[Kleftiwallah]

Rag rugs and the frame upon which they were produced.  Sitting round the frame with a bag of rags at your feet and a brocken, sharpened dolly peg to push the rags through the sacking.

Cheers,  Tony.

[AlaninCarlisle]

Packs of dogs following a bitch in heat being led out on a lead
Dogs chasing cars down the street
Three-legged dogs (probably chased a car once too often!)

[Kleftiwallah]

White dog muck slowly bleaching in the sun!
Cheers,  Tony.

[Goosegirl]

Buying butter that was cut off a block, sugar wrapped in blue paper bags and bread wrapped in tissue paper then twisted round in the air so the ends of the paper were fastened.

[Growster...]

Plus, GG, baker's vans!

We used to have a van every few days, and I always marvelled at his long stick with a nail in the end to pull the loaves back from the darkest interior of his van!

Loaves were either a tin, or occasionally a 'sausage loaf', ('fattish' baguette), or just a plain brown loaf, which was pretty boring...

When you consider that even Tesco's (Aldi-match) Hovis white bread costs around 7p a slice, the mind-boggling starts to get a bit weary!

[Goosegirl]

Don't remember baker's vans but there was a travelling fishmonger.

[Growster...]

Don't remember baker's vans but there was a travelling fishmonger.

One of our neighbours at our last house used to sell fish from his van!

He was a great chap and a good friend, and the only beef (?) we had was that he would park outside, and open his van doors to air out the back...

[Kleftiwallah]

The first "house" was a black felted nissun hut and being surrounded by displaced Poles.  There was a VW van used to visit with a wide selection of home made polish sweets...but not for us. (Carleton Camp Penrith).

Cheers,  Tony.

[mrs bouquet]

Sorry folks, I know we have this topic already, but I cannot find it.

Office clerks,   Are there none anymore, all IT specialists ?
Shop assistants - Now, retail sales executives.

Mrs Bouquet

Found it for you, Mrs B and merged them together 

[AlaninCarlisle]

Shirt arm-bands

[Aunt Sally]

Knotted hankies on the beach.

[New shoot]

What is the lady wearing on her head    It looks like a woolly hat, but surely not 

Some sort of sun bonnet ? As Aunty is the forum bonnet queen maybe she knows 

[mumofstig]

It's a straw hat, made with a straw strip coiled round and round until it meets itself at the crown. The fabric was just a trim where the rim was stitched on 

[Aunt Sally]

It's a straw hat, made with a straw strip coiled round and round until it meets itself at the crown. The fabric was just a trim where the rim was stitched on 

Spot on Mum !   

My Nanna and my Mum would make us a new straw bonnet every spring.  You can still buy the straw tape to make them with.