Do you remember...?

Bettahm

RIP my old Capri
She was a 1973 1.6 XL Mk1
Blue with gold wheels.
Had her in the 80s.
Loved that car!

Jimm_Scope

Oooh, my parents first car was a Vauxhall nova. It was white with a blue stripe all around the middle.

One of my earliest memories in that thing is taking the ferry from Stranraer to Northern Ireland to visit family in the Republic. We got lost in Belfast and my mum was saying to my dad he should pull over and ask for directions, to which my dad replied "Absolutely not, this is an English marked car and this is a catholic area. I ain't risking it." To clarify, we were catholic ourselves, but the car did indeed have English numberplates.

This was before the Good Friday Peace.

Bettahm

Remember those, Vauxhall Novas. 
(Family on my dads side were Irish catholic so know what you mean)
Beautiful country, proud of my roots there.

Sandy_123

Remember the power cuts often and frozen pipes with icicles hanging from the window 

Bettahm

Sandy_123 said:

Remember the power cuts often and frozen pipes with icicles hanging from the window 

In the 70s
Remember I found it quite exciting as a kid!

Steve_in_The_City

Someone mentioned Rag & Bone men. In London parlance they are known as totters, and in my street there were two totter families, and I was great friends with them and they were lovely and kind people.

Jimm_Scope

I had always wondered where the term comes from. In a video game I play, Old School Runescape, there's an Old Man who has a quest called "Rag and Bone man". 

noman

Rag and Bone man with his horse n cart, i remember mithering me mam for old clothes just so i could get a balloon off him  

Strawberry1

Anyone remember the National Health spectacles 👓. 

Albus_Scope

I remember the NHS specs being very fashionable back when Britpop was a thing!

Strawberry1

Lucozade in a glass bottle with orange crispy see through paper of sorts .

Strawberry1

Not as many cars on the road .

Strawberry1

The really awful smell of diesel from the local buses .

Strawberry1

All the shops you needed in the community rather than going further afield.  

Strawberry1

School closing when it snowed because the boiler broke .

Strawberry1

Outside toilets in junior school. 

Strawberry1

Going home for dinner rather than stay in school. 

Steve_in_The_City

I wonder if anyone can remember the Samfer man in Norfolk, going around poor areas on his horse and cart and yelling "san-fer"? It was the food of the poor and you would take a bucket out and get it half-filled with samphire. Now samphire is pretty much a luxury food that came in to fashion about 7 years ago. But I wonder if the samphire man still exists and does the rounds in South Lynn on his horse and cart, and wonder also if it is still a cheap food?

Steve_in_The_City

@vikingqueen I do think the days were simpler and happier then back in the big freeze of '63.  Yet it was a transitional period where suddenly peoples attitudes were challenged. The Beatles came along, psychedelia was the norm, and in post war Britain people could suddenly have fun. Diet improved and we started to smile at each other a lot more. Sadly, in '63, lots of people still didn't have a fridge, I lived in an absolute slum without a bathroom or hot water, and we still had gas lighting. But I was a happy little boy (except at home) and as we got in to the 1970's everything improved.  

Bettahm

Steve_in_The_City said:

I wonder if anyone can remember the Samfer man in Norfolk, going around poor areas on his horse and cart and yelling "san-fer"? It was the food of the poor and you would take a bucket out and get it half-filled with samphire. Now samphire is pretty much a luxury food that came in to fashion about 7 years ago. But I wonder if the samphire man still exists and does the rounds in South Lynn on his horse and cart, and wonder also if it is still a cheap food?

Dont remember this but back in the 90s used to go out on the Wash marshes and fill carrier bags with samphire. Loved it, had a taste all of it's own. My aunt would cook it, we liked it with bangers and mash. She also used to pickle it.