What do you remember- seems impossible now

[KGarrad]

There were also some pink ones - weren't there??

S&H Stamps I believe?
Sperry & Hutchinson were an American stamp company.

[rosiemagic]

Our telephone number was 4865......how on earth have I remembered that!!!

RM

[stonechat]

Scotland Yard was Whitehall 12 22

And  I do remember those cylinders that would send invoices up tothe office and back again

[alpinecottage]

Can you still remember your old telephone number?

Ours was Douglas (you just dialled DOU) 7445 imagine remembering that after 50 years!! 

HEA (for Heaton Moor) 3753

And our first car number plate was 1606 NB.....but I don't know what my present car reg is 

[youngtug]

Water from the well, and having to remember to keep a pint to prime the pump, otherwise it wouldn't pump. Outside loo's, galvanized metal bath's hanging on the wall, gas lamps and oil lamps, remember the mantles, one touch and it was ruined. Writing on a slate at school. The first taste of honey, still in the comb, bliss.

[Just Kia]

Grandma and Granddad have lived in their house since it was built c1950 and still have the same telephone number - only now the first 2 digits are part of the number rather than the code.

Great Granddad (over here on the left) was the man in the village with the battery charger, and is noted on the map (drawn by Granddad) showing the village as it was 1935/36. It also includes the post office, village pump, pig killer, sheep shearer, 2 butchers, cobbler, the seed shop, cycle repair shed, bee keeper, fish & chip shop, public toilets, abbatoir, 2 public houses and a working men's club.
There were many more facilities then than there are now even though the village has expanded significantly.

[millymcb]

We've still got some of the glass tumblers we bought with a few books of Greensheild stamps in the early 70s. And some china mugs.  

We had big sticking nights - books of Greensheild stamps that Dad got with his petrol - and blue Coop stamps that mum got with the shopping.

I told a class of sixth form students that we didn't have videos when I was their age - and asked what they thought whe did when we had to go out when our favourite programme was on TV.  The look of horror on their faces when they realised you just had to miss the programme!!

Even in the 70s my grandmother still had her outside toilet. And the coalman would deliver big sacks of coal on a horse drawn cart. And there was a man who used to come door to door with a grinder to sharpen knives.
 
Milly

[youngtug]

A weston master is what I saved up the greenshield stamps for, who uses a light meter now?

[Seoras]

Lighting a fire before I went out to do my morning paper round and then going to school.One of my folks still has an open fire but with central heating back up.I still prefer real flames though.