Growing up in the 70's

Fine Fare.

Little paper bus tickets that just said Bus Ticket.

So many memories. I loved growing up in the seventies.
Does anyone remember Royals?
They were black brogue style shoes. Absolutely must have footwear at my school in the northwest in the late seventies.

talking of supermarkets, was there one called International? and definitely Fine Fare!
Going to record shop Tuesday lunchtime from school to find out what was number 1 and then popping to pub for a quick G&T

Made my own French elastic from individual rubber bands once.
My mum made my clothes at primary.
Crackerjack.
Timeslip on just after school.

Yy to Oxford bags..my brother had a pair. And tacks on his shoes.
Yes to French skipping..a total obsession and when not with friends I did it in the kitchen between two stools.
Decimalisation day...after that everything seemed to double in price.
Cand As for clothes.
Trying on straight jeans lying on floor in changing room and pulling te zip up with string so there were really tight.
Clackers, then they were banned.
Roller skates.
Homemade Go Karts.
Knock a door run
Massive freezer and one year, a twenty eight pound turkey .people would freeze half pigs etc

Changing the needle on the record player
Andy Pandy
Olga Korbut
Diana Dors
Long Haired Lover from Liverpool
Robins Nest
Love thy Neighbour - how was that ever allowed?

I remember my mum using Lux Flakes to wash nappies.
my dad had an allotment in the 70s and 80s.

I need a 'like' button for every post on this thread! I was born in 1967 & remember everything mentioned. Green Shield stamps, Pong, going to the seaside in my Uncles Cortina Estate (12 of us in a 5 seater car - a few in the boot with the picnic!!!). I also live in the NW so I remember Blackie the rocking horse in Blackers Dept Store in Liverpool. Thank you so much for starting this thread - so many memories. I also remember Fantasy Island on TV - 'the plane, the plane!!!!'

Was there a supermarket called Queens? I'm sure I remember one opening near my granny's house and me and my sister riding on the trolleys like they were toys. It was a new novelty.

Later we had a chain of supermarkets called Hillards. They got taken over by Tesco in the 80s.

Weren't Oxford bags those wide check trousers that the Bay City Rollers were?

You can still buy jublies in ASDA- ready to freeze in the custard and dessert aisle.

barbarosa ......no workfare back in the 70s either. Imagine what the unions would have said about that back then There would have been uproar.

Oh I'd forgotten Jublies! They never really took off.

I think Olive oil was only sold in chemists as it was meant for cleaning ears out. Nobody ever thought to cook with it.

What a great thread, how nostalgic, remember it so well as born early sixtes, so a teen through the seventies.

Only shops open on Sunday were newsagents till midday, allowed to sell papers, mags, sweets but not cards etc..

Sainsburys with separate counters to queue and pay at.

Seeing a pepper for the first time in a supermarket

Olive oil only available in the chemist.

First colour TV

Trim phones, party lines.

3 TV channels, not welsh program's or 'watch with mother' available in he morning (when off from school)

Kernockers - until they were banned

Computer studies in school (1975 to 1977) marking punch cards in pencil by hand, each one containing a single instruction.

Punk rock, QE silver jubilee

Does anyone remember 'jublies'...massive triangular lumps of frozen ice that came in two flavours.: Orange and a red 'fire water' flavour? Ice poles that were about a foot long, heart ice creams and the very first birds eye mousses that came in a little rectangular waxed paper packet? They were only around a short time then out came the first 'pot' type ones with a really strong strawberry sauce...
Also....Saturday morning pictures, the minors ABC club where you went to your local cinema and watched old Flash Gordon episodes and other not very child appropriate stuff!
Playing out all day in roads with hardly any parked cars or traffic......making go carts and rafts to try and float on our local park pond...this was in South London btw..you just can't imagine it now.

Darning my dad's socks..

I was 18 at the start of the 70s, single but " courting " as we used to say back in the day. Come 1980 I was married, two children and a third on the horizon. That was definitely what I call growing up in the 70s !
So here's my happy 70s memories :-
petrol at under £1 a gallon
my first new company car - a Morris Marina 1.3 DeLuxe in Brooklands Green with Sorrell trim. Utter bag of shte.
No elfnsafety
No political correctness
Bernard Manning on " The Comedians " making everyone laugh and no-one complaining
trade unions with muscle - before Thatcherscum emasculated them
jobs for all - take your pick - no special qualifications needed, no 10-page application forms, no psychometric testing just to get a job in Poundland.
If the boss liked the cut of your jib, you got the job.
no housing shortage - my wife-to-be and I went for a mortgage and walked out 10 mins later with an offer.
No social unrest because of excessive immigration.
the EU ( then EEC ) was just there for trade and NOT to take over our lives.
The Sweeney. Best cop show EVER.
becoming a dad.
Led Zeppelin at the start of the decade, punk at the end of it.
The Professionals - great at the time but curiously dated and almost embarrassing to watch whereas The Sweeney has achieved classic and cult status.
6 cans of Stella Artois for £2
getting pssed at sales meetings held in pubs and no-one even aware that driving home was both stupid and dangerous. It's just the way it was in those days.
Texan bars - my eldest lad loved them. As a boy he got 50p pocket money on a Friday and we went to the corner shop and he bought a Texan and a Matchbox car with his 50p.
Nutty bars - lovely chewy toffee smothered in peanuts
Terry's 1776 chocolate assortment
Water rates - £4 a year. If my salary had risen as much as my water bill, I'd be earning over £100,000 pa.
Council tax - £25 a year. ditto - only £60,000 pa.

I'll have to stop here or I'll be going on all day.
The 70s - definitely the best decade of my life - and my wife and I, married over 40 yrs now, still enjoy watching The Sweeney !!