The Good Old Days?

[MARKakaJIM]

Sundays were different due to trading laws. Imagine how Easter Sunday's are now and that was how every Sunday was.

As for kids are as safe today I tend to agree however the amount of traffic means that I'm personally less likely to allow kids to go roaming on bikes as I would have done as a youngster.

That's how most places round my way still are now, even a decent sized town like Chesterfield half the shops are shut on Sundays.

 

[Boozad]

Some local authorities paid for it themselves after Thatcher removed it - Wolverhampton being one of them.

Must be that, I definitely had free milk at Danesfield.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Sunday afternoons with pubs closing was still a thing in the late 90s.

Late 90s/early 00s - had to wear shirt, trousers and shoes to any late night venue. Anything else, turned away at the door.

 

[Paul]

You kids with your modern fangled central heating and endless hot water

 

[Tredman]

I’m definitely not young but we did not have central hearing when I was a kid. Vividly remember waking up to windows with ice in the inside

 

[Tony Towner]

I’m definitely not young but we did not have central hearing when I was a kid. Vividly remember waking up to windows with ice in the inside

And inside walls dripping wet

 

[Boozad]

I’m definitely not young but we did not have central hearing when I was a kid. Vividly remember waking up to windows with ice in the inside

My dad used to nick massive plastic bags from work in the winter and stick them to my window frame with double sided tape to try and keep it warmer. Our house was proper freezing.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Some of us still have those problems.

 

[Paul]

Not getting down from the table till you'd finished and having bread and butter with peaches or fruit salad to make it into a meal

 

[Tony Towner]

I can remember when Bender was a homophobic insult rather than a transfer dream

 

[sycophantia]

I’m definitely not young but we did not have central hearing when I was a kid. Vividly remember waking up to windows with ice in the inside

I remember the day we got a gas fire so it was instantly warm when we got up in the winter, rather than having to wait for the coal fire to give any heat out.

 

[sycophantia]

You kids with your modern fangled central heating and endless hot water

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Yep every Sunday we had to get the 'baby berco' going and jug the hot water into the bath
As for Central heating...well we have it but it ain't going on again after this month

 

[Tom Hark]

Generally speaking, life in the 50s/60s/70s/80s was absolutely shit when you compare it with life today. The reason we remember any of it fondly (and I certainly do) is that we enjoyed it at the time, knowing no different, and because we rage disproportionately at the few elements of modern life that are shittier than what they've replaced and overlook the much greater number that make it better. (And, of course, X years ago we were X years younger, and who wouldn't want that?)

 

[Paul]

I think 'shit' is is a bit of an over the top, as you say the general level of happiness was higher as people were blissfully ignorant, but also I remember as kids never coming in from playing outside unless my Dad whistled us , fixing my own car, getting on the housing ladder (somethings I think current and future generations will rarely achieve), I know they're romantic memories but they all played a part in shaping who we are today and that's not a bad thing, is it ?

 

[Tom Hark]

I think 'shit' is is a bit of an over the top, as you say the general level of happiness was higher as people were blissfully ignorant, but also I remember as kids never coming in from playing outside unless my Dad whistled us , fixing my own car, getting on the housing ladder (somethings I think current and future generations will rarely achieve), I know they're romantic memories but they all played a part in shaping who we are today and that's not a bad thing, is it ?

Well, I can play outside now if I want to, and I've got the money now to pay for someone to fix my car (and though I loved my Morris Minor, I wouldn't want to be driving it now). I think everyone will still get on the housing ladder (there won't be a ladder if they don't); it's just that they'll have to wait for us to die and leave them the money to do so (or the house). I've been perfectly content with my lot for most of my life, I'm happy to have had those experiences because they make me appreciate what's better today, and I would happily revisit the odd scene from it, but I wouldn't want to revert to living much of pre-2000 from where I am now on a permanent basis.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I have happy memories of going down to the model shop on the square with the Saxon crosses in Sandbach with one pound (a note). 70p for a pack of airfix soldiers and then 30p in sweets. Happy Saturday morning that was.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

I’m definitely not young but we did not have central hearing when I was a kid. Vividly remember waking up to windows with ice in the inside

Yeah me too.
We also had a coal fire, a small tv with only 5 channels, a VCR, a telephone that had a dial wheel, a shower that was basically a tube that connected to the tap in the bathtub, etch-a-sketch...

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

Yeah me too.
We also had a coal fire, a small tv with only 5 channels, a VCR, a telephone that had a dial wheel, a shower that was basically a tube that connected to the tap in the bathtub, etch-a-sketch...

black & white tv with 2 channels, a frequent "do not adjust your set" message, and the test card.
Transistor radios
No showers, and we would take it in turns to use the same bathwater.
Etch-a-sketch - ABSOLUTELY

 

[Quirkafleeg]

10p fags from the Ice Cream van..

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I remember saying I would give up smoking when fags hit £2.50 a packet. That went well.