Items you never see nowadays

[denislawsbackheel]

Cherry B

 

[asahartford1]

The "penny" tray and the "tanner" tray, oddments of sweets and chocolate sold at corner shop on factory lane.

 

[Alan Oakes Shinpads]

Davenports Beers at home.

 

[asahartford1]

Not seen a "chopper" for a long time

 

[allblackcitizen]

Not seen a "chopper" for a long time

Maybe go on a diet then?

 

[dobingsdobber]

I was only talking to the wife the other day about the lost art of home fire making.
Using a large page of newspaper kept in place by a coal shovel,across the open fireplace and judging the precise moment when the newspaper started to catch fire. Leave it too long and you had a paper fireball on the living room carpet, and a possible house fire.
Into the 1960s and we got a gas poker that was lit and then thrust into the middle of the pile of coke. Soon got a nice fire going using the gas poker.

Ah,the memories.My old dad never had any nasal hair or eye-brows due to wrestling burning copies of the football pink.Our carpets were a bit of a mess as well.

 

[dobingsdobber]

Jumpers for goalposts. Hmm!
Chimney sweeps.
The Bread van.
The milkman.
The coalman/log cart.

The Lamplighter

 

[dobingsdobber]

Bring it back here, very rare poo.

Antiques Roadshow beckons. Love to see Fiona introducing that part of the show.

 

[asahartford1]

Antiques Roadshow beckons. Love to see Fiona introducing that part of the show.

As I grew up, the streets of Blackley were paved with white dog poo, there were a couple of black Labrador x dogs called Migger (sp) that roamed the streets looking for a bitvh in season. Friendly them dogs would follow you around for hours.
Always at the shops, when you waited for the football pink van to arrive. Would get scraps from the chippy, and the dogs would get the scraps of the scraps.

Funny what you remember from 55 years ago.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

‘Stones’ for doorsteps.
Footscrapers outside front/back doors.
Zinc baths
Outside bogs.
Coal cellars.
Whipping tops
Whizzers/spinners - often free in comics.
Marbles or ally’s as we called them.