Things you don't see anymore ?

[lame plumber]

The old man used to drink this ...had to be Manns Brown regards Turnpin:21:

tried it and loved it as a teenager, asked for it a while back and got an odd look, times are a changing and not for the better

 

[REDSAW]

tried it and loved it as a teenager, asked for it a while back and got an odd look, times are a changing and not for the better

you have to read that to yourself again lol.

the preferred word is 'black' now! lmfao

 

[Keefy]

Joiners with their own handmade tool box.

 

[mickie]

An extension being built.
A stolen car being took for a joy ride.
Peoples windows getting put through.
A bathroom install.
An honest estate agent.
A skint landlord.
A decent wage.
A pension.
An end to the recession in the north east.

 

[Ermintrude]

Joiners with their own handmade tool box.

Saw one in Sunderland on a revite. Joiner was a complete twonk

 

[helpsy]

want some photos

So do I ! Have you got any?

 

[helpsy]

Stickers on vans saying "we're in the yellow pages"

Landlines 0926

Gold top milk

The milk bottles with Green tops

Pop crates as hop ups on site

Your mrs number in loos at local boozer!

Not true on the phone number..... I saw it on the back door of the services bogs on the M1 :-O

 

[helpsy]

Women on the streets in leg warmers

 

[helpsy]

Parking space just where you're working.

 

[helpsy]

Scrimping customers or ones telling you how to sort the job. erm.... Maybe not....somethings never change!

 

[helpsy]

Lord Lucan

 

[helpsy]

Concord flying

 

[tamz]

47p for 1L of diesel

I remember when it was that for a gallon Stan and when 20 Embassy tipped was 26p and a pint was about 40p

There is another thing we'll never see. Embassy coupons!

 

[REDSAW]

& greenshield stamps, still have a book somewhere!!

 

[tamz]

Bit late to cash them in now:smile:

 

[WHPES]

Fish and chips in real newspaper (there was a scare in the 90s about the carbon black in newsprint being potentially carcinogenic so its not used now).

Getting £1 as a kid for fish, chips and mushy peas (it's almost £5 here now!)

Jubliee Stout (nana's favourite tipple)

"Nutty" bar (a toffee wafer bar with peanuts stuck to it, in transparent brown cellophane wrapper) which resembled a turd, probably accounting for its decline in popularity.

Mars / Twix / Bounty / Marathon (old name for Snickers) etc in wax paper wrappers (changed to film in the mid 1980s

Beech Nut chewing gum

Altoids mints

People saying "hello" on the streets. (Tyne & Wear and Northumberland are the only places I have been to recenty where people are still friendly and will still say "morning" to people they pass who they don't know).

AM or MW radio

Laundry blue (came in a little block wrapped in muslin and disappeared about 10 years ago, probably due to the fact nobody has net curtains anymore)

 

[WHPES]

Audio cassettes

Video cassettes (grandad was one of the unfortunate ones who opted for V2000 which was the shortest lived format (double sided cassetted you flipped over for the "B" side

Vinyl records

Making a "Trunk call" - (phoning the operator on "100" to make a long distance or international phone call), telephone switchboards

Floppy disks for computers

Rawl Drills (however did we manage before SDS?)

Asbestos products (new)

White guttering and soil pipe systems

Typewiters and word processing machines

The Rolodex and card files (an early card inedexing system rendered obsolete by computers)

Film cameras and polaroid cameras

Record shops

Junk shops (since ebay)

 

[tamz]

reversed charge phone calls

 

[tamz]

Btw i bought a grundig video 2000 too. Cost me over 500 quid 3 popes ago. I never learned and bought a knocked off betamax next :lol:

 

[kay-jay]

Datsun

Neck lumps

Hawking and gobbing in the gutter

Light and bitter

Watney's red barrel

Watney's party 7

fast food that doesn't defy the trade description on both counts.

Ferkin pubs

Flirty Gertie from number 30

That fit young girl I chatted up at a party in '86. By '98 it had turned into a monster so I gave it the heave ho.

I have a party 7 opener somewhere.

 

[kay-jay]

Double Diamond? not missed that much

Lager? Still grt that but has to be joseph holts pubs

 

[kay-jay]

tried it and loved it as a teenager, asked for it a while back and got an odd look, times are a changing and not for the better

Can get manns brown in asda. I have a bottle somewhere. I use it in a cake recipe. At 2% its not worth drinking.

 

[Nostrum]

BT phone cards

 

[SafeGasInstall]

Full English breakfast for £2.35

 

[jefaz]

Betamax

 

[helpsy]

Absolutely rolling in it plumbers

 

[helpsy]

England beating Australia in the cricket

 

[Ray Stafford]

ZX81

Commodore Vic 20 with 16k (!) expansion pack and tape drive

MS DOS 3.xx

Supercalc

Line-numbered programs

 

[SafeGasInstall]

Chanel XXL

 

[Nostrum]

Casio calculator watches

 

[Keefy]

Dobermans.

 

[SafeGasInstall]

Happy people walking on the streets

 

[Phil]

Santa's grotto where you could actually sit on Santa's knee, without parents feeling uneasy.

 

[Ermintrude]

Windows 3.11

 

[stevetheplumber]

parafine blow lamps