Growing up in the 70's

vole you look shocked in your pic.... A 1970's camera with flash bulb maybe?

Monkey boots
Loons
Petrol blue parallels

thorn yes I had Spirograph.

God this is a great thread.

Has anyone mentioned Spirograph! I bought an original one from Ebay recently, dd just doesn't get it Remember Pogo sticks?

I used to go to the Off licence and buy packs of Hamlet cigars for my dad when I was about 10

I remember my mum went to London and brought me and my sister our first "straight" jeans. I wore them to a disco and people sneered and laughed, I hated my mum! She was right though, soon everyone was wearing them.

Anyone remember a doll called Sweet April?

Also:
PROPER seasons - not like nowadays (shakes head)
Being allowed to have Salt & Shake crisps from the vending machine after a swimming lesson
Barnaby the little bear
Ice on the inside of the windows in the morning during winter
Thick dark-green scratchy tights for school
Power cuts
Making toast with a toasting fork in front of the fire
I can remember the words to every song (I think) from Camberwick Green/Trumpton/Chigley

Coal fires and fan heaters, and ice on the windows in the mornings- you could scratch your name in it.

Eiderdowns with little roses on, and "candle wick" bedspreads.

Fray Bentos pies.
Everyone knitting. Crotchet.
Orange and brown carpets.
The Liver Birds, and many more.
The Jackson Five cartoon. The Jackson Five, the Osmonds, David Essex, Bay City Rollers, Bowie and Angle Bowie.

Orange dansette record players, where you stacked up eight records.

Sweets in jars.

Nobody went out for a meal or to a cafe.

Oxford bags, corduroy shirts and denim skirts. Platform shoes.

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Oh and cremola foam!

Mr Benn, the Alpine lorry, our new soda stream machine, chopper bikes, putting reins on our bikes and pretending we were riding horses, going into the fields by our house and actually riding the horses bareback (ye gads), lots and lots of sunshine, which is weird because I lived in Glasgow but I remember my childhood in the 70s as being sunny and untroubled.

I feel your pain Sashh I wasn't allowed Girl's World and that's probably why I was often asked if I was a boy and why I walk like a man in anything approaching high heels.

I blame the parents!

My parents wouldn't get me a space hopper. I'm still scarred by the unfairness!

Me too.

I have made up by buying them for small children ever since.

Power cuts

Plastic, side tables made of plastic, plastic chairs even a tv with a spherical plastic cover.

These chairs that either swung round on wheels or hung from the ceiling.

Macrame

sugar shortage, bread shortage, whatever shortage. We were saved on the first by a friend arriving from Benbecula - no panic buying as the store was full and the second by a Jewish friend who brought us some amazing bread.

Panic buying, when I wrote that I thought, hhmmm that doesn't happen.

Really boring Sundays, no shops open, TV wasn't on until the evening when I seem to remember there were a lot of 'serials' where people seemed very hot and sweaty.

Plastic (again) car seats, which were burning in the summer when you got back to the car but your skirt was too short to keep between the seat and your legs.

Please let me play morethanpotatoprints! it was the 70's in Deepest Yorkshire until at least 1993 after all!

Cresta was mentioned upthread. Was that "it's frothy, man!" ?

all through the late 60's to early 70's, my mum went to the hairdresser once a week and sat under one of those contraptions. Then suddenly, about 1977-ish, hairdressers in the Manchester suburbs discovered the 'blow wave'. My mum's hair changed for the better and she only went to the hairdressers every 4 weeks for a trim, styling her hair herself at home.
She sent 15 year old me to Vidal Sassoon in King Street (posh) to get a cut and restyle and this new blow dry. Must see if I can find a pic.

Follyfoot, my aunt has one of those hair dryers. Its still in good nick, and she takes it on holiday with her, camping, abroad, everywhere:)

She takes an extension lead and sits in the garden with it on.

Me in 1971/2

The Tomorrow People

They still sell Jubblies.....

Oh Boy! Magazine
Tab low-calorie canned drink
Embassy Coupons
Flying Saucers
Sherbet with a stick of liquorice in it
Du Maurier cigarettes
No, Honestly song by Lynsey De Paul from a series of same name with Pauline Collins and John Alderton
The Fenn Street Gang and Please Sir!
The Kids from 47A (children's series)
Tops that had crimplene or nylon flowery chests and puffed sleeves, attached to a woollen tanktop
Plastix (sandals)

NoLikey I forgot about Jamie and The Magic Torch, I LOVED that!

OP, you jammy bugger!

I do remember the Jim'll Fix It with the kids eating food on the corkscrew. That was funny

Hector's House!
The Poogles
Hammy the Hamster

( sigh )

Ooh, only JUST remember the 70's!
I remember on telly:

Jamie and The Magic Torch
Willo the Wisp
Rainbow with Rod Jane and Freddy

I remember Chopper bikes, and Striper sweet bars.
The milkman, but he used to bring round bottles of pop as well such as cream soda and dandelion and burdock.

Cresta from woolies on a Saturday
Spangles
Old Jamaica chocolate
Classic serial on a Sunday afternoon
Jinty/ Bunty/ tammy/ My Guy and Blue Jeans
Walkers crisps cost 7 p
Knee length white socks with little holes in
Orange flavoured Junior Aspirin. I loved Junior Aspirin - I used to nick them.
School stinking of Dettol because someone had always thrown up.
Ditto coaches on any school trip after half a mile
Hot chocolate or tomato soup or 3p after swimming
Pink panther chocolate bars
Moose chocolate bars

proper power cuts that went on for hours. We had a camping stove and all the neighbours used to come round for soup
We had some good snow as well - it seemed really deep although that memory might be because I was a good deal shorter then

Getting turned away from the cinema because it was full. They used to bring a stand out and place it at the end of the queue.
Squashed hedgehogs. Im guessing we don't see many hedgehogs today as they were all squashed in the 70's.
Coming back from family parties in the car and my dad putting the seats down and me and brothers laid down sleeping on the back of the car. Seat belts were never used and my dad always used to drink and drive.
Misty magazines which went on to merge with tammy to become tammy and mistry magazine, although that might have been the 80's by then.

I think it may have been called "Hold Tight", I sooooo wanted to go on the corkscrew.

10 years later, I was allowed, we queued for 2 hours and it was shit.