Me too ...but some say those who were children as well ....that we were all neglected.....now think for a moment...we had facilities....so nowadays they don't...per se...do u think that's how children get in gangs?
I was a rocker in the 60s and rode my BSA 650cc until the wheels nearly fell off….rode back from lands end back to Norwich same day…some 400 miles got soaking wet…but loved every minute…Paul lomax.
To Owen Parsons What do you mean nowadays? Don't you mean you DON'T survive? You don't necessarily find a job, you can't buy or rent somewhere to live - too expensive! You CAN'T retire at the proper age.
There was no respect for woman and girls ,,the culture was disgusting sexism if you complain to police ' it's compliment ' very horrible time for your sister's if you had any sense ,learn karate,carry self defense weapon or use your bare fists
😊Don't let any one or anything deprive you of a time that you enjoyed, if you have good memories of the past and want to keep it alive, there are ways you can do this😊 what about the music! You can buy it and you can still buy the clothes online, you can even still buy some of the furniture and wallpaper! Some of these things may cost a pretty penny, but if you save, you can recreate "elements" of the past in the present, Enjoy - happy days😊👍🌹
I was born in 71, I would go back like a shot! Life was less complicated, you had time to do things, enjoyed your childhood No Peer Pressure! only 3 channels on TV which turned off at a set time, no social media influence, you had to use your own imagination , 6 weeks summer holidays seemed to last forever, all the adventures you had with your friends,no waiting 2 weeks or more for a hospital appointment, you just turned up and waited your turn, neighbours where neighbours, Penny for the Guy, Ice cream van, space dust, Pocketeers, Chopper,Grifter,Budgie and Boxer bikes. I miss those days especially the family and friends no longer with us.😢
@Siforce71 I must feel like u ,what u wrote is spot on ,I do wish some days when I 🤔 think back I want to go home 🏡 back to the brilliant days , remember penny for Halloween not bloody trick or treat , yes how everything has changed xxx
l was a 16 year old teenager at the start of the 70's and seeing this brings the memories flooding back . Glad l can look back and say l've live though the three best decades in the UK's history . The '50's , the '60's and the '70's . Happy , golden day's much missed .
@@davidharwood9552 I was Born in 59 and the late 60s and all of the 70s was a brilliant part of my life. People were so community minded and looked out for each other. Then came the 80s, a miserable decade that was no fun to witness at all.
Born in '65 this brings back some magic memories of a wonderful childhood. It's not an age thing or different generation, life and times were a million% better back then, It's truly sad how things have deteriorated so much!
It was crap. Pubs shut at 10:30 PM if you wanted another drink you had to go to a night club. Telephone boxes were used as urinals and were often vandalized. There were no exotic foods mostly steam and bacteria cafes where you had a choice between pie and peas or a fry up.
@@thomasw.glasgow7449 and wit' ice ont' inside a' winders o bathroooom even wit' parrafin stove, we woz posh, heated bathrooom instead ot' tub by fire.
Space hopper fights with your mates ,they used to knock you flying but never hurt when they hit ,and putting bangers into dog plop then running like owt before it went flying
In the 70's boys were boys and girls were girls, we were frightened of the Bobby on the beat, we climbed trees and rode our bikes without any fear. Our mams and dads took no nonsence and kept us right. A knife was just something to eat your dinner with and we didn't know what a machete was and we had to play games like conkers and hide and seek because there were no mobile phones. Life was good and we enjoyed ourselves and had great fun and grew up with a sence of responsibility. Unlike kids today who don't even know what gender they are.
@@nygelmiller5293 How is it that, like 'allergies', 'gender problems' have only recently shown themselves?! And every day there's a new one and a new letter to add go the 'LGBTQUISROV...' list.
Wow I remembered all of these things, I was born in 1964. As a kid you had so much freedom, making dens, walking around the village in a gang, playing down the local brook catching sticklebacks.
Hey ... I was born in 1961 and we caught sticklebacks. I've always thought we were the ONLY kids who caught sticklebacks. In fact I don't believe you caught sticklebacks. Unless you were one of ... us.
I was born in 1960 . I look back at the 70s and 80s with such fondness ! No mobile phones, Internet, great music and fashion,and we all had that togetherness and Britain was british 🇬🇧 . Oh how i miss those days 😢
Do you mean ... hihihi ... that you don't like ... how to put it... hihihi eh hihihihi .. slightly, um, ..... "BLICK" people. hehehehehe. you don't like 'em you don't like em. hehehehehe... Reply
Just sat through 25mins of a slideshow of my childhood/teens! Too many things to mention individually because almost every one bought back a memory. All these, everyday things are a snapshot of so many of our lives. We were so bloody lucky to have lived through the 70s. All so innocent and safe. I was born in 1960 amd lived on a big Council Estate in S.E London. Thank God we all made those brilliant memories people, cos the Childhood we knew and loved are long-gone....just like my beloved London. Thanks for sharing this ❤
My children were born in the seventies, played out till it started to get dark, chopper bikes, roller skates, homemade go karts, street parties all outdoor activities, streets are very quiet now.
Thankyou for this wonderful stroll down memory lane ...when kids were allowed to be and everything was so far better than living in these awful times😢 ..born in 61 and so wish we could live in the 70s now ...
I was born in 1945 so enjoyed my teen years in the sixties, was a mum in the seventies, not much money to go around but we had everything we needed. My girls grew up to be responsible achieving young adults. Now in their forties and fifties they tell me they loved their childhoods. I was at home long enough in the mornings to give them a cooked breakfast everyday. Went off to my job, but was always home to cook a decent meal every night, then some nights I had to work until midnight. I did not expect some club or other to feed my children, they were my responsibility.
Born in 1957, working from Easter 1972 - good to see all these things from my childhood. Brought back many good memories. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. Those were truly the best days of my life. Awful times we live in now and it's only going to get worse!
It was really fun, the amount of working mens clubs that had day trips to the seaside,the youth clubs that played up to the minute records that we all danced to and went on trips to ice skating,and even breaks to activity centres. Everything was family orientated and thats whats missing today! I am not looking through rose coloured glasses, i was from a broken family and life wasn't easy but it was 100% better than today 😊
Thank you. This video is amazing. I went through every emotion and lost it entirely when I read the comments. I sobbed my heart out. The sheer joy of remembering those wonderful days fills me with gratitude for our wonderful communities.
"much of the history of the western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good" - Thomas Sowell (allegedly)
Remember the summer of 76, I was 19, sat outside the pub most nights as was everyone else. If i remember it was sunny and hot from june till September, great times.
Yeh it was great bought a brand new Kawasaki motorcycle nice and hot for biking we could sit outside a pub have a pint and a fag British things like these are being destroyed by this lousy government
Was taking my GCE's, remember it well 😅 it was so hot that we had severe drought and some areas had standpipes in the streets because water was rationed! This was before global warming though 😂
Yep the late 60’s and 70’s were great times and growing up in, youth clubs, red rover bus tickets, Saturday morning pictures, dancing, just fun times . Kids of today would probably think it was boring but it really wasn’t, more freedom , hardly any knife crimes, less druggies & gangs and much safer walking the streets. What the hell went wrong????? 🏴🇬🇧
Countless currupt goverments, un massed immigration. Over reliance on the internet...an a loss of decencey an respect for not only everyone but ones self...
the internet, mobile phones, political correctness and 'being woke'. the internet has wiped out childhood and spread goofball idiotic ideals and fads to kids and adults alike who all think they know what's best for everyone else.....bring back the belt....
Yes and the TV didn't dominate the whole room like todays 80+ inch TV's, also i remember the TV being turned off when we had visitors which was good manners.
@Markycarandbikestuff I agree with every word you say about T.V.s! Actually, that reminds me of what someone told me, about having gone to look at one of the flats a woman was renting out. She apparently was a bit cagey with taking in newcomers, after somebody asked her, if "they had T.V.s" So the land lady replied : YES, T here's an aerial on the roof. So most of our television" There was a surly retort from one potential tenant, who snarled : "NO! Transvestites!"
Born in 62, thank you so much for producing this wonderful video with nice tunes too..it brought happy tears to my eyes ...what a wonderful time we had..we were so very lucky...go back tomorrow if I could x
Born in 1965....best years of my life being a kid. So many happy memories. I was lucky. Had an amazing mam and dad. Love this video. Thanks for sharing.
Born in 1960... thanks for the great compilation video, I loved every minute of it! They really were the best of times … It's so sad the children of today can't experience the same
Wow so many things that I had forgotten about. What a lovely trip down memory lane. Quink Ink and cartridges for fountain pens. Girl guide badges, Beech Nut Chewing gum. I loved it. 👏
Back then the elderly were respected, the police looked and dressed like a police officer should, i had that privilege, you could leave your doors open, we thought a 21inch tv was great and the fashion of the day for both men and women was fantastic and always never boring unlike today. The streets were always 100% safe the police made sure of that, Top of the Pops was fun to watch and the female dancers was it Pans People first then Legs and Co were risky at times for the age. Then there was the old busy body Mary Whitehouse, who because of her certain songs got removed like my ding a ling and Judge Dread Big Six etc. AND YES if i was given the chance to go back and live the 60's 70's @ 80's all over again i would jump at it.
I’m 63 years old , I’ve lost my home so now after six years of being in emergency temporary accommodation I’m living with my wife and adult son in a council flat , I’m one of the lucky ones I guess , all I can think about is how lovely my past was , and I can’t wait too leave this present day society and go too heaven hopefully, how sad is that !
I hope things get better for you. Im 55 and my life has gone downhill considerably since I was younger, mainly health issues and I had to sell my last house at a loss. Got into tons of debt at the time. Pretty crap really. Living on savings now until hopefully a bit of luck with something. If I could turn the clock back to when I was 30, that was the potential turning point. I regret some decisions I made a long time ago, you cant get those years back though and I think, I wish id done things differently.
Every generation looks back on their early years with rose tinted specs. I had an amazing childhood in the 70’s but it’s the person it made me that’s important. I’ve never been bored, I read books and newspapers, I’ll eating anything and can cook anything, I can make things and repair things, I love being outside, I work and enjoy it, the world is still full of amazing things and I look forward to each day.
you knew that working hard for a better life actually reaped you rewards, life was slower and simpler. Today I find kids expect it all to be handed on a plate and nothing is good enough, there is no focus, life is over consumed and too many distractions for young people, they are spoilt on choice and always want more, they are never happy. For us older folks everything costs more and you get very little return for working hard, towns are overpopulated and there is more pressure on infrastructure not life as we knew it.
Not rose tinted specs at all, the best time of my life and no one can or will take that feeling away from me, people today are still doing all the things that you are doing, summers were better back then, the air was cleaner, the food was better and I wouldn't read a newspaper now if it got pushed through my letter box for free.
I passed my cycling proficiency test in 1979 when i was 9. i still have my triangle red badge and certificate, i had a Raleigh strika at the time , i wanted a chopper or grifter, but parents couldn't afford those bikes because dad spent a lot of time and money in the pub or off licence, apart from that the 70s were tough going for me but i still remember the fun me and my little mates had skidding around on our bikes and i looked forward to seeing my nanny who would buy me a corgi car or dinky car , im now 54 and i miss the free fun times , when the summer holidays from school lasted forever 😊.
A survey was done some years back ,and people were asked what was the happiest year for them . the overwhelming answer was 1976. I 'd go along with that !
Agree with that ! Great music great weather bought a brand new Kawasai motorcycle had a camping touring holiday in Scotland sunshine all the way until last day in Edinburgh weather broke pissing down with rain got soaked going back to Liverpool but didn't care work next day ! 70s were happy days not like now world has changed for the worst
Lots of freedom to go out and play,we used to eat brambles, docking leaf if stung by nettles, raking for ale bottles to get deposit money back n divvy up with mates to buy sweets.❤
Everything was made to last & if it broke a bit we could always have it repaired, not replaced with a new one. I spent whole days outside exploring with my sister. Clothes were home sewn or knitted. Plastic surgery was for burns victims. If you wanted something you could go right to the shop & talk to a person. Jobs were more local, you could walk there, ride a bike or get the bus. People stayed in the same job a long time & became experts. Banknotes stayed in your purse not like the new ‘orrible plastic things and coins were to be treasured as a child. Sweets were bigger than they are now. The past was like another land . . . and I miss it so much.
This has made me feel so homesick, a perfect encapsulation of the seventies and my childhood. You even had making "flumps" on here, thank you so much for all the memories you brought back.
I was born 1946 in Finland and most of the things were familiar to me! We had different chocolates but otherwise. It was so nice to go back and remember. Times were better then. Simpler joys!
I have noticed a very small minority of people saying we are looking through rose tinted spectacles at this era. Admittedly things weren't perfect by a long shot but we just got on with it and enjoyed ourselves when we could. Take Christmas as one example, we looked forward to it and had a brilliant happy time celebrating it. The Xmas songs alone were great and that's why they are still played every year after all that time. All as you hear nowadays is, I can't stand Christmas, they are even scared of saying merry Christmas on the TV in case it upsets someone which is ridiculous as most people of other faiths love celebrating it. It used to be back then a fantastic happy time of the year in the shops, pubs, clubs and homes, etc. today it is nothing in comparison.
Totally agree mate, growing up in the 70's Christmas was a magical time and then venturing out into the pubs and clubs in later years there was a brilliant atmosphere and such a sense of occasion generally, sadly not now!
Those were great days. Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris with his extra leg. I`m so glad that my brain function pretty much totally atrophied in 1979. Nice one Cyril!
So many things I had forgotten about. But I look back with such longing seeing this film. Life was better then. I wish I was back there now. Life now is all struggle and the simple joys of living are gone. 😢
When I was 5, in 1972, I told my teacher that I identified s a clanger, so she let me dress in a pink woolen suit and give all my answers using a slide-whistle...oh, no, wait a minute, she actually hit me a slap and told me to wise up. I'm scarred for life now.
Girls in the seventies were utterly gorgeous. Actually, everything was. Ink pens, inkwells and blotting paper were replaced when I was about 11 (1971) with fat, blue ball point pens. The 'nit lady' and 'Billy Belisha' visited schools. We played up the mountains, got dirty, had real friends we actually knew in person and had the best music ever.
Yes, thank you for that memory. In my school those fat biros arrived in 1968 to replace the desk pens. No more inky fingers, flicking inky wads of paper in class & no more stabbing the boy in front with your nib. All the biros had to be given back at the end of the school day & were kept on the teacher's desk in a big plastic holder which housed 30 of them. Soon, they were chewed up at the ends by kids trying to puzzle out how to do long division. After afternoon playtime (British bulldog on the sports field), our teacher would read to us from an improving book -I remember Kon tiki by Thor Hyerdal. Then all the chairs had to go on desks so the cleaners could get round & in my Welsh school the last thing we did was to sing the National anthem. After that it was a mad rush for the bus to get the front seats on the top deck.
In 1970, I was aged 12, I lived in Porthcawl, And worked on the fair ground in the summer at Coney beach, T Rex was my favourite band, The fashion was exciting, Stuck shoes for men, parallel jeans, Oxford banks ( trousers for the young people) The girls where exciting They would visit from all over the country, especially from the valleys, Also, I think we had better values back then. They were Great times. :-)
I use to think l was lucky living in the 60s and 70s, now l realise l was privileged to have done so.
Me too ...but some say those who were children as well ....that we were all neglected.....now think for a moment...we had facilities....so nowadays they don't...per se...do u think that's how children get in gangs?
We were blessed to have experienced those very special years
I am so grateful to have grown up in the 70’s, like you say, privileged indeed!
@@Victor-q9 Neglected ?
Me to
Born in 63 would go back to the 70 s anytime 😊
Yep
Born in the same year, and totally agree with you. Miss the freedom of those days.
Me too
I would go back anytime too. Such a better world back then.
Never go back. The only thing I'd want from that time are the people the rest was the pits.✌️☘️
It was brilliant growing up in the 60s and 70s 😊
I was a rocker in the 60s and rode my BSA 650cc until the wheels nearly fell off….rode back from lands end back to Norwich same day…some 400 miles got soaking wet…but loved every minute…Paul lomax.
@@gaillomax The Beezer boys are back in town ...
With the best music ever!
@@gaillomax Good on yer Paul. I did the same thing on a BSA Bantam all the way from London to the Bath Festival
@@tonycooper4141totally agree tony, we did have a lot of crap as well, 😂😂
In the 70s you lived, 2024 you survive.
Very true
Comment of the day 😌
To Owen Parsons
What do you mean nowadays?
Don't you mean you DON'T survive?
You don't necessarily find a job, you can't buy or rent somewhere to live - too expensive! You CAN'T retire at the proper age.
Very true 👍
Yes so true!!!!
The most incredible times! I was born in 65, a time when we were filled happiness and innocence. Most importantly, we had this thing called RESPECT.
& discipline
There was no respect for woman and girls ,,the culture was disgusting sexism if you complain to police ' it's compliment ' very horrible time for your sister's if you had any sense ,learn karate,carry self defense weapon or use your bare fists
And common courtesy for others.
One thing I can safely say is that childhood was WAY better.
@@ullscarf Too bad you're still living in the past.
@@rosaflorio8223It's the kids I feel sorry for.
@@rosaflorio8223 best place to live now in past happy days👧
@rosaflorio8223 and you are clueless about the present
@@PatRiarchy-qw6cp NICELY SAID
I’ve just invented a Time Machine. .
Who’s coming back with me ?
I hope it's 'bigger on the inside' because a lot of people will want to join you!
Book me a seat, cheers
Not again
Me
Nah your alright
The 70s weren't perfect but they were a damned sight better than today and safer.
Too right 👍
What a wonderful trip down memory lane. Thank you.
I feel privileged to have grown up during this wonderful time.
Great days that sadly will never return
😊Don't let any one or anything deprive you of a time that you enjoyed, if you have good memories of the past and want to keep it alive, there are ways you can do this😊 what about the music! You can buy it and you can still buy the clothes online, you can even still buy some of the furniture and wallpaper! Some of these things may cost a pretty penny, but if you save, you can recreate "elements" of the past in the present, Enjoy - happy days😊👍🌹
@@julieharman1024 I really like your sentiment. Enjoy life to the full regardless of outside noise. After all, life's short.
@@julieharman1024 Without the loved ones who lived then (or were still young and healthy) it will never be the same...
Born in 1960 - this was a lovely walk down the roads of yesteryear. So many iconic images. Thanks you 😃😃
I was born in 71, I would go back like a shot!
Life was less complicated, you had time to do things, enjoyed your childhood No Peer Pressure! only 3 channels on TV which turned off at a set time,
no social media influence, you had to use your own imagination , 6 weeks summer holidays seemed to last forever, all the adventures you had with your friends,no waiting 2 weeks or more for a hospital appointment, you just turned up and waited your turn, neighbours where neighbours,
Penny for the Guy, Ice cream van, space dust, Pocketeers, Chopper,Grifter,Budgie and Boxer bikes.
I miss those days especially the family and friends no longer with us.😢
Me too I miss my family all gone I think about Them. everyday....... It was a blast we were the lucky ones growing up in the 70s
@Siforce71 I must feel like u ,what u wrote is spot on ,I do wish some days when I 🤔 think back I want to go home 🏡 back to the brilliant days , remember penny for Halloween not bloody trick or treat , yes how everything has changed xxx
@Siforce71 - so true - especially no social media to antagonize and depress people
miodzio
@@Siforce71 im glad their was no mobile phones enjoyed going in phone boxes ringing dial a disc 💋
Born in 64, grew up in the 70's and would go back in a heart beat.
What a lovely trip down memory lane i was a 70s teenager thankyou ❤️
me too
And me!
@@viewerabundzu6887 👍👍
Me too
A great time to live. I'd like to go back to my first time and do it so much better.
We had Imagination back then ..we were never bored...we were free..out all day....better back then
I was bored. So bored I used to knock my head against a wall, repeatedly.
@@susanstanleyhammond5699
Especially on a Sunday lol
@@susanstanleyhammond5699 you seem to be in the minority.
We used to play out all day and only came in for our tea...carefree days.
@@susanstanleyhammond5699 then you did not know how to live then
l was a 16 year old teenager at the start of the 70's and seeing this brings the memories flooding back . Glad l can look back and say l've live though the three best decades in the UK's history . The '50's , the '60's and the '70's . Happy , golden day's much missed .
Yeah great days and times…..what’s happened to this country the establishment have screwed it up.
Yes I was born 1954. Good memories. We even talked to each other
@@davidharwood9552 I was Born in 59 and the late 60s and all of the 70s was a brilliant part of my life. People were so community minded and looked out for each other. Then came the 80s, a miserable decade that was no fun to witness at all.
@@stephensmith4480 I agree the computer then the mobile phone changed our culture. We are no longer England 🏴 as we knew it
@@davidharwood9552 💯% My friend.
I’d forgotten some of those things from the 70s. That period feels like a half remembered dream now
Born in '65 this brings back some magic memories of a wonderful childhood. It's not an age thing or different generation, life and times were a million% better back then, It's truly sad how things have deteriorated so much!
I'm 1965 too, we had the best childhood and music in the seventies, wouldn't want to be a child today.
thatcher started the rot an it's just kept on goin since then , aye !
Born in 65....grew up more in the 80's, to be honest@@thindad
It was crap. Pubs shut at 10:30 PM if you wanted another drink you had to go to a night club. Telephone boxes were used as urinals and were often vandalized. There were no exotic foods mostly steam and bacteria cafes where you had a choice between pie and peas or a fry up.
@@lisapinfold506 childhood in the seventies.
This shows just how cosseted kids are today. I'm a '58 vintage and remember all of these things, a brilliant time to be a kid.
yeah ah remember goin out ti coal bunker ti get coal in for the fire in the freezin cold , ah can just see our wee snowflakes doin that now , aye !
Me too!
@@thomasw.glasgow7449 It was always difficult to reach the coal in the 4 corners...
@@thomasw.glasgow7449 and wit' ice ont' inside a' winders o bathroooom even wit' parrafin stove, we woz posh, heated bathrooom instead ot' tub by fire.
yes i was born 58 too
Cheese n pineapple hedgehogs, daisy chains, pom pom making, space hoppers - now thats what I call a childhood. Loved growing up in the seventies😊
Easter chick making you mean...... good times....
Space hopper fights with your mates ,they used to knock you flying but never hurt when they hit ,and putting bangers into dog plop then running like owt before it went flying
I was born in 1949 and consider myself very lucky to have lived in the best years this country had to offer
Me too. I’d go back in a heartbeat.
Brings tears to my eyes to see what has happened to our once great country !
I tell you what used to bring tears to my eyes = IZAL loo roll 😂.
@@christinebakewell3475..oh yeah that lovely tracing paper that either cut yer bum to ribbons or skid off yer arse.
😂😂😂 good for tracing paper, not much else
@@christinebakewell3475 🤣
It was tough back then. It is much better now. Don't be silly.
In the 70's boys were boys and girls were girls, we were frightened of the Bobby on the beat, we climbed trees and rode our bikes without any fear. Our mams and dads took no nonsence and kept us right. A knife was just something to eat your dinner with and we didn't know what a machete was and we had to play games like conkers and hide and seek because there were no mobile phones. Life was good and we enjoyed ourselves and had great fun and grew up with a sence of responsibility. Unlike kids today who don't even know what gender they are.
@@madmeister407
I think actually that's insensitive about people with gender problems. I don't think anyone would like to swap with them.
@@nygelmiller5293 I think you have mistaken me for someone who cares what you think
@@madmeister407 I have mistaken you for someone who cares what I think? Is that why you are called Madmeister?
@@nygelmiller5293 Good for you🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@nygelmiller5293
How is it that, like 'allergies', 'gender problems' have only recently shown themselves?!
And every day there's a new one and a new letter to add go the 'LGBTQUISROV...' list.
Wow I remembered all of these things, I was born in 1964. As a kid you had so much freedom, making dens, walking around the village in a gang, playing down the local brook catching sticklebacks.
Hey ... I was born in 1961 and we caught sticklebacks. I've always thought we were the ONLY kids who caught sticklebacks. In fact I don't believe you caught sticklebacks. Unless you were one of ... us.
Words are not enough. Thank you for bringing back so many memories xx
I was born in 1960 . I look back at the 70s and 80s with such fondness ! No mobile phones, Internet, great music and fashion,and we all had that togetherness and Britain was british 🇬🇧 . Oh how i miss those days 😢
Same....
Do you mean ... hihihi ... that you don't like ... how to put it... hihihi eh hihihihi .. slightly, um, ..... "BLICK" people. hehehehehe. you don't like 'em you don't like em. hehehehehe...
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Half an hour of memory lane, brilliant! That was how life should be lived. You have to question progress.
Just sat through 25mins of a slideshow of my childhood/teens!
Too many things to mention individually because almost every one bought back a memory.
All these, everyday things are a snapshot of so many of our lives.
We were so bloody lucky to have lived through the 70s. All so innocent and safe.
I was born in 1960 amd lived on a big Council Estate in S.E London.
Thank God we all made those brilliant memories people, cos the Childhood we knew and loved are long-gone....just like my beloved London.
Thanks for sharing this ❤
Born in 64. I feel so blessed to be a kid in those times. Thanks for the happy memories.
Had to stop when I started crying.
Yep, l,m 64 now, and even l had tears in my ryes, what happened? Eh, ?
@@g1egzPoliticians.
Me too.😢❤
Born 63, what a free life we had, would go back tomorrow if i could.
Loads better than it is now.
When fuckin China was umbrellas and bikes and Russia mud an Migs.
My children were born in the seventies, played out till it started to get dark, chopper bikes, roller skates, homemade go karts, street parties all outdoor activities, streets are very quiet now.
Not many dare walk the streets now.....not even in day light😱
We invented skateboards! An old roller skate with a small piece of plywood screwed on top...happy days❤
Life was more simple back then and much more enjoyable ,
A damn sight better than it is now and the streets were wonderfully safe and the city of London and Soho were the most incredible places
Yeah there was no murders or crime no Myra Hindley
@@michaelm.barnes5465 Murders were rare and newsworthy back then. Brady and Hindley were anomalies.
@michaelm.barnes5465 Oh dear. These videos will always attract at least one blind, PC idiot.
@michaelm.barnes5465 Well yes. But it wasn't a tenfold daily occurrence. Even you can see the blindingly obvious, can't you?
@@michaelm.barnes5465 Muppet.
Thankyou for this wonderful stroll down memory lane ...when kids were allowed to be and everything was so far better than living in these awful times😢 ..born in 61 and so wish we could live in the 70s now ...
born in 62..so can remember all the 70s...had good times..bad times too..but would still go back in a heartbeat
I was born in 1945 so enjoyed my teen years in the sixties, was a mum in the seventies, not much money to go around but we had everything we needed. My girls grew up to be responsible achieving young adults. Now in their forties and fifties they tell me they loved their childhoods. I was at home long enough in the mornings to give them a cooked breakfast everyday. Went off to my job, but was always home to cook a decent meal every night, then some nights I had to work until midnight. I did not expect some club or other to feed my children, they were my responsibility.
and you could spell, 😘
Born in ‘65. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed watching that. I had a red chopper with the same 3 speed gears…. I loved that bike !!
Born in 1957, working from Easter 1972 - good to see all these things from my childhood. Brought back many good memories. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. Those were truly the best days of my life. Awful times we live in now and it's only going to get worse!
I loved the 70s..best time of my life
Me too. The best ever!!!❤
It was really fun, the amount of working mens clubs that had day trips to the seaside,the youth clubs that played up to the minute records that we all danced to and went on trips to ice skating,and even breaks to activity centres. Everything was family orientated and thats whats missing today! I am not looking through rose coloured glasses, i was from a broken family and life wasn't easy but it was 100% better than today 😊
Thank you. This video is amazing. I went through every emotion and lost it entirely when I read the comments. I sobbed my heart out. The sheer joy of remembering those wonderful days fills me with gratitude for our wonderful communities.
Much `F` ing better than now!!
Yeah I’ll second that….miss those happy days.
Yes, we didn't say F ing for a start !
We had hope @:a simple life
@@jillybe1873 I think he meant the word `effing`.
@@neiluk78 I don't.
Thank you for putting it all together 👏 it’s one of the best things I’ve watched in the last 5 years…….oh those happy carefree days 🤔🙏👏
Morning assembly. 'Our father who art in heaven.......' 🙏
...Harold be thy name.
Back when Britain was a proper country with normal people…what a change.
...not only Britain, hole Europe. The civilized world we lost...
"much of the history of the western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good" - Thomas Sowell (allegedly)
Just like we were here in Australia
Back when Britain was a proper country with normal people, and the useless politicians hadn't started to destroy our Country yet...
Happier and a damn site safer.
sight!
(Kick me. All best.)
Remember the summer of 76, I was 19, sat outside the pub most nights as was everyone else. If i remember it was sunny and hot from june till September, great times.
Yeh it was great bought a brand new Kawasaki motorcycle nice and hot for biking we could sit outside a pub have a pint and a fag British things like these are being destroyed by this lousy government
@@alanjones6359to true
Was taking my GCE's, remember it well 😅 it was so hot that we had severe drought and some areas had standpipes in the streets because water was rationed! This was before global warming though 😂
@@gail9299yeah, remember them saying back then we will soon be entering a new ice age, 😂😂
That, was one hot year. I, was 9. I, remember coming home to a colour TV and it was an Olympic year.
Yep the late 60’s and 70’s were great times and growing up in, youth clubs, red rover bus tickets, Saturday morning pictures, dancing, just fun times . Kids of today would probably think it was boring but it really wasn’t, more freedom , hardly any knife crimes, less druggies & gangs and much safer walking the streets. What the hell went wrong????? 🏴🇬🇧
Countless currupt goverments, un massed immigration. Over reliance on the internet...an a loss of decencey an respect for not only everyone but ones self...
Gimmigrants flooding the country, and the slow breakdown of the traditional family. All by design.
the internet, mobile phones, political correctness and 'being woke'. the internet has wiped out childhood and spread goofball idiotic ideals and fads to kids and adults alike who all think they know what's best for everyone else.....bring back the belt....
Government....😂😂they saw us enjoying ourselves too much😂😂
Born '49, would go back in a heartbeat. This is OUR culture that us oldies want to survive. You've got to live it to know it
The tellys were beautiful - real wood with silver controls. Not just televisions, a piece of elegant mid-century furniture
Yes and the TV didn't dominate the whole room like todays 80+ inch TV's, also i remember the TV being turned off when we had visitors which was good manners.
@Markycarandbikestuff
I agree with every word you say about T.V.s!
Actually, that reminds me of what someone told me, about having gone to look at one of the flats a woman was renting out.
She apparently was a bit cagey with taking in newcomers, after somebody asked her, if "they had T.V.s"
So the land lady replied : YES, T here's an aerial on the roof. So most of our television"
There was a surly retort from one potential tenant, who snarled :
"NO! Transvestites!"
@@nygelmiller5293 Did she have big hands?
I've just gone back to my childhood day then teenage years😊😊❤❤❤ I can't stop smiling 🙃 🙂 ☺️ 😊 thank u so much ❤️ ♥️ 💖
Remembering things I didn't realise that I had forgotten.
3:28 I didn't grow up in Britain but we played elastics in school and I had completely forgotten about it.
I remember so many of those things from childhood. Very different times. Good times. 👍
I'm a 57 baby, and the 70's had its problems , unions, strikes power cuts, But apart from that, I loved the 70's, and I wouldn't change a darn thing.🤩
Some fabulous memories there, thanks for making this.
So much I miss!
Born in 62, thank you so much for producing this wonderful video with nice tunes too..it brought happy tears to my eyes ...what a wonderful time we had..we were so very lucky...go back tomorrow if I could x
How come I can remember 90% of this stuff but can't remember what I had for dinner yesterday........
😂😂😂
Ha! Me too, Kelvin. 😂
I thought I knew the answer, but I forgot it.
I also have memory loss so I visited my doctor and he gave me some good advice
@@LondonPower How did you get to see your doctor? I’ve never seen mine.
This is my life growing up in 25mins,, marvelous.
The nurses' uniforms brought back memories.
I started my training in 1976. Loved my wool cape.
Those were . . The days my friend🎼🎵🎶🎶...we thought they would never end..😢😢😢
Mary Hopkins - beautiful voice 🥹
I grew up in 60s and my teenage years were the 70s. This confirms that everything has turned to shite nowadays. Those who weren't there don't know.
Thankyou for taking me down a very happy memory lane.....those were the days
Born in 1965....best years of my life being a kid. So many happy memories. I was lucky. Had an amazing mam and dad. Love this video. Thanks for sharing.
Born in 1960... thanks for the great compilation video, I loved every minute of it! They really were the best of times … It's so sad the children of today can't experience the same
Brilliant days wish I had a time machine…..take me back 60s and 70s.
I remember that loo paper in the school bogs. We used to use it for tracing paper as that was all it was good for.
Yeh it was called Bronco and Ford used the name for a 4x4. Crazy!!!
Izal
Good for putting over combs and playing music on!
@@margaretpierce5268 Home made kazoo 😄
Didnt take much to make us happy did it? @@JoranaRowan
If only we could go back...
Wow so many things that I had forgotten about. What a lovely trip down memory lane. Quink Ink and cartridges for fountain pens. Girl guide badges, Beech Nut Chewing gum. I loved it. 👏
Back then the elderly were respected, the police looked and dressed like a police officer should, i had that privilege, you could leave your doors open, we thought a 21inch tv was great and the fashion of the day for both men and women was fantastic and always never boring unlike today. The streets were always 100% safe the police made sure of that, Top of the Pops was fun to watch and the female dancers was it Pans People first then Legs and Co were risky at times for the age. Then there was the old busy body Mary Whitehouse, who because of her certain songs got removed like my ding a ling and Judge Dread Big Six etc. AND YES if i was given the chance to go back and live the 60's 70's @ 80's all over again i would jump at it.
I’m 63 years old , I’ve lost my home so now after six years of being in emergency temporary accommodation I’m living with my wife and adult son in a council flat , I’m one of the lucky ones I guess , all I can think about is how lovely my past was , and I can’t wait too leave this present day society and go too heaven hopefully, how sad is that !
I hope things get better for you. Im 55 and my life has gone downhill considerably since I was younger, mainly health issues and I had to sell my last house at a loss. Got into tons of debt at the time. Pretty crap really. Living on savings now until hopefully a bit of luck with something. If I could turn the clock back to when I was 30, that was the potential turning point. I regret some decisions I made a long time ago, you cant get those years back though and I think, I wish id done things differently.
Every generation looks back on their early years with rose tinted specs. I had an amazing childhood in the 70’s but it’s the person it made me that’s important. I’ve never been bored, I read books and newspapers, I’ll eating anything and can cook anything, I can make things and repair things, I love being outside, I work and enjoy it, the world is still full of amazing things and I look forward to each day.
Well I'm kind of jaded now, but you're right. And I'm definitely not naive about the rose tinted specs.
yeah the big diff is back then folk were optimistic about things now they are pesimistic all doom an gloom , me am still enjoyin every day too , aye !
@@DavidJarrold-e7j It was not a perfect time but society was more cohesive and definitely safer.
you knew that working hard for a better life actually reaped you rewards, life was slower and simpler. Today I find kids expect it all to be handed on a plate and nothing is good enough, there is no focus, life is over consumed and too many distractions for young people, they are spoilt on choice and always want more, they are never happy. For us older folks everything costs more and you get very little return for working hard, towns are overpopulated and there is more pressure on infrastructure not life as we knew it.
Not rose tinted specs at all, the best time of my life and no one can or will take that feeling away from me, people today are still doing all the things that you are doing, summers were better back then, the air was cleaner, the food was better and I wouldn't read a newspaper now if it got pushed through my letter box for free.
I passed my cycling proficiency test in 1979 when i was 9. i still have my triangle red badge and certificate, i had a Raleigh strika at the time , i wanted a chopper or grifter, but parents couldn't afford those bikes because dad spent a lot of time and money in the pub or off licence, apart from that the 70s were tough going for me but i still remember the fun me and my little mates had skidding around on our bikes and i looked forward to seeing my nanny who would buy me a corgi car or dinky car , im now 54 and i miss the free fun times , when the summer holidays from school lasted forever 😊.
A survey was done some years back ,and people were asked what was the happiest year for them . the overwhelming answer was 1976. I 'd go along with that !
Agree with that ! Great music great weather bought a brand new Kawasai motorcycle had a camping touring holiday in Scotland sunshine all the way until last day in Edinburgh weather broke pissing down with rain got soaked going back to Liverpool but didn't care work next day ! 70s were happy days not like now world has changed for the worst
God that was a hot summer 👍- but what happy days
A terrific nostalgic trip. I was five in 1970... the 70s were great. The best time for a kid to grow up in.
I was 3...I was only saying to my daughter yesterday that I wish I could go back to the 70s and 80s.
@Hulalulatallulahoop2 My kid didn't believe me when I told them how it was back then, till I showed the a similar video.
I was five too, wouldn't be five today for a lottery win!
Lots of freedom to go out and play,we used to eat brambles, docking leaf if stung by nettles, raking for ale bottles to get deposit money back n divvy up with mates to buy sweets.❤
The best 70s vid I've seen,remember every slide,that button box,still got my mums somewhere!!!
I've still got a button box.
Wow, brilliant,best video of the 70s I've seen!!!!
I was born in 1958 and I would go back to the mid to late 70s in a heartbeat 💓 ❤
Wish, I can live again in 60's & 70's. Such lovely times! I'm 70 but still feel, look and strong as I was in my late thirties
Rock on!
Brilliant Brilliant we was born in best times. Thanks from all us older generation for reminding us
If we could only go back.
Thank you this video gave me so much joy just remembering the freedom & Mom & Dad's love.
Everything was made to last & if it broke a bit we could always have it repaired, not replaced with a new one. I spent whole days outside exploring with my sister. Clothes were home sewn or knitted. Plastic surgery was for burns victims. If you wanted something you could go right to the shop & talk to a person. Jobs were more local, you could walk there, ride a bike or get the bus. People stayed in the same job a long time & became experts. Banknotes stayed in your purse not like the new ‘orrible plastic things and coins were to be treasured as a child. Sweets were bigger than they are now. The past was like another land . . . and I miss it so much.
I remember every single thing n this video¬! Well curated!!
Thanks for the memories. I was born in 1964, so I was a child in the 1960s and the 1970s. Both great decades, with good people.
Born in 56,great times in the 70s
Thanks so much for putting this together, Happy Days 😊❤
Same to you!
This has made me feel so homesick, a perfect encapsulation of the seventies and my childhood.
You even had making "flumps" on here, thank you so much for all the memories you brought back.
Me too. I just want to escape the madness of today's world. I'd go back tomorrow. ❤
Me too
I loved getting the magazine Jackie just to see if there was a centre picture of Donny Osmond to put on my wall. ❤
Cathy & Claire 😊
A centre picture of Marc Bolan surely 😊😊
@@mariasharp2334 David Cassidy 🤗❤️
i was a late 50s baby this brings back wonderfull memories thank you .
Can't belive all the stuff I'd forgotten ...fabulous nostalgia
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Was mesmerized because I was born in nineteen forty nine and knew every one of these.
I was born 1946 in Finland and most of the things were familiar to me! We had different chocolates but otherwise. It was so nice to go back and remember. Times were better then. Simpler joys!
Cover school books in wall paper.
Anything after year 2000 doesn't register as a memory to me, like nothing happened culturally.
Yes remember it well.. my Dad only had wood chip wallpaper I said haven't you got anything more fancy he said nowt wrong with wood chip 😬
@@rickyhank118 I still see that popular Anaglipta pattern we had on ceilings in old pubs today.
@@rickyhank118 Used to cover cracks and was hard for use kids to scribble on.
😂😂 there sure were some garish designs!
I have noticed a very small minority of people saying we are looking through rose tinted spectacles at this era. Admittedly things weren't perfect by a long shot but we just got on with it and enjoyed ourselves when we could. Take Christmas as one example, we looked forward to it and had a brilliant happy time celebrating it. The Xmas songs alone were great and that's why they are still played every year after all that time. All as you hear nowadays is, I can't stand Christmas, they are even scared of saying merry Christmas on the TV in case it upsets someone which is ridiculous as most people of other faiths love celebrating it. It used to be back then a fantastic happy time of the year in the shops, pubs, clubs and homes, etc. today it is nothing in comparison.
Totally agree mate, growing up in the 70's Christmas was a magical time and then venturing out into the pubs and clubs in later years there was a brilliant atmosphere and such a sense of occasion generally, sadly not now!
Merry Christmas mate !
@@colinu9209 and to you, we'll say it early as it might be cancelled by December, 😂😂
Those were great days. Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris with his extra leg. I`m so glad that my brain function pretty much totally atrophied in 1979. Nice one Cyril!
So many things I had forgotten about. But I look back with such longing seeing this film. Life was better then. I wish I was back there now. Life now is all struggle and the simple joys of living are gone. 😢
The greatest times ever, something our children never had a chance of complete freedom. ❤
When I was 5, in 1972, I told my teacher that I identified s a clanger, so she let me dress in a pink woolen suit and give all my answers using a slide-whistle...oh, no, wait a minute, she actually hit me a slap and told me to wise up. I'm scarred for life now.
@@jimwilgar9644 We had a teacher that would slap us with a thick rubber plimsoll on the hand, but never would we disobey again.. Respect has gone.
Girls in the seventies were utterly gorgeous. Actually, everything was. Ink pens, inkwells and blotting paper were replaced when I was about 11 (1971) with fat, blue ball point pens. The 'nit lady' and 'Billy Belisha' visited schools. We played up the mountains, got dirty, had real friends we actually knew in person and had the best music ever.
Yes, thank you for that memory. In my school those fat biros arrived in 1968 to replace the desk pens. No more inky fingers, flicking inky wads of paper in class & no more stabbing the boy in front with your nib. All the biros had to be given back at the end of the school day & were kept on the teacher's desk in a big plastic holder which housed 30 of them. Soon, they were chewed up at the ends by kids trying to puzzle out how to do long division.
After afternoon playtime (British bulldog on the sports field), our teacher would read to us from an improving book -I remember Kon tiki by Thor Hyerdal. Then all the chairs had to go on desks so the cleaners could get round & in my Welsh school the last thing we did was to sing the National anthem. After that it was a mad rush for the bus to get the front seats on the top deck.
What a great journey back in time
I couldn’t help, but smile all the way through this video .
Thank you
In 1970, I was aged 12,
I lived in Porthcawl,
And worked on the fair ground in the summer at Coney beach, T Rex was my favourite band,
The fashion was exciting,
Stuck shoes for men, parallel jeans,
Oxford banks ( trousers for the young people)
The girls where exciting
They would visit from all over the country, especially from the valleys, Also, I think we had better values back then.
They were Great times. :-)