Things you remember that make you feel about 100

Early closing on Wednesdays. Or maybe that was just growing up in a small village?

When you could smoke on the top deck of a bus. I remember my nana used to leave us kids on the lower deck while she popped upstairs for a smoke ?

VHS.

I remember the buthchers having sawdust on the floor. And the paraffin man coming around with coal on the back of his horse and cart. also the pop man coming on friday and the big debate about which flavors we would have. Being taught to type on a typewriter ( and the sore fingers when they slipped between the keys). Blackboards have disappeared ( there was a bloke in school giving a talk and he mentioned a blackboard then had to stop and explain what one was). Four channels on the television, wating for the tube to warm up before you could watch the t.v....I could go on and on...

We still get that ?

Erm places like Allied Carpets having ball pools?

1/2p pieces and £1 notes.

Having to physically get up to change the channel on the TV

betamax ?

I remember sawdust on butchers floors, the pop man on a thursday (mmmm dandelion and burdock from Corona) and Saturday cinema club, where there would be a rather sad B movie, a interval game of giant connect 4 on the stage and then the proper film.

My niece is bamboozled by the idea that on some 'old' cameras you can't see the image you've taken right away. Or can't plug it into a computer or tv to see it there. You have to actually take something out of the back of it, take it to a shop and wait a few days till they are printed out for you. And you don't even know if they will be good or if you will have 24 shots of blurry shapes and blackness.

Seems so archaic!

I can confirm that while the Sainsburys is still there and as grotty as the rest of Kenton, the sawdust has gone.

I remember the computers being a newfangled gadget thing at uni.

Taking out books from the library by feeding a punch card through a reader. We were told it was a "Com-pyooo-ter" and very advanced!?

Vinyl records , 78's and radiograms .

Rampaging around the back seat of my Papa's Cortina with my cousins - seatbelts were a mere inconvenience and my mother was thought 'paranoid' for having a carseat for me at aged 4.

Connected to that, I remember my friend's dad giving a lift to about 8 of us when we were about five, and those of us who didn't fit in the car sat in the boot!

I started work in a bank when i left school in 1977 -( im really old) and there was none of this ATM nonesense - you went into the bank with your little book and took out the cash. Everything was hand written and at the end of the month you would get pages and pages of salary details that had to be written into huge big ledgers as each customer had their own page. I dont think my son (23)has ever actully been into his branch.

The first cashline machine issued £1 and £5 notes and on a friday we would take out £3.00 and that was our night out, drink, kebab and last bus home - pubs shut at 10.30!!

Smoking on trains (when I went to school - great for the health!)

Shops being shut on a Sunday

No traffic on the roads on Christmas Day - we could go about 5 minutes before spotting another car on the M20 to pick up our granny!

The Bakers Strike in the 70s ?

Getting 10p for an empty bottle of fizzy drink!

I remember shops being shut on a Sunday too. It was actually only 1992 that supermarkets started opening on Sundays. It was originally only the 4 sundays in the run up to Christmas - I had a part time job at the time in Tesco and I jumped at the chance to get double time - £8 an hour - result! It was such a 'success' that they stayed open on Sundays ever since. (I say 'success' as I quite like the idea of traditional Sundays)

I also remember getting 10p for a Corona bottle.

And half pence teddy bear sweets.

Proper street parties with trestle tables covered in meat paste sandwiches, and donkey rides to celebrate things like the Queen's silver jubilee.

Shillings and Florins instead of 5 and 10p pieces

5p bus fare into town

As someone else mentioned having 4 channels to choose from and waiting for the tv to warm up before you watch any of them. Also I remember my mum and dad's original Leak hi fi system with a reel to reel tape player. Having cassettes and a walkman which felt like the height of sophisication at the time and timing to tape the charts off the radio and not get the presenter talking all over it. Also not so long ago but it feels like an age having reformat floppy discs before you could use them on the computer!

Also i can remember having to wear a seatbelt in the front of the car being made law.

P.S

I think I live in a bit of a time warp over here, we still have £1.00 notes and the shops are shut on a sunday.

4 channels? I surely can't be the only one who remembers watching the first broadcasts from channel 4 so my early days we had only 3 channels.....

tv going off at night

no breakfast tv etc

vinyl records that played at 33rpm 45rpm or even 75rpm ? and the fun you could have deliberately setting the player to the wrong speed ?

not having a phone in the house - when my dad was seriously ill my mum had to go up the road to the phone box to call the doctors.

I tell my children some of these sometimes - they really can't get their heads round them ?

Only having four channels - with Teleteext and Oracle

Coming down in the morning and seeing the test card - as TV didn't transmit 24 hours

Using a public phone box if you wanted to let your friends know you were running late

The internet being a New thing

The ZX Spectrum and having to load computer games with a cassette

Shops being closed on a Sunday

Using one and two shilling pieces instead of 5p and 10p pieces

ETA: Cassettes being the normal format for albums

Train doors that you could open before the train stopped fully

Carnets of tickets on the Tube (none of this Oyster business)

Phones with a circular dial, rather than push buttons - that were attached to the wall

Sweets for 1p and lollies for 5p

Ataris and the bulky cartridges. ice jublies that were 5p. Curly Wurlys seems to have disappeared.

God Save the Queen at the end of the day's broadcasting on the BBC.

Pound notes.

Stick on symbols on the weather map. And when Norn Iron never had any weather on the national forecast.

Cassingles. From weird local record shops as we didn't have Virgin, Our Price etc until the early 90's.

The start of Channel Four, and the red triangle for roody bits on the programmes.

Yoof TV - Network 7.

Radio going FM.

Top loading Betamax video players.

NI specific - security turnstiles to get in and out of the City Centre ; being searched on the way in to shops ; check points where you had to tell the army who you were, where you were from and where you were going and why ; a proper border checkpoint to get to the rep of Ireland. I had to explain all of these things to the boychild recently - he was agog.

2 buses a week from the village (Tuesday morning for market day and back mid afternoon and Saturday morning and back mid afternoon)

Horse drawn hearses (remember watching funeral processions through the village)

Being at the forefront of technology at university when we got email (some DOS programme) and had to submit a seminar paper electronically rather than hand written

The introduction of laptops at work (we were the first group but still did paper audit files) and most people not having mobile phones so having a freephone number we could use to dial into the office and call our group secretary to check when things were happening

My parents still have one of those. They don't use it, but my Dad has some things on Betamax tapes which he won't get rid of, so needs to keep something which will play them, just in case. They never throw anything away...

I remember Channel 4 starting, and the test card.

I can remember it becoming law to wear seatbelts, and my grandmother deciding that she'd start sitting in the back seat so she didn't have to wear one.

The majority of our shops still are shut on Sundays, and it's only within the last year you've been able to get fuel on a Sunday.

Um 1/2p piece and computer games that took half an hour to load whilst you watched hallucinogenic coloured lights flashing on the screen. Milk which came in square plastic bags and you had to put it in a holder and cut the corner off.

I loved the round dial phones, very satisfying to use.

Oh and sitting in the boot waving at the cars behind. I also remember going on holiday and being able to sleep on the back seat, whilst my parents were driving, not strapped in.

Camperkid asking me if I used to use a computer for my homework when I was at school and I had to tell him they hadn't been invented....

Shops being closed on Sundays (I hated Sundays)

Those runny roundabout things that we used to call Witchy Poo's Hats

Colour TV (we didn't get a tv until about 1967 or so - and it was black and white)

Atari

stylophones

Olive oil you had to buy from the chemists because they didn't sell it in supermarkets (and they weren't REALLY supermarkets when I was 5)

Black jacks or Fruit salads - 4 for a penny (an old penny, that is)

Being taught in £ s p - and then being retaught in decimal

ETA: Oh, and having an estate car and me and my brother lying asleep in the back bit with my sister wedged in the corner in her carrycot (unstrapped)

You still get £1 notes in Scotland ?, no 1/2 p's though

?, I must be in the ark ages here, we get a bottle from the ice cream van sometimes and you can get 30p back now, the ice cream van man reminds me to bring it back ?

Seems like so long ago, but it wasn't really. I also remember the town centre I'm from being closed off at night with massive metal barriers.

Being able to walk up to the door of 10 Downing Street and have a pic taken with the bobby.

The power going off at certain times of day during the miners strike.

Only having 3 channels, and them only broadcasting at certain times. I can still remember sitting watching the test card waiting for kids TV shows to come on in the afternoon.

People smoking in the cinema.

People smoking on planes.

Having to load games onto my Commodore 64 computer using a cassette tape. Each game took up to 30 mins to load and half the time there would be an error. ?

The Corona van arriving.....We also had a separate egg man in van....and a seperate baker delivery (the milkman wised up to this and stole their round..

Esso Blue, Pink Paraffin, all buses had conductors (and the traffic flowed better as a result)

England winning the football world cup....

The introduction of Decimalisation.(it will never catch on)

Paying for everything with money and then cheques.

Riding around in the car with my Dad without a seat belt.

Going on holiday in the uk.

Using a microfiche reader at uni prior to the net.

The new intake of student doctors at work makes me feel very old! I'm technically old enough to be their mum.

Ah there are some great ones here!

Flaf, Sainsburys used to be further down the road and on the other side. It might be a tile shop now?

And there used to be shops on the bridge over the railway, including a train set shop and the stamp collecting shop. we loved them both as kids ?

And smoking in cinemas! On the right hand side at the one in Rayner's Lane. And we used to sit in the circle and stare down at the seas below.

It was very exciting when channel 4 started. I remember my sister and I trying to walk home over the hill fast enough to see the start.

And I remember the 70s bread strike too.

We used to put down the seats in the back of the cortina and 4 of us kids would lie down in the space and try and sleep all the way to Deveon. but there was always a 'bottleneck at Oakhampton' and you'd queue for hours.

Ah the nostalgia.