Growing up in the 70's

And my mum and dad used to drive to the pub and leave me in the car with a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps whilst they sat inside.

Nylon nightdresses (red and white striped) and bylon bedspread. We used to lie in the dark and rub the 2 together to make sparks.

Vauxhall Viva

Austin Maxis

Silver Jubilee Street parties

Camping holidays in Devin with our huge blue and orange canvas frame tent.

Party seven beer - and my dad and his mates battling to get into one.

Family rooms in pubs. We would get a glass bottle of coke with a straw and a packet of salt n shake crips and be left to our devices whilst the adults got pissed elsewhere in the pub.

Being free to play and roam in a way that no kids get the chance to these days.

My mums twin tub.

wood cladding in our dining room and people coming to marvel at it.

Parkray coal fire.

Leaving my home at 8am and cycling to my pony. Going out alone on said pony and not getting home until it was dark... Cycling home with my little lights on.

No phone

Aged 10

Parents just aware I was somewhere round the village on a bridal path.

Hey what about phoning the operator to reverse the charges. Can you still do that?

Trying to record TOTP, and my dad always walking in and making a smart comment cos he thought he was funny
French skipping
Crossroads being on the radio during the power cuts
It being really dark in the mornings when we walked to school - we had fluorescent orange armbands to wear
My mum making me a pair of tartan flares during my BCR phase
Getting my first pair of wedges
Finding punk rock in my early teens, going to my first gig

Mimsy thats when Dairy Milk actually used to taste like Dairy Milk unlike now yes Kraft in looking at you

We were in the NW then too - it was Camell Laird's where dad worked.

Lunchtime children's TV - Pipkins, Bod and A Handful of Songs

Evening TV - Six Million Dollar Man, Blake's 7 and Tomorrow's World we should be travelling by jet pack now

Grandstand on a Saturday with Frank Bough and Eddie Waring on the rugby league

Never got a space hopper either

Always remmber waking up and running to the bedroom chair to ger school uniform and getting dressed under the blankets which were ex miltary one orange wall paper paying the elec bill in a shop in town

Plus I remmber that the out panients recpiention at Leciester hostpil was purple

Darkesteyes yes I do remember Week End Chocolates!

posh My grandmother was horrified at the amount of washing I did when my DC were small and the fact DC wore clean clothes including undies daily..

I remember Weekend chocolates. They were indeed a VERY strange combination of flavours

strikes having to sit in the dark playing games with my mum, the heatwave of 76? Pams People on TOTP, charlies angles on the tv. 1/2p sweets we got 10p a week pocket money. Pippa dolls, we had an orange and brown lounge and my parents had a drinks cabinet in the sideboard, I remember the excitement when we had our phone put in but it was a party line so had to wait till next door were not using it before we could. not that us kids ever used the phone, we were allowed to answer it once we had memorised the number and had to answer with hello..11111.

We had a lava lamp that leaked.

When they leak they bloody STINK!

Travelling alone on the train with a little brother. No adult help.

No mobiles, GPS or train delays on a phone.

Perhaps it makes one self reliant?

Fab thread which is bringing it all back for me!

Hanging out with mates at the local phone box, pushing random buttons and getting Dial a Disc free.

Nylon sheets that went all bobbly at the feet end.

Radio Luxemburg listened to on a little tranny under the bedsheets when my mum thought I was asleep.

Mam saying 'grease yersen up if you're off out in that sunshine' and then slapping vaseline all over us. Cue fried kids.

Charlie Says safety adverts

Lots of good adverts on TV.

The Milk Tray man and the man sneaking down in the middle of the night to get R. White's lemonade out of the fridge.

Any time, any place, anywhere/There's a wonderful world you can share/It's the right one/It's the bright one/It's Martini

For Mash, Get Smash! 'They peel them with their metal knives!' Best advert ever.

Nuts, whole hazelnuts, ooh! Cadbury's take them and they cover them with chocolate...

I remember the ad for Milk Tray and "See the face you love light up with Terry's Allgold"....

I think my parents just put me outside the pub with a bottle of pop and a bag of crisps.

Don't remember Week End chocolates but I do remember Spartan Hard Centres - my Dad's favourite!

God yes, continental quilts! Our first ones were pink, shiny and flowery.

Pacers!
Yes to Candlewick bedspreads. We used to pull the threads out, chew them and then throw them up to stick on the ceiling!
Power cuts.
Dad letting the choke out on the car.no seatbelts then Clunk Click,Every trip!
Riding bikes with no helmets
Answering the phone with just a 3 digit number - x 243.
Cremola foam
Measles
No central heating and ice on inside of windows
Cassettes
Roller skates with a wheel at each corner.

Clackers
Bye Bye Miss American Pie
Sunshine
Platform shoes
Handstands
Elastics
Marbles
Conkers
Go karts
Janet and John reading books
Daisy Chains
Miss World Game

We had a big round wicker rug in the kitchen. Turqoise Blue carpet everywhere. No ones Mums seem to work then either.