Childhood & Sentimental memories

Fozz

Yes, I remember Zambuk ointment, my Mum used it all the time and I loved the smell of it. Does anyone remember using solid "toothpaste" in round tins, you used to have to rub your toothbrush on it really hard to work up a lather. Had a strange antiseptic taste as well.
To go back to an earlier post, had forgotten about Glees sweets and Milk Tray bar as well - and I loved Old English Spangles and coconut tobacco.
My mum used to give me and my friends vanilla ice cream and blackcurrant jam for a treat, my own DDs think it sounds awful, but it was lovely - will have to try it again soon!

Olliebeak

I remember the tin of toothpaste that you mention! I think that Pepsodent made it. When I think about it now, it must have been like using 'Vim' or 'Ajax' on your teeth. The taste was a bit like that pink mouthwash that you get at the dentist.

For getting splinters/stones out of your knees, we had something called 'Glickon's Salve'. It looked like a stick of bright yellow sealing wax. You had to melt the end of it (in a naked flame) and then smear it onto a small piece of lint, which was then placed over whatever need 'drawing out'. Next morning, hey presto, the offending splinter/stone was embedded in the cold salve. A stick of that stuff could last for a couple of years - but never looked very hygienic after it had been 'melted' in a naked flame a few times!

squiggle37

I remember zambuk yukky green colour smelt nice tho.
also my nan used to have sheets of mesh stuff that was soaked in yellow ointment was in a tin she used to cut up pieces to put on cuts and grazers, it may have been something she made up herself tho no sure.
I remember being given few sticks of a rhubard with a big bag of sugar for dipping it in...no wonder i got alot of fillings.

Butterfly_Brain

Coin operated tv's, Rosehip syrup-Lovely stuff,
Clackers - always having bruises from them, Chopper Bikes, playing in the street safely, Firework parties with the whole street involved,
Ovaltine, Sweets in white paper bags, 4 chews for 1p, Ice Breaker chocolate, spangles, toffos, Traffic Light lollies, Sherbert pips, satin cushions,Gold Rush bubble gum in little bags, public information films, Catweazle, Worzle Gummidge, Pogles Wood, The woodentops, Noggin the nog, Pinky and Perky, The Clangers, Bagpus, Vision on, The tomorrow people, stig of the dump, Jackanory
Ice on windows, Snow, going carol singing and getting hot mince pies and cocoa from the hotels we visited, milk tray chocolate bars - (the best ever chocolate), Aztec bars, Twin tubs, Parkray Fires - Oh how I wish I had one now,
the smell of fresh ground coffee from the coffee shop,
Markets that sold everything,
Condensed Milk sarnies - couln't eat them now, Chipmunk crisps
Power Cuts and how hard it was to get candles
Bread shortages, sugar shortages, Bejams, Fine Fare,
No bars around schools, freedom to say what you wanted
I would go back to those days in a blink of an eye - everybody was in the same boat and pulled together

THIRZAH

I remember the solid toothpaste-it was gritty but I suppose you if you could buy it now you could at least recycle the tins-I never know what to do with toothpaste tubes.

The sweet shop in Canterbury had the brown "tobacco" last time I was there so I bought some-it's far too sweet for me now.

I don't remember zam-buk but have found a recipe for it in a notebook of my great grandmothers.It's made from vaseline, camphor, eucalyptus oil and swallows oil-whatever that is!

recovering_spendaholic

I remember the yellow gauze stuff that they put on cuts and grazes - it used to stick something wicked and really hurt when you pulled it off! My Mum also used this vile stuff called gentian violet on cuts and the iodine! I remember if I ever fell over or had a scratch I wouldn't say anything for fear of the iodine coming out - it used to sting so badly! I loved the taste of the solid toothpaste - I still buy original euthymol toothpaste now because it has the same taste!

I never had a chopper bike but I soooooo wanted one! I had an old second hand bike which I always left unlocked in the hope that it would get stolen and then I might get a chopper, but it never got nicked so I was stuck with it.

We didn't have alot of money and some nights my Mum would tell us that we had to have cereal for our evening meal and we were fine with it (I even quite liked it, particularly if there was a banana chopped onto it), but I couldn't imagine what my kids would say if I told them it was cereal for tea! If we had no bread my Dad would make soda bread and that was a real treat but my Mum told us we weren't to tell anyone that we had to make it because it meant they would know we had no money!

welshmaiden

for me it was waiting for my uncle to come home from the pub on a saturday night with a bag of crisps. sugar butties. home made stew. my passion for playing with snails. yuck tee hee. scrumping for apples. or pears and i did have a chopper bike. reading loadsa enid blyton books playing down at our local woods on tree swings. fishing for sticklebacks and putting them in ajar also newts and frogs. (god my mum was patient especially when i brought home a pet hedgehog and she had to dowse it in flee powder before setiing it free a few days later ) oh i loved my roller boots too and playing hide and seak with my friends. this has really made me think and it looks to me like kids today have forgotten how to play.

Pitlanepiglet

Butterfly Brain, you must be the same age as me, I nodded all the way through your list!

I remember eating spagetti bolagnaise for the first time and getting told off for slurping the spagetti, I thnk we thought it was very exotic eating "foreign" food :rotfl:

I remember the freedom we had, I'm not that old (I'm not quite 40!) but we used to go out and hang around and play all day and nobody bothered about where we were. We didn't get into trouble, we didn't get hurt (other than falling out of trees and off our bikes!). Parents (who are my generation I guess) seem to worry so much about letting their kids do what they did.

I remember walking and playing on the beach in the rain and sitting on the steps of our "top shed" (old stables I suppose) and watching lightening storms across Lyme Bay, then running like crazy inside when the rain came and warming up with a blanket and hot chocolate!

Cornishpixie_2

I remember camping out for a few hours in my Dad's Hut at the bottom of the garden in the very heavy rain. (was always raining lived in Scotland). Striping off at the beach in the freezing cold, on the school summer hols(June!), to go into the North Sea.:eek: Walking to school with the Twins, round the corner in a thunder storm was about 9, when they ran off screaming and left me. Climbing through the school railings to go to the sweet shop. Everything fried from the chippie, even chicken pieces and pizza slices in batter:eek: . The rag and bone man. My mum's mum would get the chippie every friday night as a treat (9 of them). It would always be torential rain and she would say "Look at the weather, its fit for neither man or beast, we'll send father for the chips":rotfl: I do it now, with Hubby. I've sent him to go queue in the rain to get camping pitch and put up tent whilt I wait her with the little ones:rotfl:

mary43

Iodine for grazes.............grans 'blue bag' for nettle stings (for years I thought blue bag had no other use..............now, this solid toothpaste in a tin..........I can see it in my head but what the heck was it called and who made it ??? It's driving me bonkers trying to think of it.