Remember these.? All our yesterdays

[NewcastleFalcon]

My grandmother also had some stone bottles with 'Mackintoshes' on them, I think they were for ginger beer, I know she used them as hot water bottles.

Peter

These could well be examples of the Macintosh you are referring to Peter.

Regards Neil

[Peter.N.]

They are indeed Neil. Never thought I would see one of those again! I think the light switch is too modern though. I remember when I was a kid my mother made a table lamp from a length of painted 2X2", she bored the hole the full length with a poker heated red hot in the fire. She also made me quite a nice bookcase from half a dozen Co-op fish boxes, this would have been just after the war. I still have some of the individual boxes in the garage, full of things I will probably never use again.

I still have a few OXO tins with nuts and bolts in them, remember those? The 10 cwt ford Ford van we had when I started work in London was OXO669 and our phone number was City 1124, in Cheapside it was. Amazing what you can remember with a little stimuli.

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

She also made me quite a nice bookcase from half a dozen Co-op fish boxes, this would have been just after the war. I still have some of the individual boxes in the garage, full of things I will probably never use again.

Now I for one Peter would love to see a photograph of one of those individual fish boxes in your garage, and I'm sure the contents would prove a talking point too!

Neil

[Dormouse]

There you go Neil. Garage Ferreting. New Thread?

[NewcastleFalcon]

There you go Neil. Garage Ferreting. New Thread?

We have a Garages Gallery Ancient and Modern which covers the domestic garage too, but yes many lucky enough to have garages will have all sorts of stuff lying around them, maybe even in old fish boxes and oxo tins. Of course the last thing you expect to find in a garage these days is a car!

Garages Gallery Ancient and Modern.
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Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Of course the last thing you expect to find in a garage these days is a car!
Neil

I'm sure Jim would join me in begging to differ. Both our garages are homes to their very own little motors, Bluebell for Jim and Suzy for me, well for SWMBO!!

[Dormouse]

So, where do you ferret things now?

[NewcastleFalcon]

When was the last time you opened a tin of Carnation Evaporated Milk. For the Falcon it was this very morning some decades after previously opening such a tin. My Dad used to love it on his rice pudding, tapioca, ground rice, semolina or any other such "Milk Pudding" after the Sunday dinner.

A small Tin of Carnation Milk and
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Neil

[CitroJim]

Used to enjoy Barry Cade's Trade Tricks back in the 1970s

Dad used to take Car Mechanics in those days whilst I took Practical Wireless and Television magazines... The Television Magazine being about how to fix them rather than watch them...

A great deal of my early learning came from devouring those three magazines in my youth

[mickthemaverick]

When was the last time you opened a tin of Carnation Evaporated Milk. For the Falcon it was this very morning some decades after previously opening such a tin. My Dad used to love it on his rice pudding, tapioca, ground rice, semolina or any other such "Milk Pudding" after the Sunday dinner.

Neil

Tuesday evening, still a regular ingredient in my diet!

Own work

[Peter.N.]

I thought they still made all these things - I don't go shopping very often.

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

You don't even have to be an absolute marvel with the tin opener these days to rustle up this delightful dessert...

falcon montage

Neil

[CitroJim]

Not had any, knowingly, since I was a little boy... That and condensed milk... Can't recall the last time I saw/had a tin of rice pudding either...

Like you Peter, I didn't even know it was still available...

Like my old favourite - Camp coffee. 95% of people nowadays have never heard of it and don't have a clue what it is and the other 5% are amazed it's still available. I love it!

[mickthemaverick]

Like my old favourite - Camp coffee. 95% of people nowadays have never heard of it and don't have a clue what it is and the other 5% are amazed it's still available. I love it!

Now I see why you have squirrel like tendences!!

[CitroJim]

Like my old favourite - Camp coffee. 95% of people nowadays have never heard of it and don't have a clue what it is and the other 5% are amazed it's still available. I love it!

Now I see why you have squirrel like tendences!!

Oh yes, I always keep a good stock of it just in case it is ever discontinued If that ever happens I'll be bereft