Growing up in the 70's

And olive green. Don't forget the olive green.

Oh yes, Oxford Bag trousers. We used to wear them for school discos.

Any body remember "bags" I think they were a type of trouser, baggy top and bottom ?
I had a pair of two tone flares, and thought I was really cool.
Anyone remember " French skipping" , a piece of elastic, two people stood either end and one jumped in and out. Used to go " in , out, in out,on out twist and jump. You started at the ankle, then went to the knees, you could go upto waisties" .
I remember I used to play this all day long, as well as skipping, British Bull dog, and of course " cops and robbers " on our bikes.
Rainbow sherbet , sherbet fountain, and sherbet dibs dabs. Oh those were the days.

The Brotherhood of Man. Save All Your Kisses for me was the first single I ever bought. And now someone's going to come on and tell me it was actually released in 1982 .....

I'm glad to read I wasn't the only one who bathed once a week. The reason we don't remember anyone smelling is because we all smelled the same! Or so I am given to understand .....

I remember decimalisation- very exciting- also watching Daktari on a Saturday with Clarence the Cross Eyed Lion.

Katie. Katie Copycat. She can write the same and draw the same as you!

Only she couldn't.

I was born in 1965 so should remember decimalisation, but don't. A financial ignorance which has remained with me ever since.

Has anyone mention The Lost Islands? Sunday morning and I can even remember the theme tune:

So Tony, Mark and David, Anna and Su-Lin
Are left here on an island, who knows what could begin?
Adventure lies before them, danger lies behind
And as they go on searching what new troubles will they f iii iiii iii nd.

Bomb scares - my sister had a M&S Saturday job and plastic macs were standard issue in case they had to vacate the building while it was raining.

Being off sick from school, munching doorstep slices of toast my Nan gave me from under the covers of the bed and when the doorbell rang she would screech: "AAAAAGH!! School Board Man!!! Hide!!!" Who on earth was the School Board Man anyway? The very idea of him used to put the fear of God into me.

Several price stickers on food, which as you peeled them off revealed what you might have paid. Should you have bought it a year earlier.

Opening a box of chocolates all excited to reveal they all had a 'bloom' on them. Because they should have been bought a year earlier ....

Teachers who knew nothing about human rights - primary school netball game in central London on a hot day where none of us were allowed to drink from the fountain because the coach was waiting to take us back to school. Not one slurp. And those nuns. They'd never get away with stuff like that in a primary school today!

I had a pogo stick. Vaguely recall bill and ben the flower pot men! Oh and paisley print.
I joined the Bazooka Joe club and thought I would make a great spy. Loved rainbow drops, coconut mushrooms, sweet tobacco - yes tobacco!
I can remember decimalisation day! Going to the shops with my brothers and buying a huge bag of sweets before the currency disappeared.
ADVERTS - remember 'For Mash get Smash' with those funny looking robots. I can sing the Martini ad (sad) and remember seeing a woman wearing a floaty dress provocatively eating a flake.

morethanpotatoprintsThu 13-Feb-14 14:40:59

When was Juliet Bravo, that was a great change to all the macho Police programmes we had seen. I'm sure it was 70's.

Think it was early 80s. Another breath of fresh air was The Gentle Touch.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:School_plimsolls.jpg These ones.

I used to represent my county in the 100 metres and won every time in my little black elastic plimsolls. I lost for the first time in years in 1979 when trainers came in and mum bought me a pair. I went back to plimsolls and won every race.

I found a pair of black plimsolls in a discount score a few years ago and managed a pretty good 11.9 seconds.

I love plimsolls.

We got a grant to build an indoor bathroom and a gas fire in the 70's. We were well posh after that, no more running to the bottom of the garden to go to the toilet, no more freezing cold baths in the shed. No phone till the late '80s though, and no central heating till the nineties. The best thing was being up the woods all day long and our mothers never knew where we were.

I had cork soled platform clogs.

Which I wore with a cheesecloth shirt and a tiered skirt.

Auntie Stella I saw Aqua Manda advertised in a mag this week - it was £50 for crissakes! We wore platform soled shoes that were poorly made and poorly attached - its a wonder we didn't break our ankles.
I loved loon pants, rainbow and star patterned t shirts anything in crushed velvet . T Rex... Going to the record shop to hear the latest singles. Dansettes. Juke Box Jury. 8 tracks We had Biba make up and Mary Quant and that wonderful dome-topped lemon scented Love range in Boots. We thought Ski yoghurt was le dernier cri - it came in a waxy pot. Vesta Paella. In Sainsburys you got served by an assistant.. We had real candles on our synthetic Christmas tree, candy striped flannelette sheets. Whatever happened to candlewick bedspreads? Well maybe the Continental quilt happened (we could only get them at Habitat in our town). Coffee with chicory... tea bags hadn't really taken on and hardly anyone had an electric kettle. Soda siphons filled up at the pub. Shopper bikes. strap on roller skates... Having a real shower rather than a rubber tap attachment in murky blue or pink... perms. rain hoods. quilted anoraks... dungarees. .....

Love this thread, it's bringing back some great memories...

db getting a pellet gun for xmas when he was aged 10
wearing a brown polyester jumpsuit with a Charlies Angels badge
sugar sandwiches
df covering us with baby oil so we'd tan quicker
weathermen having to place clouds/rain/sun on the maps
paper dolls cut out from the back of Bunty magazine
everyone bringing thier tables and chairs outside for the Jubilee Party
lovely legs competitions on our holidays
grandma always wearing a hat

Its frothy man:

Chopper bike, Banana Splits on Sat morning, Wombles, Bay City Rollers, mum sewing tartan on jeans (BCR fan), Bouquet of Barbed Wire, The Brothers, Roots, Upstairs Downstairs, Poldark, Cathy and Claire problem pages in Jackie, Saturday Night Fever, Charlie perfume, satin bomber jacket, leather trench coat, Martin Ford, Chelsea Girl.

Oh yes Blakes 7 absolutely for me!! I was lucky enough to meet the two principle actors too!! Nice people they are!!

Oh this brings back so many memories for me!!!! Good and bad!!! Mary Mungo and Midge. My lot can't get their heads around the lack of technology either!!!!

Oh, and Z cars on TV! As well as Dixon of Dock Green - 'evenin' all' !

Haven't read all 24 nostalgic pages yet, but can offer - the 'AA book of the road' - hardback UK road map with little descriptions of towns and villages: Silvikrin shampoo (I can smell that herby smell now!): the nifty little Dymo label making machine: macrame everywhere. And I kept my clackers, they're in the loft!

i like that idea Stella.

Though of course there was the game of elastics (with it round your ankles), and that hoop skipping gam (hoop round one ankle, string, ball to jump over; can't remember proper name)

BTW: this is a lovely thread. Should it be moved to a permanent forum? Perhaps the History Club?