| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 20:54 - Jun 20 with 34211 views | MrSheen |
Pins in new shirts. There used to be about 10 of the little buggers. You could never be entirely sure you’d found all of them. |  | | |  |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 00:56 - Jun 22 with 3402 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 20:45 - Jun 21 by colinallcars |
Something else rarely seen these days are winkles. The pins mentioned by the OP would come in handy for these. Now that the winkle stall outside the Beehive in Brentford has sadly gone, I don't know anywhere in West London where winkles, whelks etc can be found. |
They still sell them in Shepherds Bush Market, or at least they did two years ago when I moved out. [Post edited 22 Jun 2018 0:57]
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 03:11 - Jun 22 with 3370 views | Boston |
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 03:39 - Jun 22 with 3367 views | OnlyMe |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 00:26 - Jun 21 by Rs_Holy |
Duffle bags, electric knives, gimmicky gifts in breakfast cereal. |
I've got an electric knife and very useful it can be too. Do jokey socks count (I have a drawful of unused ones received as presents)? | | | |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 03:52 - Jun 22 with 3354 views | OnlyMe |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 08:33 - Jun 21 by Metallica_Hoop |
In Fleet Street people queue very British-like at the bus stop opposite my office. Even the tourists.
Its the bus stop by Zest and Ley. |
And when I was at school from the late 60s onwards, it was like hand-to-hand combat when buses arrived (almost always instigated by people over a "certain age" --- and usually older women) and the kids and young blokes lost out every time. Probably because we'd been taught "proper" behaviour while the old folk were cynical. pragmatic and ultimately totally selfish (unless it was relevant to their grandchildren I suppose?).
So --- so much for genrealisations? | | | |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 04:00 - Jun 22 with 3354 views | OnlyMe |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 10:14 - Jun 21 by johncharles |
Eating bones. Years ago everyone gave their dogs bones but in the last 20/30 years it’s reckoned not to be a good idea. Bones, especially chicken bones can splinter and cause all sorts of internal injuries.
P.S. much fewer proper Butchers shops about, old fashioned ones that always had bones for your dog. [Post edited 21 Jun 2018 10:17]
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My last dog died from a punctured bowel after a raw knucklebone splintered and compacted in his gut. Vet said it should be never, never, NEVER give dogs bones. Chicken bones, cooked or otherwise can splinter very dangerously.
And slightly related ---- You used to be able to go to the butchers or fishmongers and get bones etc for stock-making. Now fishmongers are very rare and the last time I asked in my butchers I was told that their chain had a contract with a restaurant chain and absolutely everything not sold went to them. [Post edited 22 Jun 2018 5:00]
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 07:47 - Jun 22 with 3289 views | izlingtonhoop |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 04:00 - Jun 22 by OnlyMe |
My last dog died from a punctured bowel after a raw knucklebone splintered and compacted in his gut. Vet said it should be never, never, NEVER give dogs bones. Chicken bones, cooked or otherwise can splinter very dangerously.
And slightly related ---- You used to be able to go to the butchers or fishmongers and get bones etc for stock-making. Now fishmongers are very rare and the last time I asked in my butchers I was told that their chain had a contract with a restaurant chain and absolutely everything not sold went to them. [Post edited 22 Jun 2018 5:00]
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What? You didn't bother to find out -so that you can tell us, and we can all go - to the restaurant chain that uses meat that no one else wants?
Fu(king capitalism! |  | | |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 08:29 - Jun 22 with 3273 views | Northernr |
Haven't the pins in shirts been replaced, like everything else, with little bits of single use plastic clips which we can then feed to the fish? |  | | |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 09:13 - Jun 22 with 3243 views | Mick_S |
Dildo phones. |  |
| Did I ever mention that I was in Minder? |
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 09:58 - Jun 22 with 3206 views | hubble |
Bobbles on the beat. Milkmen. Rag and bone men. Sparrows (in central London). The onion man in his bike. |  |
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 10:27 - Jun 22 with 3181 views | Dorse |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 09:58 - Jun 22 by hubble |
Bobbles on the beat. Milkmen. Rag and bone men. Sparrows (in central London). The onion man in his bike. |
I remember the rag and bone man when I lived in Hounslow in the late 70s. He had the whole Steptoe set up with a horse and everything. Living in Dorset, the horses I see these days are usually piloted by some chinless Rupert trying to eradicate a fox. |  |
| 'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!' |
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 10:43 - Jun 22 with 3167 views | WokingR |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 09:13 - Jun 22 by Mick_S |
Dildo phones. |
I think you're onto something here Mick.
Seem to remember a story about a drunk Katie Price doing something similar with her mobile with the cameral running while inside her. |  | | |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 10:47 - Jun 22 with 3163 views | enfieldargh |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 12:14 - Jun 21 by Mick_S |
Brutus.
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I used to sell those in Jean Junction Oxford Street.
The girls always wanted a size 8 or 10 even when they were on the large size.
The fun we had trying to squeeze them into them.
To be able to get the zip up you had to put your hand around the crotch to be able to set the zipper straight copped a lot of feelies and a few right handers I know disgraceful behaviour but I pulled loads especially girls on holiday.
The best make was called Made In Heaven it certainly was
Oh the 70's, tight Jeans, platforms, girls black moroccan, Marlborough and Stanley Bowles |  |
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 10:48 - Jun 22 with 3162 views | MoonshineSteve |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 09:58 - Jun 22 by hubble |
Bobbles on the beat. Milkmen. Rag and bone men. Sparrows (in central London). The onion man in his bike. |
The onion man on his bike? Where was this, the Dordogne? |  |
| I am still Steve but no longer in Dagenham. |
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 11:03 - Jun 22 with 3146 views | enfieldargh |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 10:48 - Jun 22 by MoonshineSteve |
The onion man on his bike? Where was this, the Dordogne? |
Kingsbury in the late 60's | |
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 11:08 - Jun 22 with 3140 views | Ashdown_Ranger |
Bring this back...!
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 11:11 - Jun 22 with 3137 views | colinallcars |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 11:03 - Jun 22 by enfieldargh |
Kingsbury in the late 60's |
We had an onion man in Hammersmith in the 60s and he really was French. Plus a knife sharpening man on a trike, Price and co bread which was sold from a horse-drawn wagon. And amazingly, in the White City flats, a man would come round doing a song and dance act in the courtyards. People would throw a few bob from their balconies. Modern Britain is characterless in comparison. |  | | |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 11:30 - Jun 22 with 3121 views | kingo |
Sheepskin coats, I used to have one in the 70s but haven't seen one for years. |  |
| RIP: Sniffer, Doug and Pat |
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 11:39 - Jun 22 with 3114 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 11:30 - Jun 22 by kingo |
Sheepskin coats, I used to have one in the 70s but haven't seen one for years. |
I have 2 a flying jacket and a Motson
Can't beat them for warmth |  |
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 11:50 - Jun 22 with 3101 views | longbottom |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 11:03 - Jun 22 by enfieldargh |
Kingsbury in the late 60's |
French onion sellers were still common in Kilburn,early sixties. We used to chuck stones at 'em. |  | | |
| (No subject) (n/t) on 12:27 - Jun 22 with 3077 views | longbottom |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 11:03 - Jun 22 by enfieldargh |
Kingsbury in the late 60's |
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| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 12:39 - Jun 22 with 3072 views | HantsR |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 03:52 - Jun 22 by OnlyMe |
And when I was at school from the late 60s onwards, it was like hand-to-hand combat when buses arrived (almost always instigated by people over a "certain age" --- and usually older women) and the kids and young blokes lost out every time. Probably because we'd been taught "proper" behaviour while the old folk were cynical. pragmatic and ultimately totally selfish (unless it was relevant to their grandchildren I suppose?).
So --- so much for genrealisations? |
I used to travel to school in Central London by train from Bromley South. I could only remain seated until Shortlands or Beckenham Junction when I was obliged to give up my seat to an adult. Now I'm 70 and an adult, no-one even thinks of offering up their seat - this is possibly because I look so fit and agile? |  | | |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 12:54 - Jun 22 with 3059 views | W7Ranger |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 12:39 - Jun 22 by HantsR |
I used to travel to school in Central London by train from Bromley South. I could only remain seated until Shortlands or Beckenham Junction when I was obliged to give up my seat to an adult. Now I'm 70 and an adult, no-one even thinks of offering up their seat - this is possibly because I look so fit and agile? |
"this is possibly because I look so fit and agile?"
If your Avatar pic is anything to go by...  |  | | |
| Things you don’t see any more #14,286 on 13:06 - Jun 22 with 3051 views | R_from_afar |
Where I lived, if you wanted to be "hard" (translation for our younger readers: 1970s slang for "cool"), you simply had to have cow horns. All my bikes sported the factory fitted handlebars 
RFA |  |
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