Any other kids from the 70s on CD?? :D
I remember we used to play handstands against any piece of empty wall we could find - all showing off our lovely navy blue school knickers in the process ;)
And also "two balls" where we would bounce two tennis balls against the wall for hours on end with various accompanying songs
and klackers - remember them ? until they were banned of course for being too dangerous
and a treat would be something like icecream in cream soda :o and telly would involve Dr Who and the Daleks or "Tommorrows People "
and the red hot summer from 76 - we used to collect the millions of ladybirds that arrived in empty milk bottles - there were millions of them
and we used to have a school disco on a Friday and evereyone would dance in one big line... to things like "Billy dont be a hero" and the Jacksons, The Osmonds and David Cassidy
Kids today just dont know what they are missing
and I have gone all nostalgic now :)
Anyone else have any good memories??

I was born in 74 and i remember at school a game called 'hot peas and cold onions' was it?
I can recall the tune but unsure how the game went i'm sure it involved a ball... :)

The early 70s - the 'glam rock' era was brilliant! Everything was so exciting then - the 'glam rock' which outraged our dads, the platform shoes, the tanktops, the pageboy haircuts - we were gorgeous! There was a fad for 'snails' in the playground - similar to hopscotch but drawn in a spiral - some had over 200 squares! Klackers came and were instantly banned (but I was given a pair for Christmas the other year and managed to get them to work!!!) Going to the Wimpy bar after the pictures and having chips and a coke-float (if we went in as a group we could usually get large portions of chips because the man behind the counter fancied George ;) who did not reciprocate in the slightest!

Ah, happy days!
:)

oh this brings back memories, I loved Donny Osmond i use to dream about him, them went onto the Bay City Rollers and woody, do you remember the Wurzels-i am a cider drinker and i have a brand new conbine harvester,
you must all be around the same age as me im 40,
Heidi

No sorry heidi I am only 28 :D
Seemed a good age to stop at ;)

Yes, I have those memories (and I was 40 last week!).  Happy days!

Fiona

Oooh, my teenage years, glam rock and platform shoes.  Dread to think how I must have looked in them, I had such skinny legs.  I thought I was the bees knees though. :)

Don't remember klackers though, what were they?   Remember space hoppers they were great, I used to put up a mini jumping course in the garden and pretend I was David Broome.

Those were the days.......

Sandra

Klackers were two plastic balls, one on each end of a length of cord) that you clacked against each other (holding onto the cord in the middle) and got faster and faster till they were clacking above and below your hand - until you got it wrong and they whacked you on the wrist bones! Ouch!
:)

And didnt they hurt ???  ;)
Anyone used to wear american tan tights with white ankle socks over ? I thought I looked so gooood :o

Hi Fiona,
i was 40 last july, i had a friend called fiona at primary school, the heath school in Tiptree i dont suppose you are her, as usual you loose touch,
Heidi

Sorry guys still to young Im only 22 lol :-)

OMG you babies!!  I got married in 1970.  1973 - wasn't that the year of the strikes and power cuts.  I remeber being issued with a petrol ration book and most filling stations were rationing.  I was a student nurse and the local garage let me have extra.  1975 and 1976 were record heatwaves, I had my first baby in 1976 (just turned 28).  1977 I think was the queens jubilee.  Great decade, but I have to say I preferred the 60's.
Lorna

i was just a twinkle in my mums eye in the 70s ;) , wasnt born until the 80s :)
tanya

I took my O-levels in 1973. The 'Winter of Discontent' with the power cuts and strikes was before then, because it was before my exams. I was really fed up because we seemed to get more than our fair share of them on Thursday nights - the night of Top of The Pops, Alias Smith and Jones (aaah, Pete Duel, swoon!), Monty Python and rounded off by the Horse of the Year Show. Lord, the ephemera I can remember!
:)

Heidi, no, not me I'm afraid - I do live in Essex though!

Fiona
Edited to add: if it's the Tiptree in Essex you mean!

Not many I wasn't born til 78 :)

Michelle :)

I remember the 70's, I was born in 73.  Orange squash with so many E numbers in that after a few rounds everyone started getting lairy :D :D :D my favourites are The Flumps, Chorlton and the Wheelies (which I have the complete works on video), bod (also in my collection), and Bagpuss (complete works of), I paid £50 for a life sized hand made Bagpuss a couple of years ago it takes pride of place in my lounge .  Don't forget Jaaaaaaaaameeeehhhhhhh Jaaaaaameeeeeeh and his magic torch :D :) and those fab Schools and College programmes that were on and the only thing to watch if off sick from school.  I remember we used to play outside alot just kind of knocking around.  We got sent home from school if the weather got too cold and the heating broke down.  Blimey my memory is coming back them were the days eh :D

PS  I was a fairy in the Silver Jubilee :D

OMG! The 70's have good and bad memories for me...
I remember 'save all your kisses for me' and "billy dont be a hero"
The silver jubilee where we had a massive street party...
I remember some kind of kali (sp?) from the shop that you added water to...
Camp coffee
Grandstand or something on tv on a sat that my grandad "had' to watch

And sadly...

It was 77 when my mom died :( She was 30 and i was 7

The best days of my life believe it or not :)

Donna and charliex

Lesley, did you ever play the ball game, where you put a ball in one of the legs of your mams old tights.
Then you would stand against the wall, swinging it from side to side, hitting each side of the wall. If you were good you could keep lifting alternative legs high enough so the ball would go under. While doing it we would sing a stupid song, Would you like a cigarette sir, no sir, why sir, and so on.
Someone has got to admit to knowing the game or song.
Michelle 

mitch? where did you grow up?

Can't remember it (& don't think I'd admit it if I did) LOL - I'm sure it was good fun.  :)

yeah, but can anyone of the 80's remember Elastics??????? LMAo
England Ireland Scotland Wales. in side, outside, inside, on.
Or England Ireland Scotland Wales. in side, outside, inside, Out if the elastics got too high!!!!!! Can you imagine kids these days standing in a playgound with 4 meters of knicer elastic jumoing over it!!!!!!!!!!]
I used to be best in school!!!!!!!!
Lea :)

I'm from the North East. We didn't have much :( so had to make up games. So maybe that was one of them. But we certainly didn't make up the rhyme, someone must know it.
I remember elastics very well Lea, We played two types, one where you just jumped over, getting higher and higher, and the other where you doubled the elastics and two people stood in them either end with feet apart. You had to jump on them, astride them crossing them etc singing silly songs.
Or just good old skips, I was better at that. jumping in and out getting faster and faster, again singing songs Also doubles where the people swinging the rope would do it twice the speed, so it would go under your legs twice per jump. You had to use washing line for that though, and god did that hurt your ankles, just as lethal as them bleeding clangers.

MIchelle.

LOL Michelle
We never did just jumping over them , but did the 2 people either end, I used to practice putting the round to dining room chairs in the living room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only think is, they werent tall enough, end keplt sliding down!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yes, skippink. Diod you ever do two ropes?????? Could master it sometimes!!!!!!!!!!!
Lea :)

Yes Lea I practised with the chairs too.
Now you mention the two ropes, yes we did that too, you had to have the knack for that though.
Did you used to play (now what would you call it) where you and your partner slap your hands together in different ways, we also used to stand in a big circle doing it, again singing songs, one which was, Charlie had a pigeon, a pigeon, a pigeon.
Michelle.

Would you like a cigarette sir
No sir
Why sir
Cos I got a cold sir
Where'd you get the cold sir
At the north pole sir
What you doing there sir
Catching polar bears sir
How many did you get sir
One sir, two sir.........

(This used to involve 4 of us, two with a long skipping rope, the other two with 2 balls 7 and we had to play 2 balls whilst skipping!! - This was back in  the 50s!!)

My memories of the 70s are being a young mum, with 2 babies, being involved with Nactional Childbirth Trust, setting up a Mother & Toddler Club, helping at Playgroup, then going on to college, moving into our house (which was 2 farm cottages) and converting it into a single house, doing the "good life" bit, with chickens, goats etc..

Looking at the start like a flower child, then going through all the fashions - Charlies Angels, finishing up like something from Dynasty/Dallas (or at least an attempt to!)   Adrian went from long hair with sideburns, to even longer hair with mutton-chop whiskers, to longer still complete with beard - back to clean shaven!

Ahh, memories......

Dont forget the kids watching Dr Who from behind the sofa!!

Margot

Thats it Lokis mum,
I knew they had to be someone else.
But right at the end we sang.
1 sir, 2 sir, 3 sir,
very good indeed sir.

Are you from the North East too.

michelle.

I rememeber the game with the ball in your mams old tights .It must be a northern thing but I'm in the north-west rather than the north east :D Gillian

OMG - yeah I do remember and if you were crap at it and didnt keep tight hold of the tight leg , it would go hurtling off into outer space complete with the ball .
Kids today havent got a clue :(
We used to sing "Winnie the Witch , fell down the ditch ...." as well

Oh I forgot about the street party , we all got dressed up also and had a huge party..

Really sad now how things have changed in sucha  short time eh..

I still have the pictures. I was 71 baby.

Pam

Storm, loved reading your post. I was also born in '73. Loved The Flumps - "oh no, not vegetable soup again Grandad" - What were the flumps called -can you remember? I think one was Posy & of course Grandad, oh yeah & pootle, amazing what comes back to you when you think.

Jamie & his magic torch, loved it. Bod, loved him. Also loved Mr Benn & the Wombles.

Emily, the mice & the marvelous mechanical mouse organ, professor Yaffle the woodpecker. Madeline the ragdoll, Gabriel the banjo playing toad & of course Bagpuss the old cloth cat!

I have the Bagpuss video!!!!!!!!!! There was apparently something like only 12 made!!!!!!!!!
I also have him stting on my printer looking down on me!!!! LMAO
I was born in 77, and Bagpuss was my fav. Water about Finger mouse and all of those??????
I use to habe a link to all the old progs sites, but lost iot when my comp went down :(
Lea :)

I got the complete Bagpuss video too!

is yours an old one? we got ours recently for the kids & it has 13 adventures on it.

"He was just a saggy old cloth cat .............. but Emily loved him"

I got mine from Asda, for the kids about 4 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, that was my excuse at the time.
12 stuck in my memory but probably wrong figure. ~I was less than 20 I know that!!
I loved the biscuit maker, with the flour etc :D Muct find it and watch it agian :D
Lea :)

No - I grew up in Berkshire!!

Shows how the same songs went around!

Margot

And how long they are around for. My 5 YO was singing a soing the other day. It took me ages to get him to do the full version. Word perfect to what I remember:-
Jingle Bells, Bat Man Smells, Robins Gone away.
Uncle Billy's lost his Willie on the motroway!!!!!
Ok, so I should have told him off, but was laughing soo much I couldnt!!!!!!!!!!!

Have to say that is a favourite with my 3 boys at the moment! Think they learnt it from friends at school though.  A game we used to love as kids was MARBLES.  I know they still sell them, but we used to play in the street, on the drain covers (YUK - I wouldn't let my kids near them now and would make them stand up if they were sitting on the floor in the street) I went to Hamleys in London last year, and seeing all the marbles - different types and colours - it would have been like going to Heaven for me and my friends as kids!

Fiona

Remember the bread shortage too and potatoes amongst other things . Used to have to queue for ages just to get a loaf which cost about 12p and Mum thought it was extortionate :)
Remember the Magic Flute too ? The witch in that scared me to death and I had nightmares for months as a result
Black and white Tvs with the wood look surround were the norm and no such things as videos or DVDs then. And also the record players that could play six singles one after another ?? :)

Six singles after another - Lel - we used to balance 12 on ours (mind you, we did put half a housebrick on the balance of the Dansette!)

Ah, memories!!

Margot

the t.v. prog   the clangers anyone remember them,

:D
I do !!

Yep! :D

Snoopy1 :D :D I can only remember one other flump which was perkin I think?  The one with the carrot that got stuck in grandpa flumps tuba always sticks in my mind :) and the one where perkin had a cloud following him about :D  Watching all the old tv programmes just makes me feel all nice and safe :D :D you probably remember the just say no grange hill campaign not 70's but it was aimed at people born in the 70's.  The one that played "Row-land I can help you Browning" got done for drugs :) I think they all must have been on drugs to make a song like that :D

Perkin. LOL. Yep I remember Ro......land & I used to love Grange Hill. 
Remember willow the whisp, with evil Edna? Jackanory, Runaround & Mallets mallet with Timmy Mallet, Swap shop. & Did everyone collect rubbers? Or was this just what everone did at my school?
they say your school days are the best, oh how I hated school, but what a hassle-free time of life it was.  :)

Did anybody play skipping ropes. Can you remember any songs you used to sing when you were skipping.

Jean

remember why don't you.

"why don't you, why don't you, why don't you, just get out of bed, do something less boring instead, sitting at home watching TV turn it off, it's no good to me, why don't you GO .. GO.. GO "

well something like that anyway :-D. I'm sure there's more words than that?

"All in together , to see Cinderella...." wasnt that a skipping chant ? :o

no lel, that was the teacher getting everyone settled in the hall to watch the pantomime.  :-D

LMAO :D :D I collected rubbers, we used to sniff them.  My dad used to go mad if he caught us sniffing them I just couldn't understand what his problem was, obviously I can see what his point was now!!! :D

Im confused now, i think my parents have been lying to me about how old i am!

Actually i think i *remember* a lot of the 70's stuff because i was friends with kids a lot older than me, and had hand me down everything, bikes, clothes, toys, etc, so even though i was born in 1980, i was a retro baby, hee hee.

I used to collect rubbers at school, we used to 'swap' things, and then the next day there was always some shamefaced kid having to ask for his swap thing back, because his mam or dad had gone mad at him for swapping it!
I once swapped some Fart powder from the joke shop, and got in deep trouble with my teacher, cos the girl id swapped it with (for a toy dog!) was sitting at her desk, EATING it, i dont think she got the point really!

Who remembers wooden desks, with a lid, a hole for your ink bottle, that always smelled of old milk and ink?
We used to play British Bulldog in the yard, tag/tig, skipping (only one rope though, not clever enuff for two, and  ours had a bloody great big knot in the middle where we had tied two small ropes together, which used to get wet and then really hurt if you got smacked in the head with it), elastics, The Big Ship Sails, Grandmas footsteps, What Time is it Mr Wolf, kiss chase (although we never really knew wot to do if we got caught).......most of us had hand me down Choppers or grifters.
Our teacher used to take us for nature walks in the woods, and i played recorder in assembly, for the hymn at the beginning adn end.

In summer we used to sledge down the hill on a piece of cardboard, or go and annoy the only girl in the village that had My LIttle ponies AND barbies AND she ra dolls, even though we didnt really like her!

Anyone remember the glo-worms, plastic toys that glowed in the dark, my dad took mine off me cos he said they were radioactive and dangerous.....i think the only danger from them was that me and my sister used to throw them across the bedroom in the dark, at each other!

Em

Goodness what an interesting thread, I feel I am from another planet, the 70's seem to have passed me by altogether, almost as if it never happened. Can remember the 60's very well and some of the 80's, but the 70's no nothing much at all, do remember the 3 day week because we were worried that the business my husband and I had started would go under if we could not work and do recall the balls on string almost like the thing the natives use to bring down an animal. After that a blank, how sad to loose a whole decade.