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How interesting Paul! A nice snippet of Mars history added there.

Hi Stitcher. The 'Health for All' ad had a couple of attention grabbing articles! And I bet the Keatings powder was lethal, but not just for fleas and bugs. Viv.
 
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The Mars bar of then is completely different from that of today. Apart from the size (& weight), the ingredient mix has been changed at least twice since I used to enjoy them in the 1960s, each time the reason being given as making it more healthy. Certainly the first time it was just a cost cutting measure, and probably the second time as well. The modern Mars bar is nothing compared to its predecessor.
PS The Aztec bar was even better than the proper original
 
Tried in vein to get a water mark off an old bath. Then i had a thought about The tin of pink Chemico we used to get it was real good stuff. I think it is still available in some stores. Also scrims my My mom always used for the windows.
 
Ah Mars bars. I remember when they cost 4d (old money) and they were so big I couldn't manage to eat it all in one go. My Mom used Vim scouring powder going back to the 1940's at least, but our local shop still sell Vim which surprised me.
Carolina, yes, Swarfega was (or is) used for cleaning hands. My husband used to use it after he had been servicing our car years ago. I can still visualise the pink tin of Chemico too.
Anthea
 
You can still get Scrim I bought some last year but don't ask where as I have forgotten. My Dad was a Window Cleaner at one time and used to come home with Mutton Cloths that he had to boil in a bucket over a Primus Stove in the garage.
 
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My dad used to paint his corns with something in a small bottle and put on with a brush, and by golly it smelled like anaesthetic.
 
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Neither my dad, my brothers or me had corns as I recall. My sister, step sisters and mom were always on about them.
 
HI GUYS ;
How many of you tried and tested and remember the little round red tin of zubes then ; those little white powdered little balls of sweets
for all those running noses and coughs mainly bought from the chemist ; we bought all our meices from good old buckinghams on victoria rd aston
best wishes astonian ;;
 
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The Hovis is of course familiar and I do seem to recall Kep.
 
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Oh I remember Lux Flakes too sylvia, and used them for my jumpers when I was a teenager. I used to love to pick up a handful and sprinkle them like fairy dust. Like you, I haven't seen that product for a long time either.
 
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I believe this type of cooker (more modern than these) are used today but these did look classy.
 
My aunt who lived in Grendon Road, Kings Heath had a Triplex grate like the one in the first photo. I don't know when the house was built but the Council must have had these grates put in all new houses at that time. The tiles in the top were deep green, with a steel screw or whatever in the middle of the four tiles. I don't remember her ever using it for cooking, as she had a gas cooker in the kitchen. My gran also had one, I don't remember as much about that one, oddly, as I used to live with her, but the tiles may have been deep blue on that one. I remember her using it for cake baking though. I think it took a specific sort of skill, as she only used to put her hand in the oven to see how hot it was/was not and then the cake used to go in. No scales either, so it was all really hit and miss, but it was all hit, as nothing ever failed, apparently. A nice trip down memory lane, thanks Stitcher.
 
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It seems to have been washing, constipation and perfume for much of the time.
 
Hi i remember zubes loved them. Does anyone remember the cigerette sized liquorice sticks that were that hard you had to suck them till they had gone they lasted for ever. they were mainly sold at chemists but you could get them from the shop at the corner of arther road and redhill road hay mills.
 
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