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Lada Riva or Skoda Estelle.
 
bobby's on the beat, kids playing out
Ford cortinas & a shop in the street.

no rock 'n' roll or music from the soul
just manufatured noise from a chavy arsehole.

no community no respect no pride,
no 'Great' anymore-its just 'Britain' and has since DIED!
 
The old man used to drink this ...had to be Manns Brown regards Turnpin:21:

tried it and loved it as a teenager, asked for it a while back and got an odd look, times are a changing and not for the better :(
 
Joiners with their own handmade tool box.
 
An extension being built.
A stolen car being took for a joy ride.
Peoples windows getting put through.
A bathroom install.
An honest estate agent.
A skint landlord.
A decent wage.
A pension.
An end to the recession in the north east.
 
Stickers on vans saying "we're in the yellow pages"

Landlines 0926

Gold top milk

The milk bottles with Green tops

Pop crates as hop ups on site

Your mrs number in loos at local boozer!
Not true on the phone number..... I saw it on the back door of the services bogs on the M1 :-O
 
Women on the streets in leg warmers
 
Parking space just where you're working.
 
Scrimping customers or ones telling you how to sort the job. erm.... Maybe not....somethings never change!
 
Fish and chips in real newspaper (there was a scare in the 90s about the carbon black in newsprint being potentially carcinogenic so its not used now).

Getting £1 as a kid for fish, chips and mushy peas (it's almost £5 here now!)

Jubliee Stout (nana's favourite tipple)

"Nutty" bar (a toffee wafer bar with peanuts stuck to it, in transparent brown cellophane wrapper) which resembled a turd, probably accounting for its decline in popularity.

Mars / Twix / Bounty / Marathon (old name for Snickers) etc in wax paper wrappers (changed to film in the mid 1980s

Beech Nut chewing gum

Altoids mints

People saying "hello" on the streets. (Tyne & Wear and Northumberland are the only places I have been to recenty where people are still friendly and will still say "morning" to people they pass who they don't know).

AM or MW radio

Laundry blue (came in a little block wrapped in muslin and disappeared about 10 years ago, probably due to the fact nobody has net curtains anymore)
 
Audio cassettes

Video cassettes (grandad was one of the unfortunate ones who opted for V2000 which was the shortest lived format (double sided cassetted you flipped over for the "B" side

Vinyl records

Making a "Trunk call" - (phoning the operator on "100" to make a long distance or international phone call), telephone switchboards

Floppy disks for computers

Rawl Drills (however did we manage before SDS?)

Asbestos products (new)

White guttering and soil pipe systems

Typewiters and word processing machines

The Rolodex and card files (an early card inedexing system rendered obsolete by computers)

Film cameras and polaroid cameras

Record shops

Junk shops (since ebay)
 
Btw i bought a grundig video 2000 too. Cost me over 500 quid 3 popes ago. I never learned and bought a knocked off betamax next :lol:
 

Neck lumps

Hawking and gobbing in the gutter

Light and bitter

Watney's red barrel

Watney's party 7

fast food that doesn't defy the trade description on both counts.

Ferkin pubs

Flirty Gertie from number 30

That fit young girl I chatted up at a party in '86. By '98 it had turned into a monster so I gave it the heave ho.

I have a party 7 opener somewhere. :)
 
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