h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Pity... I thought he was a great cartoonist... His cartoons were simple and usually hiarious...

J.J

8 track tape players in cars..all the rage in the 70's!
cowslips
kiss me quick hats

Ticket inspectors/collectors as you enter/exit the station platform.

Those squirly red and white tube things outside barbers.

Saw ticket inspectors at Waterloo last Friday - both exiting the platform in the morning and again as I caught my train in the evening

Lemon Opal Fruits (not with lime). They were always my favourites. Sorry Starbursts as they are now.

There are still three proper red telephone boxes in Cambridge...

Workmen on motorways. Cones, yes - mile after mile of the bloody things, but actual workmen?

Public bars
Coconut chips
Milk Motoring
Milk machines
Pound notes
Du Maurier cigarettes
Five boys chocolate
Mild
Fishmongers
Pie & mash shops
45s
78s
Real crusty rolls
Football rattles

Seamus

It is difficult to get decent pie&mash these days, thought hardly anyone knew about it though. There is one in croydon but it isn't terribly good. There is still a great one on Crisp St in poplar - not sure if the one in Brixton is still there.

Rag and Bone men

Funnily enough theres a old fashioned red phone box in the middle of Knowle West.(Smackhead and crime ridden council estate, for those who dont know Bristol)

The Royal Bank of Scotland still issues pound notes

Milk bottles on doorsteps every morning! Yes, I remember those...

Our milkman stopped delivering bottles about five years ago.

Why was it so exciting when at a train station, to insert a coin into a machine, and punch out one's name?

Thanks for the memory Gnomon, now I can place it back in that obscure place of my mind, i rarely use.

Lightman

We still get bottles of milk!

We get bottles of milk too - I find the milk stays fresher for longer - but they are the short stumpy bottles not the nice elegant long ones we used to have in the 70s...talking of which who remembers "Watch out, watch out, there's a Humphrey about!" the campaign for Unigate's introduction of semi-skimmed milk with a red top I believe!

Computers with punch cards (not that I'm old enough to have used one)
Cars without power windows
Classes there isn't a book for

-515

I am old enough to have used computer punch cards, and I remember the cry of dispair when someone dropped a large pack.

Indoor fireworks seem to have disappeared.