Things you never see anymore

[Foxdiamond]

Just now, Parafox said:

Yes. In this area it was a deep red coloured thing that was folded like a concertina.

Similar down here. I remember ours as dark brown but made have just been old!

[Parafox]

These are the ticket machines I remember:

 

 

[Parafox]

This topic reminds me how old I have become. 

 

I wonder what today's younger folk will reminisce about when they reach our age.

Edited 29 January 2025 by Parafox

[Free Falling Foxes]

29 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Ha yes. Front window seat. Funny I also liked downstairs front next to driver (not behind driver)

 

22 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Yeah! Being able to look out the window over what seemed to be a huge curved bonnet.

 

I did quite like sitting behind the driver and being in awe of the speedometer and other dials and the massive handbrake and gear stick and how this bloke could change gear. And the indicator switch, which only those of our generation will remember. 

 

What a simple joy 

My Mam would ask the conductor if he had a spare ticket roll. Often they had one that was mostly used and give it to me. I would then play 'buses' at home. Joy.

Simple pleasures.

 

[davieG]

24 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Travelling on a train with carriages like this was always exciting. Walking down the passage looking into each compartment as you went by. And the windows held shut and lowered by a leather strap where you could stick your head out and smell the smoke from the steam engine or view the people on the platform as you pulled into the station.

There used to be ones with no corridors, went on jolly boys outing to skeggy on one, had to get off at one of the stops to use the bog after drinking all the way there.

[davieG]

41 minutes ago, Torquay Gunner said:

You are probably right, I can only comment as far as London is concerned. 

I remember being sick on one of these, must have been 3/4 years old.

 

 

[Foxdiamond]

3 minutes ago, davieG said:

I remember being sick on one of these, must have been 3/4 years old.

 

 

Just about remember these

[Izzy]

52 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Anybody still have an 'Airing cupboard'?

How about a 'larder'?

 

My gran had a larder but you never hear of them these days

[Foxdiamond]

9 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

 

My Mam would ask the conductor if he had a spare ticket roll. Often they had one that was mostly used and give it to me. I would then play 'buses' at home. Joy.

Simple pleasures.

 

Nice memory

[davieG]

15 minutes ago, Parafox said:

This topic reminds me how old I have become. 

 

I wonder what today's younger folk will reminisce about when they reach our age.

When they used to have phones before the brain implants

[Foxdiamond]

15 minutes ago, Parafox said:

This topic reminds me how old I have become. 

 

I wonder what today's younger folk will reminisce about when they reach our age.

I remember my dad talking about old times with my uncles thinking what is this old stuff they talking about. Now here we are

[Foxdiamond]

1 hour ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Anybody still have an 'Airing cupboard'?

The days of an hot water cylinder with shelves around are long gone but I guess some boilers might provide something similar?

Still got one. House built 1987

[davieG]

This was our first washing m/c when I got married, bought 2nd hand made by John  Bloom's company.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bloom_(businessman)

 

 

[Parafox]

22 minutes ago, Izzy said:

How about a 'larder'?

 

My gran had a larder but you never hear of them these days

 

We don't but my "nan" (foster carer) lived in a cottage a small village where I spent the first 5 years of my life and used to go back to regularly. She had a larder which housed a large slate or ceramic "cold shelf" where butter and dairy products, tins of condensed milk, tins of fruit, and such like would be stored and it also had a meat safe, which was a wooden box with a mesh door to the keep cool air circulating but the flies out.

[Foxdiamond]

2 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

We don't but my "nan" (foster carer) lived in a cottage a small village where I spent the first 5 years of my life and used to go back to regularly. She had a larder which housed a large slate or ceramic "cold shelf" where butter and dairy products, tins of condensed milk, tins of fruit, and such like would be stored and it also had a meat safe, which was a wooden box with a mesh door to the keep cool air circulating but the flies out.

1950s house I grew up in had a larder

[Izzy]

5 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

We don't but my "nan" (foster carer) lived in a cottage a small village where I spent the first 5 years of my life and used to go back to regularly. She had a larder which housed a large slate or ceramic "cold shelf" where butter and dairy products, tins of condensed milk, tins of fruit, and such like would be stored and it also had a meat safe, which was a wooden box with a mesh door to the keep cool air circulating but the flies out.

Sounds identical my my Grans!

[The Bear]

I have a pantry under the stairs, but there's just bits and bobs plus laundry in there. No boiler. That was in the loft with an immersion tank/heater.

[Parafox]

16 minutes ago, davieG said:

This was our first washing m/c when I got married, bought 2nd hand made by John  Bloom's company.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bloom_(businessman)

 

 

 

We had one of these complete with a mangle attached:

 

 

 

And a separate one of these:

 

 

The mangle was a piece of genius before spin dryers arrived. The amount of water that they could squeeze out was unbelievable and probably better than modern spin drying machines

 

 

Edited 29 January 2025 by Parafox

[Izzy]

1 minute ago, The Bear said:

I have a pantry under the stairs, but there's just bits and bobs plus laundry in there. No boiler. That was in the loft with an immersion tank/heater.

Another word that you don't really hear anymore

[Parafox]

5 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Another word that you don't really hear anymore

 

My childhood home had a pantry. I still remember the fridge being installed in there when I was young and the fitter had to put a gas pipe in to connect it as it was gas powered.

 

[Izzy]

I like this thread.

 

A reminder of simpler times and a nice distraction from all the shit that’s currently going on in the world.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

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

[SeCrEt FoX]

4 hours ago, davieG said:

Leaping on and off these especially going around roundabouts was part of growing up.

I remember sitting above the driver and seeing the top of his head. Before the days off CCTV, when he used to look up at the mirror to see what we're up to 😂 

[Free Falling Foxes]

1 hour ago, The Bear said:

I have a pantry under the stairs, but there's just bits and bobs plus laundry in there. No boiler. That was in the loft with an immersion tank/heater.

Where we grew up, we called the cupboard under the stairs The Dark Hole. Apart from the electricity meter,  the 'Hoover' was kept in there, my Dad's golf clubs and loads of knitting yarn, or 'wool' as we called it.

 

I wondered if Dark Hole was a Leicester saying, but chatting to some friends and colleagues, very few had heard the expression.

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, Izzy said:

I like this thread.

 

A reminder of simpler times and a nice distraction from all the shit that’s currently going on in the world.

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.