Stuff from the 70s. An all that.

[JensenHealey]

On a happier note:



Not for my family though, we couldn’t afford it.

We had the Corona lorry come to the farm in the early 1960s. I was not allowed Dandelion & Burdock - mother reckoned it would rot my teeth!

 

[Andy Stephenson]

Subbuteo, Aztec Bars, Trevor Brooking gliding through the Upton Park mud on Sunday's The Big Match (after Weekend World/'Nantucket Sleighride') and 'Cherry' from Pans People are a few of my happy childhood memories.....

Agree with all them apart from Trevor Brooking! Mmmmmmmm Cherry was gorgeous

Andy

 

[JensenHealey]

My toys of the 70s were Meccano - always got more stuff for birthdays and Xmas. I was really made up when I got the big motor and 6 speed gearbox! Also spent a fair bit of time in the attic with a OO9 model railway. Again the 12V track controller was expensive enough to be a Xmas present!

 

[Barrymagrec]

Meccano was a great favourite of mine as well, though more sixties than seventies. I had a fair amount of stuff and also my Dad`s bits from before the war with lots of gears. I never had the Meccano motor but as luck would have it the motor from an EMI L2 battery portable tape machine had the same size shaft and my dad made me a mounting plate for it, really good.

 

[Guinnless]

matchbox motorway

we had something very similar from matchbox, but i am sure the track was orange

Yep, orange. Mine is in the loft!

 

[Dinovector]

This too

 

[gavreid]

This too

I get the impression that a lot of the better stuff, like Spirograph, originated in the 60s or earlier.

 

[Dinovector]

What the hell were we thinking?

 

[Dinovector]

I get the impression that a lot of the better stuff, like Spirograph, originated in the 60s or earlier.

Yes, you're right, first sold in 65, sorry (well I am getting on you know)

 

[gintonic]

I get the impression that a lot of the better stuff, like Spirograph, originated in the 60s or earlier.

toy version was produced in 1965, but it originates in about 1900 or a bit earlier

 

[gavreid]

Yes, you're right, first sold in 65, sorry (well I am getting on you know)

I wasn't putting you right at all, it's very much associated with the 70s too.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

This too

We had the Super Spirograph too

All sorts of interesting possibilities with that.

 

[Dinovector]

I only vaguely remember this

 

[Big Tabs]

John Collier's (The Window to Watch)?

I raise you Rumbelows, with Radio Rentals a close second.

 

[Big Tabs]

01 811 8055

Swap Shop was a posh kids programme, we didn’t have a telephone.

Tizwas was far more council estate.

I am sure there was an odd bit each week were an old man made a fishing ‘fly?’

 

[Andy Stephenson]

I raise you Rumbelows, with Radio Rentals a close second.

We got our first ever telly from Radio Rentals in 1968. Visionhire and Granada were the other two shops that rented tellys.

Rumbelows sold records too, I went regularly in my early teens.

Andy

 

[cj66]

I raise you Rumbelows, with Radio Rentals a close second.

I rented my first CDP from Radio Rentals. I wasn't sure if I would like the new CD thing! A Ferguson midi width, joined my very common Nad 3020B, Dual CS505iiDL, Denon DRM11 and Tannoy Mercury (Mki). I enjoyed that system moochly but upgraditis was soon to set in...

 

[Tony Lockhart]

Swap Shop was a posh kids programme, we didn’t have a telephone.

Tizwas was far more council estate.

I am sure there was an odd bit each week were an old man made a fishing ‘fly?’

I was dragged up on a council estate, but ITV was pretty much off limits. Only watched Tiswas once I’d left school, but only for Sally and Motörhead.

 

[Andy Stephenson]

Swap Shop was a posh kids programme, we didn’t have a telephone.

Tizwas was far more council estate.

I am sure there was an odd bit each week were an old man made a fishing ‘fly?’

My Dad refused to have a telephone. His excuse: So his boss couldn't phone and get him in on his days off!

Andy

 

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