Memories of the 70s for "Gen Y"

[DimPrawn]

It wasn't all bad...

The average house in 1971 was £5,632.

Now it is about £300K, so a pint should cost about £5.75 now, or house prices are overpriced.

Based on the pint being about £3.10, the average house should cost about £160K.

So either beer has become amazingly cheap, or houses have become idiotically expensive.

[Uncle Albert]

The average house in 1971 was £5,632.

Now it is about £300K, so a pint should cost about £5.75 now, or house prices are overpriced.

Based on the pint being about £3.10, the average house should cost about £160K.

So either beer has become amazingly cheap, or houses have become idiotically expensive.

Invest in beer, the property boom is over.

[d000hg]

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

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

We still get rag'n'bone men on our cul-de-sac. Several times a year.
I've also seen a coal lorry recently, 90% certain of this anyway.
And a (different) house we viewed had milk left in a tiny alcove by the front door, so clearly the milk-man is around too!

[Dactylion]

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

Well other than "Giddy-up Hercules" the Rag and Bone mans traditional call was:

"Aaaaaaaaaall baaaaa Lumbaaaaaaar!"

Translated as "All bar lumber" roughly equivalent to:
I will take pretty much anything that isn't wood.

The was, and to a certain extent still is, a reasonable profit from selling on scrap metal etc and even in those days re-selling white goods.

[DimPrawn]

And young women had real tits, sometimes almost no tits at all, not these monster plastic things.

[LondonManc]

More memories....

As the youngest, you were the TV remote
White dog poo
10p deposit on glass bottles of pop (these younguns and their recycling!)
Football boots only came in black

[vetran]

More memories....

As the youngest, you were the TV remote
White dog poo
10p deposit on glass bottles of pop (these younguns and their recycling!)
Football boots only came in black

snooker on TV was fun.

Ice on the metal windows. We had an oil burner eventually, we lived too far out for Gas.

this isn't as good as the last nostalgia thread!

[stek]

Memories of the 70s for "Gen Y"

Dirty books with women's parts covered with a big asterix. Got a shock when I saw my first real one....

[LondonManc]

snooker on TV was fun.

Ice on the metal windows. We had an oil burner eventually, we lived too far out for Gas.

this isn't as good as the last nostalgia thread!

Aye, nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

[BrilloPad]

70s. When Y fronts were introduced.