1 channel where I lived and I still hear that whining, whistling sound you got from a tv, except now it's called tinnitus :/
Z Cars - Fancy Smith, Jock Weir, John Watt, PC Sweet Inspector Barlow, Sergeants Lynch. Blackett & Stone
5* petrol and the '73 fuel crisis (parents had a P5) Petrol turning £1 gallon Blue Jeans magazine and double denim Smoking my mates mums Players Paper round in the pouring rain , street party for the Jubilee 10p return on the tube to Sloane Square , walking down Kings Road being wolf whistled at by the sailors Riding pillion on the new M25 (empty) motorway before it all got joined up
Asking complete strangers for the time so you could get back home for tea after being out with friends all day with your parents having no idea at all where you were! Space Hoppers, Curly Whirly bars & wanting a Bond Bug when they came out.
Obviously not as old as some and these span more than a few years... Pressing the TV buttons with a pool cue, Betamax video, Walkmans, Recording music from the radio, keep quiet! Ceefax, Teletext. The TV channel shutting down at night time. the Waltons. 4 star petrol. Roads that weren't yet built, the arrival of Tescos. Anneka Rice, two stroke GP bikes. Rossi on a 125, Carl Fogarty. Eddie Eagle, Ayrton Senna, Mansell, Schumacher, Damien Hill. When Job titles meant something and reflected pay. Manufacturing. Skilled people weren't regarded as morons. When pinching a girls ass in the nightclub was not sexual harassment and either resulted in a smile or a slap, or a punch in the nose. Police that were police. No speed cameras < no seat belts. No mobile phones. Shell suits...
George Best returned to football at Fulham, Barry Sheene won the 500cc World Championship, and so did James Hunt in F1. Franz Klammer was the incredible skier on Ski Sunday (but Brits didnt go skiing back then), Nadia Comaneci was the first athlete to ever score a perfect 10 at the Olympics and Caitlyn Jenner was a man who won the gold in decathlon.
Bits of cardboard we used to attach to our bicycles that used to play on the spokes... Clackers.. bloody dangerous fad.. Huge ice slides we made in the playground lethal but fun.. Cross country.. I hated it.. me and my mates used to set off run about half a mile hide in the bushes have a couple of fags.. wait till the leaders came back before joining in again for the last half mile back to school.. so we did a mile while the goodies did about 5 miles.. I came unstuck though, I rejoined too early and finished 3rd.. I was congratulated and handed a place in the County team... when there I was totally rumbled as a fraud the only runners that finished behind me were those in an ambulance..
Yeah I know, I'm actually quite old, was just winding noodles up Raleigh Grifter, Now there's a bike, weighed the same as a small planet
