To ask for your Eighties memories

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Hi! I'm starting a project based on my mum's memories of being a teen/ young woman in Eighties Glasgow, and would be delighted if anyone who lived there at the time would share any memories or stories. Especially about what you wore, the music you liked, your memories of the city at the time.
This thread is also open to anyone who lived elsewhere in the UK and fancies sharing what their Eighties were like! Thanks everybody, I can smell the Cacharel LouLou from here grin

I remember the Garden Festival, we got taken by the school. We weren’t allowed on the big rollercoaster unless your parent came as a helper and took you on. 20 years later I worked on the site of the festival as I worked at STV on Pacific quay and there are still the old tram tracks that I remember from that day out with primary school.

Thanks so much, Likethebattle!

London:

Remember having an electric meter that my dad topped up with 50p pieces. We knew how to break it open so you could reuse the 50p

The Guy coming round with the calor? gas cylinders so we could use the gas when the electricity went out

80s cartoons on television: Dungeons and dragons, Heman, Dogtalian, Inspector gadget loved it!!

I had a fake multitoned acrylic cardigan. Everyone had them they were gross but we all thought they were great.

Legwarmers!!

I used to have permed hair and I used to dry my hair with a big diffuser on my hairdryer. My hair would be huge with so much hairspray it would be crunchy

In the 80s I remember the milkman's truck coming round and the milk in glass bottles, then we left them out to be taken back.

I remember kids toys were much nicer then.

Sending faxes

Dior poison perfume

Dark green velvet evening gowns with shoulder pads

Women with big hair, my mum used so much hairspray before going out I couldn't breathe

Having people round for a fondue was sophisticated

Sofas and curtains with floral patterns all over them

Very patterned crockery sets on display in wooden cabinets

Thanks everyone! My mum is nodding at all of these. Especially the hairspray, which she is still partial to

Glasgow/Lanarkshire
The Bluebells and Wet, Wet, Wet in the charts
Gala days with flowers made from toilet paper. Decorated houses. We looked forward all year to it, these still go on in some places.
Mackenzie hooded tops were a must have (late 80's)
Goldbergs and What Every Woman Wants
The Glasgow Garden Show
Gigs at the Barrowlands being so much better than the SECC

I am from Glasgow, I was just a teenager in the 80's but remember the Garden Festival too such a big thing amazing time! Also remember collecting the Alpine bottles and going skating at Finnieston with my wages from my Saturday job at City Bakeries!

I remember going to the Garden Festival! It was amazing!

I also remember black buildings. They're clean now but Glasgow used to be really black with pollution.

Frankie t-shirts
skin tight jeans
leg warmers
Fame
Threads
oil cloth shopping bags for school bags (girls)
khaki green fabric bags with badges (mainly boys)
Scented rubbers

Ra ra skirts. Big hair. Neighbours and blue bolls and lemonade

Fila, Sergio Tachini, Ellesse track suit tops.

Shoulder pads
Filofax
New Order
Choose Life t shirts
Breakdancing
Electro albums
Soul Weekenders
House Music

Home Counties:
Wham (need I say more?)
Early Madonna - fingerless lace gloves
(Avon's finest) pink and yellow eyeshadow with electric blue mascara.
Ra ra skirts and leg warmers.
The miners strike. Not popular where I came from but definitely developed my early understanding of politics, belief in socialism and hatred of Margaret Thatcher.

Cardiff,
A levels when suicide is painless was no 1.
Friday night at the pub aged 16.
favourite outfit was a blue and White drop waisted dress worn with lace tights and fingerless lace gloves and white brogues. Playing my boyfriend's BBC computer.
Being asked in an interview if I wanted children.
Meeting DH getting married in a dress with huge puffy sleeves, she a lace design on the back of the skirt.
Having first child.

Try to get hold of a book called "One Day for Life" on Amazon or eBay. It is essentially full of photographs taken by the public of their everyday lives on one day in Summer 1986. Will probably trigger some memories for your mum.

Avon Odyssey perfume
Blue eyeliner and mascara
Shoulder pads
White ruffled sleeve blouses
Pixie boots
Electro music
18-30 holidays ()
Regal king size cigarettes
Snakebites
Frankie says...
The Aids adverts which were fucking terrifying
Springsteen at Roundhay Park
Band Aid and Live Aid

Absolutely loved being a teenager in the 80s...this thread is making me very nostalgic

I had a bob haircut which I had permed cos I thought I’d look like Francesca Annis.
I just looked like a dick with a pube head

I was young in the 80's. I remember making leg warmers and a scrunchy, cutting the feet off dads woolly socks. trying to recreate flash dance. I remember my big brother and his mates break dancing on a sheet on lino for hours on the street. The rope from a lampposts swings, sweets were rare and you ate what you were offered.
Blockbuster's.
Forty coats.
Everybody smoked.

I had a bowl haircut, no even a bloody Bob.

Im in Essex but im going to leave this here....................

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/3544507-80s-kids-Repeat-run-of-The-Equalizer-on-Forces-TV

Skinny faded jeans, pink stilettos, new romantic frilly shirt & big hair
I was fucking gorgeous

I was a teen in the 80s, not Glasgow though.
Wham, Duran Duran, Spandeau Ballet, were huge. There were albums and singles, records or tapes.
I used to put loads of mousse in my hair and dry it upside down.
We had perms.
Top of the Pops on Thursday evenings was must see tv, and listening to the charts on radio one on sundays 5pm to 7pm. Dallas and dynasty were very popular on tv, and neighbours had just started.
C&A was the Primark of the 80s, for cheap-ish fashion, along with Chelsea Girl and Etam, and Dorothy Perkins.
Radio one roadshows were held in the summer, at the seaside and places like city parks. Radio one DJs has a huge following themselves - my favourite was Gary Davies.

Yy to lots of these!

Faxes! Used to be quite common to send them to a phone line, either because someone had given you the wrong number or because the line was used for both fax and phone and they hadn't switched it over before you sent it. Sometimes you could hear people answering as your fruitless fax failed to go through. One time I was faxing somewhere in Germany and got an automated message down the line saying something about "Anschluss". My boss said "what on earth did you key in? Deutschland uber alles?" and we all pissed ourselves laughing and then got really paranoid that they'd heard us.

I had a perm. I did have a bob in early 1988 when i was 14 but i hated it.

ra ra skirts
now music albums the hits albums. Madonnas Like a Virgin was the first album i bought.

Dempsey and Makepeace.
The Equalizer.

rollerball lip gloss. i had a mint one I wanted a cherry one but they had sold out.

Yardley Lace perfume. I couldnt afford Anais Anais.