I have this vivid memory of my mother, who suffered with heavy facial hair, mixing vim with hydrogen peroxide and smearing it on her moustache. Worked a treat, changed black moustache to bleached blonde - bless you Mum

Reminisce all you want to.

But it was serious BS.

To you.

I actually think people were just reminiscing rather than complaining and any 'having a go at youngsters' was tongue in cheek to say the least. I think this thread has been a funny walk down memory lane. Let's not be grumpy now bootyache

Does anyone remember the days when bootyache was a lad/lass and full of fun

Nevermind, you'll get over it.


Like now.

Never. I've always been a pain in the bum.

Yes inventive! I remember my mother stinking of Veet. Gawd it was rank stuff. She used to mix up a raw egg concoction as a face mask and used Ponds cold cream. Evening in Paris or Tweed perfume. Also me and sis in the bath with washing up liquid for bubble bath. We always got bath cubes at Christmas and felt very grown up. Using a sixpence if a suspender broke. Seamed stockings were the first I ever had. Corsets with suspenders hanging from them. The Spirella corset lady came to peoples houses to measure them up.

Fibber!! I bet when you were young you positively glowed with wit and good humour. I know a kindred soul when I meet one. xx

I can't believe that. Stick your tongues in and behave yourself

Jeez lighten up, it's a fun thread. No-one is having a go at anyone.

Who had a go at young ones ? I see only rememising and sharing here ?

I think it is a case of seeing all those that are no longer 'young' as always being 'old'......they will reminisce too one day

Did anyone here call a babys pushchair a gocar ? Not a go cart but a gocar ? Or was that a very Irish name for it
I remember my dad putting a layer of newspaper inside his clothes , under his vest , on very cold mornings before he set off to work on his bike

He had a tiny little red saddle on the crossbar of his bike and would give us kids a spin to school

We had a "safe " hanging on a cold north wall keeping the buttter and milk cold

Fried bread was a warmer uppper breakfast , bread fried in fat in the pan with salt and pepper

Brown sauce sandwiches for school lunches and mashed banana with sugar and jam as a threat !

A little off topic but watched A Hard Days Night the other day. Gobsmacked to realise it's 50 years old!

Remember burning my fingers on one of those oil stoves that we used in the bedroom. I wasn't at school then so probably about 3-4. Mum put butter on it. Glad to say my fingers appear to be fine in spite of being fried!

I remember visiting my great granddad in his two up two down terrace , outside toilet but it wasn't a flush one it was straight into an open sewer , the enamel sink in the kitchen did have a tap but a hand pump and the only nod to the 20th century was one of those Baby Burco water heaters on the wall , In all the years that I visited him I only went into the front room as that was for "best" and was never used

If you're a naughty boy\girl you'll get mashed banana, sugar and jam.

Seriously though I remember well getting a brown sauce "piece" - as we called it, rhubarb from the garden with a "poke" of sugar for dipping, fairy household soap for the kitchen - along with mangle and washboard, lux for the bathroom, Sunday night weekly baths with a dollop of syrup of figs for regularity and Venos if you had a cough.

Those were the days. Does anyone remember Five Boys chocolate?

Yes I do.

Every morning a tablespoon of Cod liver oil followed by a spoonful of Malt Kepler. Occasionally a spoonful of milk of magnesia, no idea why. And in Spring a tablespoon of sulphur sprinkled on black treacle to clean the blood

As it goes I still have cod liver oil every day but these days it comes in nice little capsules that you swallow whole........you don't have to drink it neat !



I take it to ease the pain of aging joints..........I wonder what we took it for as kids ?

Milk of Magnesia was for upset tummies I think

I do remember when they changed to the little capsules. I gave them to my children.

Also remember rose hip syrup. And horrible concentrated orange juice.

Olive oil in a little bottle for earache.

When we stayed at grannies house every Friday night you got a dose of Syrup of Figs whether you needed it or not. Blech!!

Yes I do.

Yes I remember all of that. We had sugar and ketchup sandwiches, not together!

Fry's Five Centre
Chocolate bars

Marathon became Snickers

Treets became Minstrels and M&M's

This is a 40's collection of sweets, just too early for me to remember some of them

Spangles

Weekend Chocolates

I loved the "welfare" orange juice and rose hip syrup, hated cod liver oil and vitamin pills. They were all free and National Dried Milk for babies

Yes the front room was the posh room and every house seemed to have one.
My Grandfather was a farmer and they had the non flushing, plank of wood over something putrid, outside toilet. Hold your breath time.

I loved that Ministry of Food Orange juice, it seemed much orangier than todays stuff, also Virol which was a malty treacle , and what was that creamy stuff in a blue bottle,? I enjoyed all of that.