Things that time forgot.

[Padraig]

Six-of-the-best.

[Ferretfancy]

The family firm of Cecil Armstrong Gibbs...

I gave up Gibbs for a while, and went over to Gordon Moore's Cosmetic toothpaste, remember? It made your gums go red which made your teeth look whiter.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Six-of-the-best.

Still available from certain <ahem> "outlets", Padraig.










I believe.

[teamsaint]

Six-of-the-best.

never managed six, only bad enough to get to three for any single offence.

I imagine Lines have gone the same way.

we had a set of notable quotes to choose from.

I am not a man I am dynamite .Friedrich Nietzsche

"No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red."

were two that I recall.

given in multiples of 46 to fit some rather unusual pre lined paper, maximum of ten per quote. The Nietzsche was the shortest available.

talking of which...

John Player. No 6.

I saw an advert above a shop in London for those not long ago. My favourites.

[johncorrigan]

Party Lines!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Party Lines!

Party Sevens!

(Never mind "time" - I wish I could forget those!)

[Serial_Apologist]

One soft drink which has survived, to my surprise, is Vimto - a sort of Coca-Cola forerunner, but much tastier, more like cherry aid. I first had this in The Ship Inn on Romney Marsh, aged 5, when on holiday with my parents - my first-ever visit to a pub. I think it was The Ship - if anyone knows the area, the main bar had a capsised boat for its ceiling.

[Mary Chambers]

Those machines at railway stations which embossed text on aluminium strip. Did they have a name?

I was just about to post about those when I read your post. If they had a name I don't know it, but I loved them when I was a kid.

[P. G. Tipps]

I gave up Gibbs for a while, and went over to Gordon Moore's Cosmetic toothpaste, remember? It made your gums go red which made your teeth look whiter.

[P. G. Tipps]

One soft drink which has survived, to my surprise, is Vimto - a sort of Coca-Cola forerunner, but much tastier, more like cherry aid. I first had this in The Ship Inn on Romney Marsh, aged 5, when on holiday with my parents - my first-ever visit to a pub. I think it was The Ship - if anyone knows the area, the main bar had a capsised boat for its ceiling.

Vimto is delicious ... right up there with Coke and Irn-Bru, imo.

When I lived in Newcastle for a short time I remember Dandelion & Burdock but I was much, much more interested in Exhibition Beer in those days ... 'pint of 'X' being the local form of order ... ah, happy if rather wasteful days!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Those machines at railway stations which embossed text on aluminium strip. Did they have a name?

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_edin_t/0_edinburgh_transport_railways_equipment_nameplate_machine_bac.htm

[EdgeleyRob]

Cigs in packs of 5,or even sold singly in some corner shops.
Everlasting toffee (trades description act probably saw that off).
Bob-a-Job week.
Having to get off the internet because someone needed to use the phone.

[Padraig]

Knick Knock

[LeMartinPecheur]

Cigs in packs of 5,or even sold singly in some corner shops.
Everlasting toffee (trades description act probably saw that off).
Bob-a-Job week.
Having to get off the internet because someone needed to use the phone.

Single ciggies are now illegal and pack of five might just be. (They mustn't be sold so as to be affordable for under-18s, though how a generation that affords iphones, tablets etc can fail to afford a packet of ten I'm not at all sure.)

Don't think the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 would ever have got its teeth into 'everlasting' toffee: there was - and still is under TDA's replacement - an exemption for obvious 'trader's puff', though it's sometimes difficult to decide exactly where obvious 'puff' passes over into something genuinely misleading

[LeMartinPecheur]

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

The 'protection' sometimes synthesized from crudely cut strips of some old type of rubber doormat IIRC!