Memories

[petec]

God......I remember everything in the original post, and most of those in the follow up's.

We used to live in a prefab in a village in Essex when I was young. The prefabs were put up by German POW's to house people put out by the blitz.

I remember they had boilers (the washing machine of the day), with mangles attached (the spin drier of the day, but without the spin) as standard fittings.

Mum used to give us a penny, with which we could almost buy enough of the aforementioned sweets, to last us most of the week.

Happy days

[Garry Russell]

Our milk came in tetra packs...the pyramid shaped packages

We used to put them through the mangle open end first to make them go with a bang

Sometimes the car would run over a discarded one on the road which mad you thing you'd just had a blow out if you caught them just right

[simondix]

I don't know if any of you Londoners remember 'Collars of Wembley' who used to collect and deliver the detached collars for laundry. They were in cardboard boxes.

[simondix]

You mention vending machines Dave

They were of course nothing like todays

You put your penny in and turned the stiff knob on the side a turn or two as it clonked through the cycles before the goods dropped down.

They had them for postage stamps too

Turn a stiff knob nowadays and you get arrested,

[Garry Russell]

Unless your at Brooklands on the Vanguard

[DaveB]

Unless your at Brooklands on the Vanguard

... where ALL our knobs are stiff I kid ye not.. the chances of us ever doing an engine run again slip further away with each passing week

Back on topic..
Recent history now.. remember when Snickers was a Marathon bar.. Cif (Sif) was Jif and Starburst were Opal Fruits?? At a similar time, Nestle became 'Nestlay'(pron) Oh the humanities!

ATB

DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Opal mints had already been long renamed beforehand...was it Spearmint pacers??

Omo washing powder was renamed to something I know not what

And a queer Scottish dog was one who preferred his Pal to his Lassie

[NigelC]

And a queer Scottish dog was one who preferred his Pal to his Lassie

And Ellesmere Port was a pound a bottle

[airboatr]

Has anybody in here seen my car keys....