Several things I remember well; others were after "my time".
For example, "Thunderbirds" fitted, but "Joe 90" didn't. "Four Feather Falls" and "Supercar" preceded "Stingray". I was already preparing for secondary school by the period when "Playschool" reached BBC2.
My brother's first car was a 100E Ford, precursor of the 105E shown. We had already practised gear changing in my dad's cast-off A35 van, in which the family had ventured as far as the St. Gotthard Pass.
Never really liked the Blyton books, but Biggles hit the spot. Both, these days, are lambasted by the "woke" generation.
Two of those villainous characters would have involved trips to the pictures, but our town had lost its cinema by the time those films came out. Pocket money could cover the cinema entrance OR the bus fare to another town, but NOT both, so we lost the habit, and I have visited a cinema only twice since leaving school.
Our school milk was placed under a roof, in an open corridor between buildings, so only suffered in really hot weather, though the foil tops lifted in the frost.
Yes, we had a coal fire, as did everyone else. The bunker was outside though.
We did have rag & bone men, but their cry was "RA BONE!" - not much chance of scrap metal round our way.
Our first phone was a Trimphone in 1967, though ours was on a Party Line, so had an extra button to claim the line. Later models had a numeric keypad.
No twintub for us, but we had (and still have) outside space for drying. Our washer did have an electrically-driven mangle.
I only remember 13A sockets where I lived, though various relatives had round-pin ones. Those lamp adaptors had already been consigned to the backs of drawers. For some weird reason, hotels and restaurants still seem to use round-pin sockets, sometimes sharing the same faceplate as a 13A one.
I already had a "real" bike by the time the Chopper came on the market (though mine was distinctly second-hand).
My eyesight means that I have never seen any of the "3D" effects touted at me. I see two images which don't line up (often a red one and a green one).
Between age 4 and 9, the house we lived in had the toilet at the far end of the back yard. In winter a small paraffin lamp kept the worst of the frost at bay!
