What do you remember- seems impossible now

[Winterbloom21]

I never realised I had such a privileged upbringing!    Maybe the Quickies were just deployed because we were on holiday and it was a special occasion!    Or maybe it was to make up for the other high spot of the train journey, the 'picnic' eggs in their shells, hardboiled til they were black.   I absolutely loved them.     Fortunately for the other passengers, those were the days of individual compartments, as the smell would knock you!

[BumbleB]

I  just want to know, how did the train driver know that you wanted to get off at a certain station    My mother used to take me from Cuddington to Manchester and then put me on the bus to Halifax to visit my grandmother.  But how did that train driver know where people wanted to get off? He couldn't see who was standing up to get off!!  It always amazed me, as a child 

And who would now entrust their child into the hands of a bus driver/conductor?  But I travelled many times on that route in the 18950s/60s, and I'm still here to tell the tale.

BumbleB

[cati]

"Quickies"? . . . most mums used to spit on a handkerchief to wipe your face . . . don't remember mine doing it though.

We used to say 'wash me with spit, Mother, it's warmer'....

[Nick29]

Even worse when mum used your own spit 

[flipflops]

Watching chains of barges being towed up and down the Grand Union Canal.

As an infant we finished school at 3.30 while the juniors finished at 4.00 and being allowed to play in the park for half an hour until the juniors turned up before walking home on my own - it was a half hour walk for an adult, but I could get it down to 20 mins if I ran part way.
When I was bigger cranking dad's car to get it started All the cars round our way were black and had fold down luggage racks behind the boot.
Buying single eggs for 1d 3 farthings (1 and 3/4 pennies). Collecting farthings and taking them into the bakers to be changed up into tanners.... because bread was tenpence three farthings and they used to run out
and the price of petrol? I can remember it being pushed up to a horrendous 6 shillings a gallon that's about 30p  (when you could get it)

[Nick29]

That must have been in the 70's ?

Petrol was two shillings and ninepence a gallon (14p) when I got my first car.  But the car I always dreamed of owning was a Ford Capri 3000cc, and I got one ....... in 1973, just in time for the petrol shortages and price hikes   

And it was a rubbish car, too 

[Chris_Beds]

I remember petrol at 4/3d in the 60's - but a Singer Chamois didn't use much.

[Nick29]

I had a Singer Gazelle in the 1970s - one of my favourite cars 

[mike175]

Even worse when mum used your own spit 

Ah! I remember now . . . that's the way mine used to do it . . .