Growing up in the 70's

Oh my goodness Pippa Dolls! I loved them so much. Also had a Bionic Woman doll because I was jealous of my brother's six million dollar man doll. I loved her, she had long straight hair and a pink jumpsuit.

Raleigh 14 bikes
Taping off the radio
Fur bomber jackets in brown and yellow

Sunshine, long hot summers. Riding bikes all day till dinner time. Spangles, lemonade sparkle ice lolly's. Taking risks without parents knowing, or caring too much. Family holidays, camping by the sea. Paddling pools and garden hoses. Best ever Christmas-es, bulging stockings, so exciting, so wonderful, never to be experienced again. Open fires, coal sheds, playing in the garden, climbing trees. Desperately wanting a chopper, never getting one, wanting a Sasha doll, not getting that either. Tiny tears, lego. Multi-colored swap shop. Brown nylon satin nightdresses from M&S. Wood smoke on the breeze at the beginning of the autumn term. Mince and mashed potatoes, Sunday roast round a table.

Shaker makers, yes!

Does anyone remember those furry bin covers and 'gonks' you won at the fair? And knitted dolly toilet roll covers? And izal medicated toilet roll? Making 'guiders' ( go carts ) with pram wheels? And the 'pop' man?

Renting a telly from Radio Rentals instead of buying one !

In addition to most of the other posts;

Shaker Makers
Rams - bell bottom jeans that you could pick the circumference of the bottom, 20 inch bottoms being the widest
Northern Soul
The Wombles - had a picture of Uncle Bulgaria on my bedroom wall
Draylon sofas
Collecting Whimsies and Whoppas
Having your ears pierced with a needle then a gold hoop
Black Beauty on a Sunday night
The Diddakoi (Kizzy)
Disappearing into the Magic Faraway Tree and Wishing Chair books
The Big Blue Marble - and getting an American pen friend from NY out of it

Two balls against the wall. Whitsuntide parades. The cinema with one huge screen which was revealed when the red velvet curtains opened. Letting the dog out - in those days dogs ( and children) were allowed to roam freely. Girls' Brigade. Small children in big knitted bonnets.

Oh yes Darkesteyes I remember Weekend chocolates! Was beginning to think I had imagined them as no on else seemed to know what I was talking about.

Going, Kindle, going!

The Summertime Special! (Come on board!)
Long, ribbony pieces of plastic flowing out of your bike handlebars.
Mum having to rock her white Ford Cortina with fins at the back, to get it going in the morning.
Cadbury' s Icebreaker chocolate.
Peeling bags of fresh carrots to put into this new contraption called a freezer.
Waiting, on Sunday, with a bowl, for the ice cream van, to fill it up to go with pudding (Apple pie) for Sunday Dinner before freezers
Mum & Dad pushing a trolley each round Tesco, me go I g with 1 of them & my twin with the other, so that we could buy 2 bags of sugar, not 1!

Loving this thread

Rolf Harris in an infomercial about the importance of teaching your child to swim...surrounded by children

Harlem Globetrotters tv programme

plant a tree in 73 campaign

Savoury vinegar crisps

Chalky White of the Daily Mail on various seaside locations

Van der Valk tv programme

Saturday Scene roadshows

Emmerdale being Emmerdale Farm and on at about 5.15

Chefs square shaped soup

Crown Court every lunchtime

Angel delight
hostess trolley(Mother's)
Smash
Clunk Click every trip (and yes I thought he was a perv back then)
Test card
Nurses uniform got with Green Shield Stamps
35p an hour for my first Saturday job aged 13

Chopper bikes. Spirograph and Etch a Sketch. Bazooka bubble gum. Taping the charts off the radio on a Sunday night and trying to stop the recording before the DJ spoke over it.

Fruit cocktail and evaporated milk for pudding.

Fray Bentos pies and vesta paella and risotto, food of the Gods.

Salads that involved whole uncut spring onions, soft round lettuce, hard boiled eggs and salad cream.

dot I loved Sindy, I didn't have that suite though but had loads of other furniture for the big house that my mum and sister assembled one Christmas Day. Loved the brown and orange bathroom suite with the shower that REALLY WORKED

justdance I was born in 1972 and I remember exactly all those things! The tv on wheels, also loved How we used to Live. We also watched Science Workshop (with perm bloke) and Middle English.

Pebble Mill at 1 There was always a short programme before it for pre-schoolers like Bod etc.

One of my friend's had this suite for her Sindy dolls. I coveted it.

Angel Delight.
Green Shield Stamps, sticking them in the book and the excitement of looking to see what we could get for them.
Jackie Magazine.
A foldable afro comb for my very fine permed hair!
Elastic home made garters to hold up my white school socks.
Crimplene trouser suits, bleuch!
My beloved orange space hopper.
Laying down on the back seat of the car on the way home from my Nan's and watching all the street lights flashing past and how exciting it was to be out at night.
Sick on the corridor floors at school covered in sand, yuck!
Envying the chopper bike that my brother had, lucky sod.
A pineapple juice and a packet of salt and shake crisps in the back of the car or better still in the beer garden!
Ooh Spirograph, hours and hours of fun.
Party lines for the phone, we didn't have one (party line) and I remember feeling all superior about it
Ooh Mivvy ice lollies, yum.
Purple and pink striped midi coat, I was the bees knees in that!
The book of babies to sell the pics for charity and wanting to keep the
"best"one for myself.
Snake belts, rainbow coloured with an "S" shape buckle.
Roller skates that you tied over your shoes and they were adjustable so could grow with you.
Leaving for our annual holiday in Devon or Cornwall at what seemed like 3 in the morning (so exciting, before motorways) and sitting on piles of clothes and sleeping bags on the back seat so that our heads nearly touched the car roof!

Just seen this -
I was born in 71.
And remember...
Watching Pink Panther, then Generation Game, then the dreaded Jim'll (eek!!!). No-one knew.
Pebble Mill at 1 during the week.
Schools programming - the teacher wheeling out the TV into the classroom. I used to love 'How We Used to Live'. (this might have been early 80s though).
Sitting in the boot of friends' dads' estate cars for birthday outings. Imagine that now! There used to be a fight as to who would get to sit in the boot.
The head using a ruler at school if you weren't lined up properly (and that wasn't to check everyone was straight, either).
Beano was 8p - my mum instigated 'Chocolate and Beano day' once a week where on returning from school one day a week she would buy me the Beano and a bar of chocolate and that would be my choc fix for the week!!!
We didn't get a TV til I was about 6 or 7 and then it was b&w and tiny. I could at last be a proper member of society!!
'Fake' electric fires that had that 'glowing coal' in the bottom. The height of sophistication when we had one fitted in around 78!

So did I Lisalisa! Visiting my dad in Hull before the M62. Legs stuck to the plastic seats in the Vauxhall Viva or Opel Kadett. No aircon or sunroof but 2 wind down windows and a funny little triangular window that opened a fraction at the back.
Playing out in the street with loads of other kids. Wandering back when we got hungry.
The strap at school (junior!), having the board rubber thrown at me for talking. Ruler across the knuckles. I was taught to read with 'ITA' ( wauk not walk etc. what was THAT all about???). Games came in seasons eg marbles, hopscotch, kiss catch etc. Kia Ora at the cinema and Vesta curry! Crisps went up to 21/2p. The phone in the hall that my grandad hovered round when anyone used it because it was SO expensive! Oh. And penny for the guy not trick or treat!

Sausage rolls and giant rocking horse in great ormond street hospital

always coming back from Saturday shopping in time to see Dr Who .

Magic roundabout, John cravens newsround - remember the jungle, blue peter.

We had a small black and white TV.

Putting records on the record player. My first was puppet on a string by paper lace. Billy don't be a hero . No doubt about it by hot chocolate.

Jinty magazine read lying on our fluffy rug in the hall.

Eating weird things that I'm sure no one eats now like heart with potatoes ald cabbage. Kidneys , liver - just boiled - yuk.

The cane at school. Though I never got it. Walking to school alone from the age of 7. One wonderfully kind mum who drive which was a complete rarity driving past in the rain and seeing us all get soaked made 5 journeys there and back to school - a 7 min drive but still - ferrying us all so we could get out of the rain. Even as a young child I recognized that what she'd done was something quite unusual ald wonderfully kind.

Our lollipop lady giving me a whole bag of sindy dolls that her daughter had grown out of.

And finally . Going to Devon each year from London before motorways. We used to stay en route one night in a farm and I have never found anything quite as exciting yet as racing diwn the farmhouse steps to milk the cow and collect eggs in the morning before having a full farmhouse breakfast and then pulling out in dads avenger car to begin the last part of our journey to the beach.

And we always started at dawn - seeing starlings line the electricity cables over the roads- where are the starlings ???- whilst lying down on the back seat having been told to go to sleep. No seat belts then.

Breakfast in the hotel where fruit juice was a course . Having grapefruit or tomato juice and feeling very grown up.

Then poached fish for breakfast!

Mums amazing cupboard full of furs and jeweler and high heels and sparkly things and handbags. All stuffed with moth paper.

My daddy died nearly 4 yrs ago today and I miss him terribly . I am proud to say I had a wonderful 70s childhood

And it shows the Radio Times covers for each year too.

Get a load of this website.
Christmas tv listings for EVERY year going right back to 1936.

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