Old Finances (back in the day)

Butterfly_Brain

sophsnan wrote: »

banana splits on tv and what was that prog with jack wild in errrrrrrr
cant think someone help me pleeeeees

HR Puffnstuff

here is a link for the opening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cshdzAtBW4M

I have thought of lots more
Anyone remember nanny and the Professor
lost in space
land of the giants
tripods
day of the triffids
time tunnel
voyage to the bottom of the sea
beep and booster on blue peter
marine boy
the good life
ivor the engine
noggin the nog
lassie ( I was banned - I sobbed too much)
josie and the !!!!!cats
inch high private eye with squiddily diddly
How
goober and the ghost chasers
ask aspel
cloppa castle
isi noho
tarzan
daktari
michael bentine's potty time

Butterfly_Brain

We used to have a party at someone's house every week the drinks were mainly party seven's, cherry b's and cider, snakebite, babycham, red witch (pernod, vodka, cider and blackcurrant), lager and lime, cinzano and lemonade, some spirits such as vodka, bacardi, pernod and southern comfort
basic food such as sub rolls with ham or tuna, peanuts, little cheesy biscuits, sausage rolls, and for posh dinner parties the fondue maker came out:rotfl:

maganan

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

lassie ( I was banned - I sobbed too much)

me too I always watched from behind the sofa and Dr Who when the daleks were on.

This time of year it was "why don't you" for the summer holidays.........before you did jobs or were sent out to play

Butterfly_Brain

In 1972 the average weekly wage was £32 But an awful lot were on less than £20 a week
loaf of bread ...... 9p
pint milk ........ 6p
gallon of petrol was 25p a gallon
pint beer........20p
ciggies 20p for 20
cinema for 2 was 90p
an average semi was about £6,000
prescriptions were 25p for the whole prescription not just one item
butter ........15p 1Ib
sugar ........ 10p a bag
baked beans 4p a can
bag of potatoes was 4p
bag crisps 3p
mars bar 7p




We used to go to the california ballroom at the foot of the downs (nightclub with famous acts such as suzie quatro, sweet, alvin stardust, jimmy ruffin, the drifters, the blackbyrds, commodores, , hot chocolate, Ben. E King to name but a few)for 20p - 40p depending on who was up there. Saw david bowie's first outing of ziggy stardust at the queensway hall and showaddywaddy and hawkwind there too and that only cost pence too. sadly both venues have now been demolished the queensway hall site is now an Asda and the Cali site is a housing estate.

Ida_Notion

Who else remembers getting Lucozade sometimes if they were ill? Back in the days when it was marketed as something that would build you up and restore your health, rather than as a sports drink? It was the closest thing we got to 'pop' usually, but you only got it when you felt like death and everything had no taste to it anyway. Being home from school ill with your blanket on the sofa was about the only time you'd see 'grown-up' daytime telly - Crown Court (vague memories of an episode spring to mind where some woman was on trial for assaulting a bloke with a frozen turkey while she was on a shopping centre escalator!), and Houseparty, which I don't remember much about at all because it bored my brains out at the time. It featured a bunch of women sat round a table swapping household hints over coffee. I did used to like Grace Mulligan and 'Farmhouse Kitchen', although for some reason I found her more amusing than informative

Speaking of which, there was a cook that did a brief stint on Pebble Mill At One just after I'd left school, who was so cack-handed me that me and my mum were fascinated by her, tuning in each week to watch her knocking things over and generally making a mess of her workspace, as clouds of flour gently wafted over the camera. We were quite gutted when her appearances stopped, but not entirely surprised. They also had a reporter who kept saying 'in actual fact' all the time, and we'd be having so much fun counting the incidences that whatever he was reporting on just went straight over our heads. One particularly excessive week we were both in tears where we were laughing so hard over it. In actual fact

maganan

Yes I remember lucozade when you were ill, it used to have an orange cellophane wrapper over the glass bottle I think, tasted awful too. I remember trying to make pop from andrews liver salts we were so keen for something fizzy!

IdaNotion - oh the joys of grown up daytime telly, think I saw that episode of Crown Court too! Pebble Mill - thats a blast from the past with programs little that its amazing anyone thought daytime telly was a good idea. When I was very small mum used to listen women's hour on radio 4 after lunch, seems strange now sitting down to listen to the radio

culpepper

We always played outside in the holidays and at weekends. Hardly anyone was taken anywhere special by parents to amuse them if it cost money to do so.
When my sister was about 5, I used to be entrusted with her safety and would go with her to the play park and later on to swimming or the library. My same aged friend was entrusted with her brother much sooner, almost as soon as he was born. She was made to push him round the block of flats in his pram and if her mum heard him crying, she was in trouble.
Hardly any of the children had gadget type toys. Bikes were owned by some and scooters, some had roller skates.
We girls had a tennis ball or skipping rope,the ball earning us the right to play in the boys games if they needed a ball or maybe just to make up the numbers.
When my brother and I were very small,we would be left at home while mum went out. We were told not to answer the door or touch the fire.
If it was just me (brother at school) I would be taken along to her cleaning job and if the owner of the house minded, I had to stay in the pushchair .Mostly they were quite glad though as they were elderly and would come and talk to me or let me watch 'watch with mother' which I think was Andy Pandy or Trumpton. I went to the nursery for a while which was free but quite hard to get a place.
I don't know if many people relied on childminders, I think it was mostly extended family.
My previous next door neighbour was widowed and had her mother look after her own daughter with the arrangement being, she would look after her mother when she was unable to take care of herself. I imagine a lot of families did the same.
Some kids went to the Sunday school which meant they would go on the outings and there was a christmas party .
Some went to cubs,brownies etc which was another way of acessing outings and parties.
I really don't think there were any actual holiday play schemes as there are today.

Ida_Notion

It's as well that most of us seem to be the 'laughing in the face of adversity' types because it looks like we're set to do it all again, only without the political incorrectness and the twenty-four inch flares...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018401/Families-face-fall-living-standards-bad-1970s.html

Oh well. I'll see you all in the television rental shop. Better go start stockpiling Vesta meals and Curly Wurlies

Justamum

Does anyone else remember "why don't you . .?" on tv?

Chickenopolis

Yes I do Justamum. Does anyone remember Magpie and the Lightening Tree?

I remember an advert such as "Chefs square shaped soup shows how a good soup should be" or something like that. Drove me round the twist. Also my Mum was always on a diet and at one point there was an advert for some sort of fudge like meal replacement. This came in the form of a little square of, well fudge. I remember that my Aunt bought some and ate the lot in one go as it tasted nice. I also remember the Nimble and Slimcia (sp) bread for those on a diet, again Mum ate this.

I ate the contents of my brothers Chemistry set which he kept under his bed. My Mum said that I was ill and that it was bright blue, so she knew it was me!! Probably tasted better than Nimble:rotfl:.I also, to my intense shame ate chewing gum off of the pavement , there was loads of it around in the 70's, particularly underneath the shelves in my sisters bedroom!!

I remember that on the Queens Silver Jubilee , we all got a coin at school to commemorate the event . My Mum and older sisters strung up red, white and blue skimpy knickers on the front of our house much to the disgust of the neighbours:rotfl: