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What about getting free tiger tails from Esso petrol stations, you could tie them on the car aerial.

I think just about all car headlight dip switches were on the floor pre around 1965

Ignition advance and ****** lever.

My first mobile phone was two treacle tins joined together with a long piece of string. Never got any nuisance calls.

I'm not sure that one was in the highway code.

What about mastering the art of kick starting a 500cc single cylinder Ariel Red Hunter, backfiring could be painful.

Hand signals for drivers. Vacuum windscreen wipers on Ford popular which slowed right down when going up hills. Starting handles on most cars up to the early 60s.

At secondary school having a slide rule. Before that we had log books (logarithms)

Football boots that had what looked like half coconut shells for toecaps. For PE, which was then called PT, the girls wearing their tops tucked in their knickers.

What about the glass soda syphons that were always sat on the bar top? Toasted sandwiches that were grilled in some sort of cellophane bag. Lock ins if you knew the pub landlord.

Same here. My first years wage as an apprentice was £2 10s 8d per week. Mum got 10s of that.

Steam engine wheel tappers.

I've got an old bakelite one and a trimphone, both in use and the bonus is that in power cuts they still work.

Horace Bachelor no less.

Max outlet pressure on that regulator is 1psi so not suitable

Clint, if you've got an old phone kicking around check out the Alfred app. Cost nothing.

Out of interest, my mum's first job was below stairs maid for the Watneys. My dad grew up nearby in Plaxtol in a house that my grandad rented from the Golding's.

I use an old iPad running Alfred camera app. It lets you use the camera as a remote CCTV on WiFi. Cost nothing.

All sold now.