To want to know something you've experienced that current/future generations won't.

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I'm throwing in the disgusting smell of telephone boxes.
Smoking and/or drinking at work

Grants to go to university. That meant I could go in the 70s as my parents couldn't afford to sub me. Long gone.

Allow 28 days for delivery for anything bring sent to your home. When the NEXT Directory was introduced, it was revolutionary to get items the next day!

Erasmus grant (EU funding for students studying at uni in another EU state for a year).

Black and white TV.

When my parents rented a colour TV all the kids in the street came over to watch it being set up.

TV being 'set up' by someone from the shop.

Renting a TV.

Meeting 'under the clock', there was a clock in the bus station and everyone arranged to meet there.

Coal fires.

Programming computers with punched cards or punched paper.

Toilet In the back yard. Bath night Friday at the local baths, that was local swimming pool where you could have a bath in a cubicle.

Being bathed in front of the coal fire.

A proper gap year. Getting on a plane to Australia with a variety of lonely guide books for the countries we were stopping in on the way. No Internet, no watsapping home. Just airmail letters home when we could be bothered...( do airmail letters still exist).
I was 19 , early 80's, my parents must have been so worried
As far as l recall the return ticket was £400...

Working out peoples Income Tax without a computer or calculator. They didn't exist.

We had paper, pencils and tables to look up % and add it all up ourselves.

Seeing Concorde

i can remember watching Concorde fly over was miles away but all the neighbours came out to watch it was quite an event

the hype around who shot JR it was even on the evening news when the film recording arrived in the uk there has been nothing like it - T-shirts, mugs, tea towels

who is Michelle’s baby’s father was a big event too

Owning a house.

Oh, wasn’t Concorde a thrill? I worked in Reading for a while in the mid-‘80s and whenever possible I’d go outside to see her climbing overhead from Heathrow, breaking the sound barrier every day around noon.

Hitching is what springs fastest to mind. I used to thumb lifts all the time in the ‘70s, here in Ireland, in England, in France. As a student in Devon I’d hitch to Glastonbury every year, to London, to Liverpool for the Dublin ferry, and certainly (well, theoretically) daily into uni from the remote cottage I rented. All very precarious and unreliable, but you never thought twice, and hitching got filed in your head like a bus timetable. Everyone I knew hitched as a matter of course. Happy days!

Ice on the inside of your bedroom window when you wake up on a winter morning ❄️🥶

I used to swim there (3 pools labelled Ladies', Men's and Mixed although, by the 1970s they were all mixed).

I used to see the sign for the private baths and wonder what the looked like.

We used to walk up North End Rd to get to swimming lessons. 30 kids accompanied only by our tiny headmistress right through the market. You'd never get that through a risk assessment now.

Waiting for what seemed like forever in a pre agreed spot for my friends on a Saturday afternoon due to label of mobile phones.
Memorising all my friends’ home numbers as I’d call them after 6pm most weekdays with my mum in the background telling me to get off the phone.
body shop when it was good!

Agonising over which single to buy with my weekly pocket money

Going to the reference library to look things up. Carrying paper maps. Looking in the local paper to see what's on at the cinema. Sending off for fanzines (coins taped to a bit of card) to find out more about my favourite bands. Having a little book with the phone numbers of everyone you know (if you're not home, you can't access them). Looking things up on Ceefax / Teletext. Actually finding out about big news events from the newspaper. Generally having to go to some effort to obtain information. On everything.

Timing phone calls to last 59 minutes because they started charging after an hour.

And then calling back.

Waiting to finish up the roll of 36 pictures on your Kodak film so you could finally get all your pictures developed.

Going to Boots to pick up your pictures in the blue and white envelope.

The dial up sound on the internet
Rotary phones
Winding a tap with a pencil
Those pencil cases with all the buttons & compartments
"Data diaries" iykyk
Listening in on a phone call by picking up the upstairs phone
Getting multipacks of blank video cassettes/tapes in stockings at christmas & labelling them so your siblings didn't use your tapes
Baby G watches

Parents telling the babysitter, “The number of the restaurant where we’ll be is on the counter.”

Pound coins and half pennies.

Going to the Post Office to buy the dog license.

Family car with seatbelts in the front but not the back. So they understood that belts were a good idea, for adults. . . but to hell with the children?

Pound notes, surely?

Haha, yes, that's what I meant!

Ten Bob notes as well.