Things that you liked when you were a kid but can't get anymore

[SpidersLegs]

Mine was a drink called Cresta. I think it was advertised by a bear and the slogan was 'It's frothy man!' I think. Blackcurrant flavour was my favourite.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Shops,that had lucky dip boxes !

 

[dougdeep]

Sex.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Punk. Dead by 1979. RIP.

 

[El Presidente]

A crafty wank over Felicity Kendal when 'The Good Life' was on BBC1 and your parents were out

 

[Ernest]

A crafty wank over Felicity Kendal when 'The Good Life' was on BBC1 and your parents were out

Selina Scott was BETTER and I didn't CARE if they were in or NOT

 

[Jamon Jamon]

I liked Sundays as a kid, all the family together, nothing to do except play in the street, fill yer face an watch Bullseye, nowadays all people do is queue up outside Primark half hour before it opens or spend the day in the fuckin bettin shop.


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[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Getting in to the Goldstone for 35p

 

[warsaw]

a bar of Cadbury's for 3d. (it was along time ago)

 

[RexCathedra]

Felicity Kendal in 'The Good Life'

Source of a thousand wellie-fetishes...... She was a fund-raising machine for Public Television over here for decades....

 

[Sir Norman Gull]

a Mars Bar for 3d (an even longer time ago) from Mr Roberts' sweetshop at the bottom of Cuckfield High Street- a right goldmine of sweetie heaven. I remember buying my Dad a 3d packet of Spangles for his birthday (didn't go down too well!!)

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

and

Swear to god they sell them...certainly the fireballs anyway, in the sweet shop in the North Laine

 

[Questions]

Cadburys Smash and old Mr Hopkins who let some of the boys earn a sixpence if they walked in the woods with him.

 

[Starry]

you can still get cresta. we have some stashed away. we buy it online.

 

[johnnyjetlag]

Hanky Panky Crisps and Secret Agent Sweets!

 

[Publius Ovidius]

sherbert dips.....lucky bags......sherbert space ships.....

 

[Porky]

Whitehouse's Thick Cutey Chocolate Toffee. 4 ozs. for 1d. Purchased in a sweet shop half way down Southover Street, {Hill?}

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Pussy.

 

[Robdinho]

 

[smudge]

A quarter of sherbert for 3d from Bobs sweet shop along Toronto Terrace down the road from good old Pells infants, Lewes.

Come to think of it, sweet shops.