Growing up in the 70's

ebony and ivory!! paul mc cartney and stevie w. the first record i ever bought.

no bar codes!!!

You are right boaty baths were once a week! but I don't remember people being smelly! I remember when we got a shower installed, in the 80's. One bathroom, one toilet, for a family of five, and we were considered to be quite posh at that time....

I really hated that school milk...

I went off to boarding school in 1979 and the price of a first class stamp was around 12p I think...

I saw a 1974 advert on a nostalgia account i follow on Twitter. It was for a box of chocolates called Week End. Very unusual selection. Does anyone remember them.

Spangles and big grape flavour bubblegum balls, PEK chewing gum, fizzy pop from the chippy, junket for tea, blancmange on a Sunday, mum drinking Cherry B, or a snowball, Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep on the radio, David Soul's Silver Lady, Ain't Half Hot Mum on tv, sandwiches and tinned peaches with carnation milk on Sunday and a strawberry scented nightlight during the power outages, black and white tv, without a remote, wearing headscarves on my head tied at the back of my neck, elastics in the playground and skipping with a big rope held by someone at either side, whilst singing rhymes, the Monkees on tv, Morecombe and Wise!

Oh god I remember taping things from the charts on a Sunday night! Had this little red stereo with a tape deck in the middle and I knew those tapes inside out, including the squiggly bits where the buttons were being pressed down!

The Saturday wrestling with Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks et al

1/2p mojo sweets. a bag of monster munch for 7p. shops shut on sundays. power cuts. lots of manmade fibres (eurgh)

Yy to fuzzy felts and Worzel Gummidge.

Saturday night TV was The A Team and Jim'll Fix It

We weren't allowed to watch Tiswas.

Other favourite TV programmes were Heidi, Why Don't You?, Fingermouse, Button Moon, Huckleberry Finn, Mighty Mouse, HeMan and Cracker Jack

Bringing back lots of memories here

All if the above, and

Butterflies galore in the summer!

White dog poo.

Phone boxes with directories in them!

Playing Jacks!

Playing Elastics!

Freeman Hardy & Willis shoes.

The Wombles

Chilblains in the winter.

Pea souper fog!

Glorious, glorious sunshine filled school summer holidays!

Caramac Easter eggs

Concrete under swings so that if you fell off, it hurt!

Cheese Cutter in the park and other assorted 'dangerous' rides in the park.

Laying down on a roundabout and dropping a lolly stick and going round and round trying to pick it back up.

Funny faces ice cream.

Lolly gobble chocolate bomb

Orange and brown was definitely popular .

We had a brown bathroom suite, an orange Skoda and weird trippy swirly wall paper.

Loons & cheesecloth shirts.
Corona pop.
Purple swirly carpet and black plastic leather three piece suite.
Platform shoes.
Half mast trousers commonly known as bags or was that a West Midlands thing?
Brut men's aftershave, also worn by 15 year old girls, at least where I lived in the West Midlands.
Platform shoes (usually plastic).
Well here it is Merry Christmas everybodies having fun, Look to the future now it's only just begun etc etc etc

White dog poo on the pavements
Will o the wisp, Evil Edna (crazed TV set), and Mavis the fairy
Findus crispy pancake adverts
Macrame lampshades and basket holders for spider plants

Letsface - were your neighbours called Margot and Jerry?

Fingerbobs, Wurzel Gummidge, Cat Weazle, Mint Cracknel, Lime Barrels.
We had rainbow striped carpet, brown flowery wallpaper and fake black leather sofas and swivel chairs at one point. No one was allowed in the front room that had parquet flooring and red leather sofas in fact it was never used dm used to clean in there and then shut the door

A bath once a week on Sunday evening, clothes worn until they were physically dirty, washday was Monday..

Great thread. So many memories!

Angel Delight, Ice Magic (went stiff when you put it on the ice cream), Dave Allen, The Goodies, my family being unhappy, long hot summers, YES whoever said we just got sunburnt, Legs and Co, the Yorkshire Ripper.... Isla St. Clair wearing electric blue - all the time - Summer Special, Day Trip to Bangor....

Duvets? Weren't they called 'continental quilts' at first?

Oh yes, getting sunburn. Ow,ow. Remember revising for 'O' levels in the best summer ever, the backs of our legs were agony for days.

The twin tub and then us all watching the new automatic washing machine do a whole cycle - in awe.

Yes, I remember the summer of ladybirds. We collected shitloads of them in matchboxes, then put the whole lot on a neighbours rosebush.

The Beano arriving in the paper on a Wednesday

Charlie perfume

Bunty magazine

Watching the film on Christmas day

Pacers (like opal fruits but green and white striped and peppermint flavour)

Yellow River; Spirit in the Sky; Something; Bridge over Troubled Water; All Right Now; My Sweet Lord; Maggie May; Hot Love; I'm Still Waiting; Get It On; Mouldy Old Dough; Without You; Son of my Father; Metal Guru; Blockbuster; Cum on Feel the Noise; See My Baby Jive; Daydreamer; Tiger Feet; Seasons in the Sun; Gonna Make You a Star .........

My Nan bought my brother a duvet...and put in on top of sheets and blankets like her eiderdown...

those terrifying public safety films they used to show you in schools.