@Saint posted:

There are some real blasts from the past there Renton .....the only one I don’t remember is the weetabix one 

So the Post Office has closed accounts for benefits payments, ie, disabilities/pensions etc..

Sad really - the DSS for some reason is no longer paying it's money into the Post Office and so it is slowly reducing it's role in our lives. We've used the Post Office for this services for years - it's a shame we won't be going there as much

@Saint posted:

So the Post Office has closed accounts for benefits payments, ie, disabilities/pensions etc..

Sad really - the DSS for some reason is no longer paying it's money into the Post Office and so it is slowly reducing it's role in our lives. We've used the Post Office for this services for years - it's a shame we won't be going there as mu

Yes, it’s such a shame ….and sad for those older people who still want to use it for their pensions etc .

Shame the old pictures don't show up....had a bit of a giggle going through this thread
Nostalgia in itself right there..

@Baz posted:

Yes, it’s such a shame ….and sad for those older people who still want to use it for their pensions etc .

Just another reduction in choice for cost cutting - I bet some people look forward to visiting each week, now they can't

@Saint posted:

Just another reduction in choice for cost cutting - I bet some people look forward to visiting each week, now they can't

Exactly Renton….I bet for some it would have been the only person they spoke to all week

Every day up and down the veranda early 70's....have the scars to prove it!

@slimfern posted:

Shame the old pictures don't show up....had a bit of a giggle going through this thread
Nostalgia in itself right there..

Sometimes, the pictures were posted from an encrypted site and have since become inaccessible.
If it wasn't a picture but a Youtube clip, it may be possible to get it back. The poster would need to edit the post, click on the Source code icon (the last one of the row of icons). Look for the address of the clip. If it starts with http, add an s to it to make https, click OK to get back to the reply box to see if the clip is now shown. I was able to do that for such a clip on the previous page. Won't work if the clip is no longer on Youtube.

Had a go at the first page. Was able to update the forum emoticons but not the images.

@El Loro posted:

Sometimes, the pictures were posted from an encrypted site and have since become inaccessible.
If it wasn't a picture but a Youtube clip, it may be possible to get it back. The poster would need to edit the post, click on the Source code icon (the last one of the row of icons). Look for the address of the clip. If it starts with http, add an s to it to make https, click OK to get back to the reply box to see if the clip is now shown. I was able to do that for such a clip on the previous page. Won't work if the clip is no longer on Youtube.

@El Loro posted:

Had a go at the first page. Was able to update the forum emoticons but not the images.

Sadly El, the majority of those posters no longer visit here do they.
Thanks for having a go at updating the emoticons

Going through I came upon the mint cracknel post and thought Ooooh I remember loving that.....several pages later I actually posted that Deja vu

@slimfern posted:

Sadly El, the majority of those posters no longer visit here do they.
Thanks for having a go at updating the emoticons

Going through I came upon the mint cracknel post and thought Ooooh I remember loving that.....several pages later I actually posted that Deja vu

Sadly, they don't

@slimfern posted:

Every day up and down the veranda early 70's....have the scars to prove it!

My sister had them - didn't fit me and were all rusted up by the time i found them

@Saint posted:

My sister had them - didn't fit me and were all rusted up by the time i found them

Mine were Jackos and had a butterfly nut and bolt on the underside so the skate could be made different sizes...

@Saint posted:

My sister had them - didn't fit me and were all rusted up by the time i found them

I had some like that too

CLACKERS   

@Saint posted:

CLACKERS   

Knuckle crackers more like

Weren't they banned?

@slimfern posted:

Knuckle crackers more like

Weren't they banned?

I think so - one of the first Health n safety things for toys - the swines!!

Remember making loads of these...cheap and cheerful and sometimes a little mischievous

@slimfern posted:

Remember making loads of these...cheap and cheerful and sometimes a little mischievous

Me too Slim .

@Saint posted:

Yes, had one of those , although not as posh

My brother had one and gave it to me when i was ten - loved it!!

@Saint posted:

My brother had one and gave it to me when i was ten - loved it!!

My brother had a red one...used to chase me around the carpark on it ...Git!

@Saint posted:

Used to make those too ...

Leonard Parkin

@Saint posted:

Leonard Parkin

I remember him ..

Died comparatively young

I remember him too

Remember this....Loved this show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jPOT4mP8c8

@slimfern posted:

Remember this....Loved this show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jPOT4mP8c8

Wow that hasn't aged well LOL - reminds me of Leslie Crowther

@Saint posted:

Wow that hasn't aged well LOL - reminds me of Leslie Crowther

CRACKERJACK!!

@slimfern posted:

CRACKERJACK!!

Double or Drop

It's Friday - it's five to five . . .

But for me it was always this

BRIAN CANT - my hero

Don't care much for his daughter but used to love his show...

And this one

Gordon Honeycombe - newsreader died aged 79 of leukemia - he never married and had no children

@Saint posted:

Gordon Honeycombe - newsreader died aged 79 of leukemia - he never married and had no children

Awww I used to like him RIP

@Baz posted:

Awww I used to like him RIP

he died in 2015 - we tend to forget them after they sudden;y disappear from our screens

Remember Sue Lawley, Carol Barnes (who died aged 63 in 2008) Kenneth Kendal, Robert Dougal

Carol Barnes died in 2008 after a stroke.

In 2004, her 24-year-old daughter Clare, from her long relationship with former minister Denis MacShane, was killed after her parachute malfunctioned while she was skydiving in Australia.

PIPKINS!!!