What products do you miss?

candlelight_2013

There you go an ideal opportunity for someone wanting to change career and make a lot of people happy.

Candlelight x

meritaten

I remember Spanish Gold tobacco. it came in a plastic pouch, just like real tobacco. and it was 'Lush'!

my dad was a miner too - and we had roaring fires in the living room. and that was it! my god my mums house was COLD. I don't remember nans house being as cold but then, I did have to wear a vest, Liberty Bodice (would be had under trade descriptions act because they were always smaller and tighter than your vest!), a full petticoat (even if you were wearing the new fashion of 'slacks'. a Sweater and a Cardigan. and no fine factory knits! They were bulky things hand knitted from 'wool'. Socks. school socks were cotton - home socks were wool and hand knit.

meritaten

anyone remember a product called (I think) Virol? it came in a little jar not unlike the marmite jar and mum used to make me have a spoonful every day. it was for convalescents and supposed to help 'build you up'. I grew to love the taste of it! and it was quite expensive I think - I can remember asking mum to buy more for me when the jar was finished her refusing, saying I didn't need it!

I was convalescent because I spent my second two years in hospital with TB. I came out just after my fourth birthday. Life got weird after that. all I knew was hospital, and outside life was like suddenly landing on a new planet! I knew mum and dad as those people who came and sat at my bedside every evening! nan and granch and my aunties were complete strangers to me. (they weren't allowed to visit). I missed MY nurses and MY doctors. especially one young doc who used to come and play and sing to me a couple of times a day. I can still see his face in my mind, but his name escapes me, if I ever knew it - I just used to call him 'my doc'! I even missed the food! mum had terrible trouble getting me to eat!
Yet, I learned to read in hospital - I could read quite well by the age of three - as the 'class' was right there in the ward and the teacher was so grateful for pupils, she didn't care how old you were! most of the kids allowed out of bed 'disappeared' at lesson time! I had excellent tuition, lol!
The nurses worked their socks off! never mind that there were 'ward maids' if a nurse was told to clean the floor she cleaned the floor! They fed the patients - spoon fed most as I remember, and they were expected to wash and freshen up every child before shift change in the morning- and it was a big ward! at least 25 to 30 under 5s! and you could guarantee a few wet beds every morning! they were expected to comfort and nurse the little ones and play with the older ones - as well as perform their medical duties.
Then I went home to be an only child and sleeping in parents room for the next four years til aunt married - then I got my own room! and a baby brother!

camelot1001

Talking of Easter Eggs, do you remember the whimsy pottery dogs, horses, etc? I think they were made by Wade. I think I still have mine somewhere.

Anyone remember the curry and rice in a tin? As far as I can remember there was curry at one end and rice at the other, you had to open both ends of the tin. The name Vesta sticks in my mind but that could be complete rubbish. Please tell me I'm not dreaming this!

I do remember dentyne chewing gum, each piece was wrapped in paper.

Thanks for this thread, it's fab. XX

Uniscots97

I miss:-

Creamola Foam
Jubbilies (Jubblies to my cousin down south)
Kwenchy cups
Fish and Chips sweets,
the original Charlie Blue perfume (the one now is horrible),
Weleda cleansing milk (they changed it mid-90s and its awful),
Superdrug Carrot shampoo (around 79p for a 500ml bottle again mid-90's),
Sunsilk shampoo and conditioner
the Original Coal Tar soap
the Original Pears soap



If anyone misses ACDO I saw it in Home Bargains yesterday.

Uniscots97

Oh nearly forgot those looking for plain chocolate walnut whips, M&S do them (look for a red box). I think they also do coffee ones at Christmas.

anamenottaken

meritaten wrote: »

anyone remember a product called (I think) Virol? it came in a little jar not unlike the marmite jar and mum used to make me have a spoonful every day. !

Yes, I remember Virol. Loved it. Like marmite I think you either loved it or hated it.

Holland & Barrett do a malt extract, as no doubt do others. Think I may try it.

candlelight_2013

Meritaten I had to have cod liver oil and malt, which I think was very much like Virol. I loved it and Mum used to give all 3 of us a large spoon before bedtime. I don't know why I needed building up I was 10 pounds at birth so I think I had a head start!!

Candlelight x

ald65

loving this thread.
I miss linco beer shampoo, border cream eggs, bournvita, gypsy cream biscuits, cookies (the bread ones that we had on a Saturday evening with butter and jam watching the Golden Shot!) . Wrappings perfume and Beanfeast Bolognese!!
also real Bronnley soap -lemon, and a decent cup of tea....

SpecialBrew_2

We used to get a regular spoonful of Fenning's Fevercure or Scott's Emulsion. From our point of view the only good thing about this was that one of them was so unbelievably foul (I think it was the Scott's) that we were bribed with a sweet each if we swallowed it. Considering that sweets were rare enough in our house to be a big deal, it says a lot for how bad it was that we often refused anyway. The other medicine was not much better, and we had a theory that they wiped out illness by killing off healthy people so that illness would just not be an issue