We called it clinic orange, and I'm a National Dired baby!!

I'm sure we has rosehip syrup but I can't remember it, but we found that clinic orange was best if diluted with boiling water and then allowed to go cold. I remember cod liver oil capsules which we used to chew for some perverse reason.

Are you thinking of Milk of Magnesia ?

Hahaha I meant as a treat !!!!
Fry 5 creams chocolate bar . Yummmmyyyy

I loved Virol, I buy Malt Extract which is the same.

Do you mean Milk of Magnesia?

I'm a National Dried Baby too. Yes I remember now doing that with the orange juice. Nothing has ever tasted like it since, to me. I think Rose Hip Syrup was introduced when I was around 7 or 8. I was the oldest of four, so my mother was going to the "welfare" for a long time. The babies were weighed, vaccinated etc. there too. They gradually sold more baby foods/milks over the years, cheaper than the shops.

When my Dad died a few years ago we cleared his shed and found several National Dried Milk tins which he kept screws and nails in.

My Mum still has a tall yellow tin with a hinged lid which has creamy coloured sketches of cornfields, haystacks etc and I think that held some special sort of biscuits from the same era. I believe they were Ministry of Food or something similar.

Who remembers Gripe Water? I had a younger brother who had it but I think I pinched more than him. I loved the taste of it and can taste it right now.

I have a bottle here for my grandaughter !! Its available UK and NI . We drove north and bought 6 bottles !!

Try it! It's delicious.

Just googled gripe water and it used to contain 3.6% alcohol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripe_water

I wanted to know what the lovely taste comes from and its ginger, dill, fennel and chamomile or a variation on any of them I think.

I'm the youngest of 4 and don't remember much about the clinic but I do remember the aftermath of vaccinations-I have a whopping great dent in the top of my leg thanks to an inexpertly administered injection!! It looks FAB........not!!

Of course it is!! See anne-666's post!!

Ouch! I remember the BCG vaccination left craters on the upper arm. It was preceded by a Heaf test, that six needle circle, for immunity, I think and I didn't need the vaccination.

The alcohol is no longer in it !!! Pity really it worked wonders !!! Lol only kidding , but the dill is a great cure for babys hicccups and fennel for colicky pain
In Germany you could get little bottles of fennel tea for babies !

I use to dip my own babys soothers in it . ! Instant calm !

I remember my nan making up my granddad's lunch for work the following day - no fresh milk for his flask but "connie onnie" (condensed milk mixed with teaspoons full of sugar) so he could have a cuppa. Anyone else remember this / is it something that's still done today?

I'm another one who got given cod liver oil and welfare (or National Health) orange as it was called.

I think a lot of emphasis was placed on vitamin c back then and I also got given a Haliborange every day in winter to stop me getting colds. Mum also used to try and get me to drink Ribena which I loathed and resisted with all my might. Years later a dentist told me that if you invented a substance to rot children's teeth you'd name it Ribena so I'm glad I did resist.

I still buy Wright's Coal Tar soap, I love the smell of it.

We had one of those pulley affairs over the fire to dry clothes on when I was a kid and I certainly remember ice on the inside of windows and the rags on the windowsills.

I remember going out to play all day in the summer holidays and not having anything to eat or drink all day until you came home, starving and absolutely gasping for a drink at teatime. And it would be water. Or maybe squash, if Dad had just been paid.
No pop apart from as a treat at Granny's at Christmas

I never had any new clothes apart from at Christmas or on my birthday, when I'd get a new jumper or skirt for best. Best? Where did we ever go for best? Panto or Circus at Christmas, I suppose. Though we did have to be smart and well turned out for Church. I remember being most indignant at having to kneel down in my new brand red corduroy trousers in Church, because I'd get them dirty. I must have been about 9. I got properly told off for that, as I recall. Ooops.

The rest of the time, it was hand me downs from my cousin, but mostly my clothes came from the jumble sale until I left home. Now as I say that, I can't recall the last time I even heard of anyone having a jumble sale. Do they still exist?

And let's not even start on sanitary belts and the hammock-like sanitary towels in that dreadful, weird netting.

Alcohol was only removed in 1992, no wonder I loved it! Yes lovely soothing ingredients (even without the alcohol).


I remember it and we had it in Camp coffee at my Grandma's. I used to love to eat it straight from the tin. She also made us "condensed milk on bread" as she called it. As well as cow's milk the milkman sold Puro milk which had a red beer bottle top and tasted like evaporated milk watered down. I think it was made by the Co-op.

No lets not (oh the memories)....mind you if my Nan was still here (and had face like this at the thought of me talking to people on this here contraption) she would talk of cutting up rags and boiling them after use and hanging them on the line to dry, so I suppose we were lucky....

We were tough in those days. I grew up in a cold house with only a coal fire and never a fire in the bedroom unless we were ill. Nowadays I relish my central heating, but I think we were healthier then.

I think we were . My mum always says we had measles and mumps etc but none of these obscure viruses , very seldom allergies or asthma .

Mix them with external stitches after childbirth The journey between sitting and standing was agony

Wrights coal tar soap is good for psoriasis.

And it smells lovely

The memories this thread brings back!

We had sterilised milk from the milkman because my mum reckoned it kept longer than pasteurised. Is sterilised milk still available?