Things that time forgot.

[mangerton]

Watching the Co-op counter assistant pull the overhead handle that sent your cash by overhead wire to the central cashdesk whence it returned with change and hand-written receipt.

Yes, and the equally fascinating pneumatic tube systems used in some larger establishments, eg the erstwhile Patrick Thomson's on Edinburgh's North Bridge.

[anotherbob]

The legend "Empire Made" on product packaging.

[vinteuil]

Yes, and the equally fascinating pneumatic tube systems used in some larger establishments, eg the erstwhile Patrick Thomson's on Edinburgh' North Bridge.

... ah yes! They had them in Horne's, Bath - where I was measured for my first (naff) suit circa 1967...

[jean]

The legend "Empire Made" on product packaging.

And this:

[mangerton]

And this:

I was not aware of that, but have just looked it up, so that is something else I have learned. Thank you, jean.

[vinteuil]

And this:

/// isn't that the 'utility' mark on war-time furniture and clothing? I remember it on some of the shirts, underwear, and the sideboard of my childhood...

[mangerton]

... ah yes! They had them in Horne's, Bath - where I was measured for my first (naff) suit circa 1967...

Talking of horns, it's a long time since I saw a cream horn.

[Nick Armstrong]

... ah yes! They had them in Horne's, Bath - where I was measured for my first (naff) suit circa 1967...

Which one was you, vinblanc?

[jean]

/// isn't that the 'utility' mark on war-time furniture and clothing? I remember it on some of the shirts, underwear, and the sideboard of my childhood...

Yes it is: see here.

You have to be quite old to remember it, because it ceased to be used in 1952.

[vinteuil]

... good to see a time when proles and toffs all wore jackets, rather than the ghastly shell-suit / tracky-bottoms usw 'lounge-wear' de nos jours, n'est-ce pas? .

[Nick Armstrong]

... good to see a time when proles and toffs all wore jackets, rather than the ghastly shell-suit / tracky-bottoms usw 'lounge-wear' de nos jours, n'est-ce pas? .

Veramente, Dottore!

[vinteuil]

You have to be quite old to remember it.

... thank you, jean.

I am.

I certainly feel it...

[anotherbob]

Libraries in W.H.Smith's
The Daily Herald

[teamsaint]

Veramente, Dottore!

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/26/headteacher-asks-parents-to-stop-doing-school-run-in-their-pyjamas

[Flay]

I've just consumed a packet complete with the little blue salt sachet

But it wasn't a sachet in the good old days. There used to be a ball of salt wrapped in a twist of blue waxy paper. It was often lumpy and greasy and would not shake evenly (but my fingers would be salty!)