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forgotten memories of the 1960s

This is obviously an AI narrated film, demonstrated by the interesting pronunciations of the words 'Brylcreme', 'Vivas', 'Parmolive' ! And the constant use of the word 'distinctive' - became a bit annoying.

These are the things I don't remember and those I'd forgotten about:

Don't remember
Billy Cotton Band Show on TV - I only remember it on the radio
Milk bottle tops of 'cardboard' - definitely can't recall these, weren't they silver foil tops ? And metal tops for stera milk.
Maynards shops - remember the sweets, not the shops
Tesco stamps, only remember Green Shield
Tiger pop being sloganned 'The Appetizer'
Magic Roundabout - didn't know there was an original French programme of this
Charanbac trips still taking place in the 1960s ?
Was night soil still being collected in the 1960s ?

Forgotten
Forgotten the smell of Plasticine - loved the smell of it
Can openers with the triangular end for piercing tins. You can still get those can openers (see below) although I've not seen one in a long time
Butchers in 'boaters'
'Vim' - we preferred 'Ajax'

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The cardbosrd tops fitted into grooves at the too of the bottle which I remember, though could be wrong, had wider top than later foil top bottles. I think it was the foil top bottles that birds used aa a food supply. It was Tizer the appetizer . Think you can still get it, or could afew tears ago.. There were definutely no charabancs in thpe 60s, but were coaches thatcwere hired. The AI is mixing evsporare and condensed milk.. Evaporated was cheaper and tasted like sterilised milk. Conndensed was concentrated , I think , under vacuum and was more expensive and tasred a bit more like cream , to us then anyway
 
Agree with all Mike has said.Th 1/3 pint milk bottles of milk we had at school always came with cardboard tops
but I can't remember any of the milk delivered to the house having cardboard tops. Having said that we always had Stera
which had metal tops. We still have evaporated milk with fruit. My wife, when younger used to like condensed milk sandwiches, something that came from her Yorkshire background - Yak !!!
In places, particularly in the country, night soil was still being collected in the 1960s . Again Yak !!!! When I lived just outside York some friends
lived in a village where most of the houses did not have an inside toilet, theirs being at the bottom of a long garden
 
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For those who recall milk bottles with cardboard tops here are some school milk bottles with cardboard tops. I definitely don't remember these. Kingsthorne Junior School, Kingstanding bottles had foil tops, well at least in the late 1950s - 1960s, they did.. Maybe only certain dairies/suppliers used cardboard. I've never come across these before. Were they hygenic ?

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As hygenic as many of the practices at the time I think. For those remembering the chant "Margaret Thatcher Milk Snatcher" it is amusing to realise that the Thatcher Company in the US was one of the first producers of that style of milk bottle
 
2 Milk monitors were picked every Monday
i recall going out in the snow
to bring the metal creates in
they was covered in snow
we carried one between us up the stairs
only to find that a couple of inches of the milk at the top of the bottle
was frozen
we still drank them
 
Donbogen said:
2 Milk monitors were picked every Monday
i recall going out in the snow
to bring the metal creates in
they was covered in snow
we carried one between us up the stairs
only to find that a couple of inches of the milk at the top of the bottle
was frozen
we still drank them
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Or rather were forced to drink them, after they had been warmed in front of the fire - the reason I hate the taste of milk
 
Couldn't stand the stuff having been used to sterilised milk. But I enjoyed the biscuit we were allowed to bring in for break time. Don't remember ever being encouraged to drink the milk, thankfully !
 
You've just reminded me Dionysius that foil tops were, I think, collected by the school. Don't know if it was for charity or exchanged for a cash payment to the school.
 
And we collected used postage stamps. I think those went to charity or it might even have been to the Blue Peter programme. It'd take years now to gather together a decent haul of postage stamps !
 
Vivienne14 said:
You've just reminded me Dionysius that foil tops were, I think, collected by the school. Don't know if it was for charity or exchanged for a cash paymen
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Vivienne14 said:
You've just reminded me Dionysius that foil tops were, I think, collected by the school. Don't know if it was for charity or exchanged for a cash payment to the school.
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We used to drop them in the aluminium melting pot
 
This was the silver foil/bottle top collection I recall - this one shows Lee Bank School's 1969 collection. It was "sold to raise money for Guide Dogs for the Blind. Teacher George Evans (pictured) said: "The value is about 10s 6d a sack, so we are a tenth of a way towards paying for a guide dog". Fourth year children are seen prepapring to load the silver paper onto a lorry specially sent by British Rail". Screenshot_20260906_150937_Chrome.jpg
Source: Library of Birmingham Archives
 
This is actually from the fifties. I remember the (free) small school milk bottles of 1/3 pint. What completely put me off milk almost for life (aged about 11) was in winter they would put the frozen bottles of milk to thaw out on the radiators. The smell of warm milk made me want to throw up. I didn't touch milk again until probably in my twenties or later. Now I love milk as a drink most days but it has to be chilled. I can't drink it at room temperature. That image and smell of bottles of milk on the radiators has never left me.
We only had stera at home, basically long life milk, as we didn't have a fridge.
 
My reason for remembering foil topped school milk was while drinking straight from the bottle one day I got bumped and chipped one of my front teeth. Seventy years later still got the tooth but it wears a cap these days. ;)
 
Wish I still had front teeth to be capped! Most were crowns anyway which kept coming off. My granddaughter commented that I still had my hair. I said I would rather have teeth, they're more useful.
 
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Couldn't stand the stuff having been used to sterilised milk. But I enjoyed the biscuit we were allowed to Viv
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Viv you have to be joking , the nation was encouraged to drink milk even our own Hancock included the favourite line " Drinka pinta milka day" in the tv series the episode called The Blood Donor
 
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