Bygones

[Eamonnca1]

Chopper bicycle

Chopper, Grifter, Burner ... kids getting excited about any brand of recreational kid-specific bicycle that becomes the must-have fashion item.

[shyted]

the wrestling at 4 o clock on a saturday

[Sportacus]

Making hay and the curlew.

[BennyCake]

MacGyver
The A-Team

Ah those were the days!

[Eamonnca1]

MacGyver
The A-Team

Ah those were the days!

Yup, TV shows like The Fall Guy, Knight Rider, etc.. Glen A Larson produced some great work.

[north_antrim_hound]

Fully operational cow tail pumps for water and not ornamental display
Old cow milk churns set out at the road for collection and nobody touched them
Austin cars ( in fairness pure junk)

[armaghniac]

Hillman Hunters.
6d bits.

[general_lee]

Brits casually walking up through your garden/road/street

[johnnycool]

Hillman Hunters.
6d bits.

Learned how to drive in one of these. In a barley field that had just been cut. Took out a few stooks of bales in the process.

[brokencrossbar1]

Parents investing in the set of 24 'World Books' for the youngsters' education

Mammy BC used to sell these in the evenings along with the Child Craft books.  I still have a few of them about the....we had the premium set...many a school project was completed off the back of them!

Brits casually walking up through your garden/road/street

Or helicopters casually landing in the field next to the school!  Never forget the day a Chinook landed in the school yard, was only in P1.  The whop whop of the twin blades was deafening!!!

[Jeepers Creepers]

Brits casually walking up through your garden/road/street..drinking your milk!!!

Many a time as a kid opening the door and a Brit sitting in your front garden / yard. Walking past him..ahh mornin..

[Boycey]

Finding out what kind of eejit you made of yourself on a Saturday night down the back of 12.30 Mass of a Sunday much preferable to the current young ones finding out on social media 

[AZOffaly]

Community Water Pumps, now just folksy decorations for Tidy Towns, but I remember having to go to one when staying in my grannies to get buckets of water every day.

Outside toilets.

[J70]

Making hay and the curlew.

Haven't heard the curlew since the 80s. Apparently skylarks, who you'd hear every day above the meadows and bogs, are getting scarce too.

Irish countryside is being fucked by modern farming practices.

[pbat]

Pump screwdrivers, a bastard of an invention.