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forgotten memories of the 1960s
- Thread starter Astoness
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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'
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
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
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 ?
