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

@MitziK i loved that song ... still do!

How very dare you!!!!!!

@MitziK i love the floral dance too!

My parents are irish and Terry Wogan was Irish so i been raised to love that song ,if i like it t not ( i don't like it) but Terry Wogan liked it and he is from same part of Ireland as my mum so i have been told i have to like it. So i like it because its easier that way!

Special tea on a sunday consisting of tinned fruit (and hoping your mum would let you drink the juice) and carnation or angel delight. Kids today dont know what theyve missed

HisBetterHalf

Angel delight.... butterscotch !

@MargaretOfAnjou bye bye baby 😂

God how I loved the Rollers

@Awks you are blatantly Scottish with your love of 1970's tartan wearing boy band. You lurveeee Nicola Sturgeon and are anti Brexit!!!

🎼🎼 she is your girlfriend
You really love her
you want to marry her
and have her babies 🎼🎼

You are Celtic!!!

Yup-tinned fruit on a Sunday with cream. Ours was thick and out of a tin. It was either peaches or fruit cocktail.

Does anyone remember condensed milk ? It was really sweet.

I still indulge myself on Vesta Chow Mein occasionally. My favourite is the Paella though - can't seem to get it now.

We didn't have "sweet" except on Sundays.

Telly was great back then. Fabulous theme tunes and hard-hitting documentaries.

I used to skive off school and go home to watch Crown Court. Once my mother came home unexpectedly and found me in front of Crown Court with the gas fire full blast smoking a massive cigar.

I remember when BBC2 started and we were the only family not to have it. I was the only kid in the class not able to watch the High Chaparral. I've never got over that....

On the subject of telly, does anyone remember the Singing Ringing Tree or was that 60s? Bloody terrifying...that dwarf .

I think the Hovis ad was filmed in Shaftesbury?

I've seen the Bay City Rollers {preens}. We had to get tickets by lottery. I was 15 and we had to travel to the City by ourselves after school. No phones or lifts!

We used to bunk off school to buy flagons of cider and drink it in the lanes. We would ask a convenient adult to get it for us.

Fab times.

My choir are currently singing some words set to the Hovis Ad tune - can't sing it without picturing him pushing his oversized bike up that hill

@buggerthebotox yes.. Crown court . I remember the wigs. Always reminds me of a sick day off primary!

Just remembered Charlies Angels!!!

I was always Farrah Fawcett .... obvs ! Then later Cheryl Ladd ....again..obvs...

I think it's called Going Home and is from the New World Symphony. It's very poignant-sounding. That poor boy and his bike.

I can't remember having decent bread - it was either white sliced or Hovis. Salad was a couple of lettuce leaves, a bit of cucumber and some limp lettuce. And salad cream, which was vile.

The only pasta was macaroni out of a box, until that very long spaghetti came out.

I hadn't heard of quiche or cheesecake until I went to University.

Anyone else's mum make bright yellow curry in the 70s? With sultanas. And banana in dessicated coconut as a side

Yes, mine. Except we had peanuts instead of the coconut.

I used to pick all the sultanas out.

Everyone had a Farrah Fawcett Majors hairdo. My hair was straight, fine and ratty and I only took my rollers out to go out. It was murder trying to get it to flick back.

Before that, I'd been a skinhead and the hairdo was much easier. Feathered with a fringe of about an inch.

@BackforGood Is that song called Going Home? That's one I can think of which goes to the tune of the Hovis ad.
Libera: Going Home
m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2aLSat3h0w

Yep - that's the one buggerthebotox

Curry? My mother thought macaroni cheese was the height of sophistication.

My gran was a good baker but her other stuff was vile. Potatoes boiled through the water, soapy veg and cremated meat!

For some reason we always had boled ham and parsley sauce. Tasted of salt and nothing else.

Apart from that, it was chips everyday, with everything. The chip fat (lard) was never changed and everything was deep fried.

Sugar sandwiches anyone?

and NannyNick

Sugar sandwiches anyone?

Mmmm yes please. With sweetened condensed milk for dessert, eaten straight from the tin with a spoon.

No TV until early 80's for me. Can't remember much from 70's as I was too young then. My mum used to shop in C&A and BHS. I remember the Griffin bank where my mum used to write a cheque to get cash before we could go round the shops.

150 - Dial a Disc. We figured out how to hit the right buttons on the pub car park phone box and listen free of charge without putting a 2p bit in.

@thenightsky you jammy dodger!

I had a Saturday job in the Coop. Must have been 1979. Had to count 4 stamps for every pound spent. Sugar was 36p. We had to memorise prices of popular items ( no bar coding and scanners, we had to punch in the numbers to the till) because they would fluctuate and Wouldn’t be priced with the sticker gun ( what’s Wonderloaf today Mr Tresize?)

We had a Freezer Centre and a Gas showroom next door to the shop.

Margaret… Aye, 4 of us jammed in a phone box all trying to get an ear to the receiver to listen to Dial a Disc. Me in my home made wet look hotpants, my mate in her homemade maxi pinafore, my little sister buttoned into a duffel and Dennis from 'down t'lane in his wellies, whatever the weather

Five of us would squeeze into a telephone box and dial 16. You could hear other teenagers shouting random things on a faint line ( Anyone wants to go out with my mate? Meet us outside the leisure centre at 3)

We’d be wearing a lot of brown corduroy. And yes, I had the Farrah Fawcett hairdo. HoW cool is she here?