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pam · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject:

I like the 'hot pants joke Annie.
I cant remember thermogene. Mum always had a jar of 'goose grease' in the cupboard to rub on our chests if we had a cold.
My 2 brothers are younger than me by 7 and 11 yrs. I remember giving them orange juice in the mornings before having breakfast. Mum used to put viral on their dummies (yuk!!) and honey (Yuk Yuk Yuk!!!) I still dont like honey - not sure if viral is still onsale? Anybody know?
Soap - gosh yes -

carbolic!! Mind you I once remember my dad getting a flannel and some 'vim' and rubbing one of my brothers neck as he hadn't been washing properly and he had a tide mark under his chin. ouch !! Pam

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Annie · Full Member Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 255 Location: kent

I know 'goose grease was one cold remedy although we didnt use it, I am not sure if virol is still around but I recollect the name. The scrubbing with Vim sounds painful but what dads did back then.
I have remembered the household soap was made by Fairy. I think scents are one of the things which instantly bring back memories.
Thermagene was like pink cotton wool soaked in something which made a skin reaction an bit like Ralgex.
We always had a bottle of iodine for cuts and scrapes, did that sting, mind you we never got them infected so it must have worked. Elastoplast was another, it had real sticking power in those days, made your eyes water pulling it of, none of the modern ones seem to stick like that any more.
I think Whit walks were more of a northern thing, for some reason they make me think of miners??. We did have some here many of them immigrants from the Scottish and Northern coal fields.
Beating the bounds was one thing I remember I am not sure what date that took place and I think they still do it in some places.
Annie

pam · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject:

The elastoplast used to leave a black mark the outer edges of it when we took it off didn't it, was horrible to try and get off.
derbyshire was known for mining so the walks my have had something to do with that fact. It is however a procession of 'witness' - to acknowledge that Jesus rose from the dead. It 'should' be walked a few weeks after easter when he was crucified but I'm ashamed to say I can't remember how long.
When the big miners strike came my dad worked for the coal board although not down the pits. It was very hard. I was married and remember every week taking him and mum food. One of my brothers had just started work and used to slip my dad enough for a pint at the local. Dad used to go on the coal lorries delivering coal to the old people.
The local miners welfare set up a food collection and the wives would give out boxes of groceries which had been donated by the local shops. It was a very hard time. Across the fields was an old coal tip and you could see people going down there to scrape and pick at the ground for just a bucket of coal. Pam
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charles47 · Sr. Member Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 50

When I first met Gill she used Chanel No. 5.

Now she uses "Deep Heat"!

When I said this to her I found out that I no longer have the reflexes of a fighter pilot...but I can probably dodge a punch from a tortoise...

pam · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:01 am Post subject:

Brilliant Charles!! Hey - I like Chanel no. 5- not quite got to the deep heat yet

but the way my knee feels this morning I could probably do with some!!
I remember using a colgne stick as a young girl I used to love the smell of it. Pam
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Annie · Full Member Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 255 Location: kent

Hey Charles you were lucky, I couldnt afford Chanel before I got married, cant now either come to think of it, I used a cologne stick as well 4711, I might need the Deep Heat today, I am helping at a garden open day and the shed where we make the teas will be freezing unless the sun comes out.

I well remember the miners strike and the winter of discontent, especially the power cuts, it was very hard for all the men involved, all our Kentish mines are closed now.

Thinking about it I think the reason why I associate miners with Whit Walks is a news report or film I saw many years ago. We had mines here in Kent, The last one went in the eighties, one of Julies care workers was the son of a Scots miner who came to work in the coal fieds here, his Dad walked all the way from Scotland for a job. How things have changed.

Yes the black marks from Elastoplast took forever to get rid of. There were two techniques for removing it, either rip and risk losing skin or work gently over a number of days. I think it depended on how much bravado you had.
Annie

pam · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject:

Same in derbyshire - the mines have gone - I did once go down - right to the coal face I really admired the men for being able to work in that long low tunnel. What did we used to do with most of our rubbish then? -- Burn it!! Now we are nagged at for the rubbish we create - cant win can we. Mind you I do prefere central heating!! Pam
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Annie · Full Member Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 255 Location: kent

Mining was a horrible job, my Dad did a bit when he first left school, in Scotland, he was living with his sister at the time, Mum had died and his sister met a Scots miner the in the first war, he didnt work underground though and joined the army as soon as he was 18.

Yes I prefer central heating, we did burn all our rubbish back then but if you think back we didn't produce any thing like as much any way. Veg was sold loose and tipped into a paper carrier which was used untill it fell to bits, meat was wrapped in thick white paper, these days every financial transaction seems to produce reams of paper instead of just one bill and dealing with people like social services etc produces mounds of the stuff . I guess it was easier to dispose of what we produced. And my own personal bugbear, all the adverts that come through the door via the post, free local papers and local food outlets,
Annie

We had to buy carriers as well, nobody gave them away for free,

pam · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject:

My dad also did a stint in the mines but moved on only to return yrs later - but as a manager in one of the machinery depots.
Do you remember the 'Bunty' comic and there was another one which i had and can't remember it for the life of me. I used to love the cardboard 'cut out' dolls and collected the different oufits for them They had little tabs on which you folded over to keep them on the dolls.

We loved to play the board games as well and when grandparents came on visits we would sit round playing cards. Queenie and newmarket - we loved it. Pam
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Annie · Full Member Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 255 Location: kent

Yes I remember Bunty , when we were really young we Had Chicks Own and Tiny Tots, later I had Schoolfriend, my brother favoured Beano and Dandy and The Eagle. I cant remember any others of hand but I am sure there were some.

My grandmother taught us lots of card games including Patience, which I still play on the computer but Americanised to Solitaire, we also played all the board games. Ludo, Snakes and Ladders etc. We usually listened to the radio at the same time, Childrens Hour, Educating Archie, Billy Cotton Band Show,The Glums, Round the Horn among others, Radio Luxemburg as well, Hughie Green and Michael Miles I remember from there and The Ovaltinies.
Annie