I'll tell you what you don't see any more...

Page 3 pinups in the Guardian.

 

Big silver fag machines chained up outside the news agents. Handy if you were desperate for ten Number 6 in the middle of the night.

 

Don't forget the tape from a C90 cassette draped over the hedgerows.

 

Luxury. Dad suddenly got a job in Switzerland and I had to go alone, aged 11, to an American school in Zug every day from where we lived near Luzern. 12 miles on a bus and 50 miles by train in a country where initially I didn't speak a word of the lingo (Swiss German).

It helped me get self confidence - I managed to blag a ride in the loco cab some mornings, but my parents didn't need to know that.

 

You hardly ever see dog poop now, they've all been trained how to dump into a small black bag and leave them randomly everywhere instead. Dog poop biodegrades quickly, God knows what the half life of a plastic poop bag is...

 

Bonus points for a wicker hamper plus tartan rug and tartan Thermos. We were never Scottish, as far as I know, so what that was all about I'll never know.

 

I used to walk about 10 miles a day, 5 miles there and back, until a mate gave me a bus card to forge.

 

‘Hedge Bunting’

 

Oh no, poor spiders

 

Dublin pubs where the bar was ten feet away in the haze of cigarette smoke, and you were served Guinness at the table by a waiter despite 100 people jammed between you and the bar.

Maplin Electronics Jiffy bags full of electronic parts that arrived in the post also filled with cigarette smoke by whoever was packing the bags.

 

I reckon they thought they were in the clear once them Victorian posh ladyfolk stopped nicking their homespun homes in the name of canvas building for miniature paintings

 

Sea Monkeys are still around. Some kind of shrimp.

 

Plaxtons coach builders are just outside Scarborough and an hour along the A64 from Mighty Leeds . Most days you could see the bare chassis being driven to Paxtons by a bloke in full face helmet and motorcycle gear when they came up the M1, through Leeds City centre and out through Seacroft towards the A64 and 'Plackys' .
Haven't seen them for decades as now they seem to trailer them up two or three at a time piggy back stylee - boring !!

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Boring!

 

Grange Hill

 

Council tree baubles.