Things you dont see anymore

[elginCity]

 

[Swanaldo]

Handkercheifs. As schoolkids it was standard, when you had a cold, to carry a linen handkercheif in your pocket which would generally be sufficient to contain about three days worth of snot. If it was a heavy cold then often the rag would be soaked and finding a dry spot was a massive bonus. After a good blow, with an impressive "parp" the handkercheif would be crammed back into your trouser pocket where, if left for any significant period of time, would clagg up becoming a hardened ball of solid bogie which would have to be prised open if it was to be reused. Tissues were unheard of

The joy of finding a clean quadrant to blow your nose into.

For me the handkerchief thing was an intergenerational situation between grandson and grandmother.

 

[Billy The Fish]

It was also a weapon employed by mothers to erase imaginary dirt marks from boys faces.

 

[dontpassback]

Recycling at its finest

We used to get chips and gribbles from Hutchings chip shop in school road,st Thomas,we used to go in on Monday nights after the speedway,happy days

 

[Hants_red]

Carol singers.

 

[Tim Long]

Mudguards on bicycles. You can recognise a cyclist by the line of dirt spattered up their back.

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Bakelite light switches.

 

[Suzi & The Banned Cheese]

Gerry Adams/Sein Fein voices being dubbed on the news!

 

[DB9]

Gerry Adams/Sein Fein voices being dubbed on the news!

Blimey, That's going back a bit

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Gerry Adams/Sein Fein voices being dubbed on the news!

That was bizarre......It was like a badly dubbed foreign film

A few Loyalists had the same treatment iirc