What can you remember that makes you seem ancient?

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I remember us getting our very first colour TV.

I can remember a rag and bone man coming up my granny’s street - can’t remember if it was a horse drawn trailer or not.

Granny had an Anderson shelter.

I remember not having to wear seatbelts.

When everyone used to smoke at work and in pubs.

Andy Pandy

The pop man coming round in his van
Rag n bone man
Elvis Presley dying
My teachers smoking in class in primary school

Ha’pennies and pound notes.

The moon landings. Decimalisation. Took me ages to get used to it as I had only just got to understand 'old money', florins and that :(
Stylophones, sketch a graph, Rolf Harris giving out gifts to kids in hospitals on Christmas day on the telly.

Getting a telly for the first time where the screen was almost round. It replaced the radiogram which was a big old bit of kit, a crystal radio with an integral record deck with lots of bakelite knobs on the front.
A house that had frost on the inside of all the windows all though the winter. Paraffin stoves to take the chill off but the condensation was immense.
I and all the kids I knew had scabby noses, lips and my hands used to get so sore and scabby in the winter my Mum used to rub in a hand cream called Nulon that used to make me scream with pain. There was a pink one that smelled of roses and a yellow one that smelled of lemon.

Mum used a home perm called a Twink and a plastic rain bonnet that came in a little plastic container.
We had an Austin A1 with travelator indicators which were a little illuminated pointer that flipped out to indicate an intended change of direction. The smell of petrol and the leather seats used to make me feel instantly sick I always hurled after a couple of miles.

The pop man used to deliver, the remote control for the telly was on a wire, phones had dials and the top 40 was taped. Happy days.

Top loading VHS machines. TVs without remote controls. Fax machines at work and spending hours printing and stuffing folders of brochures for events before you could save stuff to CD ROMs (prior to memory sticks or QR codes with quickly created websites).

The power cuts in the 70s.
Being chuffed with getting a pair of Bay City Rollers socks.

When Penguin biscuits came in a foil wrapper.

Tuning in the TV by turning a dial to get a station.

The test card on TV

Measles and Chickenpox being common

Only one television channel.
Walking to school on my own from the age of 6.
Tin bath hanging on a hook outside my grandparents back door.
Ice on the inside of the bedroom windows.
The death of King George V1.
Watching the Coronation of The Queen.

Going round to our neighbours for tea and they gave us orange juice in individual cartons with a straw - had never seen anything like it! Ditto going to McDonalds when it had just opened and everyone asking for cutlery!

The great fire of London.

Tipp-Ex

Winters in the 1970s: Always had chapped backs of knees and so did my friends! Why??

Bs erm... BS :o

We had one of these phones in the hallway.

I remember long haul flights (15 hrs) where the back 10 or so rows of the plane were the smoking section, and had to sit in that section for one flight

Now with pic of said phone!

Gestetner machines.

Carbon paper for typewriters.

England winning the World Cup

The moon landings

Getting our first colour telly

Party lines for telephones

Pre-decimal currency

Two star petrol for lawn mowers

Learning to drive in a Triumph Dolomite

Using oil lamps during the 3 day week

My phone number was 3 digits

4 sweets for a penny - black jacks for me

High tea (I'm Scottish). Scampi in a basket/chicken in a basket/bread and butter, scones and cakes

Buying cigarettes for 5p at age 7 - for my mum

When cigarettes went up to £0.70p a pack my mum quit

Everything made with Bero

Half crowns and threepenny bits.
The national anthem at the cinema and theatre.
Brown cardboard library tickets.
The cane and slipper (never got it)
Portraits of a white gowned Jesus with fair flowing locks next to a portrait of the Queen at Sunday school.
Liberty bodices
My grandma calling a skirt suit a "costume"
Lyons corner house
Dailies
Stockings
Thick gym knickers
Nurses with elasticated belts, white caps and capes
Beige socks and knitted cardigans
Blancmange
Larders
Transister radios
Kid gloves
Ribbons
Balaclavas
Plimsolls
Fruit and veg in season
Listen with Mother
Guards and restaurant cars on trains and platform tickets
The pet shop at Harrods
Swann & Edgar, Bourne & Hollingsworth, Marshall & Snelgrove
Wimpys being awesome

1960 born

I still have that phone - it's red. I love it.

My step-grandad had an outside loo. I can remember it vividly.
Party line in late 1990s!
Save Water stickers on loos in the 76 drought.
Sitting in front of our first washing machine, watching the clothes go round in fascination.
Being FURIOUS when I went into what I thought was a record shop and it only had CDs.

Gypsies selling pegs door to door
Learning to write on slates with chalk

Filing up the tank with fuel cost £5.

Park keepers
Spinsters from WW1
House coats
Z Cars
Dixon of Dock Green
The Saint
Randall & Hopkirk
Cowboys and Indians