Nostalgia?

[CotswoldLass]

I remember my mother collecting Green Shield Stamps!

[CotswoldLass]

[Robert_Brenchley]

Yes, I remember. The Green Shield Stamp place up Cowley Road was in a newly built block, and our dog put his footprint in the concrete outside. That racket went on for years until people realised that it was putting the price of everything up. I wonder how much people really paid for the stuff they got through it.

[CotswoldLass]

Very true.....I remember Mum getting 'things' but heaven knows what they were!

[Hyacinth]

Even some cigarettes had tokens in the packets. I've still got a red leather cigarette case (now containing travelling sewing stuff 8)) from  one of them, but can't remember which...Embassy perhaps?

[Curryandchips]

I remember my Dad collecting Embassy tokens, and also Kensitas?

[Heldi]

I feel so young !  lol!

[grawrc]

Black Sobranie  for when you wanted to pretend you were posh .......... and Passing Clouds that looked as though someone had sat on them but were actually made that way.

[Hyacinth]

Black Sobranie  for when you wanted to pretend you were posh .......... and Passing Clouds that looked as though someone had sat on them but were actually made that way.

and those coloured Sobranie for the 'sophisticated' touch? roflmao

[CotswoldLass]

Oh my!! Sobranie cocktails and Sobranie Black Russian! Then we had a craze on 'More' - long, thin, looked like cigars.....thought they were very 'elegant' Hee Hee...

[Hyacinth]

Oh yes! I remember More, they were t....h...a...t long. But what about the new cigarette that crashed cos of what was perceived as negative publicity? Strand, it was....TV advert showed man with a hat (natch!) and raincoat lighting up in a rainy street at night, presumably broken-hearted?....."you're never alone with a Strand"..aaahhhh!

AND...just remembered!!

Those cigarettes that you didn't need a match to light? You struck them along the side of the packet? Now whatever were they called? ::) ;D

[Emagggie]

Now Bearded Wonder has let me down......but I can remember them. They had a pink dot on the side, the striking bit.
Gin and orange? shudder............rum and black, the only drink I ever got sick on............. :P

[Mrs Ava]

Heldi, I'm with you girl!!  ;D

[rosebud]

Does anyone remember the the stamps on the side of the green brooke bond tea packet, always in a diamond shape Hehehehe!! giving my age away here.

[Roy Bham UK]

Heldi, I'm with you girl!!  ;D

;D Your time will come ;D

[katynewbie]

 ;D ;D ;D

My Dad and my Grandma both smoked "Guards" cigs. You got coupons inside and they saved up for lots of things! Think most of them were luggage or garden related items!

Did anyone wear Ben Sherman shirts the first time round? I had loads, wish i had kept them now!

;)

[CotswoldLass]

Ben Sherman shirts....yes, and in Needlework I made an A line 'tonic' skirt!

[Emagggie]

Guess you must have been a mod then CL. Ski pants, hush puppies,quilted anorak---cropped hair..........I must have looked an absolute sight. :o

[CotswoldLass]

Real mods were well before my time and I guess I wan't really anything, to be honest - parents FAR too strict!! Very shortly after the tonic skirt I had become was VERY hippyish...Remember loon pants? Indian tshirts with drawstring sleeves? and the Afghan coat my father made me keep in the garage as he said it smelt of old goat!! Well, he did have a point I guess...

[katynewbie]

 ;D ;D ;D ;D :o

CL...YES!!!!
Had a tonic skirt, and a Prince Charlie check one! Also, feather cut hair with a steel comb tucked in the back of my Levis pocket! Was desperate for a Crombie coat too, but v strict parents wouldn't allow it!

My best friend had an Afghan coat, and yes, they did smell! Also Monkey Boots!!

;)

[CotswoldLass]

Join you with the strict parents Katy AND Prince Charlie check! Used to put lippie and make up on in the garage while donning the smelly Afghan! Think I swapped 'looks' as I had very long hair and wasn't allowed to cut it.

And did anyone else have a real thing about Biba? LOVED going to Ken High St store and finding bargains in that heavenly, overdone emporium.

CLx