- Spam fritters
- "On the Buses"
- "Skinny Ribs" shirts
- Casual Racism
- Sweet rationing
- School curry with raisins in it
- Michael Foot
- French Pox
- Power cuts
- The Longbow
- Sham 69
- White dog poo
- Singing cheerful songs in the Tube while your house is blown up
- British Rail sandwiches
- Cricketers batting without helmets
- The Hillman Imp van
- "Crossroads"
With these British icons securely reinstated, we can go boldly forwards towards the 1890s!
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Monochrome television.
ReplyDelete5 amp plugs
ReplyDeleteMy mum's still got some of those!
Delete(They are used for lighting circuits)
DeleteFootballers with perms and tiny shorts.
ReplyDeleteChildren being obliged to know who their father was, as he was married to their mother.
ReplyDeleteKids not being taught about sexual practices in primary school, and not being allowed to change sex according to whether blue/pink was their favourite colour.
A lack of opportunity for drug dealers to ply their trade.
The country being scarred with railway lines, so that people found it very difficult to live a long way from a station.
The Anglican church only appointing bishops that all their members accepted as bishops.
People who walked down the street carrying a telephone and staring at it being regarded as insane.
Sherbert dabs
ReplyDeleteYou mean you can't get them any more? I must be (even) more out of touch than I thought!
DeleteHarold Wilson
ReplyDeleteJames Callaghan
The Milk Snatcher
Gas Lighting.
Kerosine Heaters.
The Marlboro Man
The Milky Boy Kid
Tiny Tim
Sunday Night at the London Paladium
Bruce Forsyth
Bulls Eye.
Mr Edd
Corporal punishment for Primary School children.
ReplyDeleteSmall boys in short trousers in midwinter.
Salvation Army Bonnets
ReplyDeleteProper chemistry sets for children that you could enjoy doing dangerous experiments with.
ReplyDeletePower cuts
ReplyDeleteRickets
TB
Domestic violence a natural part of family life
Only rubbish jobs for women
Happy days.
Half crowns (a coin whose weight gave it a real sense of its value)
ReplyDeleteThree-day week (under the Tories, don't forget)
Reporting deaths and injuries on the roads for bank holiday weekends.
British Leyland
Smog
Bob-a-job week
Kodachrome
The smell of a Bakelite radio. If we don't get that back, what is Brexit for?
ReplyDeleteAshtrays everywhere. Especially Bakelite ashtrays.
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