This you don't see nowadays

[BigRobCanUFixIt]

petrol at 52.9p (when I started driving)

10 besons for £1.10

 

[seco services]

co op stamp saver books.

smurfs from the national petrol station.

 

[LooPrEvil]

Greenshield stamps

 

[cantaloup63]

Cigarette cards (that could be exchanged for greenshield stamsp)

 

[cantaloup63]

Ronco Buttoneer

KTel

 

[imamartian]

Grattan catalogues

Mums that sold tights to neighbours !!

 

[imamartian]

duplicate post

 

[misterhelpful]

Road sweepers with a sweeping brush and cart.

The Alpine/Corona pop man.

 

[imamartian]

a machine that had a stack of 7" vinyl discs on that dropped one occassionally using gravity, before a really tiny pin rested on it's edge and ran across it's bumps and hollows, and turned that into f***ing great music !!!!

 

[imamartian]

a dentist's needle that felt like a javelin and lasted all day !!!

 

[expertgasman]

[quote="BigRobCanUFixIt";p="2156036"]petrol at 52.9p (when I started driving)

Gallon or litre?

 

[expertgasman]

Rainbow sherbet

Proper liquorishe (?) straw in your sherbet fountain

 

[expertgasman]

Cans of Party Seven beer.

We use to have fun just trying to open them.

Yea, remember taking those to parties. But it wasn't really beer, was it. Just Watneys.

 

[cantaloup63]

lucky dip bags.

rag and bone man

mods and rockers

punks and new wave

 

[imamartian]

gangsters were gangsters, not gangstas !!