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Everyday things from back in the day that seem really weird now

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  • It's where Borstal was invented. The Organiser sounds like the star pupil.
    At Dartford Grammar we always used to get rumours of Picardy school (Belvedere?) are coming down after school for a fight. 
  • MrOneLung said:
    At Dartford Grammar we always used to get rumours of Picardy school (Belvedere?) are coming down after school for a fight. 
    And that was just the girls ! 
  • IdleHans said:
    Sing Something Simple on Sunday evening radio. Utterly awful but my parents insisted on it.
    Good shout. I absolutely loathed this. It was worse on a day when we'd gone on a shopping trip into town (something else I never much cared for) because that programme would last all the way back and I'd be imprisoned in the car with no chance of escape. I hated Cliff Adams with a passion. 
  • 'A Roads' that were almost entirely single carriage ways and frequently took winding routes through urban areas. The one that sticks in my mind is the old A13 at Thurrock that winds its way past the Circus Tavern.
  • Charlie Chester's radio programme that was a bit like Swap Shop but for adults to get or give away normal household stuff. 'Someone in Lancaster has a chair to give away, whilst Mike in Maidstone is trying to find a copy of Clement Atlee's wartime diary'. I can’t imagine this format would make the poorest of local stations now, but back then it was peak programming on Radio 2. I guess it's a sad commentary on how poor people were and how difficult it was to obtain stuff.
  • Peter Brough with his dummy Archie Andrews the ventriloquist on the radio. 
  • The light programme, the third programme and the home service.
  • Peter Brough with his dummy Archie Andrews the ventriloquist on the radio. 
    Remember something about him appearing on the TV and it being realised he couldn't actually do it
  • Peter Brough with his dummy Archie Andrews the ventriloquist on the radio. 
    Another Cockney rhyming slang name used for not feeling well…….”I’m feeling a bit Peter Brough.”
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  • Hal1x said:
    I lived in Bean, and as a child we had a veg lorry come round, a bakers lorry, grocery lorry (sweeties!), mobile fish and chips and on a friday a Corona fizzy pop lorry.

    We also had someone selling charity lottery tickets made of thick paper, with perforations around the edge, which you had to tear around to open and see if you had won.
    Grocery Lorry?  Not Gerry’s van?  A removal lorry you go into the back of ?  I’m from Greenhithe it must be surely?
  • Making a payment by cheque.
  • Indoor fireworks
  • Pulling out the choke
    Thankfully my truck has an electric choke. 
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    Buying potassium nitrate and sulphur from Cuffs department store for my chemistry set.

    Thriving department stores in Woolwich.
  • Cinemas in Woolwich
  • Buying potassium nitrate and sulphur from Cuffs department store for my chemistry set.

    Thriving department stores in Woolwich.
    Department Stores in general.
  • I can can remember collecting bubble gum cards as a primary school kid in the 1960’s. There were series based on the American Civil War and WW2. Having just looked them up on the internet I am reminded of how bloodthirsty and violent they were. 
    Also one of the petrol companies gave away free with every purchase a sealed pack with half a facsimile note of the realm. If you matched up both sides of the note you got the money back. Normally it was a ten shilling note. 
  • Turkish and Russian Vapour Baths, Plumstead High Street.
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  • Not an everyday thing but I could never understand why the bbc shipping forecast interrupted the test match commentary.
    Just how many captain birdseyes did the bbc think were cricket fans.
  • “And if you don’t want to know the scores from todays matches, look away now”
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    I can can remember collecting bubble gum cards as a primary school kid in the 1960’s. There were series based on the American Civil War and WW2. Having just looked them up on the internet I am reminded of how bloodthirsty and violent they were. 
    Also one of the petrol companies gave away free with every purchase a sealed pack with half a facsimile note of the realm. If you matched up both sides of the note you got the money back. Normally it was a ten shilling note. 
    Not forgetting Man from UNCLE cards, when you laid them out you had a picture of Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuriakin (sp) on the reverse.

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  • Being put on a bus by an adult who would ask the conductor to put me off at a certain stop, where another adult would then meet me, or I would walk. 
  • Saturday morning pictures.
  • Those war comics called Combat, etc.
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    Those war comics called Combat, etc.
    You can still get them .
    https://www.commandocomics.com/
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  • fadgadget said:
    You can still get them .
    https://www.commandocomics.com/
    Didn’t know that, thanks!
  • edited June 2023
    T_C_E said:
    Still does on the special channels 😉

    the hand wash car cleaners round my way don't quite look like this, :/
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