THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 1)

[Jogon]

tilly wrote: Jogon wrote: the Pantryor if you were posh, the Lardermesh to keep the flies (out)/ (in?).Or maybe that was just us! Hi jogon No it was not just you same for me. Cheers tilly I feel better for hearing that Recall a big square pyrex dish of rice pudding with sultanas and a browned nutmeg-top, on the slab, in the Pantry.Baked on Sunday afty, by Thursday you could cut a slab of it to go play out with. By Friday it'd break your knife blade.

[Johnny39]

raveydavey wrote: Johnny39 wrote: Or shirt collars spread across jacket lapels. You've not been to Halifax recently, have you? Is that the town or BS/Bank ravey?

[majorhoundii]

Jogon wrote: the Pantryor if you were posh, the Larderfor you young 'uns - during our 1960 childhood which was in Black & White not colour we didn't have fridges or wash dry machines.Food was kept (for ages) in "the Pantry", a cold concrete slab, usually a small window with mesh to keep the flies (out)/ (in?).Or maybe that was just us! We had a cellar, with a stone table in it. It was nice and cool. We also had a meat safe, which was a wooden cupboard with a gauze door to keep our meat in - the meat safe lived in the cellar.It was also a good place to keep the Christmas cakes in the run up to Christmas - so they remained nice and moist.In the fifties there was a craze for "ginger beer plants" which you "fed" every day with a teaspoon of ginger and sugar, and at the end of a week divided, poured off the liquid, diluted it with water and lemon juice and sugar and bottled it - the bottles went in the cellar, but occasionally they still exploded! The "plant" contained yeast and the ginger beer was mildly alcoholic and thus (in those days) technically against the law. Whatever the reason, when they found out my strong Methodist family stopped making the ginger beer. But during the long hot summer of 1959 it was great!

[Uno Hoo]

I have to put my hand up for the Robin Hood hat & shortie overcoat, sometimes worn with Paisley scarf 1960 - 63, thereabouts. I wear hats/caps these days for warmth, as I have little "thatch" left.The comments about larders etc also ring true for me. We had a lovely large cool cellar with stone table. Also contained a large meat safe. Nobody ever died of food poisoning! These days we have a large fridge/freezer, and it's a work of art sometimes to fit everything in. I wish there was a cellar in our house - never a storage problem when there is one.I remember the ginger-beer plants very well - I think our house was the only one in Calverley without one. We were a strong Methodist household - there was a half-bottle of brandy in the cupboard for medicinal purposes only, but the only use I recall being made of it was a drop added each year to the home-made Christmas cakes and puddings. But the ginger-beer plant wasn't banned through Methodism, but rather for the fear of explosion. One house in the village had suffered an explosion, and allegedly it took days to clear up the mess! But I seemed to get plenty of supplies from friends' houses.

[PC - Dublin]

Johnny39 wrote: Or shirt collars spread across jacket lapels. That's made me smile !!PC

[Hats Off]

Gents in winter capes with gold or silver chain fastening at the collar worn over a suit with a contrast waistcoat with pocket watch, a top hat, silver handled walking cane and white otter skin gloves were other essentials. All the men in Meanwood dressed like this in the 1970's.

[tilly]

Hats Off wrote: Gents in winter capes with gold or silver chain fastening at the collar worn over a suit with a contrast waistcoat with pocket watch, a top hat, silver handled walking cane and white otter skin gloves were other essentials. All the men in Meanwood dressed like this in the 1970's. Hi Hats Off You missed out the spats and the black and white patent shoes.

[Jogon]

Hats Off You've unwittingly given a good description of Holt Park, usually Saturday.

[grumpybloke]

But during the long hot summer of 1959 it was great! You don't see long hot summers anymore either!

[majorhoundii]

grumpybloke wrote: But during the long hot summer of 1959 it was great! You don't see long hot summers anymore either! Every silver lining has a cloud - we were still getting water from a stand pipe in the middle of the street in October.