Also, if you pushed the choke in too soon before the engine had warmed up properly, the car would stall.
Gapping the plugs when you put new spark plugs in an engine, and our bloody Vauxhall Viva had such a weird gap that you had to use 3 or 4 feelers out of the feeler gauge set to get the correct thickness for the gap.
I used to love Old English spangles, there were also opal mints.
Living in Wirral, there were also opal toffees for a while, but they didn't last, must have been a trial product that didn't go into full production.
The 11 plus being scrapped in Cheshire, and being replaced by the 9 plus and 10 plus.
Knitting wool being sold in ounces - about 10p or 2/- and ounce.
First class carriages on the electric trains in and out of Liverpool - they had carpet!
Tressy dolls - bit like a Sindy, but a long piece of hair coming out from the middle of it's head. You were supposed to be able to do all sorts of different hairstyles, but I could never get them to work.
The school-leaving age being 15 - and us all muttering that we'd leave and go and work in Woolies. Was at a direct grant school, so that was never going to happen.
The second Mersey Tunnel being opened.
The M53 motorway from Liverpool to Chester being opened.
The local mission running services on the sand in summer with 'uncle' Stan - I wonder a bit about this now.
Outdoor swimming pool - they used to post the temperature of the water every day, can remember swimming when it was 56F. Freezing.
The Bon Marché becoming part of G H Lee in Liverpool
Robb Bros in Birkenhead as well as Beatties.
Cripps in Bold St with what seemed like elderly saleswomen all wearing black dresses, probably pearls too, coming up to my dm and saying "Can I help you madam" when she just wanted to look at stuff and not to buy - we used to go to Lees.
Phone boxes being 2d, and having to ask for a different operator if you wanted to make a long distance phone call.
Having to wait for an operator to connect your call - for local calls, too. If no-one came, you could joggle the receiver rest, and you'd get a cross "There's no need to flash, dear" as it must have started a light flashing at the exchange.
Local calls having a flat rate charge - so you could talk as long as you wanted, and my df going beserk at me talking to a friend from school for over an hour, and muttering darkly about the phone bill.
1/3 pint bottles of milk at school and being forced to drink it. What was even worse, was it being heated up and poured back into the bottles in winter and having to drink hot milk through a straw - and half gone sour milk in the summer.
The locks on the doors of public toilets - and those in Kendal Milne - needing a penny, 1d, to open them. Hence 'spending a penny'.
Mivvy ice lollies I think they were called. They were either banana or strawberry and had a sort of fudgy centre.
'Spinsters' of the parish, wearing lace up shoes with little square 1" heels, gloves, almost hobble skirts, and hats, secured with a hat pin, and often with lace veiling.
The almost shock of getting a Christmas card with a 10/- note in it. It seemed impossible to imagine spending that much money.
Tax relief for mortgage interest being given via an increased tax code. The first year we were married, dh got a new tax code nearly every month the interest rates changed so often.
Conductors on buses, and the introduction of 1-man buses.
Steam trains.