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johnpress said:
I also remember corona pop delivered to your door , but then I also remember our mom giving us worm cakes to eat . I also remember buying tub butter which was from a huge tub and the milkman with his horse drawn float in the late 50's / early 60's . My mate who was older than me lived in the maypole , he never saw a horse drawn milkman ?
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Very true John, Wacaden's, both Co-ops, Midland Counties but nothing horse drawn at the 'Pole. I remember the council had a horse drawn wagon that came round though, doing something to the drains.
 
When i was very little we lived near Dudley and the local farmer Mr Hadley, used to come round with a horse and cart with a milk churn and the women used to go out with jugs and he had a half pint ladle. They thought we were much too snooty for the area as we had Midland Counties deliver the milk in bottles.

When we moved I remember we had a breadman who delivered with a horse and cart and he was very upset when the horse retired and he had to have a van. The Co=op continued to deliver with a horse and cart for a long time after that.

The only time I saw a coalman with a horse was one day when my dad drove us down to London soon after the M1 opened
 
I remember the Co-op milkman's horse biting me when I was only trying to give it a bit of bread. And, if my recollections are correct, I believe our own postie (the boss) had one shot outside his house.
 
Did anyone ever go to the public baths?????? { the washing sort not the swimmers one}
I think it was at Stirchley. Presume they issued soap and towels but as usual ' can't remember.
The things I do remember is the bathroom was lovely and warm and the bath was enormous but it was the tap that surprised me most.
I have never seen such a big tap and all this hot water bursting out of it. I dread to think what it would cost today, what with the gas and a water meter it would bankrupt us.

Betty
 
I went once to a public washing baths in Grosvenor Road, Aston, as a child, it was awful, the taps on the bath had a locking mechanism which was unlocked by a large woman who was like a prison warden, and we only had about 4 inches of water. The soap provided was about 2 inches x 1 inch. I took my own and my own towel. After that the old tin bath had more appeal.
 
Does anyone on here remember the name of the dairy in the 50's and early 60's ? it was near the beginning of the aston expressway on aston rd , it was originally called w******s , but then went on to be midland counties dairies ......... C'mon you true brummies , start the grey matter working
 
johnpress................. The only one I can think of is Wathes, Catell and Gurden, but perhaps others may have different answers. I believe Gurden became a conservative MP.
 
My Grandfather sold his milk rounds to 'Wathes Cattell and Gurden' or 'WACADEN' as it became and my father worked for them until they got taken over.
 
Mr. Wathes lived in Witherford Way and I remember at the end of WW2 he arranged for a lorry load of old wooden milk crates for us youngsters to construct a huge celebration bonfore in the middle of the road complete with an effigy of Hitler atop. His son, of about our age, was one of those very unfortunate, mostly young people, to contract polio, his legs being in callipers to give some mobility.
 
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I went once to a public washing baths in Grosvenor Road, Aston, as a child, it was awful, the taps on the bath had a locking mechanism which was unlocked by a large woman who was like a prison warden
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It was like that at Green Lane baths, the woman used to lever to put the Hot water in. and you could turn the cold tap.

The woman was also strict on how long you had in the bath, I remember shouting over the partition to my mate, and being told to “Get on with your bath”
Nick
 
My dad told me that you had a strict half hour and needed a doctors note for a bath over 100F (blood temp). Showers were extra charge
 
I remember Tuf shoes, Trutex Toppers, mum coukdn;t afford either I did have a Ben Sherman. A flowery shirt but night a matching tie so you could hatdly see it. A Mr Sears Cardigan.My mate had a barathea and a Bay City rollers pully.We wore gull wing shirts with studs and a metal bar across, long pint collars and cut away collars. Just saw an old Poirot in a gentlemans outfitters with wooden display drawers with glass fronts with shorts in crisp plastic? packaging celophane maybe. There was such a shop in Cov called Arthur Hammon.
 
Remember when tellys just had 'On/Off/Volume' - and if you wanted to fiddle around the back you could adjust - 'Line Hold' and 'Frame Hold' - and as a last resort, a good thump on the top of the cabinet would probably sort things out. Now you can mess with 'Gamma' - 'White Balance' and a dozen other things - and loads of channels some of them showing programmes you watched twenty or more years ago ....
 
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Remember when tellys just had 'On/Off/Volume' - and if you wanted to fiddle around the back you could adjust - 'Line Hold' and 'Frame Hold' - and as a last resort, a good thump on the top of the cabinet would probably sort things out. Now you can mess with 'Gamma' - 'White Balance' and a dozen other things - and loads of channels some of them showing programmes you watched twenty or more years ago ....
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And we used to have to move around the room holding the aerial to get a clearer picture. Viv.
 
I was just saying about string bags and you always took a bag to go shopping and those solid plastic bags with holes in.
 
Not a product, and a bit gruesome...number 53 buses used to have anti-vivisection posters just behind the driver's cabin. They were quite small and as I remember fairly graphic. This was in the 1960s.

Does anyone else remember this?
 
We used to watch Elizabeth R starring Glenda Jackson. That was a bit near the mark sometimes. Dad liked modern films and documentaries. I remember seeing a pre Christmas news item, where hoardes of Irish families were taking the boat train to get 'home' for Christmas. Everyone in long smart overcoats and men with proper hats that held their childrens' hands as they struggled with huge square suitcases. I got the boat train many times, it was quite stressful eventful and often and cold. We usually made some nice aquaintances along the way. Me and my mate would always seem to find a nice respectable mature Irish lady travelling alone. She would mind our luggage for us while we went up on deck t brave the gale or to the bar, and we would thank her with a cup of tea. She would be wearing a beige twinset and a tweed skirt but have a young face and lovely thick dark hair. Does she still exist? They treated passengers like cattle on the mail boats that I took. So I sympathise with that bullock in the clip. Moooo!
 
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A sort of a product. When they stamped your wrist at a disco. And an era like as when in Dublin we were refused entry to the College Inn as we were single men. No men allowed in, in groups. We met some Belfast girls in the Abbey Tavern who had experienced the same. So we joined forces to gain access to the Lord John nightclub. They were 3 so we recruited a single young man wearing a bad wig. We gained entry being tipped off to say we were from the North, so I did my best Northern Irish accent I could could muster and we all got in.
We took the girls home to their B&B on Dollymount Strand. The landlady had left them sandwiches and flasks. Another thing from the past. And her permission to bring young gentlemen back. As my mate's 'partner' (the one that fell in the mud Carolina) looked like Reg Holdsworth from Corrie, and my 'partner' was 6 foot with a tash it was all wasted on us. The lad in the bad wig made a good escape.
 
Nico's post reminded me about bad wigs in the '6o's! My friend's mom had one which was supposed to double as a wig or a hat but still looked like a hat whatever she did to it!! I had one of those wash and wear things, it was awful but I was desperate for curly hair! Modern ones are much nicer.
rosie.
 
yes i remember astrakhan , it was i wooly type coat that was fashionable in the 50's 60's as i recall . It was a tight knit and slightly curly , i have never heard the name mentioned since then . they were probably sold in guinies not pounds ........ maybe ?
 
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