A Thing You Don't See These Days

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I found a picture of my mum standing on one of those big red coin operated weighing scales today. It had a big dial face. It was in our local shopping centre but I remember seeing them on piers, train stations etc too. Did you ever use them? Other than this picture of my mum I don't remember seeing one in use

God yes, those big red weighing scales! There was one in the Tesco in our local shopping precinct - right next to the busiest area near the tills! Who on earth would weigh themselves there? But people did..I guess this was before the days of affordable home scales.

Also I'm sure someone will have already mentioned this but the pop van - he used to always come around my nan's area never our area for some reason - and I'd be sent to get a bottle of cream soda and dandelion and burdock. I was also allowed to keep the money from taking the empty bottles back.

Brushed nylon bed sheets, from Brentford Nylons. Anyone remember the Alan Freeman ads?
I hated those sheets! They crackled and sparked with all the static and stuck to my legs! The texture was horrible, as after a couple of washes they went bobbly and had masses of tiny bumps on them. Oh, and they were hideously hot in the summer! Evil things!

I've never tasted cream soda that was as nice as the corona man used to sell. Was it green or did I imagine that? My dad loved cherryade and would have it with brandy

Unfortunately I see too much white dog poo;my dogs eat raw;the rolls of raw food we buy can sometimes contain quite a high bone content.

Was it green or did I imagine that

Yep, sometimes green and sometimes clear depending on the brand. Cherryade was yum too.

As recently as about 15 years ago we had a rag and bone man who drove a horse and cart. This was in a city too. But we haven't seen one in years.

@Crunched

White dog poo

🤣 so true! I'd totally forgotten about white dog poo 🤣

Oh God, those nylon sheets! What a vile invention. I was given some as a present, never occurred to me that sheets would be made of material impossible to sleep in, so put them on my bed. 3 in the morning, dripping with sweat, in the bin with them. Horrible things.

@readwritelove, I may not have remembered all the details correctly but it was something on those lines - maybe the whole of his life was flashing before him, with lots of memories of being made to clear his plate, 'Go on, another slice won't harm you!' etc etc. I can't find a trace of it online, which is odd, as lots of other public information films/adverts are there. Still, you and I know it existed!

Old ladies with blue rinsed helmet hair - no older lady I know would be seen dead with it now.

TV rental. Rumbelows. The idea of putting your baby outside/in the garden in a pram for the morning while you did stuff (my granny used to leave my mum in her pram at the bottom of the garden, handy for not hearing the crying apparently), or leaving the pram complete with baby outside shops.

I tried to do something else in nylon sheets and l slipped off the bed. There were sparks l tell you! 💥

You had to bin them because they lasted for ever.

@Nc123

Old ladies with blue rinsed helmet hair - no older lady I know would be seen dead with it now.

TV rental. Rumbelows. The idea of putting your baby outside/in the garden in a pram for the morning while you did stuff (my granny used to leave my mum in her pram at the bottom of the garden, handy for not hearing the crying apparently), or leaving the pram complete with baby outside shops.

My mum is 79 and has a, lilac dye on her hair as does my auntie who is about 77 They dont, have the big granny perms of the 80,s though 🤣

[quote UnitedRoad]@ThorIsAGod

No, the cracker ones, although I’ve just googled to find you a photo, and it says Waitrose still sell them. I’m not sure if that’s just a big lie though as I’ve asked in Tesco, and they said they were discontinued, and when I just googled The Morrisons page says ‘no longer stocked’

I can’t understand why, as they’re just so delicious.[/quote]
Personally checked this morning, ably held by my grandson! You're welcome.

I remember a public information film about chip pans and the famous green cross man and making you wear seat belts and a fire one , but nothing about heart attacks.

I never see elderly ladies anymore that are outside in the early morning, wearing one of those old lady aprons for cleaning (don’t know what they’re called) sweeping and scrubbing the pavement in front of their home.

@LaBellina

I never see elderly ladies anymore that are outside in the early morning, wearing one of those old lady aprons for cleaning (don’t know what they’re called) sweeping and scrubbing the pavement in front of their home.

My Grandma had a blue and white checked long jacket thing, the type dinner ladies used to wear in the 70,s and 80,s that she wore over her clothes when she was cooking and cleaning, some people might have called it a house coat? But i think my Grandma, referred to her dressing gown as a house coat.

I think you mean a pinafore, which is different from an apron although an apron would have been called a pinny by many. A pinafore was a kind of sleeveless overall which fastened with a crossover front and tied at the back. A pinny -apron- is either like a cook or butchers apron covering chest and legs or a half size affair just covering your skirt. God that was hard to describe. Anyone who can do a better job, please do.

@longwayoff

I think you mean a pinafore, which is different from an apron although an apron would have been called a pinny by many. A pinafore was a kind of sleeveless overall which fastened with a crossover front and tied at the back. A pinny -apron- is either like a cook or butchers apron covering chest and legs or a half size affair just covering your skirt. God that was hard to describe. Anyone who can do a better job, please do.

Something Hilda Ogden might have worn? 😂😂

I remember pinafores more as a bib and apron construction with a band that went over your head. Housecoats were more like a long jacket with pockets, often made of nylon. The much larger item, sleeveless, a bit like a coat to get into, that crossed over at the front and tied at the back, often made in floral fabric, were known as wrappers.

I’ve not seen one for years, except in rural France where they are still worn, usually together with a pair of old cut off wellies.

Cigarette adverts
Cigarette vending machines
Black jack sweets

Ah, Ada, your wrapper is my pinafore, as worn by Hilda Ogden ×2boys, but never by Elsie Tanner who wouldn't have been seen dead in one. I've not heard of a wrapper before. I remember housecoats, horrible nylon quilted affairs that were dressing gowns really, not for doing housework in. Belonged with the nylon sheets in the bin.

Squashed hedgehogs on the road

There were a few different incarnations of housecoats, one as you say longwayoff, padded (what I’d call a dressing gown) not worn for housework.

The housework version wasn’t padded, you were meant to put it on over your clothes. Hilariously, I was given a couple of them as a wedding present by my new sister in law! She obviously didn’t know me at all!
There was another version, more like a tabard, popular with cleaners & school dinner ladies.

Boxes of tissues or cushions on the parcel shelf in the back of the car or kids travelling in the boot of the car, that was always such a treat :)
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Coloured toilet paper