olden days

noun, archaic or literary, of old, of a former age (adapted from “olden”, adjective, COD)

“You do have a couple of pictures from the olden days when they had the horse.”

“In the olden days, they had church in some of the schools. Like each section had a school, and then they’d have church because it was horse and buggy in those days, of course, and it was a lot closer.”