Things that time forgot.

[Flay]

Hand cranked bus ticket machines

https://www.flickr.com/photos/23875695@N06/8548076482

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

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

Still on sale in the chilled department of local Co-Ops around here, mangerton.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Liverpool Overhead Railway.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Hand cranked bus ticket machines

Oh yes - a particular odour when the roll was new and the ink had just been renewed .... and the pink stripe that appeared when the roll was about to run out.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

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!)

- I think Walkers re-introduced salt sachets in the 1980s as an early example of "retro" marketing? I don't remember any of those little twists (or the sachet equivalents) in crisp packets between c1965-'80.

[jean]

...There used to be a ball of salt wrapped in a twist of blue waxy paper....

I remember them well - it was presumably only after they'd been abandoned that they achieved iconic status as enamel badges:

[jean]

Liverpool Overhead Railway.

And I never travelled on it...and then one day it wasn't there any more!

But near the modern Brunswick station you can still see the entrance to the tunnel where the line went underground to its terminus at Dingle.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And I never travelled on it...and then one day it wasn't there any more!

I was lucky. When I was 6 years old, my father took me on a day trip to Liverpool in order to travel on the Overhead Railway, months before its closure.

[mangerton]

I remember them well - it was presumably only after they'd been abandoned that they achieved iconic status as enamel badges:

I remember them too, and endorse Flay's remarks about "sticky" salt, but I don't remember the badges.

I do however remember golly badges - a rarity in the mangerton household, as mrs m made jam and marmalade.

Many a happy hour I spent ca'ing (Scots) the handle of the Spong mincer during the marmalade season.

[jean]

...I don't remember the badges.

Neither do I - Im assuming they appeared after the originals had disappeared, and presumably after I'd lost interest in badges.

Here's one I did have (the C stood for Cadbury's):

[Don Petter]

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

Still used today in supermarkets, surely? (eg Tesco Lewes last time I was there.)

[Don Petter]

They certainly do as I've just consumed a packet complete with little blue salt sachet.

Ooer! I thought they coloured it blue so that you could avoid consuming it?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Still used today in supermarkets, surely? (eg Tesco Lewes last time I was there.)

Ah! But then Lewes is itself a thing that time forgot.

[Don Petter]

Ah! But then Lewes is itself a thing that time forgot.

And all the better for it!

[P. G. Tipps]

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!)

You're absolutely correct ... what a much-missed joy!