What's something that absolutely screams ‘British childhood’ to you?’

Ribena or lemon barley water
sherbet flying saucers
shivering in the drizzle eating sandy sandwiches
blackberry picking
textbooks wrapped in wallpaper
Blue Peter
Top of the Pops
Sindy dolls, rather than Barbie

I know it always seemed so special and mysterious, I actually love lucozade but it doesn't seem quite so decadent now I can buy it anywhere rather than just a chemist shop.

The pop van
sugar sandwiches
Yorkshire pudding and jam
playing out til the street lights came on
roller skating on the front
shellsuits
Sindys and barbies

Children's and teens' magazines. I had Twinkle, then Bunty then Jackie.
I used to love those books of cardboard cut-out 'model' ladies with mix and match cut-out outfits that you could change by fitting them over the shoulders of the stand-up lady, using little paper tabs at the top. I was obsessed with those.
Fuzzy Felt, Etch-a-Sketch and Spirograph.

*Headdesk. Are you me? 🤣

Brian Cant, Floella Benjamin, Derek Griffiths
The Best

I was born in 1969 and thank you so much to everyone for listing my childhood & teenage memories 🥰

My DH tells me off for being so nostalgic but if I had a Time Machine, I would travel back in a heartbeat & re live it all.

I don’t have much to add apart from:-

Bingo
The smell of a church hall or school hall
Knee high white school socks & black leather Clark’s shoes
Sunday night TV as a child & the dread of school the next morning
Me & my sister in matching acrylic dressing gowns standing near the portable gas fire 🫣
Top of the pops
picnics
fish & chips
meat & 2 veg
The queens jubilee in 1977 and a party at primary school (it was sooo exciting)
Wimbledon
Blue Peter
Cream Tea

Don't forget playing with Timmy the dog! Every British child has a Timmy!

At my local baths you could buy the hottest ,hot chocolate known to man in those little brown plastic cups grim a machine i always burnt my tongue.

Coming home from school and watching Home & Away & Neighbours.

ice Cream van.

Boring Sundays making your own fun because children wernt as forced to partake in ‘activities’ as they are now.

our caravan at Bridlington and playing out ALL day.

ice poles from the corner shop.

the smell of my dad coming home from work at night and coming and kissing up goodnight in our beds - he always smelled of the cold night air - he was a beat Bobby in our town and he walked his beat then walked home.

These are making me smile and cry at the same time.
70s and 80s kid here

Holidays in either a caravan or a seaside guest house where you got breakfast and evening meal and basically had to leave for the whole day in between these meals.
Breakfast offering in said guest house usually included half a grapefruit and evening meal generally had a soup starter, in July or August 😂

Buying loose sweets that came in a massive jar that were sold in ounces.
Watching Sunday Night at The London Palladium

With lashings of ginger ale!

Being packed into the boot of the car with your cousins to drive to Weston Super Mare because your older siblings had the actual seats. Then having a donkey ride on a very depressed donkey, then ice cream and fish and chips and putting some change in the slot machines on the pier.

Admittedly this may just be a my family thing rather than universal British 🤣

Getting your mum twenty fags for Mother's Day.
🤣

British tv programmes, play school, jackanory, blue peter
Visiting my gran for a roast every sunday
Getting fish and chips for the whole family Saturday lunchtimes ( and yes at age 7 I walked there and back on my own and managed the order for a family of 5)
Dad doing the pools and then getting excited at Final score Saturday afternoons
Playing out with friends on bikes most summer evenings and Saturday afternoons, going to the local outdoor pool for whole days with friends in the summer holidays
70s/80s childhood was brilliant

We must be a similar age, @BMW6 . In my brother's day, it was Camberwick Green, Pogles Wood and Trumpton. (He's 10 years younger than me.)

Also sherbert fountains, flying saucers and sweet pink "shrimps" that were probably made from ingredients that all now have E numbers.

Saturday morning pictures at the ABC cinema...

ETA: wrestling on tv late on Saturday afternoons!

Snap! Typing from the South Side as we speak ❤️

Getting a used pile of Jackie magazines from mums of the older girls on the estate.

See also, buying a pack of 20 Bensons for your stepdad at the only shop on the estate because everyone knew everyone.

Whilst drinking lashings of ginger ale and eating homemade cake ,kindly farmers wife had given to us.

Eating chips in the car in the rain

Maps spread out on car bonnets

Spending all day in the woods until teatime

10p mixes from the ice cream van

Wackaday

Grange Hill

Knock-a-door-run

Radio and TV times Christmas editions

3 tv channels and the test card

Waxed Barbour jackets so big you’ll never outgrow them

National Trust family membership

Being forced to watch the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special, like it was a great treat.

Brian Cant's & Oliver Postgate's voices. Nogbad the Bad. And here is Hedgepig to wake up the Pogles. Sir Basil & Lady Rosemary, Bayleaf the gardener. Oh dear having a little 😢

Yes, born and bred in Glasgow. 😊

You were seriously ill if you got a trifecta of Lucozade, Ribena and a bunch of grapes.