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

Metal Mickey was the 80s???

You all need to read Where did it all go right, growing up normal in the 70s by Andrew Collins. (I think that's the title)
I remember not only all of the above but being taken to Matlock on that there photo every Sunday and being left in the car outside the Temple pub with a lime and lemon and a bag of crisps. And you know what? I wasn't kidnapped out of the car by a child trafficking gang or anything!!

I still occasionally binge on a Vesta Chow Mein with crispy noodles and it's still bloody lovely.

Yup, I was down south, but it had its grimness too. We had central heating in the 70s but it was oil fired and there were shortages there too. I can remember getting dressed either under the bed covers, or in front of a paraffin heater.

Funny, I used to idolize the 50s and 60s when I was young, and thought the 70s were so bloody grim, but now it all looks quite rosy. Rose tinted spectacles I suppose.

@Frangipane i was never allowed to watch. Too young. Sent to bed... but always sneaked out onto the hall and heard the theme tunes.

And Taxi... LOVED the Taxi theme tune and Hill Street Blues.

" lets be careful out there"

Different strokes, after sch. Different class!

" watcha talkin about Willis"

Weird you mention Hill Street Blues. I was watching a video the other day on YouTube: Guess the 70s or 80s theme tunes. But they were American shows and not necessarily ones I have heard of. And then up popped Hill Street Blues and it took me right back. I even had a bit of a crush on captain Frank Furillo during my obsession with men-old-enough-to-be-my-father days.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b071c07m/back-in-time-for-the-weekend-3-the-70s

Mike Read ' Run Around now"
Cheggers plays pop!!!
Grange Hill - Tucker Jenkins
Worzel Gummidge
Happy Days
Generation Game
Two Ronnies
Morecambe and Wise
Dave Alan
Blue Peter
Little House on the Prairie
Rainbow
Jamie and the magic torch
Meg and mog
Mr Benn
Butterflies
Noel Edmonds - Multi coloured Swap shop
Banana splits
Club biscuits
Trio biscuits
George and Mildred
Man about the House
Play your cards right
Sale of the Century
Hilda Ogden (before she went to Dr Louthers )
Quality street at xmas
Multi coloured fairy lights on the xmas tree
Barry Sheen
Nottingham forest
Madness
Remington fuzz aways
Plastic princess shoes
Plastic princess earrings
Strawberry smelling rubbers
Cadburys flake ( that were massive and flakey and tasty)
Alter eights ,only on xmas day
Germolene ( that really smelt)
White Spirit - to dab yr newly pierced ears.
Your dad coming home with new colouring pencils and coloured paper for you that he bought from WH smith.

Metal Mickey was the 80s???

My bad! Its all a rose tinted blur!

@TheCanterburyWhales 😂My sister and i too spent many a Sunday in the car with a-bag of crisps and a lemonade...In all weathers , hot and cold. No one kidnapped us either... although we did used to wish we had been swapped at birth and were actually the queens children! We hoped she may come and us.... she never did!

Didn't the Green Shield shop become Argos?

And Bejam was bought out by Iceland.

MitziK Green Shield stamps were /are Co Op ?

How!
Magpie ( not allowed to watch as ITV was frowned on)

@thenightsky
"my mum whizzed granulated in the coffee grinder. It took hours to grind enough. Strangely the icing came out much better than it would have done with real icing sugar... it sort of glistened and sparkled."

Your mum is a ledge !

Oxford bags with patch pockets.(sheepshit green)
Tank tops (patterned, orange)
Massive collared shirt (any colour so long as it clashed with both of the above)
Massive knots in ties.
Cheesecloth halter neck gingham maxi dresses.

@NomDeQwerty

We don't watch ITV here on MN. We are BBC4 and Netflix only with the occasional BBC3 iPlayer Stacey Dooley special, where she highlights the plights of those why cannot shop in
Waitrose or afford Netflix .

Long dresses for parties when you were 9. They were so flammable !
Fuzzy nylon night dresses that rubbed against bed sheets building so much static you'd have electric shocks in the morning.
Ice inside bedroom windows.
No indoor loo and baths in front of the coal fire.
Some people didn't have electricity not because of power cuts- they just didn't have it.
Twin tubs
The mangle

Crocheted ponchos anyone? My friends granny crocheted her a bikini. The top had long tassels that reached past her belly button. She was considered the dog's bollocks in that I can tell you.

My mother wouldn't lower herself to go to the Co-op when there was a Sainsbury's 200 yards closer (and she would rather have died than set foot in a Tesco's), but she had GS stamps (maybe from my brothers driving/buying petrol?). I vaguely remember there being talk of a GS shop where you could cash them in and that became Argos. I think.

I remember watching our outside toilet block being demolished (4 toilets for 8 houses). My mum was dancing with glee at our new inside toilet. It was still fucking freezing in winter though as we had no heating except a stove in the kitchen and a tiny open fire in the sitting room (rarely used). Ahhh the Yorkshire Dales in the 70s!

Someone mentioned the Co-op.. I have very vague memories (because I was very young) of my mum going to get her divvy from the co-op. Not really sure what it was - must have been like a loyalty scheme.

And the power cuts - we were on the same rota as the chip shop :(

I think it was Tesco who took over Hillards wasn't it?

She did the sugar in the coffee grinder too - it was cheaper than buying a box of icing sugar and not using all of it. Not that we had real coffee, it was all Mellow Birds' at 11am on the dot.

My parents ran a pub in the 70s. I remember we had to look up in the local paper when it was our turn for a power cut. It was incredibly tough for them trying to run a business in those days. I recall a TV programme showing you how to make candles using a tub of margarine and string. So easy to romanticise that era, but they were grim times for many. Bin strikes, in fact it felt like everyone was on strike, petrol ration books being issued, oil prices rocketing, shortages of basic food stuffs, out of control inflation etc. And you weren't even allowed to own the phone in your house. Buying a TV was out of reach for most so almost everyone was forced to rent. The young consumers of today have no idea!