PaulSB
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- Chorley, Lancashire
Good God NO! Just the camera angle 🤣
The Retirement Thread
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BoldonLad
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I often read on the Internet, people looking back on the 70's a "good times".
Abysmal is my recollection, inflation running riot, major industries (in my area) beginning to disappear, interest rates soaring, cars that rusted before your eyes........ I have to. stop, I am depressing myself
PaulSB
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- Chorley, Lancashire
Well I've had a little scroll back now. Pleased to see standards have been maintained in my absence.....
World Cup Willie.... anyone?
World Cup Willie.... anyone?
Funny you should make that comment. About an hour ago my wife asked me if I’d like to be back in the 60’s or 70’s again and “lord no“ was the answer.I often read on the Internet, people looking back on the 70's a "good times".
Abysmal is my recollection, inflation running riot, major industries (in my area) beginning to disappear, interest rates soaring, cars that rusted before your eyes........ I have to. stop, I am depressing myself
PaulSB
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- Chorley, Lancashire
Gotta be age related I think. Born in '54 I remember the 60s from '65 onwards. Fabulous rock scene, IOW festival '69 and '70, college 74-76, 76-80 living in York for four of the best years of my life, backpacking across the States.
Now the 80s? Made redundant the day we took possession of our first house, six months out of work, two kids, 16% mortgage.......
No. We had a gas fire as well. It was 1973/74 for us. A flat above a shop bloody cold as well and with a small baby. And nowhere to dry clothes or nappies (it was the days of Terry nappies). Having to drag a pram up and down stairs wasn't funny either. Great days....
I remember the buckets of nappies.
That's odd.
I was born in 1954 as well, but I remember the 60s from 1960 onwards.......
I often read on the Internet, people looking back on the 70's a "good times".
Abysmal is my recollection, inflation running riot, major industries (in my area) beginning to disappear, interest rates soaring, cars that rusted before your eyes........ I have to. stop, I am depressing myself
I made the most of the period, left school,got married, became a dad,got made homeless, started a business and worked stupidly long hours, no I do not want to go back, but I would not have wanted to change much as what happened then made me the person I became.
BoldonLad
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I am seven years ahead of you, 70's for me were heavy going, as I mentioned above, some bright spots, my first child born 1972, adopted two more 1976 and 1978. The 80's were not brilliant either divorced, then, re-married, inheriting another three children, start the whole house buying thing again, interest rates at 16%, but, at least I was able to stay in employment. The "pleasure" of redundancy did not come until 1995, then again, in 1998! After the second experience, I gave up on being an employee and set up on my own.
I definitely do NOT own any rose tinted spectacles, "good old days" I think not!
BoldonLad
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Yes, I would agree with that "character forming". Like you, I got on with it and built my life, but, that is not to say they were "the good old days"
welsh dragon
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Yes. And napisan
Flick of the Elbow
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They were brilliant times for me, born 64I often read on the Internet, people looking back on the 70's a "good times".
Abysmal is my recollection, inflation running riot, major industries (in my area) beginning to disappear, interest rates soaring, cars that rusted before your eyes........ I have to. stop, I am depressing myself
PaulSB
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- Chorley, Lancashire
I remember my parents being very worried about the Bay of Pigs, Churchill's death and other stuff but most of my memories begin from 65/66.
BoldonLad
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They were brilliant times for me, born 64
Yes, childhood is a different phase, for me (1947), the 1950's and 1960's were pretty good, didn't have much in terms of material possessions in the 1950's, but, boy did we have freedom. Paper round for cigarette money, and, 'secret" drinking.
Leaving school in the 1960's, work was easy to find, motorbikes, cars (maintained via scrap yards), girls, music. Not sure where I was when the drug scene came around, I must have slept through it
There was the. worry of the Cold War, and, if we would all disappear in a big mushroom cloud.......
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PaulSB
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- Chorley, Lancashire
And JFK. That's another memory but not one that I understood then.
