What has Disappeared?

[Guest]

People talking face to face
And writing proper letters to each other

Funny you should say that - I tried to write a simple note and found my handwriting had deteriated badly - now back to practicint once a day.

[boatman]

Funny you should say that - I tried to write a simple note and found my handwriting had deteriated badly - now back to practicint once a day.

YES Mike mine is qiute bad as well full of jittery words an i must practise more as well
chrisb

[Jim R]

What about the TV test card. That little girl playing noughts and crosses with the clown.
Golliwog brooches from Robertson's jam.

[boatman]

HOW about £ as shillins an pence

[davecov]

Paraffin delivery van.

Dustbins that magically left their storage cupboard, were emptied and brought back and put away by a single binman, with no rubbish left on the streets and no fines.

K-Tel and Ronco products that lasted only as long as the adverts showing them.

Pan's People.

Woolworth's wooden floors, milk-shake counters and big Airfix displays.

Saturday Morning Pictures.

PG Tips Cards.

Jubblies - flavoured lumps of ice.

Magic Brain - manual mechanical calculator with stylus.

Dave

[boatman]

What about the TV test card. That little girl playing noughts and crosses with the clown.
Golliwog brooches from Robertson's jam.

AN IN MY opinion Jim when they took the golliywog off the jamjar is when things in this contry started to go wrong

[David Lovell]

White dog poo and finding someone’s jazz mag stash by accident.

White dog poo yeh what did happen to Leeds United. Dave

[boatman]

Paraffin delivery van.

Dustbins that magically left their storage cupboard, were emptied and brought back and put away by a single binman, with no rubbish left on the streets and no fines.

K-Tel and Ronco products that lasted only as long as the adverts showing them.

Pan's People.

Woolworth's wooden floors, milk-shake counters and big Airfix displays.

Saturday Morning Pictures.

PG Tips Cards.

Jubblies - flavoured lumps of ice.

Magic Brain - manual mechanical calculator with stylus.

Dave

an how aboutthe stamp on the pg tips teabag an the chimps

[David Lovell]

Tufty the squirrel but my brother still got ran over ,im not laughing honest ,he even belonged to the tufty club. Dave

[Jim R]

Double decker buses with an open rear door so you could hop off before the bus was completely stopped.
Just the thought terrifies me now but doing 50+mph along the A63 on an old BSA wearing jeans and a tee-shirt and no helmet.

[PaulinKendal]

Flares
Tie-dye
Grandad shirts
Smelly afghan coats
Ben Shermans
Two tone tonic suits
Nylon shirts (shudder!)

And -
Manbags
Cravats
Pornstar moustaches
Peter Wyngarde...
(those of a nervous disposition should look away now)

[Miko]

What about the TV test card. That little girl playing noughts and crosses with the clown.

She's called Carol Hersee, she still has 'Bubbles the clown which she made herself from a kit



The BBC test card, known as Test Card F was designed by Miss Hersee’s father, George Hersee, a BBC engineer. Carol holds a world record that's unlikely ever to be broken, her image has been broadcast on television for more time than any other, that girl was on our screens for several hours everyday for over thirty years from 1967, that's over 70,000 hours, It was even reused by technicians briefly for calibration of BBC HD in the early 2000's

Miko (Carol's little sister Gillian was to be the test card girl but she had recently lost her front teeth)

Bonus fact, the X' on the noughts and crosses board represents the center of the screen

[Ian M]

Sorry Ian, don’t agree with any of those. I can cite examples of the lack of them going right back to my young childhood. You can find them, or the lack of them, if you look in any age.

Well where I am I think they are sorely missed. I agree that it is, like most things mentioned not a new thing. I remember it also from my youth. But here, these days much more so.

[Tim Marlow]

Magic Brain - manual mechanical calculator with stylus.

Dave

Was Magic brain an update of Magic robot Dave? I had the robot one and simply couldn’t work out how it knew the answers. Magnets were involved, but I didn’t (still don’t to be honest) know how it worked.

[Tim Marlow]

White dog poo yeh what did happen to Leeds United. Dave

Oi, no football, and as a Leeds fan I can tell you the white stuff came from Spurs supporters LOL.