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A happy memory photo for the more mature MN poster

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MargaretOfAnjou · 11/05/2019 16:23

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

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

#derbyshire

A happy memory photo for the more mature MN poster
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UrsulaPandress · 12/05/2019 10:44

Bouquet of barbed wire I remember. But I didn’t watch it. Probably too racy for my dad.

We had the rag and bone man, a chap in a small van who came round selling fruit and veg. He had wooden steps he put out so you could climb in the back. And hanging on the door were small bags of peanuts that mum refused to buy me. And the knife sharpening man. And the milk delivered on a milk float pulled by a shire horse.

Happy Days.

TheCanterburyWhales · 12/05/2019 10:52

Bouquet of barbed wire was the first grown up series I watched. Me and my mum (going "not sure you should be watching this") on a Friday night with a mars bar each.
I was going to call my first child Eve for ages!

Chopinaround · 12/05/2019 10:59

Any one else love watching the following daytime kids programmes if they were off school sick:
Bill and Ben
The woodentops
Andy Pandy
The Herbs
Tales of the Riverbank
Camberwick Green
Pinky & Perky
Play School
Trumpton
Watch With Mother

MargaretOfAnjou · 12/05/2019 11:03

Artic Role
Sindy
Tiny Tears
Love is... sticker album
1/2 pennies
Ice cream van music and legging it out the door.
Blue Peter Annuals
TV's with no remotes
The chair that only Dad could sit on.
Doing PE in your vest and pants if you forgot your kit.
Teachers smoking in the staff room.
Calling your parents friends Mr or Mrs Surname and never by their first name.
Tesco white plimsols
Charlie says safety campaign
Emmerdale Farm
Look in magazine

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TheCanterburyWhales · 12/05/2019 11:19

Margaret- my cousin and I were going to marry Prince Andrew (me) and Edward (her) We used to have mock wedding ceremonies on the garden and then pretend to have babies who were always called Alexandra.
All I can say now is euuuuwwwww

I also had the airing cupboard in my bedroom. I wasn't allowed posters on my walls, but I could stick stuff on the airing cupboard. My proudest 70s possession was a Donny Osmond rosette in green and yellow, which was then replaced by Les McKeown posters taken from a magazine which I believed the height of sophistication called Supersonic.

I progressed from Teddy Bear comic, to Bunty and Debbie, to Patches, to Jackie (obvs) My first teen magazine though was called Melanie and my next door neighbour gave it me, my first make up Mary Quant - a box full of it- my Mum said if I was going to wear makeup I'd wear "nice" stuff.

Radio 2 definitely every morning (and still is now) and I once wrote a description at school saying I thought God would look like Terry Wogan. (something to do with disembodied voices) I later shared a flat with one of his daughter's friends and she said she'd tell him. I always hoped she had, his death really saddened me as it felt like my childhood had finally gone.

All synthetic nighties were from Brentford nylons indeed- and all mums would shriek "don't sit too close to the gas fire or you'll go up in flames" Horror stories (sadly true) of children with nighties melted onto their legs were commonplace (as indeed, if public safety announcements were to be believed) were people being run over because they left their umbrella on the other side of the road, drowned because they fell through ice, and glubbled down into the murky depths of quicksand.

The Avon lady who had a little blue holdall with samples. I always wanted to order everything and my Mum would never let me. I now have a collection culled from Ebay of all the (very very good actually) Avon perfumes from that period (rigorously in utterly bonkers and random shaped bottles "Oh, here's some scent inside a lampshade!" and lots of Christmas soap sets.

This thread needs to be moved to Classics.

UrsulaPandress · 12/05/2019 11:27

The man from the Pru who called round once a month to collect the money.

Encyclopaedia Britanica.

Judy magazine.

EleanorReally · 12/05/2019 11:44

your parents friends were your aunties.
nylon sheets that you could make into great crackles and lights under the bed covers,
over crowding in the car, having to sit on a parents lap in the front passenger seat as there wasnt enough space

EleanorReally · 12/05/2019 11:45

Watching the Wombles

TheCanterburyWhales · 12/05/2019 11:53

wanting a Womble and being dead jealous of Paula-down-the-street who not only had a Womble, but a Sindy wardrobe and horse.

TransFannyUltrasound · 12/05/2019 12:02

ITN news at one with Leonard Parkin.

TransFannyUltrasound · 12/05/2019 12:03

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrakl3MOQx8

This put the fear of god into all children.

TransFannyUltrasound · 12/05/2019 12:09

m.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQZaUixmpA

And Christ, we had to sit through this terrifying public information film.

ssd · 12/05/2019 12:13

Rich man poor man on a Saturday night
The alpine van selling ginger
Ice skating on the dam and seeing how far out you'd go not an adult in sight
Chicken in a basket

ssd · 12/05/2019 12:17

That music trans, brings me right back
What was the programme on on a Sunday around 6pm,a bit sciency and new wave? I remember it discussing torture somewhere in the world and being utterly freaked out. Kids weren't closeted in those days.

MargaretOfAnjou · 12/05/2019 12:25

Paula-down-the-street who not only had a Womble, but a Sindy wardrobe and horse.

What a biaaattcchhh!!!!

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MargaretOfAnjou · 12/05/2019 12:27

I'm happy for this to be moved to Other Subjects if people want it to hang around.

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LilyMumsnet · 12/05/2019 12:30

We'll move it over now. Flowers

EleanorReally · 12/05/2019 12:35

on the second death in Apaches, I cant watch any more

UrsulaPandress · 12/05/2019 12:47

I had the Sindy horse.

TroysMammy · 12/05/2019 12:57

Ursula Pandress I had a Sindy horse too. My DM wasn't impressed when she saw I had given it a white blaze and white socks with Tippex.

My Tiny Tears didn't pee because I took her head off to see how it worked. She had sticky up hair after numerous washings and only had one eye! I didn't treat my toys well.

TheCanterburyWhales · 12/05/2019 12:59

Is that you Paula? Grin
I was also given 45p in total spending money (both sets of grandparents) and that had to be that.
PDTS had spending money AND her mum bought her every single from the top 10.
I am still traumatised clearly at my deprivation. Bet she's grown up right spoilt though.

TheCanterburyWhales · 12/05/2019 13:01

I gave my Sindy a Purdy haircut. Badly.

buggerthebotox · 12/05/2019 13:07

Some fab old telly on youtube. Just been watching World in Action- episode 1: Thalidomide. On after Corrie as I remember. They didn't pull any punches did they?

Does anyone remember The Family? Apparently first ever fly-on-wall documentary. My mother was outraged by it and wouldn't let me watch it.

Sad.

Loving headless Tiny Tears and Purdey'd Sindy.

I had a Tressy doll-with hair that pulled out of her head to make it longer. Very creepy..

buggerthebotox · 12/05/2019 13:14

@ssd: not Man Alive?

beachyhead · 12/05/2019 13:21

We used to watch the wrestling on Saturday early evening, while eating sausages and chips on a tray Smile

The smell of Anne French and 4711

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