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Gaspode
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66 months
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St John Smythe
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87 months
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keslake said: Justin Cyder said: Three day week, Beer & sandwiches at No. 10, winter of discontent. Corpses piling up in the morgues, devalueing of the pound & IMF bailing us out.
No thanks, you can keep it. Miseryguts ! He has a point. It was a pretty miserable decade but at least the 80s came along afterwards 
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Gaspode
2,705 posts
66 months
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St John Smythe said: He has a point. It was a pretty miserable decade but at least the 80s came along afterwards Looking back, it was pretty miserable in absolute standard of living terms, but at the time I loved it. I was 11 years old in 1970, and left university in 1980. I learned to fly model aeroplanes, smoke, drink, play guitar, ride motorbikes, and fool around with girls in the 1970s. In the 1980s I learned how to be an adult. That was far less fun on the whole, although my material standard of living improved enormously.
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sday12
4,207 posts
81 months
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Gaspode said: St John Smythe said: He has a point. It was a pretty miserable decade but at least the 80s came along afterwards Looking back, it was pretty miserable in absolute standard of living terms, but at the time I loved it. I was 11 years old in 1970, and left university in 1980. I learned to fly model aeroplanes, smoke, drink, play guitar, ride motorbikes, and fool around with girls in the 1970s. In the 1980s I learned how to be an adult. That was far less fun on the whole, although my material standard of living improved enormously.  1970s were the start of the improvement of living standards for all: http://econ.economicshelp.org/2010/02/economy-of-1...
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Morningside
16,855 posts
99 months
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sday12 said: Gaspode said: St John Smythe said: He has a point. It was a pretty miserable decade but at least the 80s came along afterwards Looking back, it was pretty miserable in absolute standard of living terms, but at the time I loved it. I was 11 years old in 1970, and left university in 1980. I learned to fly model aeroplanes, smoke, drink, play guitar, ride motorbikes, and fool around with girls in the 1970s. In the 1980s I learned how to be an adult. That was far less fun on the whole, although my material standard of living improved enormously. 1970s were the start of the improvement of living standards for all: http://econ.economicshelp.org/2010/02/economy-of-1... Did you not watch that great series on BBC2 not that long back on the 70s?
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vixen1700
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140 months
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 Here's a picture taken from the 7th floor of the flats we lived in during the '70s. Moved in there in 1971 which would have been when this was taken. You can just make out the floodlights of Leyton Orient's ground at the top left. Thankfully got out of there in 1980 when they went down rapidly, and the block we lived in got pulled down, although a lot of the others are still there.
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Ayahuasca
16,231 posts
149 months
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Answering the telephone by saying your number.
I am sure we did that in the 70s.
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Gaspode
2,705 posts
66 months
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Ayahuasca said: Answering the telephone by saying your number.
I am sure we did that in the 70s. Indeed, and we didn't have many digits. Ours was 4, but my friend who lived in a more remote village with a smaller local exchange only had 3.
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welsh blackbird
496 posts
114 months
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Gaspode said: Indeed, and we didn't have many digits. Ours was 4, but my friend who lived in a more remote village with a smaller local exchange only had 3. We had a three digit number. It was a party line that we shared with our next-door neighbour!
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Anthony Micallef
723 posts
65 months
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vixen1700 said: Here's a picture taken from the 7th floor of the flats we lived in during the '70s. Moved in there in 1971 which would have been when this was taken. You can just make out the floodlights of Leyton Orient's ground at the top left. Thankfully got out of there in 1980 when they went down rapidly, and the block we lived in got pulled down, although a lot of the others are still there. Great picture! My Grandparents lived in Leyton in the 80s. My family grew up in Chingdord. My brother whos a Leyton Orient fan will like the pic even though you can only just make out the flood lights.
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s3fella
6,543 posts
57 months
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vixen1700 said:  This was our first phone (in that colour scheme), had to wait ages for the GPO to connect us up in the flat we lived in. The illuminous dial fascinated me. We had one just like that, a trim phone! On rental of course. Dog chewed the handset!! It was on a party line, ie shared with another house. I tried to explain to my 5 year old that when I was her age we shared a phone with another house and many houses had no phone. No one had mobiles, Internet etc. She struggled to get it!!
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HOGEPH
3,273 posts
56 months
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vixen1700 said: This was our first phone (in that colour scheme), had to wait ages for the GPO to connect us up in the flat we lived in. The illuminous dial fascinated me. I remember seeing one of these with push button numbers on it and practically swooning at the "technology".
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Morningside
16,855 posts
99 months
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Talking about technology. Ceefax.  I remember being astounded at it. And wondered 'how does it know what page to display'? Playing all the puzzles and jokes with the 'reveal' button. It really was the WWW of the time
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parakitaMol.
10,059 posts
121 months
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vixen1700 said:  The first band I ever saw when I was 12 in '78.  Joy Division supporting
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DoctorX
1,232 posts
37 months
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Morningside said: Talking about technology. Ceefax. I remember being astounded at it. And wondered 'how does it know what page to display'? Playing all the puzzles and jokes with the 'reveal' button. It really was the WWW of the time I liked the advent calendar, a piece of the picture every day after pressing 'reveal'.
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Ayahuasca
16,231 posts
149 months
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Eric Mc
67,846 posts
135 months
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sday12 said: Gaspode said: St John Smythe said: He has a point. It was a pretty miserable decade but at least the 80s came along afterwards Looking back, it was pretty miserable in absolute standard of living terms, but at the time I loved it. I was 11 years old in 1970, and left university in 1980. I learned to fly model aeroplanes, smoke, drink, play guitar, ride motorbikes, and fool around with girls in the 1970s. In the 1980s I learned how to be an adult. That was far less fun on the whole, although my material standard of living improved enormously. 1970s were the start of the improvement of living standards for all: http://econ.economicshelp.org/2010/02/economy-of-1... With hindsight we can see that - but it wasn't altogether obvious at the time. Indeed, economic well being had been improving from the end of the 50s.
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vixen1700
6,588 posts
140 months
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parakitaMol. said: Joy Division supporting Missed out on seeing Joy Division when they played Walthamstow Youth Centre, we knew about it because there was a poster in Small Wonder Records advertising it, but for some reason we didn't bother.  50p to get in too. 
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vixen1700
6,588 posts
140 months
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Anthony Micallef said: Great picture! My Grandparents lived in Leyton in the 80s. My family grew up in Chingdord. My brother whos a Leyton Orient fan will like the pic even though you can only just make out the flood lights. Cheers. Where that white car is parked is now Hall Road which leads off from Crownfield Road and goes up past Langthorne Road and past the Birbeck Tavern, just to give you more an idea where it is.
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oilandwater
1,050 posts
60 months
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I bought a second hand Fiat 500 for £300. Drove it to Manchester from South Cheshire (now called Cheshire East for some stupid reason) everyday up and down the M6. 50-60 mpg. It had a sunroof too. I strapped a Binatone radio on to the metal dash with masking tape, the reception was terrible when I turned left for some reason. I even got four adults in it, one of them was over 6ft tall. Happy days.
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