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.

Watching Playschool on TV. The toys - Humpty, Big Ted, Little Ted, Hannibal, and Jemima. Going through the round, square or arched window to be shown a short film on how chocolate is made or something.
Jackanory, Scooby Doo, and Blue Peter.
Blue Peter presenters used to make Christmas advent candle holders out of a coat hanger and tinsel. I didn’t ever do any of the craft stuff. Didn’t enjoy the garden either, or the summer expeditions. I don’t know why I watched it - probably because there was nothing else on!
I hated Tony Hart’s art programmes too.

Watching Tomorrow's people, and not really knowing what the jeff they were on about. Tizwas on a saturday.

Tomorrow’s World, Romany?
I didn’t like that either. I think it was on at 7pm on Thursdays before Top of the Pops which was essential viewing!

No, not Tomorrow's world, I loved that it was great for kids.

This was a futuristic type of programme with kids in it.
It was The tomorrow people

Ohh, those 70s clothes and hairstyles, Romany!
Didn’t watch that but the Thomas TV continuity thing at the start brought the memories flooding back!

Scary kids shows - Chocky, the Boy from Space and Noseybonk. Also those public warning films with the voice of Donald Pleasance, usually about some kid falling into a pond or playing on a railway line - scared the shit out of me !

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Watching Playschool on TV. The toys - Humpty, Big Ted, Little Ted, Hannibal,

Hamble! HAMBLE!!!

Hannibal is completely different kettle of fish - whether you are talking Punic Wars or Lecter!! & neither are suited to Playschool although may have made it more entertaining for the parents.

I didn't like Hamble (what the fuck sort of name is that anyway?), I much preferred Jemima. I think it was Hamble's hair which freaked me out.

Hamble (thank you Boswell - Hannibal does conjure up a rather different sort of character!) was my favourite.
Talking of dolls with hair, I inherited two Tressie dolls from my older sister, and you pushed their belly button to lengthen the hair. I cut the hair off to make them male, so they could marry my Sindys, but they still had enormous boobs, lol.

My dh used to be scared of Hartley the hare in Pipkins.

The workshop, knowing where help is needed.

These were my two favourite programmes but think that most of the creators were on something.

BT Chargecards because mobiles weren't a thing yet.

Kids all walking to school on their own from about 5 years old.
It wasn't dangerous because we all did it and called for friends on the way. Not much traffic on the road at all.
The M6 with few cars on

@twoheaped where I recently lived in Cornwall there was a petroleum station that still does that. And they had cigarettes hanging out of their mouths

I didn't type petroleum I meant petrol

I've remembered some more -
Lucky Numbers chocolates, a bit like Quality Street.
The sea in the harbour freezing in 1963.
The Interlude on the TV.
Farthings - I was sorry when they were withdrawn, as I liked the wren on them. But you could still get four chews for a penny, or two for a halfpenny.
My mother using Reckitts Blue on white laundry.
Gas pokers to light the fire. They had dark red rubber nozzles, which fit over a brass gas tap set into the wall. We also had a gas tower, with the same fitting. It was a tall thin cast iron item, incredibly ornate, with a gas burner in the bottom. I'm told they go for a fortune nowadays.
My grandmother refused to use an electric iron and continued to use her old cast flat irons, which she heated alternately on the kitchen range.
Cars with column gear change.
When every boy (and some girls) had penknives and no one thought anything of it.
Ten bob notes and half crowns.
Sandwiches in neat parcels of greaseproof paper
When people were still hanged (shudder)
My father going to the bank with a briefcase chained to his wrist

All those 50ish people on here, there was also Bit and Bot the fish and Kutoo or something on Playschool. Loved Derek Griffiths, Toni Arthur and some of the other Playschoolers, Morton something? Lot of hippy presenters early 70s, Yoffi from Fingerbobsfor example! Loved the simple animation then eg Ivor the Engine.

Also, having long hair and no conditioner used= mum painfully combing it through on Sunday nights. Also, hair rags to get curls.

Seeing men who'd been badly injured or disfigured in WWI

The Krypton Factor.

Gas lighting. The old lady next door but one asking me to change the mantle.
People plugging irons into their lights.
Old ladies who.lost their sweethearts in WW1 and had never married.

Mr Benn on TV! He used to go into a clothes shop changing room and emerge into another world.

In our early childhood home we had an outside toilet and a tin bath (early 80s!) Our first colour TV was rented for the World Cup in 1994 and we bought one a bit after that. It might even have had a built in VCR! The microwave would've arrived around the same time.

I also remember exposed batteries in cars (or maybe they were just the old bangers my parents drove). We used to sit on the wheel arches in the back of our Mini van and if something metal touched the battery - which it frequently did for some reason - sparks would fly everywhere. I associate that memory with pear drops for some reason.

Everything. Unfortunately.

Tying knots in paper to light the stove at Nanna's house.

No internet

Answering the phone with the phone number 😂

Remembering when the adults were in charge.