'Stolen' from FaceBook, but fun....

[JoM]

For me it was a cassette recorder placed closely to the radio

For Christmas 1985 I was bought one of these and it's still working now, Tom has it here in his bedroom.
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/sharp_stereo_radio_cassette_recorder_qt_27zr.html

[AliasAggers]

I used to have an ancient recorder that used a large floppy disc about 12 inches diameter.

But I left it in the roof space of a house I sold.

[cromwell]

I remember the ice on the inside of the windows, and playing cricket in the street with three small piles of dirt for the stumps!

Crikey, so many things. Coal mines and the big spoil heaps by the side of them and the pit ponies in the field. Coal bunkers / coal holes!

Cars that took an age to start in the morning because no fuel injection, or having to push start a car - I haven't seen that for years.

Oxydol soap powder and crisps with a blue bag with the salt in them.

Half a crown or two bob pieces, I don't think anyone under 55 would know what they were!

[Workingman]

Half a crown or two bob pieces, I don't think anyone under 55 would know what they were!

Sadly, I do.

Life before yogurt, yoghurt, or yoghourt - how on earth did we survive?!

I remember my first one, Ski. It was like liquid cheese with sugar and lumps of strawberry - disgusting. I do not like cheese or strawberries and do not have a sweet tooth.

Now I eat them daily, but only the natural ones with real fruit and no added sugar.

[cromwell]

Ski yoghurts!

Does anyone remember Vesta curry and rice that used to come in a cardboard packet? They were the height of sophistication in their day!

[saundra]

Loved vestA currys don't we live in a changing world so much has been lost
Not always for the better either

[TheOstrich]

Vesta curries, yes ... and Arctic Rolls for dessert!

We had a coal bunker - and also a corrugated-iron Anderson air-raid shelter that my father used as a garden shed!

[JoM]

Ossie, we had an Anderson shelter which we used for storage in the garden at our old house. I really hope that the people who bought the house have left it there.

[JoM]

Cromwell, I was telling John and the lads on NYE about how, years ago, we'd all go out of the houses at Midnight as the pit buzzers would be sounded to signify the start of the new year.
We now live on the site of the old pit and the estate is named after it. It would amaze my Grandad if he was still around as he worked down this pit until he retired. There's a slag heap still in the village but it's been landscaped now. It's huge, there's a winding path all up the one side with picnic areas dotted around and just when you think you've made it to the top you're faced with 100+ steps to climb. It's worth it for the view though.
The old winding wheel is at the bottom but it's quite out of the way down a lane so the local MP is arranging for it to be put on land at the front of our estate.

[Diflower]

That's nice Jo