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

[Lydart]

Living in London in the 50's, I remember two old soldiers, both with one leg.  One was a window cleaner, and arrived with a push cart on which he had his ladder and buckets, and he climbed up and down that ladder at a fair rate of knots !

The other man sold muffins ... he also had a cart converted from a bike, with two wheels at the front, with the cart bit on, and one wheel at the back.  How he cycled with just one leg, I have no idea ... unlike the window cleaner, he didnt have a wooden leg with a rubber on the end !  The muffins were hot and wrapped in clothes in the cart, and he'd deliver to your door, supported on crutches and carrying the basket on his head !

[cms]

Wow. I am amazed at the muffin man in the 50s.
 Truly as someone said, "Queen Victoria died in 1960" !

[Gadget]

There were four cinemas in Kilburn (now only one) and four in Hampstead (now only one) with names like The Classic, Essoldo, Playhouse, Gaumont.

 

I went to these - lived in Belsize Park in the mid 1960s.

Now I really feel old 

Gadget

[Ecneps]

Cheer up Gadget,  I must be as old as you, the trick is not to feel that you are (difficult some days I admit!)

 

[Gadget]

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 

[Jean McGurn]

Of course all this happened in the last century  I wonder what people are going to be saying in 2107 about life in this century 

I always say that I am so glad I grew up in the 1950/60's I would so hate to be a teenager nowadays.

Jean

[julianb]

I always say that I am so glad I grew up in the 1950/60's I would so hate to be a teenager nowadays.

The other day I was trying to explain what a larder was to my 11-year old daughter.  While I think she can grasp that there haven't always been fridges, the idea that her dad lived in a time before fridges were widespread was a bit hard to cope with 

I always remember our first phone number too - and practising saying what my dad said when he answered it -  in case I got the chance to pick up the phone "Downland 3986, Baker speaking"

JULIAN

[Ecneps]

My daughters think I lived in the dark ages, in the early 60's we didn't have a phone, car, television, fridge, freezer, microwave, electric washing machine, computer......... how on earth did we manage to live at all?  But we still survived, and enjoyed life too
 
Barbara

[Gadget]

SNAP , Barbara - i was beginning to think that we were the only family who didn't have a phone, Tv, etc., etc. reading this thread 


Gadget