Childhood & Sentimental memories

Gigervamp

whitewing wrote: »

Don't remember Welfare Orange. I do remember having the Birds Appeal orange powder though to mix with water.

Gosh, yes! I'd forgotten all about that!

I remember my nan used to get the orange juice from the baby clinic when my cousin was small. (Late 60's) I used to love it.

Loved the rosehip syrup too. Keep meaning to have a go at making some.

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Oh I remember the orange juice, it was in a flat bottle and had to be diluted. Loved it, it was one of those rare treats. Loved virol too and hated the big spoonful of cod liver oil

Take those supplements and that frugal food and playing out all day, no wonder we were healthy children, except for the adults all smoking everywhere. I remember whispers of `sanatorium` as some people (children included) were whisked away for a very long time

Playing on bomb sites and exploring in the rubble and every so often a bomb would be found. Oh the memories

dinky feeders, those little sqashed things with a teat on the end, for babies to get delrosa while in their prams

coal in sacks and brought by horse and cart

the rag and bone man and his horse

Molly41

In the late seventies I went on a school trip to the Norfolk beaches and we "played" with shell encasements/ shells? Not the beachy type ones but of the bomb variety. Can you imagine what would happen these days if that happened?

I asked the Kids Dad if he remembers the clinic and welfare orange. he comes from Up North and he had Rosehip. Was there a North/south divide?

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One of my first dolls came from a bombsite ,my eldest brother John found her and brought her home she had one arm ,one eye and one leg but I loved her to bits.I remember washing her and getting all the dust out of her rather sparse hair .I called her Molly-the-dolly and she was so precious to meI knitted her little clothes (minus the arm and leg ) and she went everywhere with me.My Mu hated her as she knew what had probably happened to her original owner but because toys were almost unobtainable she let me keep her.That was the most loved toy in my possession.I even made a tiny eye patch for her.She was a war wounded doll but she was mine and no one else had one in my road.My brother also made me a dolls house from bits of orange box wood after the war as a Christmas present and painted it and made little bits of furniture out of scrap balsa wood. Toys were few and far between as after the war most factories were engaged in making useful stuff not kids toys ,so most toys were home made.The ones you could buy were far too expensive to buy.I had a 6th-hand three-wheeled bicycle which I cared for and polished every time I could .I always longed for one of the posh new Tri-ang scooters that came on the market with a foot brake as my trike had no brakes and to stop you just had to put your feet on the floor and skid a bit Dad was forever repairing my shoes with stick-on soles from Woolworths.If you ever were grumpy it was a case of a dose of California Syrup of Figs to get rid of your gruminess :) or even worse Exelax which looked like chocolate but had far nastier results.One of my favourite 'free toys' was the cut-out masks on the back of kellogs cornflake packets, usually a bit gruesome but all the kids had the lastes.There was only one choice of cereals and that was Cornflakes or sometimes if they were in the shop Wetabix but not often as they were dearer so it was Kellogs in the summer and Scotts porridge in the winter with the man swinging the hammer on the front for breakfast.Best days was the day my dad would bring home from work a commic.Beano and Dandy for me 2d each,The Eagle for my middle brother, and the Hotspur for my eldest brother.Years later when I was married my OH said he had longed for a comic when he was small but living in a remote area of the Isle of Wight nowhere near to shops and his Mum being a widow he never had them, and for years I would buy him The Hotspur and a sherbet fountain as a treat :):)
We were quite easy to please back then.Shoes were school ones, or plimpsoles or sunday best white sandles for going to sunday school in or church.School uniform was taken off as soon as you got home and old clothes put on to play out in.One thick navy blue winter nap coat to wear, which had a hood with tartan trimming round it ( I hated them as they were bought to 'grow in to') which meant they lasted for ages as they were always too long.Still again I suppose theyre wasn't the materials around as now days so what was bought had to last a long while .I have spend hours sitting with my arms aching whilst my Mum rolled balls of wool from unpicked jumpers to re-knit into something else .She made all my brothers clothes that she could on an old Singer tredles machine and knitted sock,scarves and jumpers by the barrow load.
If ther was a jumble sale locally she would try to be first in the queue to bag any jumpers going to unpick and reknit for her family.No designer gear for us kids it was wear what you had or go cold :)

rosie383

I don't remember Virol or the orange juice, but my Mum used to give us nice and nasty things too.
Nasty were the garlic capsules one of which I remember not wanting to take and was squeezing it my fingers and it burst and squirted all over my granda's Sunday suit!!!! He probably had to throw it out!
Also used to get cod liver oil, but my mum used to put milk on the spoon then float the oil on top so it just slid down easier. shudder!
Molasses was ok, but our favourites were also rosehip syrup and Haliborange tablets. Yum, yum.
Oh, and she also used to make yeast balls. Using the wee bally type yeast, she would mix with a wee bit of water and make them into pea-sized balls which we would chew. I still love it and always sneak some when I am baking. Went through a few tubs when I was pregnant. Was eating it every day!

TravellingAbuela

This thread is bringing back so many memories! As well as Orange juice, Virol, Minadex, Fennings etc I also remember my grandma always having a tin of Boots Glycerin of Thymol pastilles by her side. I took a liking to them and had eaten a full tin before I was discovered. I must do a search and see if they are still available and what they were taken for. And what on earth is Thymol? I also remember my grandma taking Calves Foot Jelly (it was in a small jar) what was that good for I wonder?

tanith

Does anyone remember Drene shampoo it was yellow and you bought it in square plastic satchets and cut the corner off to use ? Also no one has mentioned Cod Liver Oil and Malt, oh my I remember stealing spoonfuls of that it was just like melted toffee.. playing on the bombsites sure brings back plenty of memories for me.. its a wonder more of us weren't killed those places were so dangerous

OurKev

Yes, I remember the clinic orange juice too - early/middle 60's. I can't remember exactly but I picture a 3/4 pint size rounded bottle.

At the time, I wasn't keen on it - I think it was probably healthier with lower sugar than the Quosh cordial we used to buy.

My mum ended up drinking that and we stuck to Quosh!

Kiwisaver_2

Molly41 wrote: »

It was yummy and sticky - probably contributed to rotting the nations teeth. Having said that though I wasnt allowed sweets apart from one pack of spangles a week (which I had to suck not crunch!)

It was probably the sweetie deprivation that made me the sugar fiend I am today :rotfl: I resorted to stealing Junior Aspirins from the medicine cabinet because I loved the orange flavour.

We didn't half get some horrid things forced upon us, all in the name of good health and well being. Anyone for Horlicks tablets?

My OH tells me they had rosehip syrup in the semolina pudding at school but I don't remember it specifically being rosehip, I just remember it being red jam in the middle.

TudorRose

This thread is bringing back memories.

I loved the welfare orange juice & when I was too old to get it from the clinic I used to share my cousins when we went to visit as he was a couple of years younger than me.

I was given a Haliborange tablet everyday for years & years.
I loved Delrose rosehip syrup. Infact when I was pregnant with DD in the 70s I didn't have morning sickness but developed an aversion to most foods because of the smell & ate nothing bar Delrosa, full fat milk, cornflakes, tinned tomatoes & white sliced bread with very few extras for the best part of 6 months. Didn't dare tell the midwife as I was still putting on weight & produced a healthy baby girl weighin 7lbs 7ozs.

Also used to love the taste of Dinefords? gripe water & Farleys rusks.

Hated when I had a cough though as used to be given Hall's Balsam cough mixture. Used to beg not to be given it but was still given it then promptly spent next 10 mins retching.
Also used to be given Collis Brown's liquid for upset stomachs etc. My Dad said that in the early part of the 20th Century when he was a small boy it still contained opium & on the label were testimonials from army officers in India saying how it had cured them of cholera etc. We didn't get much of that in Buckinghamshire in the 60's though!