What suddenly takes you back to your childhood?

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What things suddenly remind you of your childhood?

For me, occasionally a warm and sunny day and hearing a particular birdsong which I think might be a song-thrush.

Custard tarts
The smell of marmalade
Coal tar soap
Rose water
Vera Lynn

Autumn, chestnuts and conkers.
Double decker buses.
Ice cream vans.
Lilac trees.
Watching clouds float across a blue sky.
Seeing children doing hand stands or cartwheels.
Eating crisps… cheese and onion.
Coronation Street.

The taste / feel of whippy ice cream in a wafer cone, when it has made the cone go a bit soggy. Takes me right back to summer holidays as a kid!

Antiques Roadshow theme tune
Smell of budliahs and hyacinths
Cadburys mini eggs
Coke in a glass bottle and Smokey bacon walkers crisps
Raspberry ripple ice cream
A Winters walk where you can smell smoke in the air
Fireworks and sparklers
Hot chocolate made with Cadburys cocoa powder
Watching The Snowman
Slades Christmas song so here it is merry christmas

Smell of creosote on fences
The Beatles - especially the blue & red albums
BlackBerry picking
Tinned salmon sandwiches

Muffled mono music, like my mum's old reel-to-reel tape recorder used to play.

The smell of certain shops, mainly Heron Foods and the Co-op. They smell of the 1970s when I used to go shopping with my mum.

Songs, smells.

Fresh cut grass
Newly laid Tarmac
Humbug sweets
The smell of wax floor polish
Incense (midnight mass)

The heavenly perfume of night scented stock - I have the image of my late dad kneeling down on the garden path to smell it and telling me how it reminded him of his home. He left his homeland aged 17 because of war and was never able to back or to see any of his family again. So it’s a bittersweet memory.

The smell of tomato plants in a hot green house.

I wish I could capture the smell of my Grandmother. She had the most wonderful fragrance of any human I have any encountered. Her whole house smelled of it. She didn't wear perfume, it was just her natural pheremones, maybe enhanced by green Fairy bath soap or the original palmolive. If I smelled it now I would be taken right back to her bungalow.

Dettol in the bath

Ribena - we were only allowed it at Granny's
Peanuts - we only had them at Christmas
Coke in a glass bottle with a packet of Skips, outside the the Windmill on Clapham Common, watching the crane flies on the fence, circa 1978
And one non-food/drink one - Ladybird books.
Oh - and a brand new geometry set from WHSmiths in September!

Oh gosh yes Dettol baths! And fairy green soap!
My Dh was horrified when I told him
about Dettol baths 😁 he’s from the Southern Hemisphere and outs it down to “one of those weird Pom things” !

I remember Dettol baths when I was in hospital as a small. I was appalled that the water was cloudy, which I thought was dirty, and kicked and screamed trying to avoid being put in.

Creosote in summer, anyone?

Or tarmac... I'd forgotten that

The smell of freshly cut grass
The sound of ice cream vans
Church bells ringing.

Beautiful south ❤️

Daisy chains
The sound of church bells
The smell of a greenhouse and certain flowers that were in my grandparents' garden
Quality Streets
Walkers cheese and onion crisps
Theme tune to things like One Foot in the Grave and Keeping Up Appearances
Water fights
Snow
Rice pudding
Pick n Mix sweets
Electric blankets in the bed

The smell of camping. We camped a lot as children and I only managed to finally convince dh into camping holidays a few years ago as he'd never really done it. Unfortunately it doesn't smell quite the same as we have a modern tent and not a big, heavy canvas 1970s one but it still evokes some memories.
The smell of tinsel and the artificial Christmas tree.

Libraries
The film Willow
The Casualty theme

Strawberries with full fat milk instead of cream.

Mash potato,tinned green beans and gravy

Sports biscuits.

Watching Van der Valk the other night and hearing the music eye level.

Oh loads!!

tinned fruit
hovis bread
sugar sandwiches
cb radio
tongue meat slices
some mothers do av’em
rising damp