Climbing towering elm trees! We had 3 favourites, The Gas Works, from the top of which you could see Southall gas works, The Windsor from where Windsor Castle was viewable (in theory anyway) and The 3 Sisters. This one had grown with 3 separate trunks. Can’t recall anyone actually managing to get up any of the 3!

I remember the days I could take the head off my Mini, re grind the valves etc, and get it all put back the same day,
Try doing virtualy anything on todays modern cars and it’s impossible.

Lincoln .7

I bought a Mini last year to re-live the nostalgia of the ones I owned in the 1960’s. Unfortunately although it’s 25 years younger than the last one, it’s still a nasty, bumpy, oil dripping rust bucket, just like they always have been. On the other hand, it does take you back….

From various parts of the old HDD in my head: –

Cigs in packs of 5, and if you asked they’d sell em as 1’s.
Tiger Tails tied to exhaust pipes (Tiger in my tank campaign). And, if anybody has got one, I know a man that may pay a lot for it)
Jublees. (Triangular block of flavoured ice, called Jubilee)
Bengal Matches.
Dolly Blues.
“Go to work on an Egg”
Large Black telephones that weighed as much as Africa.
Cloth covered wiring…..and Irons that you plugged in the light socket!!! No wonder there were a lot of house fires!
Everybodies mum was at home.
Hancock, Family Favourites, Jimmy Clitheroe, Navy Lark. The case of the Muckineze Battlehorn.
Donkey stoning the back step. Or Front. Best step on street – well kept house!
Door unlocked all day.
Neck lumps on men.
Massive “Dinner lady arms” on the women (Bingo Wings)
Breaking down in the car every time we went on a day trip.
Bloke coming round in a Van, offering the sharpening servise. Knives, Scissors, Shears etc.
Insurance, Pools, Milk man and Rent man on Friday night, collecting.
Spud Guns.
Police that half-saluted ladies.
£10 poms
Hob nail boots. Sold at a real Ex Army/Navy supply store.
Brylcream (sp). Worn so it set hard, you could count the comb lines!
No Brylcreem? LARD. R kid wore that a few times to keep his DA in place.
Beehive hair do’s.
Aftershave? Only if you were batting for the wrong team.
Solid plastic Vulcans (About 4 inch wingspan), launched with a special elastic affair on a stick. They came in Red, Navy Blue and yellow IIRC. Banned, after few kids lost eyes.
Rip Raps. Banned from public sale….except for the Chinese

I could go on, but it’s making me feel even older.

Blimey! Are you my twin sister, separated at birth??? You have forgotten the free thingies in The Topper, or possibly Beezer that you fipped and it made a bang… I wonder what the correct term was for them?

Banupa, Moggy, and Pete. I hear the talk, but did any of you walk the walk?.;)

Lincoln .7
:diablo:

Of course not! Far too embarrasing to actually ask for them at the barbers. Luckily there was a “Johnnie Man” working in the machine shop at Fairey’s who was happy to supply us apprentices, when our meagre salaries permitted…

shouldn’t that be “ribbed” ?

I’ll get my coat.

Don’t think that variety had been invented in those days, though you could get Durex or Ona….

Kai Tak

I visited a friend in 1999 who worked at the then closed Kai Tak and was surprised to find a Beagle Pup in the HK Flying Club’s hangar. It was complete, but needed various mods to render it airworthy. At the time, it wasn’t thought to be financially viable and was effectively scrap waiting to happen. I wonder if it did escape to fly again?

Bubble cars

I had a Heinkel Bubble Car in my teens and it would carry 4 people, though 2 of them were rather stooped on exiting…

And three Durex for 3/9d

Moggy

I’m sure they were 7/6?