Welcome back to the 70s

dyna-ti
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The 70’s. When it was normal to buy candles in packs of 40.

I don't know how much of my memory is correct or a memory of a memory sort of thing but power cuts did seem to be a thing as a kid. To this day I always make sure we have a small stash of candles in the kitchen... just in case.

We lived in a fairly rural area though so I don't know of it was strikes or just knackered infrastructure?

1979 saw Erin Gray grace our screens as Colonel Wilma Deering - I was an 8yr old boy in love....

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*edit - wasn't aired until August 1980 in the UK

corduroy trousers, it was shite

Did you have to wear those elasticated ties as well 🙂

I don’t know how much of my memory is correct or a memory of a memory sort of thing but power cuts did seem to be a thing as a kid. To this day I always make sure we have a small stash of candles in the kitchen… just in case.

Yep there were a ‘few’ strikes then 🙂

By fluke we just had a generator in the garden that would get fired up for a while but other than that everyone in the street was on candles x many hours

I also remember the bbc repeating complete episodes of doctor who one after another - the green death - (they never really used to do that )due to strikes

but power cuts did seem to be a thing as a kid

I have the same recollections (early 70’s iirc), but it was more of an adventure than anything. We only had about 4 electrical appliances.

We had SMP boxes. I completed them all a year or two(?) early.

Oh gods, yes! That’s why a google image search didn’t ring a bell, they were like big index cards. You got one, completed it, put it back and got another. I seem to remember running out also.

I used to complete the class work and the teacher’s backup work, so she’d grumpily go off to print something else. The work would still be wet and bright purple ink. What sort of printer was that - I forget?

Things that I recall from the late 60’s early 70’s:
Lots of excitement in the playground about boxing - Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Bugner
The Bay City Rollers and all the girls wearing tartan.
Those clacker balls that kids would bang together.
Playing in the streets, nowhere near your house, until you had to go in to bed.
Kids smoking from a very early age.

I don’t know how much of my memory is correct or a memory of a memory sort of thing but power cuts did seem to be a thing as a kid.

There were loads of power cuts. I still get a few now, had a 4 hour one just last week - but then living in the New Forest feels like the 70's anyway.

Not four?

No, "O"s.

There were loads of power cuts.

Living in 'deepest rural' Whitley Bay ( 😉 )I remember we used to have lots of candles that mum would buy from Maughans (its still there and going) and we had a coal fire so used to toast crumpets on the fire. I was too young to remember the downside to that period**, but memories like that stick with you.

** Well apart from the hand-me-down bottle green cords, blue navy jumper, faded hand-me-down purple cord jacket and brown leather Clarks sandals...I've got a picture somewhere, but don't worry, I'll not share 🙂

Abandoned cars just going to rust, there were about 5 or 6 I went past on the roughly 1 mile walk to primary school (by myself).

And scrap ground (I don't know what else to call it) just unused land that has now all been mainly built on with a few bits landscaped.

And of course any building sites became playgrounds after the builders left for the night/weekend.

Grandad had some sort of funky maestro with a red electronic speedo. Dad was into his cars, was a bit too young to remember but he had a white mk1 escort which he had put a big engine in with his brother, blower out the bonnet, massive wheels on the back. I think he had a jensen interceptor for a bit, then he got into making chops, got divorced and disappeared....oh he had an RS4 cosworth at some point as well, I remember thinking the little graphic in the middle showing open doors was very cool

I remember pavements melting and treading tar into carpets, more than once

Used to have a pretty long walk to school which I was doing alone or with mates from a young age

Getting a kicking from teenagers, dad asked what I'd done (thrown a stone which vaguely landed near them). He said serves you right, stupid boy.

Oh and jumping up and down on a frozen canal to see if I could break the ice....

Was tomorrows world a thing, or was that a bit later?

The work would still be wet and bright purple ink. What sort of printer was that – I forget?

A Banda machine. The fluid used had a distinct odour too.

Kids smoking from a very early age.

Lots of this, not to mention candy sticks that looked a lot like roll ups and chocolate cigarettes wrapped in rice paper.

In front of every house there would be a large oil stain on the road from where the car owner habitually parked. Walking down the road on a Saturday morning at least one of said owners would be peering under the bonnet.

Papier mache to make a mask, Blue Peter one afternoon Magpie the next took up 4 days
Jackanory was dire or is it just me as I never read fiction

I don’t know how much of my memory is correct or a memory of a memory sort of thing but power cuts did seem to be a thing as a kid.

Supply outages were commonplace in the 70s. I vaguely remember having a coin-operated electricity meter also, the house would suddenly go dark and my parents would scrabble around for a 50p to put in it.

To this day I always make sure we have a small stash of candles in the kitchen… just in case.

You're aware of torches, yes? (-:

corduroy trousers, it was shite

But corduroy pillows were making headlines.

The work would still be wet and bright purple ink. What sort of printer was that – I forget?

As PJM said, https://www.1900s.org.uk/banda.htm

There was also mimeographs, which were similar but different.

And scrap ground (I don’t know what else to call it)

We called it catland. I have no idea why (never saw any cats) or how common a term that was.

This picture sums up a lot of my 70's.

Itchy jumpers/cardi's
Brown everywhere
'Jacko' the monkey
Tonka toys
It must have been a good Christmas

The smell of four star petrol fumes

Loose dogs everywhere. I needed to plan my route to school when I was younger to avoid the barkier ones.

Pigeon lofts.