What do you remember- seems impossible now

[fifer1947]

Dick Barton!  Journey into Space!  The Goon Show!  Fabulous every one 

Here's a taster - menu on the left

http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/

[candleflame]

I got to lick the green shield stamps and put them in the books as a kid. No idea what we ever got with them though

[alpinecottage]

In the haberdashery department of our local Coop, you gave the sales assistant the money and they put it into a small cylinder with the sales chitty and then put the cylinder into a pipe.  Compressed air took the cylinder to an upstairs office (I presume) where some clerk put the correct change into the cylinder and sent it back down to the sales assistant who then gave it to the customer.  This system made a lot of hissing and popping noises as you can imagine and as a 6 year old, I was fascinated.  I was really disappointed when they dismantled it     

This seems such a bizare system, I have wondered if I have imagined it, but I'm sure it really existed - and our divvy number was 125042

[fifer1947]

In the haberdashery department of our local Coop, you gave the sales assistant the money and they put it into a small cylinder with the sales chitty and then put the cylinder into a pipe.  Compressed air took the cylinder to an upstairs office (I presume) where some clerk put the correct change into the cylinder and sent it back down to the sales assistant who then gave it to the customer.  This system made a lot of hissing and popping noises as you can imagine and as a 6 year old, I was fascinated.  I was really disappointed when they dismantled it     

This seems such a bizare system, I have wondered if I have imagined it, but I'm sure it really existed - and our divvy number was 125042

No you didn't imagine it I remember it too! 

[alpinecottage]

Thank goodness for that!   

[candleflame]

Beamish Museum in the North east of England has a working cash cylinder system

[rosiemagic]

Our telephone at home being a party-line.....and me aged around 5 or 6 picking it up to see if anyone was using it....and then listening in to their conversation!!!
My gran never having a fridge in her life but storing her milk in a sink full of cold water.
The same gran having a spin-dryer that used to "walk" across the kitchen floor leaving a trail of water.
Piano lessons being half a crown - on decimalisation they were 12½p.
And green shield stamps - I was sometimes allowed to pick what we were going to get with them.
Our divvy number - 10697 - amazing how you remember these things!

RM  

[alpinecottage]

Our telephone at home being a party-line.....and me aged around 5 or 6 picking it up to see if anyone was using it....and then listening in to their conversation!!!

RM  

Oh yes, so did I  except I was about 12 or 14            Hee hee

[fifer1947]

Can you still remember your old telephone number?

Ours was Douglas (you just dialled DOU) 7445 imagine remembering that after 50 years!!