Forum: Miscellaneous memories

Is it just me or do you never hear people whistling nowadays? I can remember growing up in the 70's all the kids in my school could do it and you were made to feel inferior if, like me, you couldn't master it! I think it was the legacy of all the war films that were around back then as it seemed...

Freshly applied paint : I remember by Dad painting the hall just before Christmas, and the odour was so strong that it lasted throughout Christmas period. Not quite the same nowadays with low odour paint but when I catch a wift of paint it can take me back. New carpets : The rare occassion we...

Hi there. In the mid-1970s in the UK Walls sausages put out a set of eight cards. They depicted a prehistoric scene with dinosaurs. You would assemble the cards end to end to see the complete panorama. In fact you could arrange them in any order and the picture would make sense. the...

One Christmas I got a little Pye tape recorder and I loved it! Me and my friend used to record radio shows on it. we'd have a top ten count down and would play all our 45" singles with Bucks Fizz at number one, then we'd have an outside broadcast and would use my friend's Dempsey and Makepeace...

This memory has only come back to me having seen Little Britain's Andy and Lou characters, with Andy's 'I ran the world' T-shirt! I too ran the world with my best friend. We ran around the block 20 times and got chased by a pack of dogs (a common feature on housing estates in the 80s), but what was...

Can anybody remember jazz bands? Probably most popular in Northern towns in the 70s and 80s. Kids would join a jazz band and play the drum, xylophone or gazoo or learn how to twirl batons, then once or twice a year, all the jazz bands from a town or district would have a marching parade through the...

In the very early '70s, we had a couple of trips to the West End. I loved all the huge department stores and I clearly recall the lifts at Selfridges, Oxford Street. Inside, the walls were chromed/mirrored and there was an elderly lift operator sitting on a stool. The lift would stop very suddenly...

Turkish Delight Acid House Fighting games I do genuinley like these things now, it's not really just because of nostalgia. I'm sure there's more stuff so I'll probably post again when I remember.

Times change so quickly - I was thinking about stuff I saw my parents do, but have never done myself, and things my kids just wont believe..... Making a coal fire. A part of everyday life when i was a kid - but alas as an adult i have never made a coal fire - Try explaining to your kids how...

They reckon its going to snow and be cold next week, like it was in the 70's!!!! What are your memories of snow as a kid? In primary school we had wet playtimes where we couldn't go out and had to stay in reading comics. I remember the playground froze and the boys got told off for...

My mum and dad would sometimes have dinner parties or less formal 'friends round for drinks'. As a kid I would listen from my bedroom to the music and laughter downstairs. Somtimes I would risk going to see if there was any food I could grab. If spotted by one of my parents' friends there would...