Cadbury's wildlife bars! 

Soda Stream machines - we had one like this -

The Bill (only on TV once a week).

I can remember when Thunder Cats was shown on BBC1, on Christmas Eve for the first time ever. Don't think they ever showed that (pilot) cartoon episode ever again. 

Particular to those my age and can remember things from the 80s;

Chernobyl Disaster.

Anti-Nuke protesters up at RAF Fylingdales.

Quote from: WikipediaIt is a radar base and is also part of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS).

Berlin Wall coming down.

Everyone being scared about the world-wide spread of AIDs (seeing Deutschland 83 the other night made me remember this)

Oh, I remember a good one. I went to see one of these at Teesside Airport. Concorde.

Brannigan's crisps, easily the best crisps ever and they were only available from one shop near us.  I think they might still be in production, but I've only ever seen them online.

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 18 February 2016, 02:40:22 PM
Yep and here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9fDhWEJBD0

There's a Cresta bear model at Legoland in Windsor 

He's sunning himself in a deckchair by the boat driving ride 

Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 18 February 2016, 04:29:47 PM
Berlin Wall coming down.

Got a small chunk if that..... (Mum and Dad knew some good friends from Berlin....And they brought some small bits over, when they came here on holiday, one year.)

And one of Mrs T's first 'computer jobs' was on Concorde's components for BAC (?)

She laughs at how small the 'pieces' of computer code the programmers had to use in those days.

Cheers - Phil.

Does anybody remember:-

Aztec bars and a hard boiled sweet called - 'blobs', loved going to the sweet shop and asking for a pack of blobs!!!!

Quote from: Leon on 18 February 2016, 06:17:40 PM
Does anybody remember:-

Aztec bars and a hard boiled sweet called - 'blobs', loved going to the sweet shop and asking for a pack of blobs!!!!

Its not leon its me dave, leons too young to know these things

White dog poo yes (see episode 1 of "Life on Mars" - the original British one, not the white dog US one.)

Being in hospital and my brother telling me about this new TV series that had a spaceship and a man with pointy ears in it.

Being in hospital and my parents bringing me one mounted or two foot Timpo ACW figures when they visited every week.

Going to hospital and being awed by the big green tanks on carriers on the authbahn.

Moving up from plastic headed Action Man (who all became Germans) to realistic hair Action Man (British para.)

Thinking how great X rated films must be.

Getting the Airfix Beach Defence set.

Sherbert dib-dabs

Bazooka Joe bubble gum with the mini cartoon inside

Cutting out "collectable" cards of footballers off the side of TyPhoo tea packs (loose tea, not bags.)

Green Shield stamps.

Proper money - pennies that dates from the 1800's. Earliest found was almost smooth from 1797.

My dad's box of Embassy Cigarette Coupons.

Getting a free glass when you filled up with petrol. I still have somewhere the badges of the regiments of the British Army from Texaco, and I seem to remember World Cup coins from ESSO(?)

The Magic Roundabout

Blue Peter with Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves and the Great John Noakes (none of the Magpie for me - that was for the sort of people who watched ITV)

Department S

Being in hospital and my parents bringing me a War Picture Library comic when they couldn't get Timpo.

Being in West Germany during the 1966 World Cup

The sound of English Electric Lightning's scrambling.

Radial and Cross Ply tyres

Ski Yoghurt being a luxury

TV weathermen attaching fuzzy felt symbols to an outline map of the UK

The first TV in the UK: a wooden box with shutter doors, on a tripod. First program I saw (in B&W) was the film with Dirk Bogarde kidnapping a German general in Crete.

Going to the cinema with a supporting and a main feature, with a proper interval, and ladies with ice creams in trays. They had wooden spoons and if you chewed on them you'd get a splinter in your tongue.

Apollo missions

Seeing the 1970 World Cup being broadcast from Mexico - in colour.

Snooker in B&W

Smokers

The Beatles (insert name of band here) releasing tracks.

Catching the Top 20 on the radio,

Getting up to change the TV channel to the other one.

Books in dust jackets.

Thinking Napoleon's Young Guard was strange and exotic.

Being in hospital and having to down an awful pink liquid that was supposed to calm me down but wound me up because I hated it.

Talking to veterans of WWII being quite commonplace. WWI vets were also around.

Worrying about nuclear Armageddon.



 

Packs of ACW collectable cards, fake confederate money and bubble gum.

Quote from: fsn on 18 February 2016, 06:22:50 PM


Being in West Germany during the 1966 World Cup

Strangely - so was I.
On train going into Berlin during the final and we were stopped by the East Germans for nearly 40 minutes. We were told later that it was so they could get the final score. Remember carting around a World Cup Willy bag I'd gotten in London.

Ron Manager remembers ....

Egg Shell Piercer. What a diabolical kitchen instrument! Looked like a large concave orange 'button,' with an interesting hole in the middle, set on a white oval base (looked like a fried egg - how cute). Ours was attached to the fridge door by my dear sweet mother and curious young men and women (like me and my girlfriend) would then come along and say, "what's this?" and press the 'button' with his/her thumb.

One bleeding thumb, and expletive, later ..... 

You can still get them.

For those yet to encounter these booby traps, when the button is depressed, it moves back to reveal a small spike which pierces the egg shell.

Quote from: fsn on 18 February 2016, 06:22:50 PM
White dog poo yes (see episode 1 of "Life on Mars" - the original British one, not the white dog US one.)

Being in hospital and my brother telling me about this new TV series that had a spaceship and a man with pointy ears in it.

Being in hospital and my parents bringing me one mounted or two foot Timpo ACW figures when they visited every week.

Going to hospital and being awed by the big green tanks on carriers on the authbahn.

Moving up from plastic headed Action Man (who all became Germans) to realistic hair Action Man (British para.)

Thinking how great X rated films must be.

Getting the Airfix Beach Defence set.

Sherbert dib-dabs

Bazooka Joe bubble gum with the mini cartoon inside

Cutting out "collectable" cards of footballers off the side of TyPhoo tea packs (loose tea, not bags.)

Green Shield stamps.

Proper money - pennies that dates from the 1800's. Earliest found was almost smooth from 1797.

My dad's box of Embassy Cigarette Coupons.

Getting a free glass when you filled up with petrol. I still have somewhere the badges of the regiments of the British Army from Texaco, and I seem to remember World Cup coins from ESSO(?)

The Magic Roundabout

Blue Peter with Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves and the Great John Noakes (none of the Magpie for me - that was for the sort of people who watched ITV)

Department S

Being in hospital and my parents bringing me a War Picture Library comic when they couldn't get Timpo.

Being in West Germany during the 1966 World Cup

The sound of English Electric Lightning's scrambling.

Radial and Cross Ply tyres

Ski Yoghurt being a luxury

TV weathermen attaching fuzzy felt symbols to an outline map of the UK

The first TV in the UK: a wooden box with shutter doors, on a tripod. First program I saw (in B&W) was the film with Dirk Bogarde kidnapping a German general in Crete.

Going to the cinema with a supporting and a main feature, with a proper interval, and ladies with ice creams in trays. They had wooden spoons and if you chewed on them you'd get a splinter in your tongue.

Apollo missions

Seeing the 1970 World Cup being broadcast from Mexico - in colour.

Snooker in B&W

Smokers

The Beatles (insert name of band here) releasing tracks.

Catching the Top 20 on the radio,

Getting up to change the TV channel to the other one.

Books in dust jackets.

Thinking Napoleon's Young Guard was strange and exotic.

Being in hospital and having to down an awful pink liquid that was supposed to calm me down but wound me up because I hated it.

Talking to veterans of WWII being quite commonplace. WWI vets were also around.

Worrying about nuclear Armageddon.

Did your life just flash in front of eyes?

 



[It was a good list though, Nobby!]

Jubblys-had to be frozen
The Eagle comic with Dan Dare
LPs for £1 12s 6d
Gobstoppers
Record booths in shops where you listen to records before buying them
Pint of beer at less than £1
Saturday morning cinema opening for kids
Hopalong Cassidy, the Cisco Kid, Range Rider, etc.
Radio Luxembourg
Box Brownie Cameras
Rugby Union when it didn't look like Rugby League
Eddie Waring commentating on Rugby League

Chad

Penny chews costing a penny

Cheers
Ian