Originally Posted by SunshineGirl

I lived near Oulton Park and used to go a lot around 1976/7.

Originally Posted by Professional Princess

I remember running out of loo paper and mum forcing us to use 'Izal' toilet role

Originally Posted by 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. ;)

Originally Posted by Cheeky

Ok girls!! :D

Who remembers Sindy dolls? (Barbies predecessor)

And Girls World???

And not forgetting Tiny Tears!!!!!

Aw to be a kid again!!!

Cheeky ;)

Originally Posted by worzel

I would still much rather have carnation milk on my apple pie than custard or cream. And I like Battenburg cake, Sam.



My Dad used to take me and my brother to Oulton Park in his van to watch the motorbike racing. We had to hide in the back amongst all the greasy tools under a sheet so he didn't have to pay for us

Originally Posted by worzel

Whereabouts? I am from Chester and my Dad's family were from Ashton near Kelsall

We went quite a lot around then too. Probably saw you! Spooky! I remember watching the Transatlantic Trophy with Randy Mamola in particular and all the other big names as well as a few national and clubmans races. I have a great photo somewhere of Jock Stein and passenger hanging off their sidecar as it went upside as it came towards us.

Originally Posted by Ushas

I Loved my Girls World. Only gave it away when I moved from Oz to UK 6 years ago.

Originally Posted by Cheeky

Ok girls!! :D

Who remembers Sindy dolls? (Barbies predecessor)

And Girls World???

And not forgetting Tiny Tears!!!!!

Aw to be a kid again!!!

Cheeky ;)

Originally Posted by Craig Brooke

Guys

Got so nostalgic reading this thread yesterday that I flicked to VH1 Classics last night just to wallow in it again! What about the music?:

The Police
The Jam
The Beat (that little guy with wobbly legs always made me laugh)
The great Madness (baggy trousers!)
Blondie (.....I'll be back in a min - just off to the loo!)
Pretenders
Bad Manners (lip up fatty, ah lip up fatty, fatty reggae!!)

then of course onto my era with:

Depeche Mode (saw them twice - once in 1981 and again in 1994)
The Human League
Yazoo (saw them in 82 - Alison Moyet was just out of this world)
Tears for Fears (saw in 82)
Ultravox (oooooooo Vienna! - saw in 86)
China Crisis (going a bit deep here)
Soft Cell (no comment)
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Cure
Spandau Ballet
Wham! (Wham bam....I am...a man....job or nooo job......)
Duran Duran (still good)
ABC (shoot that poison arrow to my heeaaart!, shoot that poison arrow..)

god, I used to have all the clobber too - pleated trousers with 25 pleats in, Cavalry shirts, pointed shoes and a flick haircut

Then what about all the NAFF stuff

Bros
Dollar
Captain bloody sensible
Joe Dolce (kept Vienna off the No 1 slot!)
Kool and the Gang
Hot Chocolate (debateable if Naff or not)

Could go on and on but how about you lot......

Originally Posted by scissors

who remembers dancing at the disco to dexies midnight runners :scared:

tracey.s

Originally Posted by Cheeky

LOL!!!

Who remembers white stilettos?!!! :D

Cheeky.....Who ME?!! No I didnt have any!!................ :o

Originally Posted by Cheeky

LOL!!!

Who remembers white stilettos?!!! :D

Cheeky.....Who ME?!! No I didnt have any!!................ :o

Originally Posted by sel

Now Now Cheeky I no you had some really as did I (your nine days older than me) - also in red due to the song by David Bowie - Lets Dance (put on your reds shoes and dance the blues) :D

Sel x

Originally Posted by Cheeky

The problem (I found) was that white stilettos made my tiny size 5 feet look like canal barges!!!!!!!! :scared:

OK Sel and Tracey did you have matching handbags...........

Cheeky (me too!! :o )

PS I loved that song by David Bowie, I even remember the video!! :)

Originally Posted by sel

Scissors - Yellow polka dot puffball skirt with yellow shoes and matching clutchbag, poor on mellow yellow (birds custard)
Cheeky - Minnie mouse white shoes (complete with barge look) and black tights with a white ra ra / puffball skirt topped with harrington jacket with matching bag
Sel - looking like a big red zit in ra ra skirt holding her one and only clutchbag which was black cos it went with everything

Well girls I think personally we rock - I feel like dancing to the anthem of 1982 which is the one the only soft cell - tainted love

Sel x :)

Originally Posted by Cheeky

LOL Sel !!! Bloody brilliant!! :D

Harrington jacket, Id forgotton about that, how did you know?!!!!!
White shoes and black tights were soooo sexy!!! :cool:

Cheeky :D (dancing round handbags!! 'tainted love', then 'dont you want me baby', then we all go to the loo!!)

Originally Posted by Cheeky

Craig,

Wow this lot takes me back!! I used to love all the groups you mention in the second list!

Going back.......back.......back a bit more I used to love Wham!! Had the t-shirt too! ;) Flippen heck your second list I cant beleive it I remember them all!! China Crisis I know the name but what did they sing? Alison Moyet in Yazoo had a fantastic voice. Ultravox, wow I thought Midge Ure was gorgeus!! Wow Duran Duran, my fav was John Taylor!!! Echo and the Bunnymen did they sing Echoe Beach?? The song is in my head now! (Echoe beach, far-away-in-time, echoe beach faraway-in time........) I liked that one!

ABC had a fantastic album, all the songs were brill!

Originally Posted by sel

And mid flow culture club would come on ........ scream scream drip dry ....

Do you remember wearing about a hundred bangles around each wrist me mom always knew when I was nearly home she could hear me jingling. :D

Sel x

Originally Posted by Craig Brooke

Cheeky

Echo Beach was Martha and the Muffins - classic record though, can't get it out of my flippin head now!! Echo and The Bunnymen were not really mainstream but you may remember 'the Cutter'. (Maybe not!) I used to like Adam and the Ants too but wouldn't admit it because it just would NOT have been cool. :cool:

Embarrased now that I can't remember a chart China Crisis track - they were around early Eighties up to the mid-80s but only had a couple of chart tracks. What about OMD (Enola Gay was my fave)

Pity all my records are in storage in the UK otherwise I'd drive the family nuts this weekend.

HATED T'pau and Culture Club :D

Originally Posted by Craig Brooke

Cheeky

Echo Beach was Martha and the Muffins - classic record though, can't get it out of my flippin head now!! Echo and The Bunnymen were not really mainstream but you may remember 'the Cutter'. (Maybe not!) I used to like Adam and the Ants too but wouldn't admit it because it just would NOT have been cool. :cool:

Embarrased now that I can't remember a chart China Crisis track - they were around early Eighties up to the mid-80s but only had a couple of chart tracks. What about OMD (Enola Gay was my fave)

Pity all my records are in storage in the UK otherwise I'd drive the family nuts this weekend.

HATED T'pau and Culture Club :D

Originally Posted by Cheeky

Sel,

OMG YES!!!! bangles, forgot about those (Im laughing my head off here!!) I got mine off the market they were something like 10 for 50p......silver ones!!!!! The more bangles you had the more 'popular' you were!! I had 10!!!!

Another thing I can remember was when I was 15 I decided I didnt like being brunette anymore so I dyed my hair blonde........it turned out RED!!! :eek: My mum nearly killed me and I had to go to school like that!! :o It soon grew out (after about 2 yrs!!)

Do you (or anyone) remember those 'shaders' and 'toners' semi shade colours for your hair....cost about 50p off the market??!! Can anyone remember the shade range??!! You washed them in and then they washed out after about 6 washes. OMG I went through quite a few packets of those, anything other than having boring brown hair!!!!! (The above paragraph was what I progressed to after these!!)

Oh for the 80s!!! Ive had VH1 on tonight, just listened to Wham and Young Guns (George Micheal looks sooooo young!!) and ABC and Shoot that Poisen Arrow.....I was singing away while cooking tea!!! Feel like Im young again!!

Boy George....loved that hat!!!!! and the make up, tried to copy but my mum wouldnt let me out 'looking like that'!!!!!

Cheeky!!

Originally Posted by Sue from Manchester

I had those velvet knickerbockers teamed with a white frilly shirt and thought I was the bees knees.
Apologies for slow typing, am painting nails a vivid green for tomorrow's NW meet at the Salt Cellar pub - a shameless advertisement in case anybody need reminding!

Originally Posted by thpinkpussycat

and i thought it as just me! I would wear mine with red suede pixie boots! :scared:

Originally Posted by thpinkpussycat

:D According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because...

Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pots & pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags, riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.
After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms.
We had friends we went outside and found them.
We played Kerby and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt. We fell out of trees, got cuts and broke bones but there were no law suits.
We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents
We played knock-and-run and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.
We walked to friend's homes. We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mum or dad to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.

Now let's check if we're getting old... :D
1.. You understand what was written above and you smile.
2.. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.
3.. Your friends are getting married/already married.
4.. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.
5.. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6.. You remember watching Dirty Den in East Enders the first time around.
7.. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again all the fun you had experienced together Hmmmmm....... :beer:

Originally Posted by Craig822

Cheeky

Echo Beach was Martha and the Muffins - classic record though, can't get it out of my flippin head now!! Echo and The Bunnymen were not really mainstream but you may remember 'the Cutter'. (Maybe not!) I used to like Adam and the Ants too but wouldn't admit it because it just would NOT have been cool. :cool:

Embarrased now that I can't remember a chart China Crisis track - they were around early Eighties up to the mid-80s but only had a couple of chart tracks. What about OMD (Enola Gay was my fave)

Pity all my records are in storage in the UK otherwise I'd drive the family nuts this weekend.

HATED T'pau and Culture Club :D

Originally Posted by Craig822

Guys

Got so nostalgic reading this thread yesterday that I flicked to VH1 Classics last night just to wallow in it again! What about the music?:

The Police
The Jam
The Beat (that little guy with wobbly legs always made me laugh)
The great Madness (baggy trousers!)
Blondie (.....I'll be back in a min - just off to the loo!)
Pretenders
Bad Manners (lip up fatty, ah lip up fatty, fatty reggae!!)

then of course onto my era with:

Depeche Mode (saw them twice - once in 1981 and again in 1994)
The Human League
Yazoo (saw them in 82 - Alison Moyet was just out of this world)
Tears for Fears (saw in 82)
Ultravox (oooooooo Vienna! - saw in 86)
China Crisis (going a bit deep here)
Soft Cell (no comment)
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Cure
Spandau Ballet
Wham! (Wham bam....I am...a man....job or nooo job......)
Duran Duran (still good)
ABC (shoot that poison arrow to my heeaaart!, shoot that poison arrow..)

god, I used to have all the clobber too - pleated trousers with 25 pleats in, Cavalry shirts, pointed shoes and a flick haircut :cool: :cool:

Then what about all the NAFF stuff

Bros
Dollar
Captain bloody sensible
Joe Dolce (kept Vienna off the No 1 slot!)
Kool and the Gang
Hot Chocolate (debateable if Naff or not)

Could go on and on but how about you lot...... :D