What noise or object do you miss from when you were young?

Sandy_123

I  going to start this off with tin bin lid dropping on the floor at night. That was a sound that made you think, who is out there,  it's also a noise we no longer hear, as we now have plastic bins. Do you remember that sound?  It's also a noise the younger generation won't know about.

Hannah_Alumni

I miss hearing the ice cream van. They don't come around as often, even during the summer

janer1967

The sound of the dial up connecting to Internet 

Sandy_123

Oh yeah that dial up tone. Waiting patiently to see if it would connect, then someone would answer the phone and cut it all off. 

I get ice cream vans by me

Hannah_Alumni

There are a few parks near me, so they tend to go park up there now.
When I was a kid, it would drive up the street everyday and everyday we were told no 😂

Sandy_123

We still get the van in the street like you it's always a no lol. Accasionally they come every day in summer. 

What I miss are the bread man, pop man and we had a sweet man. I said to my family, you think deliveries are new. Think again

Hannah_Alumni

@Sandy_123 I remember the pop man! I used to drink the dandelion and burdock when it was delivered, I had a nostalgic moment a few years ago and just picked up one in the supermarket. Not the same at all! 🤢

Oh @Ada Big Hug When I started my family history research a few years ago, I thought hard to what I was told when I asked questions as a kid.

A great reminder.

janer1967

The noise of the milkman delivering in the morning the clanging of the bottles as they sorted them out and swapped over the empties for new ones 

Sandy_123

Oh  @janer don't forget the birds taking the cream off the top by pecking through the lid bet the birds miss that

Sandy_123

Sorry to read that @ada couldn't of been nice for you

66Mustang

I remember the tin bin lid sound! My grandparents had an old tin bin - they lived out in the sticks and plastic bins hadn't found their way over that way yet  

When I was a young child we had dial-up internet and I remember the sound of the internet dialling up.

I know you asked for sounds not smells but I also miss the smell of petrol from an old car, especially when it was cold.

Sandy_123

I don't know why petrol smells so nice 

66Mustang

@Sandy_123 yeah I know, we are designed by nature to be disgusted by the smell of dangerous substances

I guess as petrol is man-made we haven't evolved to not like the smell of it

leeCal

I miss the sound of bombs falling that the starlings used to make...all the time! 

I also miss the shops being shut on sundays, everyone used to go out visiting relations or picnicking on Sundays, there was a holiday feel about. 

Sandy_123

Yeah Sundays was a closed shop day except  the paper shop for a hour or 2 in the morning, the pub for a few hours. Now it's all open even town shops. 

Teigr

My mother used to go mad when the birds pecked the tops off the milk(she wanted the cream for her cornflakes)so my father made a little box for the milkman to leave them in.

Sandy_123

Yeah mine wasn't best pleased @Teigr how clever were the birds tho. But janes right you don't hear the clanging of bottles any more. I used to return pop bottles to the shop to get 10p back for pick n mix, my favourite were the aniseed balls for half a pence

bg844

The old Sky TV menu tune, going back many boxes now

Teigr

I remember taking pop bottles back to the corner shop @Sandy_123,I'm not sure I was allowed to keep the money though.

Sandy_123

I don't remember that @bg844

@Teigr I did I was soon getting me sweets lol