Growing up in the 70's

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I bet there's been one of these before but who remembers stuff about the 70's, looking back to me it was all a bit weird.

So some of my memories.

Mary Mungo and midge, the music in the lift. my orange space hopper, gridsy marbles and clackers.
Dehydrated potato, free milk you had to drink at school.
Playing out from after breakfast until dark or tea.

I did love my bob though. Great for that teenage hair tossing thing, especially when there was only one side to toss...

I remember big round red and see through bubblegum machines out shops.

Fag machines were fab as you could sneak in the back door of any pub and buy a pack at the age of 12!

Mumslife

Do you mean the bird that dunked into the glass of liquid? can't remember what they were called, except dunking bird.

Oranges

Would have loved to have seen you in all your gear, but understand. I probably would have sniggered

my gran also had a dunking bird! I remember sitting watching it for ages.

darkesteyes I narrowly avoided New Hall! refused to go when I discovered you had to wear tights even in the summer.

BCRs kit while roller skating . Scarf round the wrist, half mast home made white trousers with tartan trim , white and tartan jacket.
My brothers refused to be seen with me.

We both just managed to avoid that one then Nigella.
I think NH is no longer a boarding school like it was then... i think its just a day school now.

Tinny music from transistor radios on the beach. Dancing round pile of handbags. Going to Romania and being shocked by the shortness of men's haircuts there. Cheap family winter breaks in Ibiza, where locals were still warm and hospitable and were new to tourism. Newhaven-Dieppe ferry (4 hours). Hovercraft. Party lines on phone, so you'd hear other people's conversations without wanting to. The smell of a new Jackie mag. Boots 17 make-up.Ashtrays everywhere. People frying in coconut oil in the sun. The smell of Bergasol in the summer. The Bergasol ad. Positive ads for cigarettes and cigars. That condor moment.

AuntieStella I have a misty fondness for pretty peach...I wonder if my olfactory memories are accurate or if it smelled as rubbish as everything else did in the 70s?

Looking in "posh" houses at their tv`s and reporting back what colour every thing was ,not shown on our black and white tv

Get a load of this website.
Christmas tv listings for EVERY year going right back to 1936.

ukchristmastv.weebly.com/

And it shows the Radio Times covers for each year too.

Sausage rolls and giant rocking horse in great ormond street hospital

always coming back from Saturday shopping in time to see Dr Who .

Magic roundabout, John cravens newsround - remember the jungle, blue peter.

We had a small black and white TV.

Putting records on the record player. My first was puppet on a string by paper lace. Billy don't be a hero . No doubt about it by hot chocolate.

Jinty magazine read lying on our fluffy rug in the hall.

Eating weird things that I'm sure no one eats now like heart with potatoes ald cabbage. Kidneys , liver - just boiled - yuk.

The cane at school. Though I never got it. Walking to school alone from the age of 7. One wonderfully kind mum who drive which was a complete rarity driving past in the rain and seeing us all get soaked made 5 journeys there and back to school - a 7 min drive but still - ferrying us all so we could get out of the rain. Even as a young child I recognized that what she'd done was something quite unusual ald wonderfully kind.

Our lollipop lady giving me a whole bag of sindy dolls that her daughter had grown out of.

And finally . Going to Devon each year from London before motorways. We used to stay en route one night in a farm and I have never found anything quite as exciting yet as racing diwn the farmhouse steps to milk the cow and collect eggs in the morning before having a full farmhouse breakfast and then pulling out in dads avenger car to begin the last part of our journey to the beach.

And we always started at dawn - seeing starlings line the electricity cables over the roads- where are the starlings ???- whilst lying down on the back seat having been told to go to sleep. No seat belts then.

Breakfast in the hotel where fruit juice was a course . Having grapefruit or tomato juice and feeling very grown up.

Then poached fish for breakfast!

Mums amazing cupboard full of furs and jeweler and high heels and sparkly things and handbags. All stuffed with moth paper.

My daddy died nearly 4 yrs ago today and I miss him terribly . I am proud to say I had a wonderful 70s childhood

So did I Lisalisa! Visiting my dad in Hull before the M62. Legs stuck to the plastic seats in the Vauxhall Viva or Opel Kadett. No aircon or sunroof but 2 wind down windows and a funny little triangular window that opened a fraction at the back.
Playing out in the street with loads of other kids. Wandering back when we got hungry.
The strap at school (junior!), having the board rubber thrown at me for talking. Ruler across the knuckles. I was taught to read with 'ITA' ( wauk not walk etc. what was THAT all about???). Games came in seasons eg marbles, hopscotch, kiss catch etc. Kia Ora at the cinema and Vesta curry! Crisps went up to 21/2p. The phone in the hall that my grandad hovered round when anyone used it because it was SO expensive! Oh. And penny for the guy not trick or treat!

OMG, I had forgotten about this thread, thanks for the revival.

I'll have to read through it again now it's active.

Just seen this -
I was born in 71.
And remember...
Watching Pink Panther, then Generation Game, then the dreaded Jim'll (eek!!!). No-one knew.
Pebble Mill at 1 during the week.
Schools programming - the teacher wheeling out the TV into the classroom. I used to love 'How We Used to Live'. (this might have been early 80s though).
Sitting in the boot of friends' dads' estate cars for birthday outings. Imagine that now! There used to be a fight as to who would get to sit in the boot.
The head using a ruler at school if you weren't lined up properly (and that wasn't to check everyone was straight, either).
Beano was 8p - my mum instigated 'Chocolate and Beano day' once a week where on returning from school one day a week she would buy me the Beano and a bar of chocolate and that would be my choc fix for the week!!!
We didn't get a TV til I was about 6 or 7 and then it was b&w and tiny. I could at last be a proper member of society!!
'Fake' electric fires that had that 'glowing coal' in the bottom. The height of sophistication when we had one fitted in around 78!

Angel Delight.
Green Shield Stamps, sticking them in the book and the excitement of looking to see what we could get for them.
Jackie Magazine.
A foldable afro comb for my very fine permed hair!
Elastic home made garters to hold up my white school socks.
Crimplene trouser suits, bleuch!
My beloved orange space hopper.
Laying down on the back seat of the car on the way home from my Nan's and watching all the street lights flashing past and how exciting it was to be out at night.
Sick on the corridor floors at school covered in sand, yuck!
Envying the chopper bike that my brother had, lucky sod.
A pineapple juice and a packet of salt and shake crisps in the back of the car or better still in the beer garden!
Ooh Spirograph, hours and hours of fun.
Party lines for the phone, we didn't have one (party line) and I remember feeling all superior about it
Ooh Mivvy ice lollies, yum.
Purple and pink striped midi coat, I was the bees knees in that!
The book of babies to sell the pics for charity and wanting to keep the
"best"one for myself.
Snake belts, rainbow coloured with an "S" shape buckle.
Roller skates that you tied over your shoes and they were adjustable so could grow with you.
Leaving for our annual holiday in Devon or Cornwall at what seemed like 3 in the morning (so exciting, before motorways) and sitting on piles of clothes and sleeping bags on the back seat so that our heads nearly touched the car roof!

One of my friend's had this suite for her Sindy dolls. I coveted it.

justdance I was born in 1972 and I remember exactly all those things! The tv on wheels, also loved How we used to Live. We also watched Science Workshop (with perm bloke) and Middle English.

Pebble Mill at 1 There was always a short programme before it for pre-schoolers like Bod etc.

dot I loved Sindy, I didn't have that suite though but had loads of other furniture for the big house that my mum and sister assembled one Christmas Day. Loved the brown and orange bathroom suite with the shower that REALLY WORKED

Chopper bikes. Spirograph and Etch a Sketch. Bazooka bubble gum. Taping the charts off the radio on a Sunday night and trying to stop the recording before the DJ spoke over it.

Fruit cocktail and evaporated milk for pudding.

Fray Bentos pies and vesta paella and risotto, food of the Gods.

Salads that involved whole uncut spring onions, soft round lettuce, hard boiled eggs and salad cream.

Angel delight
hostess trolley(Mother's)
Smash
Clunk Click every trip (and yes I thought he was a perv back then)
Test card
Nurses uniform got with Green Shield Stamps
35p an hour for my first Saturday job aged 13

Loving this thread

Rolf Harris in an infomercial about the importance of teaching your child to swim...surrounded by children

Harlem Globetrotters tv programme

plant a tree in 73 campaign

Savoury vinegar crisps

Chalky White of the Daily Mail on various seaside locations

Van der Valk tv programme

Saturday Scene roadshows

Emmerdale being Emmerdale Farm and on at about 5.15

Chefs square shaped soup

Crown Court every lunchtime