Did anybody grow up in the 70s?

The black jacks and fruit salads were the 8 for 1p ones.
On telly, The Onedin Line, Upstairs Downstairs, The Professionals, The Sweeney (after my bedtime), Love Thy Neighbour, Bless This House, Butterflies, The Good Life, Mike Yarwood, Morecambe and Wise. The New Avengers and Purdey haircuts.
Ford Cortinas and Ford Capris, Morris Marinas, Austin Maxi and Austin Princess/Ambassador.

Black and white war movies on the TV on Sundays.
Roast every Sunday.
20p mix - black jacks and fruit salads
Sherbert dib dabs
The Magic Roundabout, Top Cat, Rainbow and Pipkins
Bingo at the working men's club
Cherryade
Weddings where the bride had long sleeved, A line dresses and long straight hair
Roller skates
John Travolta, Grease and Saturday night fever - watching TOTP every week hoping "you're the one that I want!" was still number one.
Quiet for the news as my Dad was in the forces in NI, we lived there in married quarters and sometimes it was the only way to know if anything had happened. One day it had and I remember my Mum crying and running to the neighbours to ask if they'd heard anything more.

Mary Poppins, Lady and the tramp, the Jungle book and 101 dalmations
Headmaster smacking hands or legs and for the very worse offences - the cane.

Cast off clothes.
Home knit jumpers.
Shopping in shops not supermarkets.
Party-line phones - you shared a landline with another house.
Phones with a dial, in beige, cream or green.
Telephone number you rang to find out what was number 1 in the charts. If you rang from the phone box, you could hear a few notes without putting any money in. I think the phone box would take 2p or 10p coins.
No 20p or £1 coins. People still calling 5p a shilling, and 50p ten bob.
Buying 8 sweets for 1 pence.
Diets becoming a thing.
Bay City Rollers, Grease and the Sex Pistols.
Flares, hot pants and tank tops
Hot summer of 1976.
Petrol 'rationing'
Silver jubilee
Having just one pair of shoes and plimsolls for gym
Chocolate bars like Mars and curly wurly much bigger, as were Wagon Wheels.
KitKats had Rowntree on them
Shopping from catalogues.
Getting a colour telly.
Telly with a knob for changing the channel.
Only 3 TV channels.
Not having a way of recording tv.
Transistor radios and cassette players.
Tiny Tears, Pippa dolls.

DM used to rub olive oil on her skin to help her tan!

As a pp said... freedom.

Respect. As in children respected adults.

Children were either bright, average or thick.

Remedial classes for the 'thick' ones.

School meals were proper meals.

Hand written school reports which actually told you something about the child.

Staff rooms full of cigarette smoke.

Macrame
Cheesecloth
Long party frocks.
Didn't know any mothers who worked.
Only knew 1 mother who could drive.
Hardly any food waste.
Junior aspirin in a little bottle with cotton wool inside, a pill crushed between 2 spoons and mixed with a drink.
Olive oil for earache.
Hot water bottles were a must in winter.
Being a child in the 70s was great. No pressure.

A can of fizzy drink was a treat for Christmas/birthdays. The can had a seam and a detachable ring pull (detachable ring pulls continued until 1986).

Oh and not being allowed any of my mum's expensive sunscreen (SPF 2 max!) and being told to just put a tee shirt on! I spent most summers like a lobster until I was about 8 and my skin was damaged enough to tan.

Our old VW Beetle and never wearing seatbelts. Sitting on my dad's knee and "driving" the car.
The heat! The summers seemed hot and sunny and I never wore shoes until it was time to go back to school.
The IRA and The Troubles on the news every single night. When we went to Belfast, having to walk through the massive security barriers, having your bags searched and even having babies lifted out of prams to check for explosive devices...and thinking nothing of it, it was normal.
Sweets were better and crisps seemed to come in big bags that were full up.
No mobile phones being booted out of the house in the morning and only coming back at dinner time.

Long brown and blue flowery party dresses.
Large colourful flower print wallpaper and a brown dralon sofa (like velour).
Ford cortinas.
Icecream from the icecream van with raspberry sauce that dripped onto your hands.
Bowl haircuts for boys and girls.
Findus crispy pancakes and tinned Heinz soup.
10p mix at the local shop. Some of the sweets were 1/2p each.

ozone layer i think,
we used to use ambra solair bronzing oil in the 1980s

Oh and mustn't forget...no central heating! Bloody freezing in winter, we would all queue up in front of the 3 bar electric fire to get dressed and go to bed under piles of blankets. We had frost on the inside of the windows.
Summers always seemed hot, and we never had sun cream but I don't remember getting sunburnt either, what's that about?

I was a small child in the 70s. I remember the power cuts and found them exciting...getting all the candles out from under the sink and sitting in the candlelight.
We had milk at school breaktime in little glass bottles and in summer it would be warm
School dinners on the other hand were excellent at my school...lovely roasts, cottage pies, cake with pink custard! We could smell it being cooked and our bellies would be rumbling from 10am.
Tv only had three channels and you'd have to press buttons on the tv to switch over.
We didn't have a phone, if we wanted to make a call it was round the corner to the phone box with a pile of 2p coins.
I got a cassette player and a bay city rollers tape for Christmas when I was 6, I loved them and always wanted some "bumper boots" like they wore (converse in this day and age).
I remember washing day we couldn't get in the kitchen as the massive twin tub took up the whole floor space, dm would stand over it poking it with a stick.
Frozen food became a thing in the 70s, fish fingers, findus crispy pancakes, mr brains faggots (all with chips of course)

I remember doing my homework by candlelight!.Miners strike.Also no CH,remember getting undressed by the fire (just to vest and pants )and running upstairs to nice warm bed .(electric blanket)!."Playing out" rounders ,Tennis ,and so on Remember Virginia Wade ,winning Wimbledon .1977 I think.Going to the Saturday morning Disco .wearing hot pants ! .

DIY Tie dye tshirts.

A 'trim phone' being the height of modernity.

'Continental quilts' (duvets) being new and exotic.

The latest in clocks were 'digital' clocks where the numbers flicked over.

TV being on shutdown for large portions of the day, with the test card being shown either side of the periods with programmes.

Can't believe I didn't mention smoking, you'd get on a bus and barely be able to see the back seat for all the smoke.

the bogey man,
there werent paedos, they were men offering sweets to unsuspecting children, that we should beware of
Z cars

Carpet in bathrooms.

Power cuts
onedin Line
Brown and orange
clothkits
one local shop
playing with grass cuttings
Blue Peter, The clangers
Abba winning the Eurovision song contest.
sitting in the car with crisps and lemonade and the radio on while parents in the pub
writing down the top 40, taping it from the radio.
penny sweets
the IRA
making mud figures
We were told it was great that Maggie Thatcher being a woman, had become prime minister, good for women, we were told

Only got new clothes at Christmas, Easter and summer holiday.

Cheesecloth!

First flights available to the common people! My dad took us to Ibiza in the 70s! It was an island with no clubs or high-rise hotels.

Buying Green shield stamps, and the Saturday pink, for my Df

A lot of this stuff says 60s to me not 70s. (And the bombing of the horses in Hyde Park was early 80s).

We moved to a three bed semi in a leafy suburb in 1971 and had central heating.

Spent all my spare time at the stables.

Jackie Magazine. Top of the Pops. The chart show on a Sunday and the excitement of finding out what was number one.

Rod Stewart. Heavy Metal. Status Quo concerts at the Free Trade Hall.

Oxford bags. Loons. Two tones.

Going to the cinema with my big sis to watch Star Wars quite a few times.

Having handkerchiefs with lovely designs on them like lots of rabbits going camping.

None of my friend’s mums worked.

The “pop man” coming in his lorry to deliver dandelion and burdock and give you 1p for emptys.

Shops closing at 5:30pm and no shops open on Sunday (apart from the newsagent who closed around 1pm).

Penny things. Like pick and mix but you had to point through the glass cabinet at what you wanted and most things were a penny.

The half penny. Seeing things in the co-op marked up as 15 1/2p. The co-op also used to have a strip of stickers that came out of a machine above the cashier with purchases which you licked and stuck in a book to get money off. I vaguely recall green shield stamps.

Space hoppers.

Gary Glitter was popular (urgh).

Alister Burnett reading the news at 10.

Knee high white socks.
Rag and bone horse and cart horse with feed sack.
Ponchos
Cheesecloth shirts.
Hand me downs.
Shirt collars of fantastic shape and size.
Floppy hair.
Jubilee street parties.
Green shield stamps.
Freedom for kids - out all day on bikes etc.
Dodgy car set ups / rickety old rust buckets. Lack of seat belts. Etc
Hovercraft to France.
Strikes and power cuts.
Good times !

I was a child in the 70s, most of my teens in the 80s.

Foreign (as in France, Spain and Italy) holidays felt ‘foreign’, food was genuinely different as was culture. I remember there was a lot of cash around as labour had too rate tax in the 90s and exchange controls, so you had to ‘smuggle’ cash overseas to have a nice holiday.

The late 70s was a real burgeoning of the music scene: Bowie, Queen etc etc. The charts really mattered and TOTP was a must-watch.

The War (as in 2nd World) was still a living memory with holiday pilots often having cut their teeth flying spitfires and it was an accepted tradition that kids were allowed a bit of time in the cockpit if their parents asked nicely.

Power cuts were always fun with candles and gas lamps coming out of the cellar.

Children were actually allowed to take real risks, which was great!