What Things That We Used To Have In The Past Have Gone Completely

[gollob]

like Telegrams, VHS systems and Betamax Blockbuster shops , Dewhurst Butchers who had over 1000 shops at one time.
Then in today's world what will disappear in the next decade like M & S Debenhams , Fenwick etc

[woofgang]

PS when we moved into the place when it was new in 1965 we thought the gas poker was the height of luxury and modernity and saved all that risky business with a sheet of newspaper held in front of the fire to get it to draw and what fun when it burst into flames in my father's hands!

[Tilly2]

Prudie, the duplicating machine was called a Roneo. You could get a little buzz just running off thirty worksheets. :-)

[hc4361]

Thanks for 'comptometer', jackdaw :)

Cloverjo, you can still rent domestic appliances https://www.hughesrental.co.uk/about-rental/televisions/

Strange how we never see kids with sweet cigarettes and pipes, innit :)

[CrapAtCryptics]

Jubbly bags, All Sauce, Capstan Full Strength, BSB boxes, decent comedians, the ability to say non PC things that were accepted as funny, the monochrome Minstrel show.

[Zacs-Master]

Chocolate machines on railway platforms. Nestle I think.

[Jackdaw33]

You can still get Capstan full strength.

[hc4361]

I remember the Bournville chocolate machines on the train stations. Also cigarette machines on stations and streets.

Remember those street urinals where the users' feet were on show below the ironwork screens? :D Often with a yellow trickle :(

[Zacs-Master]

The Ford Escort!

[Prudie]

thanks Tilly although the one in our staff room was called a Banda machine, there's a bit about it earlier in the thread. The smell was a bit addictive.

[Electrochem]

Common sense and the ability to do things without a mobile 'phone!

[Buenchico]

You can still buy chocolate from vending machines at many railway stations (including the one I used to work at). These days though chocolate bars form just part of the range available, the machines are refrigerated and you can pay using a contactless card.

[Buenchico]

>>> Remember those street urinals where the users' feet were on show below the ironwork screens?

Er, no I don't! I was unaware that they ever existed in the UK. Are you sure that you didn't spend your childhood on the streets of Paris, Hc4361?

[jno]

those sound a bit complicated for Paris, Buenchico

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/14/europe/paris-urinal-intl/index.html

[jno]

and indeed for London

[pixie374]

Next to disappear, I think, will be cheques, cash, PCs, diesel cars, high street shops.

[hereIam]

Hope not !

[gollob]

Surely as time goes by the drop in circulation how much longer will there be national newspapers or even local ones

[jno]

they might not be "papers" but they should be still publishing. The Financial Times has a million subscribers worldwide even though they barely print anything on pink paper any more.

[gness]

Silent shopping......when we could shop without loud and annoying music and jingley voices telling us what is on offer....except in Aldilidl.....x

[hc4361]

I find the resurgence of wrist watches to be an oddity, most of us have phones that tell us the time.