To say I was born in the early 70s

Stock, Aitken and Waterman... has there ever been more forgettable music? And the 80s was the best decade for music!

I say that about SAW despite owning a Jason Donovan record ('ten good reasons' iirc). Also got this Jason single at Christmas.. "Over London town", always remember that line.

The Neighbours thing was unbelievably massive then. Kylie and Jason jackets at school. There was also the fantastic Angry Anderson single "Suddenly" from the wedding which just about everyone on these islands watched. That soap gave them the biggest leg up imaginable.

Oh yes massive belts and jewellery. My mum seemed to wear nothing but that.

And BBC at close down. The anthem only stopped I believe when BBC News 24 came in and BBC One would switch over to that.

Loved going into Xtravision at the weekend and picking out two or three films. We've almost got it too easy now. We can watch anything on our tablets, iPads, phones etc. It's like having Christmas every morning. The magic is gone.

Brilliant memories. I still say crystal tips when I'm out in the rain in reference to what wet does to my straightened hair

I was born early 70s too. Was into Wham in early teens, but then into The Smiths, The Cure etc and then in the 90s became a raver which was the best time ever. The 90s was a fantastic decade in retrospect.

Found my compulsory 501s the other day! Wouldn't fit over one thigh now. If only I'd appreciated at the time how slim I was!

Pepe jeans

My sticker collection.

Getting a bag of sweet for 10p.

Half pence.

Forever by Judy Blume.

Stock, Aitken and Waterman music.

Kylie and Jason.

Freedom. I roamed around with other kids from a young age. Our mum had no idea where we were. No tech or phones.

My mum was a relative rarity as she worked, so I used to walk about 2 miles from my primary school and let myself in.

Packed lunches were a sandwich on white bread, wotsits or skips crisps and a fizzy drink.

Riding my gold bike for miles. I loved that bike.

5 kids in the back of car without seat belts. I then Remember seat belts coming in. I think the driver only had to wear them.

Spiral perms
blue mascara
cartoon jackets
Tartan jeans
Kids from Fame - Starmaker
Jelly shoes
The sweater shop
Athena man and baby poster
Pods, kickers amd palladiums
Colours by benetton
Jazz/Kouros for the boys
Hooch
Poison
Ski jackets (not on the slopes)
Smelly rubbers
posters on school jotters
The national anthem every night on TV
Gobstoppers
Live Aid
The school computer (singular) that made it into your classroom about twice a year
Come and Praise
The Royal Wedding and all the street parties
Terry towelling short shorts
Big belts and matching plastic jewellery
Tenko
The excitement of the video shop 😉

I actually feel sorry for kids today!

The joy of finding a faulty phone box so you could make unlimited calls. Usually by putting a 20p which got registered but dropped out again.

Grange Hill. Daring storylines about drugs and teen pregnancy (my Friend s mum wouldn't let her watch it)

Key round my neck on a chain for letting myself in after school. No mobile phone so if I forgot my key I sat on the step till parents got home.

I HATED school milk and gave mine to my cousin in the year below at lunch.

"Heating s broken down today kids you can keep your coats on" said by many a teacher during winter months.

I think it was cheaper to phone your friends after 6pm? Coz that's when we had to wait to use the phone.

Paraffin heaters in our dining room at home.

Everyone smoked indoors.

Bunty. Whizzer and Chips. Girl. Jackie. Nikki magazines. Cathy and Claire problem page first bit we read.

School discos. Aerobics for PE.

Things that cost something and a half pee.

Pound notes. (I had one as an "emergency" to get home if needed)

Culture club. Wham. Pet shop boys. The cure.
Debbie Harry. Music you could dance to.

Christmas Annuals of your fave comic

Only dating people you met through school/hobbies/friends etc as no Internet.
My Friend had a secret boyfriend she met from CB radio.

Good tv. Minder on a Monday night. Tenko on Thursday dallas on Wednesday and casualty on Saturday.

Power cuts.
Threat of nuclear war.
Watching Threads at school.
Live Aid.
Scary adverts the AIDS don't die of ignorance and Heroin screws you up.

But despite the bad bits good times and more of a sense of community.

All the tigs!
off ground tig, scarecrow tig, shadow tig, team tig and...tig!

a-ha here too - first concert at Bercy in Paris. We thought we were so grown up and sophisticated. It was a magnificent evening.

The following day, my schoolfriends and I saw Magne on our way home from classe. (No stalking, honestly!) We followed him practically the entire length of the Champs Elysees. Doubt he’s been back to France since!

I was born in the late '60s and nearly all the original ones are true for me!

I think school milk was scrapped after I'd stopped having it though.

There was no TV at home until I was 11, although I think that was unusual.

Most of my friends didn't have a telephone until our teens.

Days off school because of snow when the school bus couldn't get through 👏🏻

Not really remembering 'old' money.

Penny or ha'penny sweets!

Most mums being 'housewives'.

Regular power cuts.

Gosh yes I remember the Tufty Club. Until very recently I misremembered it as Rufty Tufty but I stand corrected!
I still know many landline numbers by heart.
Lost in space on a Sunday (awful program tbh)
Star Trek
Blake's Seven
Battlestar Galactica
The Fall Guy, A Team, Dukes of Hazard, Knight Rider.
I do remember Gentle Ben but was a bit boring (much like Lassie and the Littlest Hobo).

Watching Grease at the cinema and never seeing anything like it before. Talking about it in the playground and singing the songs.

I remember the leg warmers, inspired by the tv show Fame.

I was 13, I'd saved up for ages and bought some, I felt so trendy.

Then the boy I really liked but had never spoken too, came over to talk to me at youth club.
He just said 'it looks like your pants have fallen down' and looked at my leg warmers and walked off.

I was broken. I was so sure my leg warmers would make me look cool.

Being able to be different as a teen. I was a teddy boy, mates were skin heads, mods, rockers, goths, casuals. Music was so very wide range and anything was possible...a lot was actually made by the bands.

We played outside.

Parents were parents
If the police/your mates parents/neighbours/parents friends saw you doing wrong they told you off and you worried about your parents funding out.
You cleaned up after yourself....even the road/lane/field/park you played on.
You could always find something to do
Daytime tv was shocking, the cedar tree/Sullivan's followed by the news. Then painting with Nancy, the crown court...I'd give a million to sit and watch it again

ice on the inside of our bedroom windows/no central heating just a coal fire
buying 50 pence worth of ice cream from the van when you took your mums dish to fill !

Chicken in a basket

Oooh, I used to love chicken in a basket - a proper wicker basket with a red paper napkin, the chicken nestled within mounds of chips and soused in vinegar!

The generation game
Buck Rodgers
321,dusty bin
Actual' family event - royal variety show
Minder
Going to Bernie inn.(Utilising salad bar/ parents give kids babycham at new years.
(Clue was not in title! We musta bin smashed. Sure at uni two pints cider n babysham = drunk
Chicken in a basket (sing ala message in a bottle) scampi ina clamshell
Snoods. . . Ha! One winter they were everywhere. Like oversized polo bit of polo neck pull over head outdoors OR casually rock the rumfled down thing I doors(?)

Birds Trifle with hundreds and thousands
Mind your language
Queens silver jubilee street party
Charles and Diana wedding (I saw her dress when it went on tour)
Knightrider, Chips - the cop programme,
Roland Rat & Kevin
fluorescent orange and green socks (one on each foot to be cool)
spangles
rubix cube, ET,
small silver stick men/balance ornaments
lava lamps
teasmade
sodastream/soda siphon
“choose life” T-shirt (always wanted one, never got one)
School Summer holidays that seemed to last forever
Jackie magazine
Secret 7/famous 5 books
Grease, (although I wasn’t allowed to watch as it was too risqué)
Sunday school
Fox and the Hound film
Danger mouse
Dallas, Dynasty, Colbies
Minder
Star Wars
Grange Hill
Berni Inns (the height of sophistication)

The Tufty Club!

Grange Hill
Bullseye
This is your life
Playing tights ..Thinking we were the dancers from the Malcolm Maclarren video!
2 oz of boiled sweets from the shop
Texas bars
tinned fruit and carnation cream on sundays
vesta curry
FREEDOM
My beloved cabbage patch kids
Going to spain for 17 days on the coach, camping for £99.00
No cars!

Why Don't You.

@SusannaNW9 I had a Saturday job at Freeman Hardy Willis. They were crap. Dolcis were top of the tree within the British Shoe Corporation. I think there was also Trumans and Curtis. They were taken over by the American brand Sears in the late 80's.

I remember Smash Hits announcing that one of their staff members was leaving to pursue a music career. It was Neil Tennant.

Willo The Wisp.

Dr Snuggles.

Batfink.