My memories of the 70's are viewed through rose coloured glasses I think, it can't have been as good as I remember it surely.
My faves are
Jackie magazine.
Picked up a copy of the Jackie Annual 1973 at a charity shop a few weeks ago and I was ridiculousy excited.
Enid Blyton books
Mallory Towers, St Clairs, The Secret Seven, The Magic Faraway Tree, loved them all. Our local market has recently been refurbished and there is a new book stall. I couldn't believe it when I found loads of the above books and they were only £1.00 each!! It cost me a fortune and she is getting more for me.
Donny Osmond OMG I was so in love. I actually met him a few years ago and he is even more yummy now than he was then.
The Sweet, David Cassidy, David Essex, Mud, so many great songs around.
I also remember I had a huge crush on Marc Bolan. I had an enormous picture of him which covered an entire wall in my bedroom. It was the one with all the snakes in his hair and I came home from school one day and Mum was furious. The window cleaner had ranted at her that he had almost fallen off his ladder when he spotted the poster.
The TV being wheeled into a room - when I was at primary school & the Wimbledon ladies final was on a Friday, our teacher let us watch it for a treat!
Top & tailing with my sister, in the back of the car on the long drive to Holyhead from London, to get the boat to Ireland. We had pillows & a quilt - no seatbelts though & we never fell off!
Going to Brownie camp in 1976 - we were there for about a week, and you weren't allowed to call home & no-one thought it was strange.
Getting the bus to primary school after we moved house and could no longer walk. Again, no-one batted an eyelid that a 9 & 6 year old were doing that!
Spaggetti Bolognaise was exotic
Going on holiday to my cousins/friends.......who lived the other side of London & getting excited as they had sodastreams & we didn't!!
Tarzan
Rag and Bone men
Rubarb and custard sweets
Staying out all day in the Summer holidays
Playing out til late
Witch's hat swing
Pinches
Jackie magazine
Pipkin
70s porn
Everyone around the one TV
Stink bombs
Parents excited when a black person appeared on TV
Shrinking crisp packets in the oven
Looong hot summers
My dad bought "Man, Myth and Magic" every week - the magazines were then collected into binders, and it turned into this massive series of weighty tomes. I still have them and many of the articles are surprisingly good.
Anyone else remember Budgie, with Adam Faith? I loved that show.
Sing Something Simple - I hated this with an absolute passion. It ran through the 70's and the 80's. It was broadcast on Sunday afternoon and ushered in the feeling of dread that the school week was closing in...
My dad bought "Man, Myth and Magic" every week - the magazines were then collected into binders, and it turned into this massive series of weighty tomes. I still have them and many of the articles are surprisingly good.
Anyone else remember Budgie, with Adam Faith? I loved that show.
Very good show, although I only saw it when channel 4 repeated it. Charlie Engel was a great character.
Do remember a few more series I liked at the time: Shoestring, Sapphire and Steel and, a bit earlier, Man About the House. Ahhhhh, Paula Willcox. Oh, and Ian Ogilvy in Return of the Saint. I treasured my model White Jaguar XJS.
The crisp packets in oven phenomenon definately passed me by!
Sing Something Simple - I hated this with an absolute passion. It ran through the 70's and the 80's. It was broadcast on Sunday afternoon and ushered in the feeling of dread that the school week was closing in...
It was on Radio 2 immediately before Radio 1 took over the FM frequency and the charts came on.
I'm sure we all have the same memories of sitting there, tape paused ready to record your favourite songs. You had to unpause at exactly the right moment to miss the talking and not miss the start of the song!
Kentucky fried chicken shop opened at the bottom of our road
Cresta drinks
Boys joining us in cookery classes
Tartan everything
Powercuts and going over the road for tea and them coming to our house the following day
Green eyeshadow
It was on Radio 2 immediately before Radio 1 took over the FM frequency and the charts came on.
I'm sure we all have the same memories of sitting there, tape paused ready to record your favourite songs. You had to unpause at exactly the right moment to miss the talking and not miss the start of the song!
Or hope none of the family came in and started talking.
Playing on railway lines, in building sites, bomb sites and derelict buildings and often with airguns (freely available to anyone over 14 from an exciting new store called "Argos"), petrol bombs and explosive detonators.
Watching mum collect Green Shield stamps issued by those fascinating console thingys in shops and then fastidiously licked/sticking them into albums.
Ogling the bra pages in Marshall Ward home shopping catalogue.
Playing "Knocking Dolly out of bed" for hours on end (ie ringing doorbells and legging it).
Being disappointed if there wasn't a full-scale punch-up on the terraces at every football match attended.
Cathy & Claire, the problem page in Jackie magazine. Also, they did a three part poster of Donny Osmond, over three weeks. The first week was his legs, the second was his body and the third week was his head! Yes, they made us wait!
Having to get up to turn over the TV channels and change the volume. Waiting the telly to warm up.
Seeing Mud at the Odeon on New Street for £1.50. I think it was £1.75 to see David Essex.
People waiting by the first edition of the Birmingham Evening Mail on a Thursday as it was the job day. It was normally at about noon.
Collecting pop bottles to take them to the shop and get the deposit back.
The Saturday morning matinee at the local pictures. It cost 5p and featured the aforementioned BFF films.
I lived in Birmingham as a teenager - I saw Steel Pulse and Darts at the Odeon, I think, New Street, anyway.
I also remember watching 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Silent Movie' there.
And Jaws, which was just fab - and the whole cinema would scream and hide at the same time.
Oh and some bright spark changed the cinema titles to 'arse warts' and it stayed like it for days.:D
Pippa dolls and mummy's working during school holidays and seeing children with keys tied to cords hanging around the neck.. I think the terminology was Latchkey children.
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The telly on a very tall stand used to be wheeled into the classroom. It fell over once, that was exciting.
My faves are
Jackie magazine.
Picked up a copy of the Jackie Annual 1973 at a charity shop a few weeks ago and I was ridiculousy excited.
Enid Blyton books
Mallory Towers, St Clairs, The Secret Seven, The Magic Faraway Tree, loved them all. Our local market has recently been refurbished and there is a new book stall. I couldn't believe it when I found loads of the above books and they were only £1.00 each!! It cost me a fortune and she is getting more for me.
Donny Osmond OMG I was so in love. I actually met him a few years ago and he is even more yummy now than he was then.
The Sweet, David Cassidy, David Essex, Mud, so many great songs around.
I also remember I had a huge crush on Marc Bolan. I had an enormous picture of him which covered an entire wall in my bedroom. It was the one with all the snakes in his hair and I came home from school one day and Mum was furious. The window cleaner had ranted at her that he had almost fallen off his ladder when he spotted the poster.
It was the best decade ever!
Star Wars
Star Trek
Logan's Run
Sci-fi being less mainstream, as an interest, than now, so taking pride in my geeky specialness.
Blakes 7 on a Monday evening.
Top & tailing with my sister, in the back of the car on the long drive to Holyhead from London, to get the boat to Ireland. We had pillows & a quilt - no seatbelts though & we never fell off!
Going to Brownie camp in 1976 - we were there for about a week, and you weren't allowed to call home & no-one thought it was strange.
Getting the bus to primary school after we moved house and could no longer walk. Again, no-one batted an eyelid that a 9 & 6 year old were doing that!
Spaggetti Bolognaise was exotic
Going on holiday to my cousins/friends.......who lived the other side of London & getting excited as they had sodastreams & we didn't!!
Rag and Bone men
Rubarb and custard sweets
Staying out all day in the Summer holidays
Playing out til late
Witch's hat swing
Pinches
Jackie magazine
Pipkin
70s porn
Everyone around the one TV
Stink bombs
Parents excited when a black person appeared on TV
Shrinking crisp packets in the oven
Looong hot summers
The Stone Tape is one for you, then.;-)
My dad bought "Man, Myth and Magic" every week - the magazines were then collected into binders, and it turned into this massive series of weighty tomes. I still have them and many of the articles are surprisingly good.
Anyone else remember Budgie, with Adam Faith? I loved that show.
Yeah. A record holder. It was ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH5-pb1OY0A
Raleigh Chopper
Blaxploitation films:cool:
Space 1999
Multi Coloured Swap Shop
Tiswas
Buck Rogers
Bjorn Borg:cool:
Summer of 1976:cool:
Very good show, although I only saw it when channel 4 repeated it. Charlie Engel was a great character.
Do remember a few more series I liked at the time: Shoestring, Sapphire and Steel and, a bit earlier, Man About the House. Ahhhhh, Paula Willcox. Oh, and Ian Ogilvy in Return of the Saint. I treasured my model White Jaguar XJS.
The crisp packets in oven phenomenon definately passed me by!
It was on Radio 2 immediately before Radio 1 took over the FM frequency and the charts came on.
I'm sure we all have the same memories of sitting there, tape paused ready to record your favourite songs. You had to unpause at exactly the right moment to miss the talking and not miss the start of the song!
Kentucky fried chicken shop opened at the bottom of our road
Cresta drinks
Boys joining us in cookery classes
Tartan everything
Powercuts and going over the road for tea and them coming to our house the following day
Green eyeshadow
Or hope none of the family came in and started talking.
And Crown Court... because there wasn't anything else.:(
Watching mum collect Green Shield stamps issued by those fascinating console thingys in shops and then fastidiously licked/sticking them into albums.
Ogling the bra pages in Marshall Ward home shopping catalogue.
Playing "Knocking Dolly out of bed" for hours on end (ie ringing doorbells and legging it).
Being disappointed if there wasn't a full-scale punch-up on the terraces at every football match attended.
I lived in Birmingham as a teenager - I saw Steel Pulse and Darts at the Odeon, I think, New Street, anyway.
I also remember watching 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Silent Movie' there.
And Jaws, which was just fab - and the whole cinema would scream and hide at the same time.
Oh and some bright spark changed the cinema titles to 'arse warts' and it stayed like it for days.:D
Loved watching those!
I remember those countdown clocks they used too.
Brilliant!
I used to love it when my dad would tune in the TV to pick up HTV Wales, so that we could watch things that weren't on Granada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR_XX6EH-_s&feature=player_detailpage