Things from your childhood that feel like ancient history now

[Echobelly]

• 3 TV channels
• Everything shut on Sunday (and local shops often shut Wednesday afternoons for some reason?)
• 1/2 pennies
• Only asking 'What does your dad do?'
• A lot of people having black and white tellies
• Holiday brochures

These are some of the things that I think will seem inexplicable to my kids!

I remember the Hamble doll . It is a nice name but I have never heard of anyone called it ( might be more of a surname ?)
The windows on playschool was my fav bit. Only in the 70s could you have a kids programme on after school with the word ' school ' in it!! There would be uproar these days I bet !! 😂
Also liked 'play away ' with Brian Cant.

Ludwig was a weird five minute animation programme that was on before the news.
That was an odd little thing.

Twenty2, Poppy replaced Hamble

The Green Cross Code, Darth Vader visited my school as he was the Green Cross Code man!

Button Moon, you could see the puppeteer moving behind the black curtain.

Let's follow Mr Spoon 😉

Oh yes I also remember the special kiosks in the bureaux de change abroad that you had to use if you needed to phone home. My teenagers laugh their socks off at that one!

I also remember the insurance man coming round once a month to collect (cash?) Premiums from my dad.

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Twenty2, Poppy replaced Hamble

Ah, makes sense, I mean, Hamble?

Ringing home from a phone booth abroad was one of the jobs that you did on the day you arrived or the following day after a walk around the shops! You could also buy phone cards I think ? These places were everywhere and charged a fortune just to ring your parents for a few minutes! The people running them must have been millionaires after a few seasons of that !! Also ' pullers' who tried to entice you into the newest night club with a voucher for a free drink! ( do they still have these abroad ?)

Writing notes and letters.

Being able to buy alcohol in the supermarket at 13 and get served in pubs a year or two later - with no need even for fake id. Now my children are going to teenagers, I really hope it's not this lax anymore.

I used to have ' pen pals' , sending those weird air Mail letters to people. Cheaper than proper paper and envelopes.

Dinner money was put in old tobacco tins.
No uniform in primary school
Having to buy the local paper or phone the local cinema to find out what films where showing.
Letterland - with Annie Apple, Bouncing Ben, Dippy Duck, Munching Mike, Lamp Lady....
Class recorder lessons in primary
Panda Pop
P.E. in knickers and vest, in primary school.
Plastic lunchboxes with matching flasks
Shell suits
Funfaxs....a kiddies' Filofax, with different booklets to collect.
Big Yellow Teapot
There was more of a stigma attached to buying from charity shops, I think.
Jelly shoes
Being given sugar lumps, after our injections at school.

Pyjama cases and children's hankies being a thing.
Collecting stickers to put in an album, and doing swapsies in the playground if you had a double. I seem to remember doing this with Thunderbird stickers.
Collecting conkers

Homemade ice cups, choc dust, 10p mix ups from the corner shop in a paper bag (20p ones if you were really lucky and this meant you could get some of the 2p sweets!), remembering when kinder eggs first came out and were 50p each and collecting all of the mini turtles!

I loved my pyjama case , it was a yellow and white one in the shape of a rabbit with long floppy ears.

I worked in a newsroom and a rather ancient journalist used to phone in his copy and dictate it to me over the phone from the event so it was hot off the press.

We used to get proofs from the printers.

Garages always had Pirelli calendars in the offices. Ughh!

The operator would connect long distance calls.

Party lines.

Shops that used to put the cash in a tube and wire it around.

Oh I had hankies with my name embroidered on them, I still have one.

About 16 kids shoved in the back of someone's Dad's estate car/van and being taken places. No seat belts, no special car seats. In fact no seats - several kids always in the boot/footwell/on someone's lap etc. Often down the motorway

Renting a TV

Children 'splitting their head's open' after falling from playground equipment on to concrete

A caretaker taking children on day trips to the seaside over the school holidays

Discussions by my relatives about people 'suffering with their nerves'

Obesity being explained as 'problems with their glands'

The RAC providing door to door route maps on request. Y dad got one when going on holiday.

Guest houses where you had to leave after breakfast and walk round in the rain until your parents felt that it was a suitable time to return.

Guest houses where they banged the gong to summons you to meals.

Black and white TV and only 3 channels. Close down when they played the national anthem at around midnight.

Sawdust covering sick in the playground 🤮

Dynamo on my bike (exciting new invention!) and a tartan saddlebag.

Ooh, sawdust on the floor in the butcher's shop.

Only channels 1-4 terrestrial and sharing an aerial with my parents acouple of them were always fuzzy. Remember when channel 5 came out and everyone thought it was great . The picture of the little girl and beep sound that came on early morning when tv hadn’t started yet! 😱

Ripple in a blue and yellow wrapper, Mars and Bounty on a cardboard tray in a greaseproof paper wrapper.

The testcard on tv, Jack Frost visiting in winter, pressing button A in phone boxes, ‘the light’ or ‘the home’ on the wireless, small children drinking tea and coffee (and shandy in the summer), junior aspirin, sanitary belts, toast and dripping.