Wow, some memories there !
For the saturday job I earned £2.50 and that paid for my petrol to and from college for the week.
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I could fill my motorbike up for 10 francs back in the day.
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My first car was a DAF variomatic…dreadful thing, but only cost me a few quid.
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Ah, the good old days of French Francs Véro…
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It was just too tempting. A moment’s work with a red felt tip pen - et voila!
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For the saturday job I earned £2.50 and that paid for my petrol to and from college for the week.
Wow, good money! In the 60,s every saturday job regardless of type paid £1 or 30 Bob if you were lucky. A morning paper round paid 7/6d and evening round 5 Bob or 2 half crowns.
Sunday papers were the best, got paid 30 bob and always had extra papers to sell and keep the money as the papers were delivered to my parents house from the wholesalers and they always included extras. When handing in the takings it had to match the quota we had asked for and no more. It was a great earner!!
Yes I remember barley wine as being quite lethal…was it under gold label…???
I liked the taste but couldn’t drink more than two…and definitely not mixed with any other drinks…
In uk there were several speciality beers that reminded me of the taste of barley wine…maybe to do with hops…???
Here I like the taste of La Goudale but only ever buy it when my son is here…when he’s here we mostly stick to kronenburg 1664 but also buy la Goudale as a treat…
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We were given barley wine for breakfast on special days when I was a student 
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Flippin’ eck…! If it’s the same barley wine I’m thinking of then I’d have been wanting to go straight back to bed after breakfast…
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I liked Corona’s Dandelion and Burdock pop. For me, it carried the promise of a different future, an escape from the boring predictability of orangeade, lemonade and ghastly lime.
If it was still on the pop lorry in the 1960’s it must have had a long run: I seem to remember happily guzzling it in the late 40s or at least the early 50s. Correct me if I’m wrong again. 
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My favourite pop as a kid was dandelion and burdock and cream soda…I remember the corona lorry down my Scottish gran’s street along with the coal man and the rag and bone man…,
She also scrubbed the steps to her rented house religiously every week which as a kid I could never understand as we all used the entry.,x 
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Used to give a hand-made paper windmill to generous donors of scrap metal! How we loved such rare novelties and envied those who got one!
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I think Corona pop was the first bright flowering of a new popular consumerism to relieve the drabness of post-war austerity. And nylon stockings. 
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I’ve just googled it and yes gold label looks favourite from memory
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Yes I remember nylon stockings too…not for myself but as birthday and Crimbo gifts for my gran and great aunties…I seem to recall that they were always discussing how to stop the “sagging”…??? Not that they/we are all skinny it just seemed to be one of those ongoing conversations where the grown ups thought we were maybe not remotely interested…:???
By the time I was old enough to think about attire then we had elastic topped hold ups which I personally still liked to hook up to suspenders under shorts…lol…
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It’s still available, I had to take it for my fil when he was in a nursing home, I loved it as a kid and still do along with cream soda.
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Not “snagging” perhaps? I think ‘laddering’ was the bane of nylon stockings when they first ‘came out’, and a snag quickly ran into a ladder. Though I seem to remember that an early repair with all blob of nail varnish on a snag could forestall a run…don’t ask me how I recall that, though! I must have been about six or seven when such topics were current.
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Lol…I was talking about sagging rather than snagging and the inevitable laddering…but I do most definitely recall the stroke of nail varnish to stop the run…! 
I haven’t seen any of these things except in films and I can’t remember a world before tights 
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Tights have to be the worst invention ever !!!
Or is that being sexist ?
Does anyone admit to having owned an Action Man or Barbie Doll (with or without Ken) ?
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