What has Disappeared?

[Gern]

Laughing at the latest "Ronco gadgets" they try to sell each christmas

Not sure they've totally disappeared. You must have seen the JML ads on telly!

[David Lovell]

Are we talking the winter 62-63 i suppose school was just about a mile away we always walked anyway couldn't afford a bus ,snow over knee deep my sisters kept pushing me over all the way there(bitches)making me cry ,duffel coat and shorts... only to find the school closed no heating even the cast iron radiators were cracked ,yep the pair of cows kept pushing me over all the way home then got told of for being soaking wet.

[minitnkr]

No buses in our neighborhood, walked the mile w/two older bros, sometimes ignored is better. Had a pc of tape on the kitchen window up two feet from sash so would know when no school before radio news. At least back then people would shovel walks so coming home from school/church was easier.

[Tim Marlow]

Are we talking the winter 62-63 i suppose school was just about a mile away we always walked anyway couldn't afford a bus ,snow over knee deep my sisters kept pushing me over all the way there(bitches)making me cry ,duffel coat and shorts... only to find the school closed no heating even the cast iron radiators were cracked ,yep the pair of cows kept pushing me over all the way home then got told of for being soaking wet.

Not me Dave, I was only two then . You’ll be thinking I was around in 1947 next……

[Dave Ward]

62-63 - The snow drifted up to the front bedroom windows - my father had to go out the backdoor, climb into the neigbours garden, then shovel the snow - just to see the front door, let alone open it. No school for several weeks! No central heating in our house - coal fire & 3-bar electric radiators - and a paraffin heater in the hallway. The bedroom windows used to frost up on the inside - rubber hot water bottles? Nah - the old fashioned stone hot water bottle & blankets, piles of blankets. My parents always had stockpiles of powdered milk, sugar, tea, and boxes full of tinned food - quite why, I never knew, but we never went hungry, despite the local shops all being closed/sold out!
Dave

[Ian M]

Not me Dave, I was only two then . You’ll be thinking I was around in 1947 next……

we're about the same age then Tim.
I'm thinking it was somewhere between 68, 69 or 70. the last years of primary school. Senior school was even further, but we had LONG trousers then, lol.

[boatman]

YES I was 10 yrs old then remember the of 62 to 63 wnter an it was bad then as when my dad opened our front door there was just a solid wall of snow rock hard an just as well he had shovel indoors to keep the fire goin with coal an our village was cut off an a whirwind chopper dropped food an milk to us all but it was rationed just a little each an garwd did my poor ole tummy rumble

[Tim Marlow]

we're about the same age then Tim.
I'm thinking it was somewhere between 68, 69 or 70. the last years of primary school. Senior school was even further, but we had LONG trousers then, lol.

May well have been Ian, but for some freak of geography snow used to miss Salisbury. We had the occasional flurry, but nothing worth writing home about for almost my entire childhood. I remember being irrationally jealous of kids in other areas that had snow. All changed in 76 though. A bad storm came up from the west and stalled over Salisbury. We had storm conditions for two days and the snow just got driven into drifts by the very high winds. Some of the local drifts were reported as thirty foot high. They used construction diggers to clear the main roads and one of them dumped an abandoned mini onto a roadside hedge. Just picked it up with the snow and never realised LOL.

[boatman]

well Tim it sounds like you had all your snow in one go lol

[Ian M]

I think I remember that Tim. I first moved to Denmark in 89.

[Guest]

I don't think that is a true reflection of purchasing power.

For example, ten bob would have bought me four 1/72 scale Airfix Spitfires in 1969. Today those four kits would cost at least forty quid.

I think it’s probably a good reflection of purchasing power in general, but as soon as you start looking at specific types of item, it may or may not fit. For example, one euro today has about the same general purchasing power as a Dutch guilder in the mid-80s — but a house that cost 100,000 guilders then will set you back 400,000 euros now, rather than €100,000 — that’s about four times average inflation rate. Yet specific model kits that cost 35 guilders back then are around 25 euros today — or about 70% average inflation.

[Richard48]

Victory Vs can be still obtained from "Savers",I saw a whole box of them yesterday in Clacton town centre.I used to like them when i was a postie.I got myself some Aniseed Fishermans friends.They remind me of the lovely bronchial lozenges boots had in the 1970s.I saw B and M had tins of Horlicks tablets in a baccy like tin.So much wonderful confectionary long gone.
Pip pip onk onk.
Richard

[Tim Marlow]

Victory Vs can be still obtained from "Savers",I saw a whole box of them yesterday in Clacton town centre.I used to like them when i was a postie.I got myself some Aniseed Fishermans friends.They remind me of the lovely bronchial lozenges boots had in the 1970s.I saw B and M had tins of Horlicks tablets in a baccy like tin.So much wonderful confectionary long gone.
Pip pip onk onk.
Richard

Modern Vs have had all the good stuff removed, unfortunately . Do you remember Imps Richard, they used to absolutely blow your head off, and they were about the size of a grain of rice….

[stona]

Do you remember Imps Richard

Mighty Imps? Despite the menthol that destroyed your taste buds for a month, they managed to put me of liquorice.

I also remember the tin for something called Nippits (sp?) which seemed similar, I but never saw the contents

[Dave Ward]

Liquorice root - literally chewing the root of the plant - Liquorice juice - rock hard liquorice sticks dissolved in water ( in a corked bottle shaken vigorously! ) Delicious, but dangerously laxative if overdone -- Spanish Gold sweet tobacco.................
Dave