I'm old enough to remember when........

[colin_p]

Front bottom said:

When a corner shop bought Vesta curry, with those crispy ring things was a piece of exotica.

I like the Vesta Chow Mein more.......and still have the odd crafty one to this day. You can still buy them and experience the sophisticated taste of 1970's.

[Pinkie15]

NDA said:

Bazooka Joe

Dam, beat me to it

Pacers

"Why don't you", about only thing on telly in the morning for school holidays

10p bag of sweets on a Sunday when the old man went to the papershop

Hoping for a 125 when travelling from Kings X to the grandparents (but only getting a deltic hauled train and scruffy Mk 2 carriages)

Queuing round the block for hours to see Star Wars at a 3 screen cinema

Smell of all the breweries whilst spectating at Tynecastle

Smell of the Mars factory whilst thrashing one of the local schools at cricket (every year for 5 years)





White dog poo (has that been mentioned yet ?)

[HTP99]

colin_p said:

Front bottom said:

When a corner shop bought Vesta curry, with those crispy ring things was a piece of exotica.

I like the Vesta Chow Mein more.......and still have the odd crafty one to this day. You can still buy them and experience the sophisticated taste of 1970's.

Ahhhh Vesta curries and Chinese and the crispy noodle things, they bring back memories of being a student and cooking them at home after my evening stint working at Sainsburys.

I should imagine if I wanted a trip down nostalgia street, I would be very disappointed now.

[motco]

pb8g09 said:

When watching snooker on the telly was more effort than it was worth...

(we had a black and white telly growing up...)

My brother in law was so proud of his new colour TV in about 1970 but his balloon collapsed when he realised that the edge definition was so bad that balls on the snooker table that rolled into the edges of the picture became little spheres of coloured cotton wool, and captions at the bottom of the screen were unreadable. Sony Trinitron was a great leap forward at the time, but still rubbish by even SD standards today.

[Einion Yrth]

HTP99 said:

Ahhhh Vesta curries and Chinese and the crispy noodle things, they bring back memories of being a student and cooking them at home after my evening stint working at Sainsburys.

I should imagine if I wanted a trip down nostalgia street, I would be very disappointed now.

Depends upon how you feel about sugary starch, I guess.

[Eric Mc]

psi310398 said:

I might be going mildly ga-ga but I could have sworn that, in the mid-70s, I was buying my Airfix kits in small, rectangular cardboard boxes. But I grew up in Kenya and they might have packaged thus for export. There were both aeroplane and car kits at that time, as well as the moulded figures. I don't recall Series 1 being sold differently.

IIRC, there was a series of cars in 1/32 scale - Mercedes SL, Beetle, Bentley Blower, Jag 420, Aston Martin DB5, E-Type as well as the obvious military stuff like Monty's Humber, staff cars and also 1/24 Bomb tractors and RAF fuel bowsers.

As a schoolboy in the very late 70s, back in the UK, I can also recall that 10 Woodbines cost 29p (which, neatly, was the same as the bus fare for a three mile journey home).

Series 2 upward were in boxes. At the end of the 70s/early 80s, Series 1 kits were moved to boxes too.

Some of those car kits have been re-released in recent years.

[anonymous-user]

I remember getting school milk at infant school. Some days it was so cold that the milk froze & popped the foil top off. Happy days!

[Ruth Rack]

The instantly recognisable voices of Oliver Postgate narrating Noggin the Nog, and Johnny Morris on Animal Magic and Tales of the Riverbank. The death of Inky in Softly, Softly.

The horrendous news footage from Aberfan. My father, a Nottinghamshire miner, was devasted by the disaster and drove down to try to help in the ensuing rescue operation only to be turned away like so many others from the UK coalfields and beyond.

I also remember being at an air show when very young....at RAF Hucknall, I think, when a Vulcan crashed. My mother was bored by the show and had gone off to pick blackberries leaving my father in charge of us kids, I remember his anguish at not being able to find her in the immediate aftermath and his relief when she finally appeared. We had an old Triumph Gloria at the time and hot / burning oil from the Vulcan spotted her paintwork in a number of places.