Reply to: Memories of the 70s for "Gen Y"

[Bee]

Obviously I wasn't an Abba fan, but I persuaded my sister to buy had all their records.

[BlasterBates]

Obviously I wasn't an Abba fan, but I persuaded my sister to buy had all their records.

[Bee]

I remember:

I did not like to eat until 5 years old.
Punching the boys at school.
Superman movie.
Close Encounters movie.
ABBA

[vetran]

£51 chicken!

How much would items cost if they had risen in line with house prices? | This is Money

[stek]

I was watching The Good Life from 1975 and in one ep. Jerry Leadbetter's salary was mentioned, £18,000. Now I looked on some website that worked out the equivalent current salary, was about £134,000 in today's money, which seemed a bit much to me. Especially as when I first started working in 1979, my salary was £6292 so broadly equivalent to £45,000 - can't be right for an 18 year old.

Unless inflation was so rampant in the late seventies it was really worth like 20k, even that seems too much.

[DimPrawn]

Interestingly enough it was 6 quid a pint last night at Wembley and ten quid a burger

So based on that I would say southern house prices are about right.

If you are talking about Wembley beer prices then you should be comparing it with London house prices. Nearly £500K for Wembley.

[original PM]

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.

Interestingly enough it was 6 quid a pint last night at Wembley and ten quid a burger

So based on that I would say southern house prices are about right.

[stek]

HR Puff'n'stuff!!

The Double Deckers!

[mudskipper]

The Saint
Brady Bunch
Heidi
Columbo


Enid Blyton
Nancy Drew
The Beano

[BrilloPad]

The UK gloating in post war nostalgia

[BrilloPad]

70s. When Y fronts were introduced.

[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.

[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....

[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!

[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