While brushing my teeth this morning I had another flashback to my younger days
Anyone else use the Gibbs toothpaste that came in a small circular tin & when the 1st striped toothpaste that came in a tube . Was then to me revolutionary me 
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Daily milk deliveries were commonplace back in the 60s and into the 70s. I only remember our milk being delivered on an electric milk float.
The younger people today think they are getting modern technology when they buy electric vehicles. I explain that is not the case because electric vehicles were in use over 60 years ago!
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When still in Primary school all those years ago I remember Saturday was pocket money day & was given a 6 penny piece & 1 three penny coming to a grand total of 9d . of to the penny shop I went . Oh so much to choose from to the annoyance of the shop keeper as I invariably changed my mind once or twice 
Just looked how much a Ā£100 pounds was in the 1960s to what itās equivalent is 2day Iām still saying ānah surely notā Ā£2,717 
I think they call it inflation
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Bob a job week when in scouts most folks ok but now and caught and out by meanies and sweated for hours. Worst job picking up old ladies rose pruning amongst weeds and leavesš©
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Yes I remember the Boy Scouts & my school friends who had joined the Baden Powell mob & will never forget them telling me of the Saturday a/noon they had spent in an old folks housing association making tea & general fussing over the residents to gain another sew on badge ā¦
for me @ 12 years of age I joined the Air Training Corp knowing now as the Royal Air Force Air my early fondness for aviation I felt joined the right organisation when I was 13 my division who were on a long w/end survival course learning how to werenāt a tent use the outward bound survivorās apparatus ropes/swings/nets ect & the finale for me when thinking about that day was to help the mountain rescue team from RAF Leuchars was to be strapped into a stretcher & be winched aboard a Westland Wessex Hu5 helicopters then flown to the base being sat between pilot & observer on return trip was the best day of my youth , where we were collected by the transport taking us back to the campsite
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My family have a sports day get together once a year and we still finish off with a game of British Bulldog 
@EmeraldEyes love it. Used to enkoy a game of tig too 
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i remember all of those. my dad was a conductor eastern national 28 years, long past , no telivision till 14 as we went to a bourding school
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i was born year after 1946 so dont remember
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Oh yes a bit of harmless muschief!!!
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Great story @jordanā¦what a fab experience at such a young ageā¦ and cemented your love if helicopters.
We used to holiday in the same caravan site each year - in Ynys-las (lleyn peninsular) highlight for me was sitting in the drivers seat of the S12 from Aberystwyth which terminated at the campsite. Was a Crosville Bristol RE singledecker!!! Photos sonewhere. Always wanted to be a bus driver back then but became a banker instead
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Yes Loshy and itās not dead yet Knock-a-Door-Run they call it here. My kids played it with their mates on the close. I think we managed to keep it containedā¦when we eventually found out what they were doing 
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We called it ā knock down gingerā and progressed to standing a good way off and using fishing line to rattle door knocker. O the joys of ā penny for guyā Heard my first four letter word, didnāt get a penny just told to f off.
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The old smog was bad in the 1960s. On a cold winterās day I remember standing on the hill above the town and I could not see the town below because it was shrouded in thick smog from the factories and domestic chimneys. I could see everything that was above and beyond the smog!
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I remember during the summer weeks picking raspberries & being paid 2 ( bob) shillings for a days work so myself & friends we would stuff our faces as well as fill the small boxes we called punnets & spend our hard days earnings @ the shows spending all our money on the waltzers/dogems cars the slot machines
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I treated myself to fish & chips on the way back from the science museum with some friends it cost me Ā£13:50 for not even a full potato made into chips & a very small piece of cod where there was more batter than fish ā¦
go back to 1971 cod & chips cost 15p
ā¦ my how times have changed
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Its 8 quid in my local award winning chippy these days portion size is enormous though and i always used to get mushy peas and hot curry sauce to ho with it. Propet treatā¦
Dont have the appetite or inclination now thoughā¦
How was the science museum havenāt been in years
Fish & chips arenāt the same anymore & are expensive. Used to love sitting by the sea eating chips out of paper trying to keep the seagulls away
What 
We donāt pay much more than that for 4 portions 
I bought some frozen jumbo battered cod fillets recently and they were just like you said - a thin sliver of cod and very heavily coated with batter. They will not be on my shopping list anymore!
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