Growing up in the 70's

Colour TV
The Silver Jubilee
The three day week
Getting central heating
Avocado bathroom suites
Calculators
Tape recorders
Stereos
Dralon suites and headboards
Top of the Pops with Jimmy Saville
Women newsreaders
Hotpants
Summer boots
Roman Sandals
The Common Market
Ted Heath, Harold Wilson and Jeremy the Liberal
Curly Wurlys
Brentford Nylons
Greenpeace
The Iron Curtain
Willy Wonka
The Pill
Charlie's Angels
The Avengers with Purdey
Monty Python
Spitting Image
Ian Drury
Blondie
Polytechnics
Spanish package holidays
Greenham Common
Burn your bra
Reginald Bosanquet
A Bouquet of Barbed Wire
Starsky and Hutch
Biba
Foreign food - like pizza
Ford Capris
Glam Rock
The Doors
Cheesecloth
platform shoes
trim phones
knitting machines
.......I'm sure I could go on

Gin: Which Nightclub/Disco did you go to ?

Fish and chips in newspaper

Blancmange

Nylon sheets and nylon nightie which crackled when you moved - sometimes could even see tiny sparks!

Swirly carpets that clashed with swirly curtains

Wet-look jackets

Getting in the bath with my jeans on to make them shrink skintight

Real sweetshops with dozens and dozens of jars of different sweets, and little dishes of them on doilies in the window

Buses regularly on strike and having to walk home six miles from school all alone in the rain

When you joined the public library, you were given tickets made out of a stiff paper or card. Every time you borrowed a book, you handed over one of your tickets and a card from the book was put into your ticket so they knew who had the book. I never understood the filing system because when you took the book back the librarians seemed to have no trouble finding the ticket from the hundreds and hundreds in their little shallow trays all round the issue desk.

Oh yes, the IRA. We lived near an army base and were so used to being searched I forgot:( the endless bombings and fear of London.

Boys weren't allowed to do cooking at school, just girls. They did computers instead. Gender stereo typing was the norm. I remember being told it didn't matter I was top in physics, I couldn't do it as it was a boys subject, and I would probably be married and a sahm by 21, so it was better if a boy took my place, as he would have a family to support. Mum and dad agreed.

Playing out til dark, the milkman. Banks shutting for lunch, relying on newspapers and the bbc for info. How did anyone get anything done?

Jobs for life. Being considered dangerously unreliable if you changed jobs. Back packing was something only hippies did, and you would never get a job on return.

Unmarried mothers and divorcees, victims of domestic violence being expected to be ashamed and put up with it and the 'stigma'

The good old days. I don't think so.

Oh yes to the twin tub!
With five dcs, it was never off!
A big fireguard that went all the way round and had nappies drying on it.
Playing jacks or 5 stones in school
The nit comb!
Black and white telly
Duffel coats
Ice cream and jelly at birthdays
Having a pantry

Clackers. Roller skates that didn't roll ! Being free to play outside, carefree. Bay City Rollers. Getting drunk for the first time ever at our Queen's Silver Jubilee street party. My parents thought I was drinking Shloer and it was actually Blue Nun.
Age 17 , going out to a disco in Manchester. I went at least 4 nights a week, got home at around 5am and still got up for work at 7am!
Very happy times for me.

(thanks to the PP for mentioning fuzzy felts, I was trying to remember the name of them a few weeks ago)

Spartan were my grandmas favourites too

elatics, ball in a tight hit against a wall

wuthering heights, abba albums

elvis presley dying whilst it never stopped raining all summer

grease and happy days

For the Silver Jubilee my dad made me and my DB these hats to wear Mine was really tall and heavy.
He also made a big Silver Jubilee decoration for the front lawn.

texan bars

Sindy when she was pretty and made by Pedigree

Chickaboo

Ice cream that used to come in a rectangular block and used to sit in rectangular cone

Radiogram here too. .....though they did get rid of that one.

Brown crimpilene

The photo on my profile says it all

Orange and brown everything.
Learning to use the phone box with a 2 pence piece!
Hot hot hot
Pacers
Space dust before it was trendy and called popping candy
A 10p mix contained about 20 sweets like fruit salads and black jacks.
Standing up in the car with head out the sunroof.
Playing out, in and around everyone's gardens.
White dining furniture!
Shag pile carpet.
Mum and dad drinking vinho verde!

Banana Splits on telly
Bohemian Rhapsody first vid on TOTP
Butterscotch Angel Delight
Stylophone

My mums twin tub ......yes.

Silver Jubilee parties .....yes My DM had the photo album out a few months back.

And the drinks cabinet in the sideboard...yes. In fact they still have the same sideboard.

Yes, Weekend chocolates in a big cream box!
All of the above.
Playing balls
My big sisters drinking PLJ to lose weight
Pippa-dee parties
Pan stick make up

Forgot to say nearly everyone had a coal shed in the garden and a coal bunker and companion set.

Monopoly and Cluedo had wooden houses and people.

baubles on the xmas tree were prettier than the ones you buy today. More individual and made of glass.

christmas cards had photos of baubles on or cute fluffy animals dressed up in Xmas outfits.

I remember a girl in my O level maths class bringing in her calculator to show the rest of us. Amazing! She wasn't allowed to use it in exams, of course.

Bus conductors punching your ticket
Anne French cleansing milk
Butchers and veg vans coming round
Wearing rubber bathing caps when swimming
Radiograms
Swimming in the sea with no supervision and no arm bands.

I remember the weekend chocolate box. It was a real favourite in our house. Don't know why though.

Metal roller skates that you wore over shoes.