The past is a different country. They do things differently there.

[Lydart]

We didn't even have a bath ... except for the galvanised tin one hanging on a nail outside the back door !

[Ecneps]

My grandmother's house was all gas for lighting & cooking, when we visited I used to sleep in the alcove under the stairs on a bed made over their bath, and had to turn the gas off last thing at night at the coin-in-the-slot meter.  TV & radio (sound only) was piped in by Rediffusion.  When my uncle died in 1989, the house still only had gas.

Barbara

[KathMc]

It just takes children to make you feel old. Things that I think aren't that long ago are moments of great humor for my son (age 9). Here in the States, I remember the milk man and the Charlie Chips man delivering their products. the knife man came house to house to sharpen knives. My husband remembers the seltzer truck deliveries.

But with modern technology, growing up in the 70s, as I did, we always had TV, but not always cable. I still have an old rotary phone that the kids haven't figures out how to dial, but love to talk on.

And I love listening to my mom talk about life in the 40s. She was definitely like your mom Carole, with matching gloves, coat and handbag. Andy they had to dress up for the most mundane errands. It was hard for my mom to break these habits. I wasn't allowed to wear jeans to school until I was in 7th grade.

Kath

[Ecneps]

Nothing to do with anything, but why have some of my county interests suddenly got blue underlining? With adverts popping out of them?

[chinakay]

ToT thread, "Content links".

C

[Gadget]

Yeah, Barbara - come and join us kids at play 

[Paul]

I don't - it was just reading through the list and seeing places and things that I remember and then looking at the subject line of the thread 

BUT - it was the place to be in the 1960s 

Were you one of those hippie people Ive seen on the telly, Gadget

[Gadget]

Yes - used to go around bare foot with a flower in my hair 

[KathMc]

Yes - used to go around bare foot with a flower in my hair 

Dear me, is that out of style. Someone should tell my 6-year-old.  I think she is in the wrong era.

Kath