Craig822

AAHH - SPIT WASH!! Still do it to my kids and think 'god I used to hate this' LOL.

What about Tank tops with 3 big stars on the front, platform shoes for the guys! and those trousers with the big waist band with pockets on the side - the bigger the waist band the cooler they were.

Great thread guys - keep it going, laughing my socks off at some of it.

scissors

i collected beer mats for some bizzare reason, had them pinned all over my bedroom wall. :scared:

tracey

scissors

omg, i had my first afro perm when i was 13, my mum gave my a toni super perm, anyone remember them,lol,i thought it was fantastic at the time,lol, but it looked like a frizz ball really,ooohhh what we did for fashion :scared:

tracey.

Ushas

OMG!!! We used to play 'Chopper Squad' and 'Flipper' in my best friends pool! And she always had to be Marine Boy while I ended up getting lost at sea and eaten by a shark!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ushas

I have three outstanding memories...


1) All the kids on the street would get together and do 'plays' and skits. We'd hang a curtain (Bedsheet) from a neighbours garage roof. Put out chairs and make all the parents on the street come and watch us perform! I remember doing Froggy went a-courtin' and I was Froggy. Kim Dark from next door was Miss Mousie and I borrowed her green overalls which nearly cut me in half...

2) My friend Lisa and another girl running away from home (8 years old) because she wasn't allowed a kitten. Found them a day later huddled under the bridge!

3) Making dens in the spare block across the road. It's full of houses now! We had a cool den and all our stuff was in there. It never got stolen. Kim Tomlinson from down the road pinched a packet of matches from Lisa's house (all the parents smoked!) and was lighting them to see how far down she could let them burn. One in particular got quite close to her fingers so she panicked and handed it to my Brother Stephen. He dropped it and the whole block went up like tinder! Fire engines...My best friend Lisa crying because her 'puppy' (stuffed toy) was in the den. I ran through the flames yelling 'Don't worry I'll save him'. I was about 6. I saved her puppy and emerged from the flames and smoke triumphant with this dog! And my dad gave me the biggest walloping of my entire life. Each word punctuated by another smack on the bum.

Don't..(smack).. you..(Smack)...ever..(smack)..do...(smack)...that. .(smack)...again..(smack) and so on....

Ah those were the days.
A good smack never did me any harm!!!!

SunshineGirl

That's the trouble nowadays, good smack will probably kill you!

DagBoy

I love this thread - of course nostalgia is not what it was.

In no particular order:

Hector's House
Blue Peter (Pete, John and Val)
The first John Craven's newsround.
Romper Room (just Anglia TV I think)
The Clangers
The Herbs
Jackanory
Creeping downstairs to watch Colditz through the crack in the living room door (it was on too late for me) - and the same for the first few series of Monty Python
Playing Freddie Flea and British Bulldog
Playing wars around the local farms - through the hedges and along the ditches.
Building dens in the middle of the stack of straw bales
Using candles in them so we had light
Building bolt bobs and pipe bombs and petrol bombs
Blowing things up with sugar and weedkiller
Getting beer from the off licence ("for my friend's mum") and then hiding in his barn to drink it.
The 1976 drought
The Queen's silver jubilee (when the whole country seemed to quite like the royal family)
Milk at primary school in those 1/3 pint bottles that were always left out in the sun
Getting my mouth washed out with soap at age 6 for saying bloody in school (interestingly I never again swore in the hearing of a teacher)

I am sure there were many more, but I am getting too old to recall......

Cheers,

DagBoy

worzel

Snickers used to be Marathon, Cif used to be Jif, Oil of Olay used to be Oil of Ulay (why???)
Its a knockout with Stuart Hall giving himself a hernia laughing so much
Rolf Harris telling you to learn to swim (and how his dad threw him in and told him to swim or drown)
Rushing home from work to watch the muppets (ok that was only about 6 years ago)

And there was a guy who was bald on top but had log hair around the sides doing a public service announcement telling drivers to slow down unless they wanted to ride in one of these (it was a hearse). I was going to get a hearse when I was older so I could drive one fast!

Mark Dowd

Various businesses are tuning into the desires of the babyboom children of the 70's. You can now buy various sweets you may remember from http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/index.php It may be called "a quarter of" but now it's a quarter of a kilogram instead of a quarter of a pound due to European legislation! Also you can now get your hands on chopper bicycle once again, read all about it here http://www.btinternet.com/~g_coventr...4/2004news.htm

Poppy

How about clackers which they eventually banned due to kids breaking their wrists!

And Cat Weazel on TV.

When my 8yr old son says to me 'how do you know this song?', I always feel like my mum when she used to say 'I remember this song first time round!'
and I always feel a bit uncomfortable when my son says 'Mum, what was it like in the olden days'?' I'm only 39 thanks son!

Yes, the good old days.

Thanks for starting this thread, I've enjoyed reading it, still haven't managed to read through it all yet tho', so sorry if I have duplicated.

Cheers

Poppy

SunshineGirl

Trademark restrictions in the UK. They've been known by the 'newer' names abroad for years.

I think Rolf grew up on the Swan River. Went on a wine cruise earlier this year and the guides kept referring to him. I'll check again when I try the cruise again a few weeks.

sel

Captain Pugwash
Dangermouse
Inspector Gadget
Ivor the Engine
Mr Benn
Rainbow
Scooby Doo
Sooty
Animal Magic
Top Cat

The older boys would build a den and a bonfire and they would get all us younger ones to nick the tins of beans or rice pudding that would get thrown on - next thing you knew you'd have red on bits raining down on you - as a mother now I would have palpatations if my kids got up to these things - and yet we all survived

Sel x

DollyDaydream

O-M-G!!! Me too. We used to joke that we wore more clothes to bed than we did to go to school! And our windows used to ice up on the inside as well. You could see your breath in my bedroom. We didn't have central heating either but as you, we had a parafin heater in the kitchen. We had a coal fire in the living room that we used to put bread on a long fork and toast, or put potatoes in the hearth. In the winter mum used to put dad's slippers by the fire to warm when he was on his 2-10 shift.

I remember racing home to watch Shang-a-lang (Baycity rollers) and Marc Bolan (re Baycity rollers; I also sewed tartan down the side of my jeans). I remember Bar-6 (a scrummy choccie bar), space hoppers, clackers, ponchos, bell bottomed trousers, skirts that were either mini, midi or maxi in length; tomato sauce crisps, sherbert dips (didn't like liquorice so I used to make a fizzy drink by putting water with the sherbert), calypsos (triangular shaped carton drink that we used to put in the freezer so it ended up a lolly); The Partridge Family, Watch with Mother (loved Busy Lizzy), Romper Room with Miss Rosalyn, Magpie, MultiColoured Swap Shop, Chopper bikes, Fab lollies which came with cards of famous bands of the time that you could collect and put on a poster, Liverpool in their prime (Steve Highway, John Toshak, Emlyn Hughes, Kevin Keegan......), Lambchop, Jackie magazine, Tiny Tears dolls, oh for goodness sake stop me... I could go on for hours!!!!

D D

SunshineGirl

Anyone remember Fab 208 or Princess Tina?

Conductors on the buses with those ancient ticket machines.

Hotpants, ponchoes (should have kept mine) and wedges.

Thinking that 21 was really old.

worzel

[QUOTE=SunshineGirl]Hotpants, ponchoes (should have kept mine) and wedges.QUOTE]

Hotpants should definitely come back into fashion