44 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

What make is that? Lada or something

Simca in France and the name of the car was Simca 1000

On 11/6/2025 at 4:45 PM, ChipButty said:

Many a good beans on toast made on one of these bad boys. No microwave and no toaster.

That was a lot more "upmarket" than the one we had in our small kitchen, and I doubt it would have mattered if it had been more a "upmarket" one, because my dear old mum used to burn everything that was put under the toaster, with it occasionally catching fire, and when I was a boy I always thought the way to make toast was to put it under the toaster until it turned black and caught fire and then scrape off the black bits, and voila, there was the toast!

24 minutes ago, xylophone said:

That was a lot more "upmarket" than the one we had in our small kitchen, and I doubt it would have mattered if it had been more a "upmarket" one, because my dear old mum used to burn everything that was put under the toaster, with it occasionally catching fire, and when I was a boy I always thought the way to make toast was to put it under the toaster until it turned black and caught fire and then scrape off the black bits, and voila, there was the toast!

I became quite adept at scraping and frosting in my engineering job, always thought it was passed down from my mother, she seemed to scrape toast daily !!

15 things you'd never get away with back in the 60's

 

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On 10/23/2025 at 5:35 PM, georgegeorgia said:

Ahhh yes the good ole days.....

 

Everytime I hear this from am old timer I get annoyed 

They weren't good times at all 

Try not to remember all the bad days in your life.  

9 minutes ago, radiochaser said:

Try not to remember all the bad days in your life.  

I used to luv wearing my cut off blue jeans , my butt cheeks used to stick out , I was bullied at school because I wore a pink ribbon 

1 minute ago, georgegeorgia said:

I used to luv wearing my cut off blue jeans , my butt cheeks used to stick out , I was bullied at school because I wore a pink ribbon 

Well there you go.   Try not to remember the bad days in your life. 

49 minutes ago, radiochaser said:

Well there you go.   Try not to remember the bad days in your life. 

There was some good days when they would kiss my butt cheeks 

20 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

There was some good days when they would kiss my butt cheeks 

Who did that?

10 hours ago, emptypockets said:

Who did that?

His imagination!

Couple of old photo's here of Belle Vue 

We lived through the good times all the best bands, 

If you are English did you or your parents collect Green shield stamps? 

When was the last time you had one of these, 

 

 

I still have my old OXO tin from the days I was a young lad. 

It is with me here in Cambodia and contains my collection of old and commemorative UK coins, including an 1834 Queen Victoria shilling I got in bus fare change around 64 years ago! It was the photo above of a shilling that reminded me.

A proper corner shop from a few years ago 

The cubs I was in had a prize for the one who collected the most, I won it one year, 

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

A proper corner shop from a few years ago 

My old man used to smoke them Senior Service or Players, no wonder he died young, them other one Capstan full strength, they should have been charged with murder, they must have been lethal.  

When i was around 13 i started smoking, just the odd one now and again when i could “ borrow “ one from my brother’s jacket pocket !!

Then i discovered a carton of these at the back of one of the kitchen cupboards, presumably left over from when my dad smoked briefly in University.

 

 

So figuring they were unlikely to be missed, plus having low moral standards !, I helped myself until they were all gone !!

 

They were never mentioned so assumed i had got away with the dirty deed  …… but maybe not !!

 

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Who remembers these Victory V's these were dynamite it think they would be illegal these days, 

8 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Who remembers these Victory V's these were dynamite it think they would be illegal these days, 

Factory was in Nelson, Lancashire, mate of mine was a delivery driver for them. Still making them in the South West.

On 11/15/2025 at 10:57 AM, ChipButty said:

Couple of old photo's here of Belle Vue 

Wasn't the Bobs dismantled and sold to the USA?

17 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Who remembers these Victory V's these were dynamite it think they would be illegal these days, 

I remember those we’ll, loved em !!.

You can probably get them from some specialty online sweet sellers but i doubt if they will be the same recipe.

Most likely will look different also.

 

Victory V is a British brand of liquorice-flavoured lozenges.^[1] Originally manufactured in Nelson, Lancashire, they were devised by Thomas Fryer and Edward Smith MD in 1864^[1] and were initially made by hand to ensure that each sweet contained the correct amount of therapeutic ingredients: ether, liquoriceand chlorodyne (a patent medicine containing laudanum, cannabis and chloroform).

 

A quick google tells me that they are still using the same appearance as “ forged for strength “ is their catchphrase, and as Roo stated are still being manufactured and readily available but without that tongue numbing feeling won’t be the same !

 

On 11/16/2025 at 7:09 PM, ChipButty said:

When was the last time you had one of these, 

Applying for a Thai tourist visa at the Hull Consulate about 20yrs ago, I think a double entry was around 16 quid, then Thaksin tripled the price.

10 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

I remember those we’ll, loved em !!.

You can probably get them from some specialty online sweet sellers but i doubt if they will be the same recipe.

Most likely will look different also.

 

Victory V is a British brand of liquorice-flavoured lozenges.^[1] Originally manufactured in Nelson, Lancashire, they were devised by Thomas Fryer and Edward Smith MD in 1864^[1] and were initially made by hand to ensure that each sweet contained the correct amount of therapeutic ingredients: ether, liquoriceand chlorodyne (a patent medicine containing laudanum, cannabis and chloroform).

They could cure coughs colds and scabby holes, I said they were lethal, 

 

I think this depends where you are from in the UK, Hey my wife got this right, Breakfast, Dinner and Tea, some nights we used to get a supper,