Did anybody grow up in the 70s?

Mum's in the summer sitting on the doorsteps (terraced houses) with a cup of tea in the evening when it was hot, kids playing in the street, a great community atmosphere. Silver tinsel Christmas tree with multi-coloured fairy lights. Always getting a box of lemon and orange sugared jelly sweets with your Christmas presents. No central heating or landline. Walking to school and home again for lunch.

I bought a pair of Kickers a few weeks ago!

I had 2 pairs of shoes. Brown school shoes and plimsolls - black gym shoes, then Dunlop green flash. And wellies. Wellies and plimsolls usually were hand me downs.
Slam door trains.
The summer of 76!
Polyester everything !
No school uniform.

Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, queues for petrol, bell bottoms, crochet vests, my mum in orange jeans with daisies, no seat belts, school days, endless summers...

Chopper bikes
Yorkshire ripper
Babycham
Kicker shoes
Drought of 76
Saturday night fever being released and all the hype and the Bee Gees
Morecombe and Wise
Miss World
Conductor on a bus

Pasta was foreign, unless it was ravioli or spaghetti hoops in a tin.
Pizza, McDonalds etc unheard of. Wimpy was waitress service.

Rag and Bone man used to come round with with horse and cart.
The local brewery used to deliver beer by horse and cart too, in Central London (I believe they did until they closed about 10 years ago).
Kids TV was limited, and a bit rubbish.
We played out in the street and took shirt cuts over unfenced railway lines.
Got the bus from London to not far from Brighton by myself, to my grandparents. I was about 11-12.

Salt n shake crisps
IRA
Went to school by myself on the tube once I was 8 - 3 stops, 1 change
Angel Delight
DM shoped locally, daily-ish
DM did a degree as a mature student. She used to leave her baby (me!) behind the till in the college bookshop when she went to lectures..
Big collars,big patterns

I grew up in the US but we visited the U.K. most summers (mother rented out a flat to students during the year and then we’d go stay in it so she could do work on it in the summer). What I remember most was the limited TV, both in terms of channels and also hours it was on!

I also remember loads of strikes and not very good fruit/veg.

On the plus side, my mother used to let my younger brother and I run around Edinburgh on our own. We used to play football with the neighbourhood kids in the middle of what is now quite a busy Edinburgh street. I also remember the milk being delivered by a horse drawn cart (in its least few years)

Okay, I didn't phrase that very well! The only pasta was spag bol. We also wore hand knitted ponchos, hats and gloves.

Having a bath with my brother and sister in the drought. The Queen's Jubilee, wearing knee high white socks with everything, crisps were 2 1/2p, not everyone had a landline or a car. The only pasta was spag bol, hand-knitted ponchos, gloves and hats

3 day week and power cuts, queuing for bread and sugar, total misunderstanding about teeth and sugar, making our own clothes from Laura Ashley fabrics. Then punk arrived .

Loads of strikes - numerous powercuts, queuing for bread.
Drought of 76, collecting water from stand pipes in the street.

Aye.
Bay City Rollers socks.
Rolf Harris Stylophones.
Clackers, and broken wrists.
Walking to school in heavy fog.
Fireworks only happened on 5th November (unless it was a Sunday)
Bath night was Sunday (unless we got very dirty on other days)