Things that time forgot.

[gurnemanz]

Bacon slicers.

[Bryn]

Non-prepacked butter, paddled into shape and wrapped in-shop, e.g.in David Greig.

[gurnemanz]

Biscuits sold loose by weight from big metal boxes.

[Beef Oven!]

Broken biscuits.

[gurnemanz]

Stale cakes. Tuppence a bag.

[Serial_Apologist]

The amazing Art Deco Rainbow Restaurant on the top but one floor of Derry & Toms in High Street Kensington. The roof garden, a magic place for me as a nipper, is still there but closed now to the general public. Another example of privatised spaces in London non-accessible by the hoi-polloi.

[Bryn]

The occasional locust on the foliage of the Derry and Toms roof garden (they were escapees from the Anti-Locust Research Centre on the top floor of a building in Wrights Lane behind Pontins).

[Beef Oven!]

Stale cakes. Tuppence a bag.

You were lucky, we used dream of stale cakes......

[David-G]

Non-prepacked butter, paddled into shape and wrapped in-shop, e.g.in David Greig.

and in Sainsbury's.

[David-G]

The second postal delivery of the day.

Posting a letter in Cambridge at 11pm for delivery at my parents' in London the next morning.

Travelling Post Offices.

[ahinton]

Posting a letter near Hereford at any time for delivery...

[ahinton]

Non-prepacked butter, paddled into shape and wrapped in-shop, e.g.in David Greig.

They still do that in some rural French markets, which I must admit surprised me when I first noticed it.

[mangerton]

You were lucky, we used dream of stale cakes......

Dreams? You were lucky. All I got was nightmares.

[Beef Oven!]

Dreams? You were lucky. All I got was nightmares.

[ahinton]

Let them eat stale cake(s)...