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.

The Zx Spectrum. Jet Set Willy, Dizzy, Manic Miner...

Getting our first fridge.

Hiring tv, and having the Radio Rental man out to fix it

Black and white tv, only three channels

My next door neighbour didn’t have a landline so used ours for a emergency point of contact

Th death of Elvis. I was 3.

Corporal punishment in my primary school.

Queen Mary's funeral, the Coronation. Lots of people came to our house to watch those on our 9" television. Our telephone having a two digit number (99). The lovely London telephone numbers - Mayfair, Tate Gallery etc. Liberty bodices, cod liver oil and malt, gentian violet - all yuck. Hard toothpaste. The outside lavatory, the tin bath, oil stoves, gas run refrigerator. Chilblains in winter and cycling your legs in bed to get warm.
Going to the local dairy to buy fresh cream and milk. Eating raspberries and strawberries from the garden with the cream.

Not something I remember, but when I realised I was born in the reign of George VIth I felt ancient. (He died when I was ten days old).
We have a picture of me as a toddler at a Coronation street party.

Pulling into the petrol station with my dad and a bloke running out to fill the car up for us. I was born in the 80s but this always feels like something from a whole other time.

@missclimpson I loved Cod Liver Oil!

Purplegoat there is still a garage in a nearby town that does that!

missclimpson yes to cycling legs to warm the freezing sheets ! Had forgotten that !
The school copier or printer with hand crank and purplish fuzzy ink with thatnlovely smell was it a ‘rollostat’? Loved getting newly done sheets still warm and taking big sniff !!!
Look and learn on school tv.
Milk monitors before ‘thatcher stole kids milk’ and little warm bottles of gold top.
Bomb site gardens north side of Holborn.
The farm in Covent Garden in the sunken bomb site at the bottom of Neal street.
Covent Garden as a working market
The floral hall still a working trade flower market.
Islington a pretty run down area with lots of derelict houses and squats.

Ladymargarethall awww I'm glad there's still some knocking about

Farthings

Purplegoat when they finish serving you they thump the machine and it moves on an extra penny.😁 Presumably that's the service charge.

I remember my gran getting a fizzy drink called 'one cal' which was her first foray into artificial sweeteners, just have been about 1985! Also how delighted she was getting her first muller corner- the luxury! My sister and I always had to share one.

The Twinkle Comic for Girls
Andy Pandy

I'd forgotten all about Twinkle! With Nurse Nancy.

HeronLanyon. It was a banda machine. I used them as a young teacher, the fluid had a very strong smell that woke you up on a Friday afternoon!

Going to the cinema and getting the "short" before the big film.
Films not being broadcast on tv until 5 years after they'd been released in the cinema.
Food being available only when in season, it tasted much better then though,as the apples and strawberries hadn't been shipped across the world then put in cold storage for months.
Sawdust on the butcher shop floor.
Women wearing hats and gloves.
My mum had to give up work when she got married, she worked for the Civil Service and they gave her a dowry - early 1960's.
Coats spread out on top of the bed blankets to help to keep warm at night.
Bank books!

I remember the doctors waiting room being really bleak, just rows of hard wooden chairs. There was nothing to keep people occupied while waiting.

Having to book the line for an international phone call
Crisps that were "only 6p!" and sweets 2 for 1/2p
Pubs closing in the afternoons
A local high st with post office, greengrocer, hardware shop, butcher, florist, hairdresser etc - no empty shops & no charity shops
Paper shortages in school

@whatamessitallis Re. 50p electric meters, I had one in a bedsit in 2005, although it was £1 instead of 50p.

In my first job in a factory straight from school, all the girls my age being given different jobs to boys the same age. The boys were paid more.
Having to go to the public swimming baths and pay to have a slipper bath.
Using half pences.
When fish and chip shops were no longer allowed to use newspapers as wrapping, there was lots of talk about health and safety gone mad.

When I was a kid waiting in the chippy they used to give us a little bag with some free chips in while we queued.

We had that, they were called scraps and were the leftovers that were too small and over cooked to sell.

Ohhh twinkle!! And big comic I loved that.

The Krypton Factor.
The original Crystal Maze.
Commodore 64.
Rotary phones.
Half penny coins.
TV stations going off air in the smaller hours.
Teletext.
Betamax.
Speak n Spell.
Rubik's Cube.
Spirograph.
Using C90 cassette tapes to record the top forty. Rewinding then with a pencil when they went wrong.
Global Hypercolour T-shirt's.