The FOC thread.

[Lavinda Past]

Fennings Fever Cure was a product sold in the past by Alfred Fennings, a pharmaceutical company, to treat fever and other ailments. It was particularly marketed for children, with Fennings Children's Cooling Powders being a related product. While it was a popular remedy, it's important to note that the effectiveness and safety of such historical remedies are not comparable to modern medicine.

It was also fucking horrible;)

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Little Lung Healers" likely refers to a historical brand name, Fennings Little Healers, a product by Alfred Fennings, that was popular in the mid-20th century. These were sold as a remedy, particularly for coughs and colds, though some of the product's early claims were considered dubious according to the Science Museum Group Collection. The product, originally called "Lung Healers", was later renamed to "Little Healers". The brand also produced other products like "Fennings Lung Healers".
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Fennings Little Healers got me through quite a few rough times in the early/mid 60s when I had frequent chest infections.
As I remember, they were used to break up heavy congestion when I woke up in the mornings. They worked really well.

After all those years, I remembered them when I had quite a serious chest infection a couple of years ago. I searched the Internet to try to find if they were still sold... they weren't, so I had to rely on antibiotics.

I still think Fennings would have sorted me out quicker!

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

Fennings Fever Cure was a product sold in the past by Alfred Fennings, a pharmaceutical company, to treat fever and other ailments. It was particularly marketed for children, with Fennings Children's Cooling Powders being a related product. While it was a popular remedy, it's important to note that the effectiveness and safety of such historical remedies are not comparable to modern medicine.

It was also fucking horrible;)

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Little Lung Healers" likely refers to a historical brand name, Fennings Little Healers, a product by Alfred Fennings, that was popular in the mid-20th century. These were sold as a remedy, particularly for coughs and colds, though some of the product's early claims were considered dubious according to the Science Museum Group Collection. The product, originally called "Lung Healers", was later renamed to "Little Healers". The brand also produced other products like "Fennings Lung Healers".
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Ha! Fennings little healers! Brings back memories whenever I hear those 3 words.

I had a mate who got dragged in front of the headmaster at junior school after dishing out the little healers to practically everybody in the school. I think he got suspended for "dealing drugs" at the age of about 6 or 7 because of that incident.

Humorously, he's a pharmacist now.

 

[Barcon]

I was just going to type this!!

At my mum's funeral, we spotted two ladies walking away, quietly. I chased after them and as I thanked them for coming, they turned and I was gobsmacked to see that they were the next-door neighbours I grew up with. In those days, it seemed like nobody ever moved (just like you remember players from the 60s and 70s only ever playing for one team).

Angela, who is a year or two younger than I am, and her mum. I threw my arms around 'Auntie' Edna and she laughed when I called her that.

Angela was starting to explain "we used to live next door to you..." which was a bit surreal - as if I could ever forget either of them. Still one of the strongest memories from that day.

Sorry - a bit self-indulgent, but that's the effect of some of the posts on this thread...

I posted something on here once about growing up in Failsworth as a kid and the next thing I know, I’m P.M’ing with someone who’s brother lives in our old house. The neighbours across the rd are still there and remembered us by name.

 

[KS55]

True, they look at you though you are daft. Asking for Nescafe normally gets you there.

Camp coffee with chicory essence served with sterilised milk.

 

[remember arthur mann]

The great doorstep divide...

Cardinal Red or Donkey Stone?

There were ladies down our street who would Donkey Stone the whole pavement outside their house.

 

[Jimmieblue]

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Can't remember the name of the drawing ointment.

Remember they rubbed that on your legs when your wellies fridged your legs, or you got chilblains trying to get your freezing feet warm.

 

[KS55]

Remember they rubbed that on your legs when your wellies fridged your legs, or you got chilblains trying to get your freezing feet warm.

It was commonly believed that putting your feet on a hot radiator would give you chilblains. Is that actually true?

 

[remember arthur mann]

 

[Shirley]

As a kid I had the front bedroom and would get woken up by a woman across the road banging on the neighbours bedroom window with a clothes prop to get them up for work.

 

[fanatic1]

It was commonly believed that putting your feet on a hot radiator would give you chilblains. Is that actually true?

Maybe but if you put your arse on a hot radiator you'd get piles - maybe hanging piles.

 

[KS55]

Maybe but if you put your arse on a hot radiator you'd get piles - maybe hanging piles.

If you look them up in a medical ref, it says chilblains are caused by cold damp conditions that constrict blood vessels.

 

[paulchapo]

Tin baths in front of the coal fire, usually on a Sunday night before school on Monday, ice on the inside of bedroom windows in the winter, outside toilets, luxury!
It seems bizarre now looking back but I remember when we first got a fridge, fitted carpets, a telephone ( Shared party line) and a colour telly. All major purchases in those days. No central heating or double glazing until years later sadly but going from a coal fire to a gas one was a big plus point.

 

[hallsteve62]

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Can't remember the name of the drawing ointment.

Yellow Basilicon?

 

[Jimmieblue]

It was commonly believed that putting your feet on a hot radiator would give you chilblains. Is that actually true?

Radiators! As a kid we had one open fire downstairs living room. Sitting too close to it resulted in mottled legs and chilblains. If I was ill, which I was as a child, measles, scarlet fever, quinsy, chicken pox, all the usual ailments in those days, my mother shovelled the hot ashes out of the grate and rushed up stairs and threw the coals in the grate there. I did survive, no antibiotics, I think M&B tablets were early antibiotics, which I found out later stood for May & Baker. On top of all that there would be frequent nits, not to mention worms. Last week an old friend for years, similar age said as he struggled to get out of his chair “We lived through the best of times”. Make of that what you will.

 

[yerwot?]

As a kid I had the front bedroom and would get woken up by a woman across the road banging on the neighbours bedroom window with a clothes prop to get them up for work.

A knocker-upper, a street-lamp lighter/snuffer the knife and scissor sharpener, "healers" who were said to have "the touch", insurance collectors, milk men, gas and leccy meter collectors, coal delivery, rag'n'bone carts, dinner time post delivery, paper-lads/girls, Corona wagons, vegetable/grocery vans, chimney sweeps, coppers on bikes, ice-cream vans, off-licenses, brewery carts, just some of the everyday traffic on urban streets, and virtually no private cars

 

[HorlocksWalk]

Did give you lung cancer though

 

[J.G.Blue.]

Any one remember Dolly Blue no not the porn star it was something my mum used to put in with the washing, I think it was supposed to make things whiter?

 

[mexico1970]

Any one remember Dolly Blue no not the porn star it was something my mum used to put in with the washing, I think it was supposed to make things whiter?

This was the forerunner to the new improved, improved and improved again soap powders :)

 

[paulchapo]

Anyone remember the thick smogs we used to get? I remember going to school in Hulme and you literally could hardly see in front of your nose. We had smog masks and when you took them off they were black with soot. Nowadays school would be cancelled.

 

[remember arthur mann]

The rise and fall of the prefab council estates that used to be in Heaton Park and at Hough End - Manchester Evening News https://share.google/nUS4QWVOVpYOCYqd3