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BRITISH ‘BABY BOOMER’ NOSTALGIA Compiled by David Challinor Saluting AA Men Cream on Milk The Children’s Newspaper Shaving in Barbers Time Guns Foot X-Ray Machines in Shoe Shops Pea Shooters Pushers-up Same Day Post Passing Bells Subscription Libraries Boxing Kangaroos Dunces Caps Home-made Fireworks Aluminium Nameplate Machines at Stations German Bands Breton Onion Sellers Romany Caravans Ceiling Clocks Paint Boxes Electric Shock Therapy Bona Fide Travellers Bird – Nesting Apache Dancing Audiphones Aunt Sallies John Bull Puncture Repair Outfits & Printing sets Office Boys White Sugar Mice Camp Coffee Crystal Radio Sets Gas Mantles Guineas Boys Shouting the News Life Preservers Liquorice Imps/ Sherbet Pipes and Dabs Lobby Lud Cigarette Cards Driving Cattle through Towns Tripe Shops Continuous Performance School Ink, Inkwells and Ink Monitors Paper Chases Skipping Seasonal Children’s Games (conkers, marbles) Muffin Men Gob-stoppers Rag and Bone Men (goldfishes for junk) Beetle Drives Card Indexes in Libraries Change Receptacles on Overhead Wire Pulleys Reins on Toddlers Silver Cigarette Cases ‘Fly-proof’ Metal Grilles on Meat-safes Sticky Fly Paper DDT Memory Men (Leslie Welch) Kewpie Dolls Cigarette Holders Bells to Call the Chambermaid in hotel rooms Children’s Gardens Music Halls Pierrots/Black and White Minstrels School Milk Empire Day Pork Butchers Polite Children Blackberrying Laxative Chocolate Tuck Shops Ticking Clocks Flying Boats Rubber Bathing Caps Train Spotting Buying Pickles by the Basin Motor Cycle Sidecars Milk Churns Errand Boys on Carrier Bikes Midnight Bathing Cough Candy Having a Tooth out under Gas Hair Tidies Rotary Knife Cleaners Roadside Pick-nicking Rolls Razors Three Lane Roads Horses Grazing on Roadside (Tenting) Shirt Collar Turning Kunzle Cakes Fizzy Drink Bottles with Marbles for Stoppers Rabbits Sold in Butchers Boiling Kettles on Fires Double-Ended Glass Feeding Bottles Box Cupboard Stairs Cake Walks Weighing Babies in Chemists Head Soap Kilroy Was Here Bowler Hats in the City Friars Balsam Ayds Bubble Cars/Three-wheelers Toasting Forks Shooting Brakes Speak your Weight Machines UCP Restaurants The Overhead Railway Magnifying Lenses for TV’s Ladies Matches TV Interludes ‘Stop Me and Buy One’ Ice Cream Carts Lengthsmen Mobile Shops Tunnel Tolls charged by Vehicle’s Horsepower Lucky Dips/Bran Tubs Family Pianos Station Platform Refreshment Trolleys Tea Ladies Punch and Judy Leaving Shoes outside Hotel Rooms for cleaning Running In Please Pass Metal Studded Boots Taxi Cabs with Luggage Strapped next to Driver Fairground Freak Shows Button Sticks ‘Pointing Hand’ Direction Signs Mutton Workmen’s Braziers Door to Door Brush Salesmen Gang Shows School Leather Satchels Test Your Strength Punch Balls Blue Police Boxes Press Button ‘B’ Cars Backfiring Starting Handles Robin Starch Dolly Blue Bags Box Brownies Prudence Kitten Workers Tickets on Trains Laxative Chocolate Syrup of Figs Lyons Corner Houses Wakes Weeks Daily Dozens Silver Threepenny Bits in Xmas Puddings Pocket Watches Smog/Pea Soupers Broken Biscuits Liberty Bodices Bus Conductors 3-D Films (withdrawn due to headaches ) Cinerama Whistling Colour Filters for Black & White TV Sets Mighty Wurlitzers Sheet Music Packets of 5 Cigarettes French Cricket Lemonade Powder Conversation Cards Concert Parties Utility Marks Mock Turtle and Brown Windsor Soup Hair Singeing Bacon Slicers Kardomah Cafes Temperance Hotels Horse Troughs Factory Buzzers and Hooters Love Seats in Cinemas Wash Houses Knockers Up Paraffin Blow Lamps Clothes Horses/Maidens Balsa Wood Models Tennis Racket Presses Children’s Hour State Pubs in Carlisle Home Barometers Sunday Best National Anthem in Cinemas Marine Bathing Pools Fairy Cycles Biscuit Barrels Child’s Scooters Oil Shops Station Masters Scrumping Police Whistles Third Class Railway Carriages Park Keepers National Milk Bars Clandestine Off-Course Bookmakers Accumulators Barrel Organs Tuppence Back on the Bottle I-Spy Books and Badges Teetotums Listening Booths in Record Shops Snake Buckle Belts Play Streets Little Blue Bags of Salt in Crisp Packets Radiograms Table Lighters Horace Batchelor Infra Draw Pools Method Ships in Bottles Distemper Carrying Pencils behind the Ears Flatley Airers Invisible Menders Policemen on Point Duty Banister Brushes Leggings (leather ones) Sticking Hotel Labels on to your Suitcases Stop Press Elastic Sock Garters VD Notices in Public Toilets Nutty Slack School Medicals Pigeons Transported on Passenger Trains White Elephant Stalls Indian Toffee Victorian Era Coins in Daily Circulation Luminous Flowers Donkey Stones Flying Circuses Motoring Chocolate Isolation Hospitals Bathing Beauty Contests Shooting Brakes Morse Code Talking Records Cigarette Girls Penny for the Guy Smelling Salts/Smelling Bottles Public Drinking Fountains Pontefract Cakes Singing Booths Carpet Beaters Darning Mushrooms Tangerines in Silver Foil Wireless Ventriloquists Barbers Poles Sawdust on Butchers Floors Stepney Wheels Bengal Matches Keeping Union Jack Fags in the Home The Bag Wash The Golden Arrow Christmas Grottos in Stores News Theatres Snow Globes Fox Head Stoles Bob-a –Job Week Elocution Lessons Black Magic Sets Chinese Laundries Elsan Toilets Trade Apprentices Slipper Baths Cocoa Rooms Circus Menageries Trunk Calls Circus Parades Mr. Therm Primus Stoves Yellow Oilskin Capes Post Office Temps at Christmas Speedway Racing Flea Circuses Fairground Boxing Booths Cinder Tea National Service Crocheting your own Turkey Rug Carpets Liquorice Powder Tiger Nuts Rides on Amphibious Ducks at the Seaside Okey Pokey Brimstone and Treacle Basket Chairs on the Beach Virol Dolly Pegs Holiday Stamps Broken Toffee Door-stepping Hot Milky Drinks at Bedtime Pub Singing Black Arm Bands Hanging Out Washing across Streets Sugar Sandwiches Nit Nurses Sou’westers Mothballs Radio Hams House-to- House Carol Singing Sweet Cigarettes Spelling Bees Hospital Matrons Soapbox Cars Breakfast in Bed Teasmades Jug and Bottles Fynnon Salts End of the Pier Shows Whistling Kettles Milliners/Haberdashers Sherbert Pipes Lexicon Card Game Thee and Thou Cleveland Driscol/National Benzole Mixture Cow Heels Lift Boys ‘Corona’ Soft Drink Delivery Lorries Carbolic Soap Hat Pins Swing Boats and Chair-O-Planes Elephant Rides ID Cards Children’s National Savings Stamps Christmas Clubs Co-Op Divi Days Home Safes Supplied by Banks Wall of Death Horlicks Tablets Trading Stamps (Green Shield) Smoking Jackets Baxi Grates Gold Charm Bracelets Sheepskin Car Coats Medicine Balls Horses with Nosebags Two-Minute Silence Steam Rollers Trinidad Lake Asphalt Tapioca Golliwogs Oyster Bars/Buttery Bars/Supper Rooms Steam Laundries Mangles Blackened Chimney Sweeps Crispies Airfix Kits Berni Inn Steak Houses Spin Around Ashtrays Jamboree Bags Bile Beans Eggs with Lions on them Zebrite Grate Polish Army and Navy Stores 1001 Carpet Cleaner National Dried Milk Jumping Jacks Mitcham Mints Kilner Jars Overshoes Pakamacs Snugs in Pubs Club Men (weekly insurance collectors) Listen with Mother Egg Warmers Penny Bangers, Squibs and Tuppenny Cannons Bulls-Eyes (sweets) Mushrooming Dance Cards Tea Strainers Bootees Saturday Morning Children’s Cinema Grape-Nuts Prefabs Captain’s hand-written bulletins on board flights Barley Wine Flick-knives Spoonfuls of Cod Liver Oil Tin Pan Alley Meccano Magazine White Folding Fivers Emva Cream Sherry Flook Your Personal Pewter Tankard at the Local Xmas Tree Candles Yorkshire Relish Cinema Usherettes with Illuminated Trays Home and Colonial Stores Carters Little Liver Pills Outward Bound (not the voluntary kind) Indian Clubs Derby Suspenders Stone Hot Water Bottles Platform Tickets Paper Collars Vimto Semolina Black Jacks Messages in Bottles cast up on seashore Antimacassars Flag Days Aeroplane Jelly (except it’s Australian) Eiderdowns Railway Porters Boys Pens (at soccer grounds) Whit Monday Wind-cheaters Black Russian/Balkan Sobranie cigarettes Carpet Beaters Commercial Hotels Boys’ Papers Bluebell Woods Mortar Boards Telegrams and Telegram Boys Candlewick Bedspreads Washmen Dustmen’s Hats with leather neck-pieces Dripping What-nots Two-Way Family Favourites Linoleum Hip-baths Miniature Steam Engine Rides Cinder Toffee Bonfires Named Freight Trains e.g. “The Palethorpes” Guy Fawkes Night Jam Roly-Polys Bi-Carbonate of Soda Senna Pods Ice-Boxes Egg and Flower Services Swimming the Channel Scott’s Emulsion Half-day Closing Suet Pudding Greasy Pole Climbing Mangles & Wringers Mincers Wool Shops Fifty- Shilling Tailors Dolls Hospitals Tobacconists Kiosks Clothes Drying Racks Suspended from Ceilings Lily White Laundries Lifebuoy Soap Toy Bus Conductor Sets Mine Hosts TV Test Cards Working Windmills The “Valley Trade” Guards Vans Orchards Kid Gloves Arkelas Whitewashing stones Blanco Whitening Paste Campaign Chests Bobbies on the Beat The Ovaltinies Snofrute Plane rides on Southport Beach Fullers Tea Shops Pigs Trotters Wright’s Coal Tar Soap Pools Collectors Toddler’s Truce ‘Watch the Birdie’ Photographers Grape Scissors Tressy Dolls Brylcreem Boys Sunday School Typing Pools Wintergreen Bay Rum Walkie-Talkie Dolls Bath Olivers Rain Hats Kali Rip-the-Date-Off Calendars Coconut Ice Banana Toffee Maypole Swings &Witches Hats Leather Driving Helmets Aspidistras Sweet Trolleys & Salad Carts Table Cream Silver Sand Sporting & Military Chocolate Roller Hockey Rinks ‘Falsies’ Counting Back Change into the Hand Sturmey-Archer Gears Car Indicator Semaphores Paddle Steamers Camera Obscura Jock Straps Painted Wall Advertisements Painting by Numbers Adding Machines