I remember watching Brian Cant in Playschool when my kids were small Renton

Exactly Heetseek We often used to walk the 3/4 miles to the cinema too ... I seem to remember it was about 1d each way on the bus.... so we could get extra sweets , or chips on the way home Happy days indeed.

Sorry .. that should be Heatseek

Steam trains - NO.

Pooh sticks - NO. (Though I've read all the books)

Farthings - No (though I've seen one)

Coloured chalk - YES

Crisps with the spiral wound salt bag - YES

I've just moved this thread from the Lounge to Big Brother at Saint's request.

 

Since you mention them.......

As a very committed trainspotter (Cost effective and no harm came to the trains) I can remember steam trains.

 We used to have to do complex sums involving division and multiplication of £sd and farthings.

 Salt in blue paper twists. Of course they were Smiths crisps. Everything went wrong when Smiths (and Tewdah) disappeared.

I still have an old bike with Sturmey Archer gears, though of course you can still buy bikes with hub gears, the Dutch in particular knock them out ten to the dozen.

I'm sure you can still get Smiths Salt N Shake crisps.  Definitely been able to get them in the last 5 years as they were one of the boys favourites.

Yes , you can Cinds ...but the salt is in little flat packs ..not little screwed up parcels

Yes you can still get them. I buy them quite regularly  (Tesco and the Poundshops) Yes as Baz says no salt parcels!

ooooh right, I can only remember them with the flat packs.

As a matter of interest, in the last few days, I have been looking for rosehip syrup. Rosehips are the only things growing (in any amount) in the hedges this year. So I will be mking jelly presently, but I thought that I might cheat and add some syrup to the mix.

The young, fellow me lad, deputy manager in m'local Morrisons thought that I was making it up.

When I was a child Delrosa appeared to be almost mandatory, and was also a staple part of school dinnaz when served up with milk based puddings.

You don't need me to tell you that three rosehips contain as much Vitamin C as a norange.

Yes, GJ I was force fed Delrosa as a child , I hated it Now ,that concentrated NHS orange juice was another matter ...I loved that

Ah! We cancel each other out as it were.  

*Makes Herbert Lom face*

Ok , I'll drink your orange juice , if you'll have my Delrosa GJ

He just died today. Sad, but a good long life.

It was announced today that Herbert Lom has died.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19745910

Aww R.I.P Herbert. 
Did you know Joe? If not that was really spooky ! 

(Just been to pick up the youngest!) Yes I did know about Herbert Lom.

 To be honest i thought he had died years ago  

Though TBF my post was mainly an enquiry into the whereabouts of Rosehip syrup.

Here you are:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=...f=pd_sl_7kuac42o6l_e

Thanks el Loro! Busy busy busy will gave a look in a bit!

When I and my brother were very young our dad and we would climb a local hill and pick rosehips and then my dad would make rosehip syrup.

 

 

I have no idea what you two are on about, but my contribution to the nostalgia is that my mother used to pick all sorts of weird and wonderful things on holiday in the Black Forest, take them back home to the apothecary (sp) and have them made into tinctures.  

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I have not seen this thread before and to be quite honest I haven't got time to read all 14 pages, so I hope my contribution has not already been posted.

 

I'm not going to write anything, but I'm sure some of you will know him, remember his programme and possibly remember the theme tune.

 

 

 

 

 

No, they were Golden Wonder. By the time Smith's tried to revive the 'little blue salt bag' the machines that twisted the bags, and the blueprints for the machines, had been destroyed, Smith' brought out 'Salt'n'Shake' crisps and the blue salt bag was square.

Ooh! Delrosa Rosehip syrup - I loved it.

I don't want to get in an argument about this but I can remember my parents buying me a large tin containing packets of Smiths crisps c1958. They had blue paper salt twists.

I'm pretty sure Golden Wonder were not on sale in my area.

If only we knew a Forum Mate who used to live near to a crisp factory and knows lots about them..

(She isn't coming back is she?)

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/castlekay/2630591987/

Ah! Syd beat me to it.

 

 

That's because it was in The Lounge until lunch time,

Lol. That pic takes me right back Syd Especially the 2d

Jack HArgreaves EC? I seem to remember he sat in an old shed and talked about fishing , or something

All our Yesterdays LOL

LMAO

Out of Town

 

Troubles there are so much rarer out of town!

 

Spot on Baz.

Was loving his old shed and his bric-a-brac.

 

Doubt you would get anyone smoking on TV these days.

 

 

Yes Soozy, Out of Town it was.