Items you never see nowadays

[hammocity]

Popping tar off cobbled streets in summer
Sylvester trousers (like tonics but checked)
Sailor trousers
Tin bath
Tippler bog (outside shithouse that dropped your load directly into the sewer)
Pisspot under the bed (couldn’t use the tippler in the middle of the night)
Radio Luxembourg
Peter Styvesun cigs
Playboy mag
Caning at school
Detention
Cherry B, Pony and Babycham in those little bottles, the first known as “leg opener”
TV and Radio Times especially at Christmas
C & A
Chocolate gold coins
Dimple whisky
Penny round shirts
Watneys Red Barrel bitter, on Tiswas Lenny Henry read the “news”, he said “Watneys Red Barrel Brewery is to to close, 10 million gnats are being made redundant”

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Make your own

We used to use a bike pump and forced berries down the end, they were like very slow machine guns in the hands of a skilled operator. Happy days.....

 

[Ribchester]

Popping tar off cobbled streets in summer
Sylvester trousers (like tonics but checked)
Sailor trousers
Tin bath
Tippler bog (outside shithouse that dropped your load directly into the sewer)
Pisspot under the bed (couldn’t use the tippler in the middle of the night)
Radio Luxembourg
Peter Styvesun cigs
Playboy mag
Caning at school
Detention
Cherry B, Pony and Babycham in those little bottles, the first known as “leg opener”
TV and Radio Times especially at Christmas
C & A
Chocolate gold coins
Dimple whisky
Penny round shirts
Watneys Red Barrel bitter, on Tiswas Lenny Henry read the “news”, he said “Watneys Red Barrel Brewery is to to close, 10 million gnats are being made redundant”

Had a pair of sylvesters from Justin’s or Ivor’s some called them overchecks had a pair of pow too never went as far as Ruperts though, first penny round was a black Brutus from Ivor’s

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

A trophy with United’s name on it.

 

[hammocity]

Had a pair of sylvesters from Justin’s or Ivor’s some called them overchecks had a pair of pow too never went as far as Ruperts though, first penny round was a black Brutus from Ivor’s

It was a real treat to go those shops in town, do you remember the bags, Stolen from Ivor’s? Happy, innocent days indeed. My first penny round shirt was a bright yellow one, I’m not sure but it could have been a Ben Sherman.

 

[bumbleblue]

Do you mean a Wythenshawe Spud Gun?
Where you hold a potato over the end of a 9mm to act as a silencer? Because they are still used.

Lol whilst I am from WHP in Wythy originally I cant say this is an experience I have had, although you never know... ;-0

 

[Pezzer2]

Butter beans
Cap guns

 

[George Hannah]

1960s 'toy' water rockets - lethal

 

[KS55]

Brentford Nylons and their awful sheets

 

[mancityvstoke]

Brentford Nylons and their awful sheets

Meeting women there on a Sunday night after copping off in a dark club pissed up Sat night.

Legging it on sight