Memories of the 70s for "Gen Y"

[sasguru]

You forgot the mandatory "you've got to have a savings account with us for at least a year before we could possibly consider deigning to offer you a mortgage". g

And the £30 (or was it £50?) limit on the amount of sterling you could take out of the country on your hols.

As a kid wasn't aware of any of those ...

[darmstadt]

Post Office Savings Account...I found my book the other day, still got 1,38 in it. Maybe I should send it off to get the interest from since the last time

[stek]

Dead dogs in the road....

Bonfires higher than the surrounding houses 10 feet away

Pop man

Old-style paedos, no nasty stuff, just a bit of trouser fumbling

Penny tray

[d000hg]

We had (and I still have one just in case like) open coal fires. Lovely and warm. Lot of work though. And the dust is horrendous.

What about storage heaters? Or was that a few years later?

A house we looked at the other day had working fireplaces in every room (except the smallest). Lovely.

[Dactylion]

Some might contend that the saddest part was when your mouse hovered over "Reply With Quote" and your judgement failed you. But hey, we've all done it.

Whoever designed our school deemed it appropriate to build a water feature that ran the length of it. We could study nature.

This became the perfect place to refill our jif lemons (used for squirting other kids) though the risks associated with crouching next to the water feature weren't to be underestimated. Our skills at salesmanship were honed by trying to persuade the little kids in winter that the thin layer of ice on the surface of the water feature would "definitely take your weight".

90% of kids at my school had one of those blue parkas with the furry hoods and orange lining. They were warm but not waterproof. By the time we'd walked a mile to school in the rain (yeah, try it, kids) these parkas weighed half a hundredweight.

So unlike SAS who was bullied you were the bully!

I expect you are proud of that fact.

[sasguru]

What about storage heaters? Or was that a few years later?

A house we looked at the other day had working fireplaces in every room (except the smallest). Lovely.

Ah yes storage heaters - touted as the latest and greatest heating tech, in the early 80s I believe.
They never worked properly.

[stek]

Cars that you were never sure would start. I can't get on with these new-fangled cars that turn the engine off at traffic lights etc, I'm convinced it won't start next time...

Oh how I (don't) miss the morning engine churning in winter of my dad trying to start his Ford Contina. Churn, churn, bonnet up, fiddling about, bonnet down, churn, churn, repeat and rinse until battery flat.....

[SueEllen]

I could never work out what the rag and bone man said with his horse.

He stopped coming round in the mid-80s....

[sasguru]

Cars that you were never sure would start. I can't get on with these new-fangled cars that turn the engine off at traffic lights etc, I'm convinced it won't start next time...

Oh how I (don't) miss the morning engine churning in winter of my dad trying to start his Ford Contina. Churn, churn, bonnet up, fiddling about, bonnet down, churn, churn, repeat and rinse until battery flat.....

Oh yeah forgot that. Were you neighbours? Coz I remember a neighbour's Ford Cortina and the endless racket he made trying to start it.

[Pondlife]

Spangles.