Things that time forgot.

[clive heath]

Wasn't there a fizzy drink called "Radiant" in a variety of flavours in pressure topped large bottles ( like Grolsch) which was delivered by lorries and you took back your empties for replacement when the lorry came round your street? Maybe there was another variety of this.

[vinteuil]

And,if Mdm Suggia had chosen to repeat her Cadbury's Chocolate Animals joke, I would have forgotten it by now

... fferni is such a tease.

This was it -

Cadburys Animals

I bought a box of cadburys animals recently but had to return the box as the seal was broken.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Leather footballs

[teamsaint]

Leather footballs

Half time scoreboards

[Historian]

Batsman's gloves whose 'protection' was green rubber spikes.

[Serial_Apologist]

Talking of station vending machines; does anyone remember a chocolate bar called a Feast? Purple wrapper, I think. (I think there was an ice cream of the same name but this was definitely a chocolate bar.) Only ever saw them at railway stations. 10p and then pull out the drawer at the bottom. Oh, and remember the chewing/bubble gum machines outside newsagents? Beechnut, Wrigleys and the one in a plastic container. Surprised more weren't vandalised...

No but I do remember the gobstopper machines outside newsagents - 1 pence per gobstopper, wasn't it? When did they disappear off our streets?

Speaking of those vending machines with the draw at the bottom, the one in Earl's Court tube station in the early 1960s was famous for its generosity: having procured your desired item, by carefully pushing the draw back in and then pulling it out quickly before it clicked home, you could get the next item! I'm sure there must have been some who emptied the machine by this method, but I guess we were cannier back in those days - after all, a giveaway of that kind would inevitably have brought the repair man along.

I wonder how many on here are old enough to remember horse-drawn milk floats. Ours came down Redcliffe Gardens where we lived at the same time every morning, and I would be sent out to save the milkman from delivering to the doorstep, (or so I thought), and at the same time to feed the horse a sugar cube! On his float were half pints of a brand of orange squash that was far superior in taste to the brands needing dilution bought in shops, and something called Lactachoc, a delicious milk chocolate drink that tasted as if it contained condensed milk, which it probably did. Both the orange squash and the Lactachoc came in the same half pint bottle type as did the milk.

[clive heath]

I've remembered the other wire-topped fizzy drink brand and this one is on wiki unlike "Radiant"..."Corona" , however I am sure there was a "Radiant" brand because there's a photo of three of us standing with what were meant to be glum faces standing behind the prominently labelled lorry. A juvenile jest.
p.s. my father in-law was just such a horse-powered float milk-man in the Fulham area.

[Richard Tarleton]

I wonder how many on here are old enough to remember horse-drawn milk floats. Ours came down Redcliffe Gardens where we lived at the same time every morning

Ah yes - have I posted this before? Redcliffe Road shortly post-war

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh, and remember the chewing/bubble gum machines outside newsagents? Beechnut, Wrigleys ... Surprised more weren't vandalised...

The ones in the '50s and '60s were made of a metal which seemed to rust instantly, but which was otherwise impervious to any other type of damage - anyone foolish enough to try and vandalise them would have come out of the exchange in considerably worse condition than the machines! (And the only way to get them off the wall once they'd been fitted was to take half the wall with them!) I wonder idly if they were an offshoot from early experiments to discover the metal that was later used for aeroplane Black Boxes.

White for Beech Nut, green for Wrigley's IIRC? (And, later, yellow-orange for "Juicy Fruit".)

[Dermot]

Unpasteurised milk. In my childhood, in early nineteen-fifties Dublin, the milkman delivered raw, unpasteurised milk every morning in churns on a horse and cart. He poured the milk from the churn into an enamel jug which my mother put out every night on the doorstep. When my sister and I visited our aunts' homes, we were unable to drink the bottled, pasteurised milk which was all they had. We found the taste appalling compared to the raw variety.

Unpasteurised milk also sours sweetly, unlike pasteurised which merely rots. It is ideal for making brown soda bread. A characteristic memory of childhood is arriving home from school and finding a round of brown bread, just out of the oven and with the steam rising from it, resting and cooling against a jug of souring milk, to be used for the next day's baking, on the kitchen table. I would burn my tongue as, unable to wait for it to cool, I greedily ate a quarter spread with lashings of melting butter. Nowadays, we have to make do with cultured buttermilk for our bread making. It is fine, but not quite the same as sour milk.

My mother was a delicate child and was sent from the city to stay on a relative's farm in county Cork for the healthy, country air. There, to build her up, she was given the beestings, the first milk from the cow after it has given birth, to drink. I have now been informed by my GP that my cholesterol level is way too high and needs to be reduced. He recommends that I use skimmed milk. Whatever its health benefits, the taste is terrible.

[mangerton]

Yes, I remember milk being delivered by horse and cart in the Borders in the early 60s. I also remember a horse drawn bakers cart in Fife a few years earlier.

Both of these conveyances were operated by the local Co-operative Society.

[vinteuil]

... o, in my old home town they still use horses for the beer -

http://www.wadworth.co.uk/our-shires

[Richard Tarleton]

... o, in my old home town they still use horses for the beer -


http://www.wadworth.co.uk/our-shires

Sadly, Adnams ceased in 2006 http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/adnams_ho...veries_1_77011

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... o, in my old home town they still use horses for the beer -
http://www.wadworth.co.uk/our-shires

Mine, too -

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=thwaites+brewery+horses&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqwpCBzrPKAhUCoD4KHZ4fBXAQsAQIKQ&biw=1366&bih=643

(It has been many a decade since I last sampled Thwaites' ales; the abiding memory leaves me with the uncharitable suspicion that the horses weren't just used to transport the beer.)

[vinteuil]

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