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
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 !!
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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?
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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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???
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
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!
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..
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.
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marchingontogether!