Does anyone remember

[Schutzengel]

Liberty Bodices. They were supposed to protect children's chests in the winter.

[sqad617]

Have any of you gone back to the house where all these memories came from?

[shaneystar2]

Yes and Yes . The house where I grew up until I was eleven is ten minutes from where I live now .A few years ago I went to to a school reunion in the south of England and gazed upon the house and school where I spent my misspent youth :) .
We still had an outside lav and no bathroom .You had to feel your way up the yard with a torch if you were desperate in the night ..

The house where I lived until I left home ( Yippee bathroom and indoor lav ) is just along the road from me .I can't walk past it without thinking of my Dad who died in the front bedroom there 36 years ago . The lupins my Mum planted are still in the garden .

[sqad617]

shanestar....does it feel like yesterday and who is living there now?

[Robinia]

haha..the interlock pants with a pocket and the 'lastic often snapped, usually when you were at school ...I remember a friend clinging on to hers & she hobbled to the teacher who promptly whipped up her skirt & pinned them to her vest in front of the whole class.
I can't go back to my first house, they pulled it down & built flats :o(

[shaneystar2]

Young couple live there .It's been modernised of course .
They have a nice dog who used to a be a friend of my old Shaney (deceased) . Of course I have never mentioned that I used to live there to them .Funny how life goes round .Spent most of my life running round the world and end back where I came from !
Oh Lord Robinia snapped knicker elastic was no joke.I used to tuck me hanky up the leg .heheeee....

[ethandron]

navy knickers with a pocket - forgotten all about those. and the way the elastic used to go, either round the leg or the waist. i was born at home in a terraced house and have been back to see it, from the outside. i was the second child, and my parents took in a young couple as lodgers, who also had 2 children, so we all squashed in to this tiny little house.
i was made to take virol, cod liver oil and malt, and something else that i can't remember the name of, to build me up. do you remember that thick orange juice in a glass bottle with a blue lid from the clinic? also had my own pint of milk a day because i was so skinny, and was allowed to order a small glass bottle of diluted orange squash with a sealed foil cap from the milkman on high days and holidays. anyone else remember doing that?

[shaneystar2]

Ooh yes .
I used to have cod liver oil and malt forced down my gullet on a regular basis .Also those little capsules of some sort of oil that came in a tin . Haliborange ?Syrup of Figs on a Sunday night .I remember that lovely orange from the milkman .Then we used to have the Corona man .I used to plague my mother for Corona. .
And school milk .Iced up in winter and sour in the summer .
If you had a chesty cold we used to get hot milk with Atora suet stirred into it .Bleugh ......

[Mamyalynne]

Halibut oil capsules and i used to have to take sulpkur tablets in summer as was prone to heat lumps LOL

[Mamyalynne]

sulphur (sorry)

[Robinia]

Yes, Virol, malt, milkman's orange on Sundays.... What about Delrosa?! oooh lovely, no wonder I've got a sweet tooth now....just the one, haha

[ethandron]

i used to have to eat butter, sugar and vinegar all beaten up together if i had a chesty cough. never did understand why. does sound a bit more tasty than hot milk with suet though.. and when ribena was invented, i had milk with ribena in, all curdled up, yuk,no wonder my teeth are rotten.

[craft1948]

in winter did anyone have 'pobs' - hot milk with sugar and pieces of bread in it?

[ethandron]

no, never had pobs, although my mum used to talk about it. and delrosa, oh wonderful.

[chinadog]

We had to move out of our house in the late 60's due to a steelworks expanding. That never came to pass but all those lovely little homes and a whole close knit community was wiped out. My mam never settled in our new house,afterall she and dad had seen the war thro' in our old house and brought up 5 of us.

[garner]

By.. these posts bring back memories some good some bad.Those awful days when we had to use newspaper for the outside loos.Thank goodness those days are gone.I remember going to the corner shop with a jug for a pint of vinegar.It used to be sold out of a big wooden vat.I also remember those knitted bathing costumes, you went into the water but did not come out with it on, it used to be round your ankles with the weight.Soon got the message of only going in for a paddle.g.

[shaneystar2]

Funny you should mention Delrosa Robinia .
I read a piece in the paper recently that said that rosehip syrup was the new arthritics cure . So ..off I go to Boots where they look at me as if I am one of those people who has been in hiding since the war was over .
Rosehip syrup ? Tut .Taken off the market years ago .Far too sweet for babies apparently .

Bread and milk ? Loads of sugar ? Yes yes yes ..I still eat it when there's bread hanging around or make a bread puddin '.

[chinadog]

craft,we used to call that sop..lol

[chinadog]

Anyone recall milk tablets instead of the little bottles of milk,horrid things

[Robinia]

Well that's how to lift someone up & then drop them from a great height, thanks shaney! I was all excited at the thought of swigging Delrosa all day & feeling fifteen again.

[shaneystar2]

I don't remember those chinadog I remember Horlicks tablets though .
My brother and I are on a Camp Coffee jag at the moment .He can't drink ordinary coffee because of migraine and I've been peptalked by the doctor about caffeine .
It's like memory lane .Hot milk ,camp coffee and brown sugar .
I do doctor it though with something out of a bottle :))