THE 1970s



My youth
Star Wars
Grease
Barry Sheene
Elvis dying
Queens silver jubilee
Shawadywaddy
Convoy
Bay city rollers (not a fan but they took over)
Bee Gees
Chopper bikes riding down to Barnes park every day
Mending punctures
Conkers
Carakers, whatever the bastards were called bruising my knuckles
Six million dollar man
BJ Macay and my best friend bear
Starsky and Hutch
The Golden Shot
Tin can alley, batteries ran out in 20 minutes
Scalectrix
Stretch Armstrong
Dr Who with John Pertwee
James Bond and his lotus esprit
Milk on the step that had burst the top
 
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Sex for the first time. Aaaagh.
The Who
Fashion.
Benidorm
Winning the FA cup.
My Grandad
My Uncle Norman.
My first car a Hillman Hunter 1725 GT in metallic bronze.
Getting engaged.
My first pay packet
Rugby, getting a County Durham trial.
Not being selected !
Football specials.
Pints of beer 10d.
Happy happy days
 
World In Action on Monday evenings at 8-30pm.Such a hard hitting investigative programme.The theme music was really dark but striking.
 
Football.
Standing in the Town End Swindon, very loud.
Games were an adventure I was Young and without a care in the World.
What I would give to go back for one day only.
 
Proper bonfire nights with the whole street out around a huge bonnie in the back field. A couple of years we had full size telegraph poles as the centre post.

Potatoes would be chucked in around the edges and pulled out when the skins were fully blackened and charred and the insides soft. You’d be sooted up to the eyeballs eating them but they were lovely.
Everyone’s Mam would bring a bit food out and it was a free for all tuck in. Crap fireworks paid for by the penny for the guy fund and the guy made from your Da’s old shirt and trousers stuffed with paper would be chucked on and watched as it burnt through.

Proper pit street community nights.
 
WillD said:
My youth
Star Wars
Grease
Barry Sheene
Elvis dying
Queens silver jubilee
Shawadywaddy
Convoy
Bay city rollers (not a fan but they took over)
Bee Gees
Chopper bikes riding down to Barnes park every day
Mending punctures
Conkers
Carakers, whatever the bastards were called bruising my knuckles
Six million dollar man
BJ Macay and my best friend bear
Starsky and Hutch
The Golden Shot
Tin can alley, batteries ran out in 20 minutes
Scalectrix
Stretch Armstrong
Dr Who with John Pertwee
James Bond and his lotus esprit
Milk on the step that had burst the top
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Warrabout Evel Knievel and Top Deck shandy?
 
George Kaplan said:
I was born in 1955. So by late 1970 I was 15.

Which meant that whilst I was only a kid (8-10) when the Beatles/Stones first happened I was reasonably aware of what was going on and exposed to some of the best popular music ever created as it happened and some of the most important social events - and still young enough to be in a punk band and still you enough to be involved with bands and music in the early 80s and... well I kind-of lost interest by the mid 90's

I also meant I was 18 in in May 1973.


Aye, my Mam was a shite cook anarl.
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I too was born on 1955
 

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