Growing up in the 70's

Taping things off the radio when they played the charts on a Sunday night, trying not to get the DJ talking over the intro - Jackie Magazine - white dog poo - had to have 2p for an emergency phone call in my Brownie purse, in case of emergency (also had to have a piece of string, never worked out what that was for) - party line on the phone, of which there would only be one in the house, in the hall of course, otherwise it was the phonebox, but they were at the end of every road - it was pre supermarkets too, used to buy some food in the grocers and much of it in sep. shops...butchers, green grocers, bakers, etc. - Used to get a penny pocket money for every year of my age (per week) and it was enough to get my fix of sweets at the weekend

I think we might have been a bit out of synch. Kept chickens in the garden, grew our own stuff. Mum did loads of sewing and we went camping. But we were definitely working class.

Eiderdowns and candlewick bedspreads, nylon quilted ones if you were trendy, Pippa dolls and Pippa Dee parties, hotpants and flares, Sindy dolls and furniture - anyone remember these?, record players and reel to reel cassettes, John Peel and Teenage Kicks. Those were the days!

Yes, Darkest, he always signed off with '... and may your god go with you.'

It was a very troubled decade in lots of ways. Watching the news you couldn't miss that. The Troubles in Northern Ireland, IRA bombs and bomb threats in England, the war in Vietnam, Cambodia, the Cold War, expulsion of the Ugandan Asians etc etc. In 1974 there were two General Elections in one year in the UK. Then of course Mrs Thatcher won the election in 1979. That was a turning point.

Vesta meals with crispy noodles that you had to fry.

We didn't have nylon sheets, we had Brushed Cotton in orange & pink stripes - lovely!

& at some point in the 70s we abandoned sheets in favour of Duvets, after sleeping under them in a trendy hotel in south Wales. We called them Continental Quilts, naturally.

...NYLON bedsheets. NYLON!!

I was a lot younger than my dsis, and I dimly remember her going out in her mg and leopardskin fake fur skinnies. She used to give me 20p to pull them straight:)
Everyone drank and smoked, and I always traveled alone on flights, mum and dad went straight down the back to smoke and drink in the rear seats party of flights in those days. I saw them at take off and landing.

My mum had a sports Capri and my dad drank and drove and NEVER got pulled over.

The lounge was brown and yellow, with swirly blue paper on one wall, and an orange sofa. They thought they were IT:)

Long, hot summers. About an hour of kids' TV on just before tea, that was it. Home-made dresses with little flowers on them. Getting a Silver Jubilee mug at school. Ivor the Engine (parp parp parp!) and Mr Ben. Tomato soup and cheese sandwiches, or mince n' tatties.

I remember getting REALLY horribly burnt in the summer. Kids didn't really wear sun cream back then.

Oh yes, I remember spangles.

We had a yellow bathroom suite.

Anyone remember Chorlton and the Wheelies?

I loved The Flumps, my favourite book was Milly Molly Mandy.

We walked everywhere or went on the train, we didn't have a car until I was 16.

Our sofa was made from a weird corduroy material, we had horrible bed sheets and itchy blankets instead of duvets.

The Dukes of Hazzard, The Tomorrow People, Alias Smith and Jones, The Professionals..

I was going to say power cuts - always seemed to be at half-term at my Granny's house, and we had to get out the little candles.
Getting the first computer game - Pong - for Christmas. So exciting to be able to interact with your telly, blocking the little squares and bouncing them back to the other side - Pong tennis
The seaside in the 70's, all wind-breaks and deck chairs and jelly fish!

I'll add The Generation Game to that list of tv.

i used to live Sapphire and Steel, was that 80s though?

Dave Allen was funny insightful and intelligent.

My abiding memory is that Top of the Pops on BBC1 was on at the exact same day and time as The Six Million Dollar Man on ITV.

Sisters and I wanted to watch TOTP and brother wanted SMDM. No video at that stage so we had to take turns.

My god the sulks and tantrums when we had to miss TOTP

Cindy dolls, fuzzy felts, Lego, Magic Roundabout, Magpie, Osmonds and David Cassidy. TOTP every Thursday with Pans People. Hiding behind the sofa at Dr Who. Bay City Rollers. Horrid polyester fashion, flares and. Big lapels on flowery shirts...

AllMimsey can i add Dave Allen at Large to your list. Though having been born in 73 ive seen some of his earlier stuff via youtube.

The later stuff from mid 80s onwards i watched the original broadcasts as i was finally old enough.

Auntie Stella I mentioned Banda machines on the "Smells that remind you of your childhood" thread. I loved the smell - I even got to operate the one at my primary school teacher's pet

Maxi dresses (the first time round)

Soda Steams (the first time round)

A street party at school for the Queen's Silver Jubilee

Glorious summers

Playing two balls up against the wall

Elvis dying

Taking Coke/lemonade bottles back to the shop for the deposits

Going on the train with my dad to pick up his strike pay from the shipyard where he worked.

The 70s were complete and utter rubbish for me as I was sent to boarding school. It was the worst place on earth and is now no longer there, (although it seems to exist in another form, see Education).
Home wasn't much better :( and DB was sent to school in York at 8 years old.

God yes orange nylon sheets, I had a nylon nightie too, it's a wonder I didn't spontaneously combust.

"Home and Freezer Digest" magazine, it was a tiny A5 size. Then it started getting all sophisticated with microwave recipes.

Oh gosh yes, Top of the Pops. Everybody watched that, didn't they? It was on every Thursday. Pan's People and no music videos until Queen did one for Bohemian Rhapsody which stayed at #1 for ages.