Sunday evenings of yesteryear

[Arran]

Lots of kids in the 1990s were glued to a game console on Sunday evenings.

In summer you would see plenty of kids out in the street, riding bikes, on rollerblades etc. until sunset. I have been informed that it was frowned upon for parents to allow kids out in the street on Sunday evenings...

[Arran]

Watching rented videos, picked up on Saturday, for a second time before returning them to the video shop on Monday. Many video shops were closed on Sundays.

[Arran]

In the 1970s and early 1980s it was common to serve a salad for sunday tea alongside a cold savoury item. More often than not, salads were a work of knife art where radishes were pared into roses and cucumber slices shaped into gear wheels. At the time salads were viewed as adult food and children were...

[Arran]

Did you have a 7 day thermostat programmed to automatically heat a tankful of water on Sunday night or did you have to remember to switch the hot water on manually in the years before combi boilers? Or did you have one of those Ascot gas water heaters above the bath?

Have a read of the...

[Arran]

A lot has been written about the daytime of Sundays of yesteryear but far less about the evening and its rituals. The time when the weekend was slipping away and Monday was approaching.

What were your experiences of Sunday evenings?

Were there any particular TV programmes you...