A happy memory photo for the more mature MN poster

[MargaretOfAnjou]

Not the real Hovis lane ...,but just as emotive.

Grab your loaves and remember happy carefree 1970's days gone by.

#derbyshire

Follyfoot
White Horses

i believe i went to school in the small town on the estuary. small world...

@AwkwardSquad I still have my Pippa Dolls, much worn from having been favourite toys of me and my 2 DD's. I have Pippa with curly shoulder length hair and she had a ball gown, one with long smooth light brown hair who had a riding outfit (but I didn't have the horse) and one with smooth Black hair who was called Jasmine (I think) and wore a blue silk Kimono. I also originally had a blond haired one too but I think my sister lost her. I had the purple case to keep the, in with one side as a wardrobe to keep the extra outfits these were my pride and joy.

redastherose that’s lovely

I didn’t take very good care of my dolls, and in fact gave some of them an honourable burial when I decided I was too old for them, which was a bit of a shame now I look back on it! Especially the Sasha dolls.

Theme tune to White Horses was my first single.

I went to teacher training college in 1970. I remember the power cuts which were a feature of our lives. Water was pumped up the site and people in halls at the top of the site couldn't flush their loos.
My boyfriend and I (now DH) used to have Vesta meals on a Saturday night. His mother was really worried that when we got married that was all I would feed him.
After we got married there were the shortages - sugar, paper (we had to request every sheet from the school office and say what it was for) toilet roll, and probably things I have forgotten.
Then came inflation, and every time you went shopping prices had gone up by a significant amount.

Vesta Paella was staple food for me in my teens, I loved it, (would it be wrong to say I still do ) and Vesta Chow Mein came second..

The white horses :)
And the Flashing Blade Lol

Theme tune to White Horses was my first single
Mine too - and I've still got it.

My friend and I thought we were the last word in cordon bleu cooks when we made our Vesta chow mein. We artfuly placed the fried crispy noodles and then - gasp- sprinkled them with soy sauce! This was definitely the most exotic thing we had ever experienced.

My Mum saved Brooke Bond Dividend tea stamps in a little book. I think there were small gifts to be saved for.

Ive looked in vain for sweet peanut sweets that contain tiny pieces of salted nuts inside the sweet shape. They do make the peanut shoed sweet but without the nuts.

But one sweet I have never seen again is the small chocolate whoppa(er?) bar. Like a dense chocolate fudge it had its own flavour and texture. It was sold alongside the usual black jacks and fruit salad that were 4 for a penny, refresher bars and olde english spangles.