do you remember

valval

well was sat here having a moan on grump thread and got to thinking when we got married we had no phone for years three channels on telly no microwave. the computer did not have internet just tape deck to down load games etc how life has changer and that was only 1983 what do you remember.
we used to have sandwich toaster to go in coal fire it was round with two long handles tasted lovely

weejean

I remember playing Space Invaders on our atari on the black and white telly as we only had one colour telly and my dad wouldnt let us use it for the games.

My Mum bought us a Soda Stream and it was so exciting as before that we only ever had orange squash or milk to drink. My brother, sisters and myself would then have burping contests which did not amuse my Mum.

Every Sunday night me and my brother taped music from the radio as they played the Top 40. It was the only way we could have up to date music to play on our tape recorders.

When we got our first video player, nearly ever child in the street was in our living room as my Dad rented out a mickey mouse video for us to watch.

Happy days

caterina57

I remember ice on the bedroom windows and running downstairs to a roaring fire (Dad was coal miner)we didn't have a fridge or a phone until I was 18. we never had frozen food and the only tins in the cupboard were of fruit and corned beef. washing took all day to do. Dad grew all the veg. Sunday night was bath night. We had most of our clothes made. But a bought outfit for whit sunday and new shoes to go back to school in september ,all our clothes were made to grow into.
We had bedtimes and a roast dinner every sunday. The only takeaway we ever had was fish and chips. We played out every day except sunday. We had one main christmas present and then colouring books, crayons a games compendium a book, gloves or mittens, hankies with our initial embroided on and a selection box.
my favourite sweets were black jacks 4 for 1d
Ah memories ....... I had a lovely childhood

Cath

dreamdaisy

My ma and pa bought a brand new house for £6,500 in 1961 and their families thought they were mad (I do to, every single penny my lovely pa earned was put into that house and when he wanted to sell up and move to Suffolk to be near me and enjoy the fruits of his rewards she refused. That tells you a lot about my ma.) We had central heating which involved a large, white coal-fired boiler in the corner of the kitchen, I remember the clang of the door and the heat, the coals glowing red. Our telly was very small, black and white in a lovely wooden frame/box, it took an age to get going. We always had a roast on a Sunday and we would listen to the radio - The Clitheroe Kid sticks in my mind (not to mention my craw). Then there was the music programme for the forces overseas - what was it called? Sunday evening radio would be 'Sing Something Simple'. It was rumoured that the telly programmes stopped at midnight and there would be a vanishing white dot. I never saw it, I was always in bed by then, New Years too. DD

mig

We lived in a two up two down,mum and dad slept down stairs on a bed settee my brother had the small bedroom and me and my sisters shared a room ,brother was nearly ten years older than us,he was born before the war then dad was away all the war years when he came back they had three babies in 4 years,those years of all of us together were some of the happiest,you dont remember the struggles they must have had when you are a child,sadly my brother and youngest sister have passed away.
we had sunday lunch together it was the only meal we were all together for as dad was working long hours,oh for just one more time.
I think the programme was called family favourites or something like that with cliff mitchelmore and jean metcalfe we always listerned to it .
OH HAPPY DAYS Mig

bubbadog

I remember having a Spectrum computer (think that's how you spell it!) and thinking I was the bee's knee's! And a black & white telly in bed room. Can't believe have things have changed!

barbara12

I remeber seeing my first central heating...it was 1969 and I was about to be married...and it was my chief bridesmaids mums house...warm bedrooms....in our house we had pot.. hot water bottles...and we never had a telephone...if my friends wanted me they rang the local phone box till someone answered and asked them to give me a message....more often then not they did.... and best of all I remember our coal fire....wonderful...flames leaping about in the depth of winter

valval

what a lot of great memories we have and it true you do not remember the bad we never had much money to spare but always had a week away and dad would bring milky way(the small one) for us when he got his star.it was such a treat and jubilies so big you had to use both hands in the summer. also crackerjack pop corn came in a box off ice cream man think there was plastic toy in

tkachev

I just remember walking for miles from the age of 3(I had older siblings) and playing in the woods and hide and seek in a derelect old house. I made my own games up, paper dolls, card games so was never bored.

Elizabeth

tonesp

1968 got married and for the first time in my life lived in a house with hot and cold water indoor toilet and a bath :roll: :roll: :roll:

valval

i remember mums coper to heat water to do the washing and gass pocker to light fire

barbara12

I remember my dad throwing a pot hot water bottle in bed...and there was already one in....smash they went...so we had a soggy bed..

theresa4

I remember getting lost while out with my brother when I was 7 and a policeman found me and took me home, my brother got in so much trouble :eek:

me and my brother played on the atari and thought we were cool.

building igloo forts to protect me and my friends from my brother and his mates ready to pound us with their well packed snowballs.

wow memories

NinaKKang

I remember our first computer which my brother used to send me upstairs to fire up, so that 10 minutes later we could play a game LOL. I remember mum doing all the washing by hand and then me taking the clothes and using the "drier" to get the excess water off - it was cylinder shaped and had a funnel you had to put a bucket under to catch the water... except when the drier was on, it would bounce all around the kitchen with me sitting on top of it, desperately trying to keep it still!

I remember in winter, we would all sleep in the living room with the fire on very low... my mum would warm up our socks by the fire and then wake us up putting them on our feet

I remember visiting relatives in the holidays and having days out, we never went abroad, didn't own a car... I remember when we moved house when I was 5 and we didn't have any furniture to sit on because hardly anyone bought on credit...

Great days though! I loved my childhood LOL

Nxx

liesa

just before we got wed we lived in a basement bedsit one room and we used a 2 ring belling electric cooker,
we got wed in 1980, first child came 7 months later, we moved into our first new home, we used terry towelling nappies and used a 'burco boiler' to wash them in lovely and white on the washing line, we had a 'Twintub' washing machine which was such hardwork to pull out from under the sink, and fill up and drain,
our car was a mark 3 cortina and we went on to have amarl 1 escort with a big blue stripe down the body which was white, we were so cool!
we had a 'rented black and white' tv, and a few months later we had our first telephone installed,
second baby came along 1982, we used a marmet pram with springs not as big as the traditional prams, with a seat on top for first child to sit on, he also wore his reins!
queing in post office to collect weekly child benefit and thinking the world woulld end when we had no money and desperately needed this money
times were very hard!
3rd baby came along in 1983 and we got a 'double' buggy.... how times had changed!!

i loved my life back then even if at times it was bloody hard!!

valval

i remember near end of week would need milk tokens to get through till pay day mainly when the 4 day weeks were on so hard it was

mp1952

I remember listening to Family Favourites on a Sunday lunchtime too.. Gosh it was so exciting when it came from Nicosia, Cyprus!

I also used to record the Top 40 on a Sunday evening...

We had little money too, but my mum always managed to give us great dinners...

Marion x

joanlawson

This is a great thread, Val. I've really enjoyed reading everyone's memories.

I remember when my Mum proudly announced that we were going to buy a television in time to see the Queen's coronation. I had never heard of a television, and had to ask Mum what it meant. My parents really thought they had gone up in the world because no-one else on our road had got a a television. It had a tiny screen, and you had to wait for it to 'warm up' before the black and white picture appeared. All the neighbours crowded into our house to watch the coronation, and I remember what a happy day it was.

When I qualified as a teacher in 1965, my take-home pay after deductions of tax etc. was £42 a month :roll: I remember thinking is this all the reward I get for three years of study? We started married life in a rented flat in Nottingham, but couldn't afford the one we liked because the rent was £5 a week. We had to settle for another one with a rent of £3-7s-6d a week. Oh dear, I feel ancient now :shock: :roll:

Joan

tonesp

During my holidays from college I used to work on the buses I started teaching in 1961 My first months salary was 32 pounds My last two weeks money from the buses was 38 :evil :evil :evil

valval

i remember being given a threpeny bit for my birthday and getting three lollies and three chews for me and my brothers