What Do I Remember From 1970’s?

Let’s see. There were lots of different televisual messages. Though, I barely experienced the full decade. Being a late 60’s baby.

I remember Gordon Honeycomb on the news. The riots in Northern Ireland, firebombing of police landrovers. The New Seekers & “The Coca Cola song”. Plus, the Eurovisions, them & Dana (not that Dana, this was a young Irish lady). Terry Wogan in the mornings, BBC Radio 2. Children’s television, “The Banan Splits”, “Casey Jones”, Champion the Wonderhorse”, “Multi-coloured Swapshop”, “Tiswas”. . The first record I boughtwas a combination of theme tunes, Jacky Lee and the song from “Rupert the Bear”. That really gives my age away.!

I remember the Police, Blondie, and Elton John. The list of classic music runs for reams.

Dutcj Elm disease: I remember, the council cut all the trees down. I was told to count the rings on their trunks. Each represented a year. The weather that year would also give greater space the rings, if the weather had been good.. I remeber a friend had a “Chopper bike”, you’ll remember them, if you were any age in 1970’s! “Tonka Toys”, “Actionman”, children’s comic books, the British were the best. But, US ones were available too!

Mike Yarwood, Morecambe & Wise, Porridge, the Good Life, Jason King. They’re some of the evening programming on TV. Comedies!

Playing “Space Invaders”, that was the closest we had to computing. Pinball, that too.

Ford Cortina’s, Escorts and those Scandinavian cars, their engines were used in armoured vehicles. Which reminds me, there were collectable cards of armoured vehicle details. And, Panini cards, Subuteo, Scalextrix. There were collectible glossy magazines covering everything from Knights of Old, to Military hardware. I used to like Airfix models, the Hurricane, Spitfire, MesserSchmidt, Foche Wulf. The Pontoon Bridges, the 16 Pounder artillery piece models.

I remember people were generally poor, and food was precious. Everyone used to buy either the branded name foods, or from the Co-op. Not everyone had a television. Not many had a car.

Those are most of my recollections of the 1970’s.

Dave T.