Stuff from the 70s. An all that.

[awkwardbydesign]

Does the dress still fit too?

Well, we still have the yellow overdress, but I haven't tried it on recently.

Bet you haven't got the same amount of hair.

But I could have, if I let it grow. Still have the follicles.

And you can't count hair coming out of your ears and nostrils.

Not fair!

 

[awkwardbydesign]

my wife was born in '74, she says she can't remember the 1970s. Perhaps we should have 1980s thread.....

I can't remember a lot of the '60s, but that's another story.

 

[gintonic]

I can't remember a lot of the '60s, but that's another story.

I guess there was a reason it was called the "swinging 60s" , pampas, fruit bowls..... are you still in the scene?

 

[Andy Stephenson]

I can't remember a lot of the '60s, but that's another story.

The old quote is "If you can remember the 60s you weren't really there"

Andy

 

[awkwardbydesign]

Here's another one from July 1970. Phun City festival; my wife is bottom right with her mouth open!
The mad dancer was known as Jesus, famous back in the day.

 

[stevec67]

Immortal ised next to Jesus. Not bad. I read about Jesus, as you say he was a fixture at 70s music festivals. It was quite a sad story, he disappeared for a while and had problems with alcohol or drugs and his mental health. I think he ended his days in a mental hospital, a shame.

 

[BillT]

Rock Against Racism and the Anti Nazi League were big things in the late seventies. Victoria Park in '78 was a focal event and was packed. We went up on a coach from Cheltenham and were proud to march through the streets of London.

Eric Clapton was part of the reason.

 

[monkfish]

Rock Against Racism and the Anti Nazi League were big things in the late seventies. Victoria Park in '78 was a focal event and was packed. We went up on a coach from Cheltenham and were proud to march through the streets of London.

Eric Clapton was part of the reason.

David Bowie and Rod Stewart were vocal racists and also were part of the reason.

 

[gavreid]

The ANL won, Bowie 'apologised' and blamed it on the drugs. Clapton never has - I don't know about Stewart

 

[awkwardbydesign]

The bin men's strike 1970, in London. Set fire to a mound piled up around a new parking meter. Two birds with one stone.

 

[Cheese]

Clapton never has

He did, in his book.

 

[russel]

Here's another one from July 1970. Phun City festival; my wife is bottom right with her mouth open!
The mad dancer was known as Jesus, famous back in the day.

I remember someone doing wild dancing at a Barclay James Harvest gig in 1976, I wonder if it was him.

 

[TheDecameron]

By coincidence- a brilliant set of images of Stockport in the late 70s by photographer Heidi Alexander on BBCwebsite today. Oxford bags and feather cuts

Rediscovered photos of 1970s Stockport street life go on show https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-60694448

 

[chiily]

I think the remaining RAC and AA boxes must be listed structures. Porlock Hill? Yorkshire Dales near Hawes?

edit to add a little more: https://www.dalesdiscoveries.com/more-inspiration/128-aa-box

Bloody hell, I remember that one as a kid.

 

[Tarzan]

The seventies were not so bad after all.