Blast from the Past

[seeformiles]

There's a sort of postmodern scene popping up in my head where an old bloke looks at some fields and says to a youngster: "I remember when all this was factories"

 

[veracity]

Dogs running out of the butchers with a strings of sausages in their mouths.

I have always wanted to see that!

I remember the knife sharpening man coming round every few months on his bike - you don't see them anymore.

 

[timebomb]

Tripe stalls on Yarmouth Market.

The chip stalls are still there, but the tripe has gone. I'm a cow lovin' vegetarian now anyway, but it was still a part of my youth....looking forward to a trip to Yarmouth for chips and tripe.

 

[northernhord]

Tripe stalls on Yarmouth Market.

The chip stalls are still there, but the tripe has gone. I'm a cow lovin' vegetarian now anyway, but it was still a part of my youth....looking forward to a trip to Yarmouth for chips and tripe.

I went to the chip stalls on Yarmouth Market last year whilst visiting my son who lives in Suffolk

 

[sojourner]

Taking your own dish out to the ice cream van.

Damn you moose! That was gonna be my only contribution to this thread

 

[northernhord]

The Alpine Pop man, chink chink on a Friday aching teeth by Saturday

 

[sojourner]

We could never afford pop from the pop man, so that's a bitter memory for me

Although, I did once pinch several bottles off the van one drunken morning in my teens, coming home from a party

 

[Miss-Shelf]

did i imagine this or did it exist?

a type of chocolate bar that had about six different chocolates - dairy milk type - joined together in a bar like in a model kit and you popped them out?

if it didn't exist it should have

 

[timebomb]

I went to the chip stalls on Yarmouth Market last year whilst visiting my son who lives in Suffolk

Tell him he ought to move to Norfolk.

 

[northernhord]

Tell him he ought to move to Norfolk.

I was bowled over when the chip stalls had sweet thai chilli sauce

 

[sojourner]

did i imagine this or did it exist?

a type of chocolate bar that had about six different chocolates - dairy milk type - joined together in a bar like in a model kit and you popped them out?

if it didn't exist it should have

It did exist

It was a box of chocolates all in the one bar

 

[northernhord]

It did exist

It was a box of chocolates all in the one bar

I believe this bar was called something like a Fry's five centre

 

[Spion]

The rag and bone man. Anyeee auuuld iroooon

Still got one in Bradford, with a horse

 

[Miss-Shelf]

sojorner
you're the only other person i know who saw it

is there a picture i wonder?

what was it called?

 

[Spion]

^ I aint seen white dog poo for two decades

I'll pop you some in the post. I see it the day after doggy eats a bone

 

[timebomb]

Yeah, things have changed!

Seriously, if you're a meat eater you missed out on the tripe though...although I know plenty of meat eaters who wouldn't touch tripe.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

I believe this bar was called something like a Fry's five centre

the frys five centre was the one with the rainbow effect running through its segments - that was a different chocolate experience

what was the choc box in a bar called anyone?

 

[northernhord]

I'll pop you some in the post. I see it the day after doggy eats a bone

Ah, so its the calcium in the bone that makes the Richard the III go white, now i know

 

[sojourner]

sojorner
you're the only other person i know who saw it

is there a picture i wonder?

what was it called?

What was that advert, a bit like James Bond, where the guy delivered a box of chocs to the laydee? And always left a calling card? I think it was a derivative of those chocolates...but I'm too stoned to remember what they were called

 

[sojourner]

Milk Tray!! That's it

 

[sojourner]

Because the lady loves....Milk Tray

 

[northernhord]

And all because the lady loves....

 

[Error Gorilla]

British Rail's blue livery. Waiting an age for the colour telly to warm up.

 

[soulman]

Taping TOTP on a cassette recorder in front of the telly

 

[chymaera]

the coal man

I still get coal delivered.

 

[pennimania]

I,m showing how much an auld cunt I am here but one thing I can remember as a kid growing up in Victorian gaffs in Salford was the old Dears polishing the doorstep with a Donkey stone

I can also remember being sent to the chippy with a fuckin plate and a pound note

what things do you remember from the past that you dont see so much nowadays?

Omigod my nana used to donkey stone her steps and was very scathing abut slatterns who failed to do so

 

[pennimania]

I still get coal delivered.

so do I

 

[pennimania]

I have always wanted to see that!

I remember the knife sharpening man coming round every few months on his bike - you don't see them anymore.

er - there is a man who cpmes round with a van here - I must be living in a time warp

 

[moose]

I remember Mars bars wrapped in printed waxed paper like little parcels. None of these plasticised sealed up things you get now

And my gran's telly lived in a cupboard with doors, and you had to put a lamp on the top, and let it warm up

 

[northernhord]

Omigod my nana used to donkey stone her steps and was very scathing abut slatterns who failed to do so

indeed, they were fiercely proud about such things