Born in 1972.
Saturday night TV.. The football results with the typewriter thing typing out the football results on the screen. Followed by Doctor Who and then The Generation Game. Having a bath and then supper which was rice crispies. My mum coming home from the shops and showing off a brand new thing called a "continental quilt"
My Nan ordering stuff from catalogues and paying things off at 50p a week for 50 weeks.
Clipper cards on buses. Then the inspector would jump on and check everyone's tickets.
Having a proper wash every morning in the sink as we didn't have a shower. Bath at night. Hair was washed either using a jug or those plastic shower heads that plugged into the taps.
Teachers wheeling the big TV out and then we would sit and watch the big dots disappear waiting for the programme to start. Itchy knee high patterned white cotton socks. Wearing under skirts.
Old wooden desks with ink wells. Lift the lid and there would be a deep section and a shallow section.
At playtime, the boys would play football with footballs called casey balls that would knock you unconscious if you got hit on the head. The girls would play elastics and we would stuff tights with balls and play them against a wall whilst lifting your leg.
Long assemblies at school which would start with singing Morning Has Broken or All things Bright and Beautiful. Singing whilst reading the words from huge flipchart things hung on the school hall wall. Then the headmaster would do a talk and then play classical music on an old record player.
I remember watching the Mary Rose being lifted out of the sea on TV whilst at school.
Teachers smoking in the classroom whilst teaching.
Making Xmas decorations out of strips of paper and creating chains which we hung across the ceiling. Huge garish lanterns would be the centrepiece hung in the ceiling.
Going carol singing and constantly opening the doors to carol singers
Parks with huge tall slides that went on forever and no AstroTurf
Going swimming and having coloured bands and when the whistle was blown and your colour announced, you had to get out of the pool. There was a kind of mini shallow pool separating the changing rooms from the swimming pool you had to wade through before you entered the swimming pool.
At the library, you had little cardboard tickets and your book was stamped with the date in it.
Using a telex machine at work. Smoking at your desk at work. Women not allowed to wear trousers.