Whatever happened to.....

[ed_pete]

CWALD

[AGW3]

or SWALK even

[Loz]

or N.O.R.W.I.C.H.

[aerie]

man buns

bum bags

black velvet hair bands

white stiletto heeled shoes

French knickers

bedjackets

plaid slippers with pom poms

plaid dressing gowns with silky cords

white cotton short gloves

Madras cotton shirts

Dr Who scarves

suspender belts and stockings

negligees

reefer jackets

driving gloves with holes cut out for knuckles

sun dresses

[TheArtfulDogger]

Sadly aerie

A lot of your list went up in flames when regans in Peckham got set alight during the riots 5 years ago ...

[Jah Lush]

Paraffin.

Corona delivery trucks.

French onion sellers.

Coalmen.

The knife sharpener man who would drive around on an adapted bicycle, knife sharpening machine.

[Otta]

Ready Salted Chipsticks. You can still get salt & vinegar, but haven't see RS for years.

[Jah Lush]

[Louisa]

Otta Wrote:

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> Ready Salted Chipsticks. You can still get salt &

> vinegar, but haven't see RS for years.

I am happy to inform you Otta that the ready salted variety are still available. Selected websites, including the one below can deliver them to you.

http://www.chocolatebuttons.co.uk/chipsticks-ready-salted-48-packs-per-box.html

Louisa.

[maxxi]

The man from the Pru

The rent man

the pools man

the avon lady

-in fact any callers who when asking 'is your mum in son?' had a terse and expletive-ridden reminder that this was not the right time to call shouted at them by my mother as she struggled with the chip pan in the kitchen

Oh, chip pans.

[uncleglen]

My sister is an Avon Lady....ding dong

[????]

Silk football scarves

Tying football scarves round your wrist

No6 fags

[aerie]

Otta Wrote:

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> Ready Salted Chipsticks. You can still get salt &

> vinegar, but haven't see RS for years.

the salt bearing screw of blue paper in Smith's Crisps

[aerie]

Bicycling :

window cleaners, riding one handed whilst supporting a long wooden ladder, with a rag/window leather hanging off the end, and the bucket swinging

postmen

policemen

District Nurses (dark green smart uniform and regulation dark green bike)

delivery boys, from the butcher, or local grocer, on heavy bikes with a basket at the front, bringing the 'order'

Order books

Address Books

hand written letters

cards from people whose handwriting you recognise

invitations and notifications (births deaths and weddings) through the letter box

thank you letters

or cards

post twice a day

the Kleeneze man

the Parish magazine

Eagle and Girl

the wet fish man in his little van, every Tuesday, regular

Gypsy ladies at the door selling pegs, baskets and lucky white heather

the family doctor calling

tinkers

peddlers

bob a job

[lavender27]

the angel of Peckham Rye Park

(engraved on a bench near the main gate, Barry Road)

[moondancer]

lollipop ladies

Belisha Beacons with stripey poles

motorbikes and sidecars

goggles

fingerposts

hand signals

starting the car with a cranking handle

major road ahead

Grandpa's Jowett Javelin,

policeman wearing smart white sleeves, directing traffic, on a busy junction, unperturbed

the AA salute

[Otta]

moondancer Wrote:

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> lollipop ladies

> Belisha Beacons with stripey poles

I don't think anything has happened to either of these things.

[Seabag]

Readers Wives

[Jeremy]

The Angel of Southwark

[Otta]

Seabag Wrote:

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> Readers Wives

They went online?

Or they got divorced and discovered Tinder?

[numbers]

the Barry Barry Road Race and them bears?

[PennyDreadful]

Decent wages. (Or indeed any wages, as opposed to the combination of internships / volunteering / workfare / "no-money-but-it'll-be-good-publicity-for-you" that's supplanted earning a living.)

Count Dracula ice lollies - black on the outside, blood-red on the inside - they used to stain your mouth!

Old Jamaica rum and raisin chocolate.

Antonio Fargas.

Spatial awareness: I'd like to propose adding it to the National Curriculum...

[Robert Poste's Child]

I'm in a nostalgic mood today. How about old-fashioned values like kindness, courtesy, consideration for others, thinking before you speak, duty, making the best of it etc.

Maybe I should lay off reading biographies for a bit.

[Elphinstone's Army]

Evening in Paris, or Soir de Paris if you wanna be posh, other old fashioned scents, Quelque fleur, Fleur de Rocaille,

Coty Paris, Worth Je Reviens, Ma Griffe, Bronnley Herbal soaps, Windsor Dianthus, Boots geranium and Calendula, Boots jelly like hand cream in a jar with a screw top, and whatever happened to Zam Buk (with oil of wintergreen) it was like tiger balm, a total cure all. And Yardley, especially English Lavender, and all those lovely fashionable fragrances which are popular and then disappear, why is this?

[Elphinstone's Army]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> I'm in a nostalgic mood today. How about

> old-fashioned values like kindness, courtesy,

> consideration for others, thinking before you

> speak, duty, making the best of it etc.

>

> Maybe I should lay off reading biographies for a

> bit.

Do not despair, we still have these stoical values