The past is a different country. They do things differently there - Part 2

[SueTeakle]

Great film "The Go-Between" but my favourite Alan Bates film is "Far From The Madding Crowd" 


Sue

[Ecneps]

They were for strange suspenders to be attached to them and then the stocking attached to them. I remember seeing some in my Mum's sewing box - very odd things they were 

Thanks for that Gadget, you learn something new every day, another of life's little mysteries unravelled....

 

[geniecolgan]

They were for strange suspenders to be attached to them and then the stocking attached to them. I remember seeing some in my Mum's sewing box - very odd things they were 

I know waht you mean, they had metal loops at each end. Somewhat like another bizzare contraption  

[Lynn H]

I used to use suspenders to keep cot sheets in place. Wonderful things.

                             Lynn.

[Lydart]

Now thats ingenious !   My kids all used to suck their cot sheets ... you can imagine the state they got into by morning !  UGH !

[geniecolgan]

Lydart... why didn't you feed them

[Gadget]

Lydart... why didn't you feed them

She was very poor in those day - elephant fossils was all they had as teething rings 

[indiapaleale]

Oh  Oh Oh Oh.....Gadget

I remember those suspender things.....Ma had them in her sewing box too...

They were metal and had a stocking hook/loopy thing at one end and a saw toothed thingy at the other that you could  snap onto your knicks...

Oh dear......how sad are we!

Indi......shrinking back into the past!
   

[Gadget]

I used to play with them - I think they were some kind of vehicle and the buttons were people.

Does anyone else remember the button box? It used to keep me quiet for hours. the boring big black and brown ones with 4 holes were the men and the elegant, pretty ones were the women 

Gadget