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Moving on from the demise of the creme egg by those "Sir YES sir, yippeee kai aye, have a nice day, can I get, that's what i am talking about, colonial cousins"

Proper apprenticeships

White dog poo

Aztec chocolate bars

Tossers trying to gey you to sign up to a Credit Card on Motorway Service Areas

Hitch hikers

Petrol price signs where the price is NOT containing a fraction of a pence

Motorway service signs. "Services in 1 mile"....now it advertises as McDonalds services or some such carp. FFS I had the misfortune to stop on the M65 services...it is billed as a McDonalds EXTRA.....AND the signs start telling you where it is TWO miles away instead of one

Smoking Pipe shops

Furniture stores without a sale on

Just .....adding a few more later on

 
Kids playing in the street .

On-screen  Continuity announcers on TV .

Bus conductors .

Pea -souper fogs .

Police station you could walk into and speak to a copper.      (Where would you "produce" your driving license now?)   

Kids doing a paper round . 

And in a sudden wave of childhood nostalgia.......the Co-op milkman with his horse drawn van . 

 
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kerching said:
Moving on from the demise of the creme egg by those "Sir YES sir, yippeee kai aye, have a nice day, can I get, that's what i am talking about, colonial cousins"

Proper apprenticeships

White dog poo

Aztec chocolate bars

Tossers trying to gey you to sign up to a Credit Card on Motorway Service Areas

Hitch hikers

Petrol price signs where the price is NOT containing a fraction of a pence

Motorway service signs. "Services in 1 mile"....now it advertises as McDonalds services or some such carp. FFS I had the misfortune to stop on the M65 services...it is billed as a McDonalds EXTRA.....AND the signs start telling you where it is TWO miles away instead of one

Smoking Pipe shops

Furniture stores without a sale on

Just .....adding a few more later on
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Theres one in Shrewsbury  ,  kerch , we rewired it .    Lovely aroma of exotic tobaccos in there ,  enough to start you smoking again ...almost. 

 
The egg man / coal man

That van that came round and sold EVERYTHING!

White traffic wardens (can I say that?).

Village police house

Texan Bars

Peanut Yorkies

Talking of kids playing outside does anyone remember making "Belgian arrows" (well that's what we called them) be an H&S nightmare now?

 
Begian Arrows...pray tell!

Little cardboard tray in Bounty Bars

NORMAL sized Bounty, Mars, Milky way, Yorkie, Curly Wurly bars

The second walnut at the bottom of a walnut whip

Coffee favoured walnut whips

Water out of taps NOT bottles

Little tiny miniature baby HOVIS loaves

Blackpool Milk Roll bread

Mechanics that can FIX cars instead of just swapping bits

Esso blue paraffin

Streakers.......Erica Rowe anybody?

Bronco bog paper.........IZAL does not count as it is still available for smearing

 
Onoff said:
The egg man / coal man

That van that came round and sold EVERYTHING!  I remember it as a kid, then even as an apprentice he came round the local building sites, only then did I discover he sold free issue cigs [there was a Gallagher factory nearby] and cans of beer,  from 'under the counter'

White traffic wardens (can I say that?).

Village police house

Texan Bars

Peanut Yorkies

Talking of kids playing outside does anyone remember making "Belgian arrows" (well that's what we called them) be an H&S nightmare now?
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french darts?

a bamboo cane with a flight at one end, that was it, frickin brilliant they were, we made them at primary school,  :D

 
Ink wells in school desks.

Come to think of it school desks all in lines facing the front.

Blackboard and chalk.

Copper on the beat, not in a car.

Lemonade bottles that you took the empty back to get your deposit back (or just collected the empties you could find lying about and take them back)

We still have a coal delivery man here (not that we use coal but I see him often) but no more milkmen.

Proper hardware store, that sold you stuff in a brown paper bag (that just reads wrong I know)

 
kerching said:
Begian Arrows...pray tell!

I've NOT even Googled it yet, in fact thinking about it, it might have been Belgium rather than Belgian! Anyway, think mini javelin that you "launch" with a bootlace. We'd take 2' of 1/2" round wooden dowel and whittle one end to a point which we'd lovingly then sand. The other end we'd cut two cross slots about 1/2" deeper than a playing card. Then make two flights out of said playing cards, insert in the slots and wrap cotton or insulating tape round the end to keep them in. The notch was next, just below the flights. We'd tie a knot in one end of the bootlace and wind it round the notch. Wrap the excess lace round your fist and hold the pointy end...........then throw. They would go for "miles" or so it seemed as kids! We never actually hit anybody but it would have been messy if we had!

It was de-rigueur to spiral wrap insulating tape around the shaft. Variations included making them 3' long (never got on with that) or using tin snips to make the flights out of Old Holborn tins. The theory being if you just missed your "target" the sharp flights would get them!

EDIT: Throwing arrows then. We never stuck a nut on the end though one of the dads did knock up some metal points on the lathe.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/WDp-fFSp45k?feature=oembed
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Pea Shooter.

Spud Gun.

Skateboard - old skate with a piece of wood fixed to it.

Trolly made from an old pram.

Rocket with a cap in the nose, throw up in the air and bang when it hit the ground.

Bangers - Fireworks night.

Bob a Job Week.

Scarecrows.

 

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