Life in the 70s/80s

[Glenda MCFC]

I remember the whole street having a party in '77 for the Queens Silver Jubilee (this was in the recently much maligned Moston by the way). I mean a proper party with tables all set out, party food and bunting and flags. Red white and blue evreywhere, must have took a lot of organising but I was only a kid so don't know about all that. I do know that sort of thing will probably never happen again. I have memories of lots of house parties and barbecues that involved pretty much the whole street during the 70s and 80's.

Although people generally were poorer, the world seemed a friendlier place back then.

Same ... Langworthy Road, Moston ... great day for the kids, all the adults getting drunk!

 

[BimboBob]

70's - long hot summers,hose pipe bans,Slade on top of the pops,Choppers,walking to school,flares,strikes,power cuts,brown sofas,funny wallpaper,white dog shit...

80's - funny hair,girls tits,decent music,first job,great clothes,leg warmers,fingerless gloves,arcades,dragon 32,vhs/beta...

 

[bluemoon32]

Rag and bone men going up and down the lanes behind the houses yelling stuff no one understood.
Getting a small bottle of milk every day in primary school.
Playing kerbie in the roads as there were very few cars about.
Shops shutting at 5pm every day, wednesday afternoons and only newsagents open on a sunday.
Playing 20-a-side football games during the summer that lasted all day.
Playing cricket when the test matches were on.
Playing tennis when wimbledon was on.
Going nuts over slush puppies.
Going to Wimpy for a burger was a huge treat.
Everyone being skint but no one gave a damn.
Crying when the parks dept called off the saturday morning games because of the weather.

 

[mr t]

Buying ex juke box singles with the plastic middles.

 

[JULES]

hichin lifts, (went round europe twice in the 70`s for fk all)
wigan casino
wearing smart clothes (why do kids these days dress like tramps?)
polishing shoes
miserable old ladies
city a big team
stabbings were almost unheard of
good pint of bass
the double deckers
sknheads v greasers
getting caned at school
3 day week
power cuts
chicken was a real treat and tasted better
birds had better bums in t`tholden days
proper running street battles
sick as a dog on woodpecker cider
only 1 fat kid allowed per class

 

[another generation]

Pasta. It wasn't a food then. It was something you glued onto card and made pictures with. A variation included covering the finished result with silver or gold spray. The trick was to transport the finished article home at the end of term, in order to show the proud folks, without losing too much en route.

 

[bluezi]

All the above + Scrumpy Cider...

 

[bakerdave76]

the football pink
belle vue fun fair
punk
pips
concorde
192 bus. ha ha

 

[Rainman68]

snake belts,
monkey boots,
penny tray on the counter in the corner shop,
tartan turn ups and cuffs,
black and white newspapers,
candy cigs,
candy and coconut tobacco in a pouch !!,
Watching laurel and hardy on a saturday morning,
We had no ebay... but we had Multi coloured swap shop instead,
And finally , a load of us arseing around near the tip and trying to catch rats .

Happy days.

 

[DT King of all Geordies]

We did not have a phone until about 1978.
The council modernised Wythenshawe in the late 70's and we got radiators in all the rooms. Prior to that we had gas fires in some rooms and a parrafin heater. I think we got now single glazed windows as well.
We used to use sheets and blankets until 1982/3 when the miracle of duvets were introduced.
The telly was black and white and in wooden box. It had doors on the front so it looked like a cupboard. No remote and only 3 channels (2 during the ITV strike)
My kids season ticket was about £16 when I first got it in 82/83. Matchday price was about £1.50 or doubleupforaquidpleasemister.