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''for those slave driven nerves'', ''shed the load from that housework'' If you can't cope,have an ASPRO
 
keegs said:
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''GOTHIC'' is that an image you want to sell underware in 1952 ?
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I remember those adverts as they used to resurface them when they printed a historical type paper, where I worked.
I also recall a TV advert where a posh woman in a tight dress said, "my girdle is killing me" and my dad used to shout well take the beggar orf then! He didn't quite say beggar though. And a woman who looked like Jane Russell with a deep American voice, went on about a loyng loyne braw (bra).
Gt Gran wore corsits or stays with millions of laces.
My Black country nan used to say she had a job as a corsitier. Yow cor sit theer an yow cor sit 'ere!
 
Rubber Playtex girdles used to be sold in tubes. The girdles smelt disgusting! Never wore one but they were supposed to be a nighmare to get in to! Think ladies used to sprinkle talc on them to help with getting the flippin things on. Viv.
 
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I have a vague memory of the name, but I do not recall my mother using it.
 
Nico said:
Hello Sue, were they spelt Treets? I loved them and Toffets 'make a shilling go a long long way' they were in a box and you shook them out from a hole in the end. I am no longer travel sick but the old cars used to smell. Maybe it was the seats? My grandad used a pale blue lumpy gel in a jar for his hair but I can't remember the name. Dad used Brylcreme it stained everywhere. I don't use anything on my hair, as the fashion now is to have your hair like you have just come through a hedge backwards, I am now fashionable. I remember 'Bags of Jellytots in the Jellytots bag'. Nico
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Do you recall TRU-GELL hair gell from the 60's ?
 
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A more educational mag, the World of Wonder. Heard someone mention it on the radio this morning during a piece about the New Musical Express. The NME is either 50 or 60 years old today (didn't quite catch that bit). Hard to believe it's that old. Viv.
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Do you remember the''LOOK AND LEARN'' educational comic ?
 
Camp is still available. But you tend to find it in the baking section in large supermarkets, not necessarily in with the coffee and teas. Think it's now aimed at cooking; flavouring foods like cakes etc. I love the stuff as a hot drink, especially with lots of milk. Viv.
 
keegs said:
Do you remember the''LOOK AND LEARN'' educational comic ?
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I remember Look and Learn, there was another one in 69 and 70's. Quite small in size,maybe printed in blue or lilac. The Beano Dandy and Beezer were full of interesting facts and proverbs and sayings and conundrums. I likes the Rupert Annual as it rhymed.
I also remember Superman and freinds The Famous Five and The Maverick.
 
my family used either camp or bev.....whenever l visit l have to look hard to find it but usually always get a couple of bottles....Brenda
 
Ronuk polish was around not that long ago. I remember using during the 1990's, but it's certainly unavailable nowadays. It was the best of all polish's.
 
Stitcher, I remember having syrup of figs, and strangely enough I liked it.
 
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Again, these are not actual products but I am sure we all remember them, idyllic times on the beach with all the family.
 
brenda barr said:
my family used either camp or bev.....whenever l visit l have to look hard to find it but usually always get a couple of bottles....Brenda
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Our Co-Op stock it next to the coffee. Remember the original Horlicks? Not what they call original now, you added your own sugar and the sugar stayed on the top for a bit. they served it in middle size narrowish mugs and the handle was solid - no hole for your fingers.
 
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Stands for National Federation of Permanent Holiday Camps Ltd in this case, but in US (without ltd) it would be Not-for-Profit Hospital Corporation
 
I used to just LOVE Parkes chocolate eclairs. No other eclair has ever come close. There was a distribution place near St Andrew's Church in Oxhill Road in the early 1960's - when I went past on the bus I used to hope the door was open for me to see all the goodies inside. I wonder what happened to Parkes as a confectionery manufacturer? Brilliant stuff.
 
Buttered Brazils - not for me. But liked chocolate Brazils. And can still get those, I think. We used to slice up Mars Bars and have a few slices each. To eat a whole Mars Bar seemed like a meal in itself. '"A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play" Viv.
 
Just a quickie off thread a little,Viv the "Mars" factory in slough was brought to a halt one in the seventy's when the employment people raided the night shift, and arrested 130 soldiers from the Guards Regt based in Windsor who were moon lighting at the factory.
paul
 
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