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Showing posts with label British Traditions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Traditions. Show all posts
Monday, January 5, 2026

The Twelve Posts of Christmas - Day Twelve: A Brief History of the Twelve Days of Christmas

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  For many, Christmas ends on 25 December, or the day after Boxing Day . The decorations come down, television schedules return to normal, a...
Thursday, January 1, 2026

The Twelve Posts of Christmas - Day Eleven: New Year's Day - A Day Of Superstition.

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  It was New Year’s Day, sometime back in the late 1960s, and my school football shirt was dirty and needed cleaning. I had a big game comin...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: When People collected 'Green Shield Stamps' to Get Their First Toaster or TV

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  Collected from supermarkets and petrol stations , saved in books, then traded in for household goods. Another journey, back in time to the...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: Until 1987, You Needed a Licence to Own a Dog in The UK?

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    So yes, did you know that until 1987 , you needed a licence to own a dog  — and it cost 7 shillings ? Another small detail from a time...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: Central Heating Wasn't Common in British Homes Until the Late 1970s?

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  So yes, did you know that for most UK households , central heating didn’t become the norm until the late 1970s? Many of us grew up in c...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Christmas Comes But Once a Year — But Does It Have to Start in November?

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I nipped into my local ASDA yesterday and was greeted, actually ambushed, by their Grinch-inspired Christmas extravaganza plastered across...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

What’s in a Name? Forgotten British Names of the Past

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  Ever wonder what happened to names like Hilda , Norman , or Enid ? This nostalgic look back explores the once-popular British names that d...
Saturday, November 1, 2025

The Boy, the Bonfire, and the Man Called Guy – Remembering Bonfire Night

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It begins in October, with the sound of a loud bang in the early evening, followed by an occasional whoosh. It tells me Bonfire Night is al...
Friday, December 15, 2023

The Twelve Posts of Christmas - Day Two: What A Load of Rubbish! Tin bins and their uses. Britain before recycling and colourd bins

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Back in the 1960s and 70s, every house in Britain had one (at least) of these.  The tin rubbish bin.  This was long before recycling and dif...