Can you tell me what it was like in the 1970's recession?

MrsE_2

fc123 wrote: »

I went to school in New Cross from '71 -' 79 and walking down the main road, I would sometimes be 'the minority' race.

I went to school in Peckham (Thomas Carlton) between 79 & 84:D

sb44

bo_drinker wrote: »

Love thy neighbour on the box and Spaghetti hoops for tea. Oh how we laughed.

Plus Vesta Chow Mein as a treat sometimes on a Friday night.

OMG, just thinking of the smell of it makes me heave.

The crispy noodle things in it were like thin Quavers but not as nice.

1sue23

Best time of my life was an art student and it was a time to rebel ,I was a real lefty smoking pot and spending time at all night parties ,candles and joss sticks very curly hair, John Lennon specs, very short skirts and smelly afgan coats ,went on picket lines ,protest meeting and I loved every minute .:D

bo_drinker

sb44 wrote: »

Plus Vesta Chow Mein as a treat sometimes on a Friday night.

OMG, just thinking of the smell of it makes me heave.

The crispy noodle things in it where like thin Quavers but not as nice.

How did I ever forget my 1st intro to food from the Orient..... Brilliant. Another Old Jamaica chocolate bar, a real treat. (obviously not from the Orient) and Curly Wurly:T

bo_drinker

cheap_charlie wrote: »

Speak for yourself

I will, and we laughed no wait we pi55ed our selves, it was allowed then.

sb44

bo_drinker wrote: »

How did I ever forget my 1st intro to food from the Orient..... Brilliant. Another Old Jamaica chocolate bar, a real treat. (obviously not from the Orient) and Curly Wurly:T

What about Ice Breaker chocolate bars, now they were nice, medium bar of choc with green mint bits in it, a bit like bits of broken crunchy.

Then there were the bars of Milk Tray where each individual chunk was the same shape as in the box of chocs (I think they were Milk Tray) they had a purple wrapper.

SingleSue

I had a friend who was still collecting green shield stamps into the 80's...would have been the late 80's too!

We were all going on holiday and as I couldn't drive at that time (think it may have been 1988 thinking about it), we shared a car with a friend who had a mini.

Well, with about 60 miles left to our destination, he realised that his fuel was getting rather low but instead of pulling into the first garage available, he decided he wanted one which gave green shield stamps, so we passed by a multitude of garages in his search for one which did do them, all the time the fuel getting less and less.

Guess what?

Yep, we ran out of fuel halfway up a hill and we had to push it to the top...then he remembered that he had some petrol in a can in his boot so he put that in and on we travelled. The very next garage we came to did green shield stamps!

I have a dim and distant memory of my mum collecting them but will have to check with her tomorrow as I could be getting confuzzled.

Hectors_House

Kez100 wrote: »

......... I was just born and am interested to know more.

Reading this thread I'd have to say this current recession is the first I've experienced.

I was born in 1965.

We moved, on the £10 POM scheme to New Zealand in 1969, and came back to the UK in 1977.

Then, it seems the next downturn came in the early 80's. Again my parents moved us overseas, this time to Australia.

I came back to the UK in 1989 and found work 7 weeks later.

Again, I wasn't aware the country was in recession. I got a mortgage in 1991.

My first visual indication of what a recession is like was when I saw a TV series called The Innes Book of Records. We'd watched Boys From The Blackstuff in Australia but as I'd spent most of my life at that time out of the UK it didn't really make much sense.

I'm more aware of this current recession through watching what was happening to people around me. The profligate lending was there to see and the city centre was invaded by London restuaranters years ago charging London prices. I've been living in Leicester and saw the first signs of repossessions (of houses and commercial properties) at least a year ago.

My own thoughts are that we've been in recession for nearly two years now but it's only when it hits the mainstream that people start to notice it.

Is this one going to be worse then the others?

Who knows. I do think it's a global recession however and it may feel worse cus people have so much to lose these days (consumer goods as well as their homes).

Personally I've not been asked to cut my hours at work and have just had my yearly review and am being put forward for a pay rise, but my shift allowance is going to disappear this year which at £125 per month means I'll be running to stand still in 2009.

jazzyjustlaw

MrsE wrote: »

I was born in 67.

I remember the potato shortage, we got a slice of bread & marge with our school lunch instead of potato.

I remember the miners strikes, I was raised in London, but I was aware of the people in the "north" who had a tough time & not much in the way of jobs.

I remember 3 channels & TV starting in the morning & finishing by midnight.
I remember the advent & excitement of channel 4, breakfast TV & then all night TV:D

I remember lots of bomb scares, but didn't think they were at school
Central London always seemed to be the target.

We learnt about the nuclear threat at school & it gave me nightmares:eek:

I was born in 71 other than living in london ( I live further down south) that is pretty much what I remember and the lights being out some nights. I had to sleep with the hall light on until my mid twenties as it scared me so much as a child - scarred me it did. Funny what can affect you.

geoffky

I dont know if too many people know this but in the 70s there was very nearly a army coup in this country and it was very well planned and was close to being put into action.
It was going to be headed by Mountbatten if i remember right..

WHO WAS PLOTTING AN ARMY COUP TO GET RID OF HAROLD WILSON?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16819862&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=who-was-plotting-an-army-coup-to-get-rid-of-harold-wilson--name_page.html



How close did Britain come to a military coup in the late seventies? Papers from 1976 - released today under the 30 year rule - add to the growing body of evidence that sections of the ruling class were certainly thinking along such lines. According to the Financial Times, MI5 was ‘preparing plans’ to deal with any threats to ‘the security of the state’ emanating from far left pressure on the Labour government of the day, led by Harold Wilson (pictured):
‘The security service MI5 forecast that the stability of the British state could be severely threatened by a developing economic crisis and the growing militancy of the left during the 1970s, according to documents released to the public today.
In the final days of the Wilson era, MI5 drafted a contingency paper based on a scenario in which a Labour government, acceding to trade union and other militant demands, radicalised its policies against the private sector and the UK's Nato commitments.
The incidents built into MI5's futuristic vision include a deliberate fire at one of London's main water treatment plants, an attempted terrorist attack by frogmen on the Isle of Grain oil refinery, a vehicle bomb attack on a radar station, and a suitcase bomb without warning on the London Underground …
The paper suggests that MI5 believed the security of the state was under threat from the political pressures building up during the 1970s, and was preparing plans to deal with such a threat, which it saw as mainly coming from the left.