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Go on then...........Originally Posted by Normunds
This washing machine. You'll never guess what year we got rid of it.
My Grandmas house where I occasionally stayed as a kid in the mid 80s hadn't changed since the 40s I recon, it had most of the things listed in the replies above, outside loo, larder room, chamber pots, washbasin and jugs in the bedrooms, bath in the kitchen covered with a big board, open fire with toasting forks etc, no tv ... Bloody loved it, simple times.
Cheers..
Jase
Go on then...........This washing machine. You'll never guess what year we got rid of it.
Trying to remember when I last had home-made chips.
It might be the late 80s.
Might have to remedy that.
The best chips are always cooked in dripping. I also remember eating the beef dripping from the roasting tin with some crusty bread; I’m sure it was delicious at the time but now the thought of it makes me feel queasy.
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They’re soaking now..... I refuse to eat oven chips, microwave chips or any other type that aren’t what I consider a proper chip..👍
Barbara Streisand albums
a dynatron TV in a massive wooden cabinet with a louvered wooden door that you had to slide back ...
remember the day it went and a new one was delivered with the first remote control I had ever seen..... with a cable from the controller to the TV !!
Before those we used to change channels with a snooker cue. Those telly's with a rotary knob were a right pain.
Cap guns.
J
That's it, knew there was a posh name for them but couldn't think of it!
A B+W tv that took 5 minutes to warm up. A vhs player, a record player, a twin tape deck so you could record your mates album. Comador computers and slide rules.
Things were built to last too, not like now.
I can remember us not having wall to wall carpeting. instead we had an area of carpet (like a square) & as it was an asphalt floor mum used to mop the non carpeted bit.
Twin tub washing machine.
No double glazing.
Leaving a small window open for the cat so he could let himself in & out.
TV programmes going off in the afternoon.
I remember the days when the main TV channels went off air overnight. So frustrating in my yoof, but now I think that's a great idea!
OMG takes me back to Vauxhalls Luton plant in the late '70s. Tea break the trolley came round with tea and coffee, ham rolls, cheese rolls and bread and dripping. Luxury.....
Anyway I digress..........
The standard lamp.
And these.....
And K-Tel albums!
They're fab enoch!
We didn’t have a lava lamp, but we did have a similar thing that had bits of glitter in it.
Cheers..
Jase
We'd let our dog out in the morning and it’d come back at night when it was hungry. Never found out what it did or where it went in between.
Also a dustbin that wasn't on wheels but instead was a metal thing (so you could put hot ashes in it) with handles & a black lid, that some strong dustman would hoist onto his shoulder & tip into the bin lorry. He'd then put the lid back on & bring it back up the path.
Cheers Verv....we like retro👍❤️
Oh, I have an ACME mangle in the garage, use it for rinsing drying cloths for the car..🤓
Tv's that had a switch on the wall to change the channel. A pit in the garage. Telephone seats. Telephone with a party line.
I bought one earlier this evening!!! The thread here inspired me to find one. I’m teaching my oldest how to use it to rinse his wetsuits after sailing.
I paid 22 euros for it. Bargain!
Chip pan, ever present on top of the cooker (already been said)
Coal shed/scuttle/poker (gone for obvious reasons)
Linc O Lin beer shampoo in a plastic beer barrel
Lifebuoy soap
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Coal Tar soap
I use it most days and coal tar shampoo.
Now made with tea-tree oil not coal tar.
Rickets
I can’t think of the name but the things used to keep veg warm at Sunday lunch (carousel?) think it was Tefal made? in brown and had that typical late 70’s pattern that you’d get on tea/coffee/sugar jars.
Making mince meat with the original kenwood chef with the mince maker attachment.
The ashtrays mentioned already but for some reason my parents kept theirs for years after they gave up smoking. We had the free standing one with round top and a bit in the middle you lifted up.
Also had a clear glass ashtray which was a footprint.
And what about Onyx! Lots of onyx items, ashtrays, chess set, big lighters with tha huge button!
And.. Pewter! Anyone have pewter ornaments?
Soap on a rope probably standard issue in prison.
A bellows for the fire.
Matey bubble bath.
Pebble dashing and stone cladding (technically on our houses I guess, but by and large seem to have disapeared ).
Free standing ash trays that were a couple of feet tall.
A lock on the telephone ( At my Nan's house).
Reel to reel tape recorders.
Singer sewing machine with wooden cabinet.
14" TV's in the bedroom.
Tripe and onions
Tinned peas, carrots, potatoes, peach slices, Fussels cream. Everything came out of a tin, including cheese possessed. Milk that was off the next morning. Malted milk biscuits. So many preservatives in food that people were not decomposing when buried. Nit nurses at school. Jimmy Savile on the BBC.
Does anyone have grandfather clocks anymore?
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My friend sold a house in Edinburgh and one of the conditions of sale was that she couldn’t take it with her.The clothes rack on a hoist above the fire ?
Demijohns for making home made wine - I remember getting sozzled as a kid on my parents Parsnip wine - Parsnip wine for gods sake, what were they thinking???
Probably just a British thing:
Still have one of these models. Brilliant machines.
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The sound of the milk float as it made it's way down the road.
Not in the house but at school:
Overhead projector
Blackboard
Yes.
The soft whirr of the float and the gentle tinkling of the bottles at 5.30am.
Coming downstairs to find blue tits had pierced the metal tops of the bottles.
Fairly sure I can hear my Father saying "Those damn tits have been at it again."
A “kwispeldoor” a sort of bowl you could spit in when chewing your tobacco. I really couldn’t find a translation though.
Got a new watch, divers watch it is, had to drown the bastard to get it!
The English word is similar - cuspidor, or also spittoon. These were usually in pubs rather than at home.
How serendipitous, I was listening to the radio last Wednesday and the subject of cigarette machines in homes came up as a curiosity
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p062btlc
Around 18 mins in and the replies come in around 2hrs 10mins in for those who are interested.
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[QUOTE=jameswrx;4738781]I can’t think of the name but the things used to keep veg warm at Sunday lunch (carousel?) think it was Tefal made? in brown and had that typical late 70’s pattern that you’d get on tea/coffee/sugar jars.
Hostess trolley?
Condensed milk.. weird stuff it was..
[QUOTE=gunner;4739379]Not quite but you have reminded me my Nan had one of those though.I can’t think of the name but the things used to keep veg warm at Sunday lunch (carousel?) think it was Tefal made? in brown and had that typical late 70’s pattern that you’d get on tea/coffee/sugar jars.
Hostess trolley?
The thing I’m thinking of was round and sat on the table, had an opaque brown/clear lid and the inside had porcelain triangular dishes like a big trivial persuit.
Found it, Ekco carousel (no wonder I couldn’t find it thinking it was Tefal)
Very nice!Still have one of these models. Brilliant machines.
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I bought a Singer 201K for sewing leather and canvas.
As you say, they are brilliant machines.
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Brings to mind the fondue set.....a staple of the Generation Game conveyor!Found it, Ekco carousel (no wonder I couldn’t find it thinking it was Tefal)
We had one of these at home too in the early 70s. Bissell's best carpet cleaner !!
And of course, life wouldn't have been the same without this in front of the coal fire !
we still get milk delivered three times a week. pricey really but convenient.
ktmog6uk
marchingontogether!
That’s me, second from right at my sisters birthday party. Note the tin of condensed milk on the table. It went well with jelly. Cream was a luxury and not for the likes of us!
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