over a year ago after a few bevvy's I posted this, post 1 on this thread.

 

 

Hitch-hikers

 

White Dog Poo

 

Leicester City Full Backs

 

I thought I might get a few, maybe several replies

 

 

Thanks to all for 1,000 + posts, shows how big Nostalgia is

[Izzy]

31 minutes ago, boots60 said:

 

Thanks to all for 1,000 + posts, shows how big Nostalgia is

And here me thinking that nostalgia ain’t what it used to be 

[Parafox]

6 hours ago, Izzy said:

And here me thinking that nostalgia ain’t what it used to be 

Don't look back in anger.

[NAKC20]

52 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Don't look back in anger.

I heard you say

[UniFox21]

The little season ticket books where the turnstile ripped the game ticket out your book on entering 

Edited 1 February by UniFox21

[Parafox]

 

I remember being the one who had to stick reams of the things in the book. 

 

A full book got you about £2 in value to spend at a participating outlet. You had to spend sixpence (2 1/2p) to get one stamp.

Edited 3 February by Parafox

[Free Falling Foxes]

5 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

I remember being the one who had to stick reams of the things in the book. 

 

A full book got you about £2 in value to spend at a participating outlet. You had to spend sixpence (2 1/2p) to get one stamp.

Iirc, there was a catalogue that included items you could 'buy' with your Green Shield stamp books.

It would show an item, alongside how many completed books you needed.

A b&w 12in TV would cost about 500 books. 

Edited 4 February by Free Falling Foxes

[davieG]

 

Then it keeps fading out and in.

[Parafox]

8 hours ago, davieG said:

 

Then it keeps fading out and in.

I had a small radio that I used to put under my pillow to listen to this new fangled music station.

 

I had to avoid tuning into the fishing forecast. Fastnet, Dogger, Viking. Rockall, etc.

 

Then occasionally you'd get some weird morse code bleeps going on. I used to imagine I was spying on some Russian fleet sending coded messages to their military.  

[jgtuk]

 

31 minutes ago, Parafox said:

I had a small radio that I used to put under my pillow to listen to this new fangled music station.

 

I had to avoid tuning into the fishing forecast. Fastnet, Dogger, Viking. Rockall, etc.

 

Then occasionally you'd get some weird morse code bleeps going on. I used to imagine I was spying on some Russian fleet sending coded messages to their military.  

The shipping forecast - one of the best things on radio ever. 
I had a small bright yellow transistor with a single earphone and I’d listen to Luxembourg or Caroline until the small hours when sleep caught up with me. 
I used to steal batteries from my dads clock whenever mine ran out

Edit: This one

 

Edited 4 February by jgtuk
Pic

[Izzy]

10 hours ago, davieG said:

 

Then it keeps fading out and in.

Reminds me of taking a radio into school on a Monday so we could all listen to the FA Cup 3rd round draw on Radio 2 

[String fellow]

The shipping forecast was ruined when they changed Finnisterre to FitzRoy.

[blabyboy]

11 hours ago, Parafox said:

Then occasionally you'd get some weird morse code bleeps going on. I used to imagine I was spying on some Russian fleet sending coded messages to their military.  

Number stations. Some are still going.

[Free Falling Foxes]

10 hours ago, Izzy said:

Reminds me of taking a radio into school on a Monday so we could all listen to the FA Cup 3rd round draw on Radio 2 

We now go over the Lancaster Gate, the FA's headquarters, for the draw of the next round of the FA Cup. Bert Millichip and Ted Croker will draw the balls - and then it started. They got on with it. None of the tedious razzmatazz of todays draw.

[Izzy]

24 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

We now go over the Lancaster Gate, the FA's headquarters, for the draw of the next round of the FA Cup. Bert Millichip and Ted Croker will draw the balls - and then it started. They got on with it. None of the tedious razzmatazz of todays draw.

Indeed. Yet despite the razzamatazz, it seemed so much more exciting back then.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

The best thing about the shipping forecast was that it was welcome respite from having to listen to England's latest batting collapse in the cricket. You would come back to find they had lost another couple of wickets somewhere between Viking and Faeroes.

 

Edited 5 February by SouthStandUpperTier