I was born in 1965 and the 1970's were the best years of my life. I can remember as far back as 1968 when I was three years old and going to nusery School but that is as far back as I can remember. No one can remember being much younger than three years old because the memory part of the brain doesn't start until about the age of three that is why no one can remember being a small baby. I am not an expert on the human brain but I have researched this. Anyway the 1970's were really fun years. Most people including me had no central heating or double glazing in their houses. The were only three channels on the television which was a rental black and white television and it was before the days of television remote controls as well if you wanted to change channels you went over to the television and did it. The old RT and Routemaster buses were the best buses ever with the conductor or conductress coming round to take the fares. People queuing up to use the telephone box with the dial phone before press button phones came out with the phone directory under the metal shelf that was under the phone and waiting for the pips to go before putting your 2p or 5p in. Home phones were around but not too many people had them. Now people walk around the streets like zombies staring into their mobile phones. Aslo vinyl records and typewriters. Getting a few ordinary basic toys for Christmas before all the technology came out, I am not saying I wasn't grateful for them because I was. Family holidays were great fun as well staying in a chalet. There were pound notes and half pence coins. Music was much better in the 1970's as well compared to the rubbish that is out now. Todays so called music is a dreadful tuneless noise done by people with less talent than a goldfish. Spending time with the family was always good as well. People still spend time with their families now but people seemed to do it more in the 1970's. School was good as well. Playing out in the street with mates but not going too far from the house and going home and going in at the time your parents told you to be in. Going to bed early if you had School the next day especially at Primary School age. I am nearly 50 years old now and I loved growing up in the 1970's. I know that there is no such thing as time travel but if there was I would go back to 1970 when I was five years old and do it all again. I will never forget the 1970's they were the best years of my life.
I was born in 1971, but I totally agree. Simpler and happier times. Too much choice and instant gratification, that's what is wrong with today's world.
Who told you no one can remember anything under the age of 3 years old ? The brain and memories start way before that. I can remember my mother taking a few pics of me behind our home when I was 18 months old. I have those pics in my possession today. My daughter can remember things around the same time as well.
Look up childhood amnesia. Two and a half years old is the furthest back anyone can remember. Any memories before that are only what people were told when they got older. I don't believe that anyone can remember being 18 months old. Anyone could say "I remember that photo being taken". Just because they say it does not make it true. People often remember things because their Parents told them what happened in later years and they are remembering what they were told not the actual event at the time.
I was born in London 1967 and remember the mid 1970s , we used to play in the streets and mum always had the front door open , and a mars bar was about 10p it was a teat to have chocolate then as well . I also remember there was a man used to come round the street with a bicycle that had a sharpen wheel on it and sharpen mums knifes and scissors. Oh and meant to say thank you 90s VHS for posting , oh the nostalgia.
I was born in 57.I'm so proud to say I'm a true cockney, born in st Pancras, But my folks moved up north to Blackburn, for work, and cheaper lodgings.and we moved to an old Lancashire cotton town, two up two down, a lovely old town called Blackburn,. I love the old place.We didn't have much, but we were happy.
Fab times i was born in 68 grew up in the 70s you never take in wats going on around you at the time when ya look back it's fun and great to see wat clothing you had toys house retro wallpaper cars the games ya played magic my brother was born in the 70s he was like them still in terry nappies fab mems the fun we had
It's true what they say about time being another country.I grew up in those years.There have been many changes since.Some maybe for the better.But a lot unfortunately for the worse.People used to socialise more back then.
Am I deluding myself? Im 45 and remember the 70s as a wonderful time. Is that me with rose goggles on? The strikes, the power cuts etc , but lifes never been as good since
DJ UK I agree , I’m 50 and there wasn’t a better time to grow up than the 70’s , safe to play outside , warm summers , snow in winter and streets lined with blossom trees , the last generation to get a decent state education , lots of new housing built , where did it all go wrong ???
Great stuff, & thx for sharing. Love the warts an-all videos. We're looking at a good few quid in film there back in the day. What happened to the happy couple?
@90sVHS Do you still have the original films? - if so you should try a digital photograph copy of some frames and check how much clearer they are ( I think you'd be pleasently surprised !) It might then be worth re-copying. This is great - Thanks !
Well, times have certainly changed. Many countries were extremely conservative 40-60 years ago. I don't think Britain was any more buttoned up than any other country.
@miniporter2000 not sure exactly...it was an old film camera (with no sound). Took the "reels" into a camera store to convert to VHS years ago & have now backed up the VHS tape onto our computer/youtube to share with family abroad. :-)
I think the 70s was just like the 60s - I think the decade of the 1970s was one in which mass advertising in colour and colour television broadcasting, which only properly established themselves in the 70s, tricked the mind into thinking every new thing was swish and fancy; that, in the words of Oliver Hardy, "Now we're getting some place!" - when in reality the standard of living and the quality of life was no different to the 60s. So it was a decade of silly, fanciful dreams. People simply did not have the money. It was a decade of continued closed minds, as people enjoyed the novelty of huddling together on the super-soft Seventies sofas to watch the novelty of colour television and cosy light entertainment programming. Ashtrays abounded in sitting rooms, and there was the not uncommon practice of people drying their wet socks or stockings by hanging them from the mantelpiece in front of the coal fire. Tumble dryers and dishwashers were probably only for the Danes, Swedes and Germans. But usually parents were good at taking their smoking to the kitchen. I suppose nobody felt too claustrophobic because all your friends and contemporaries watched the same TV programmes, what with only three TV channels available. The 1970s was much more akin to the 60s. The 80s to the 90s. But the music ... I must say the 70s was probably the most versatile decade for music. Without that, I think we would have had winters and summers of discontent throughout. Never mind the Winter of Discontent, in '78! That's the pretentiousness of the 70s for you! The pretentiousness abounded, too. A taste if that is seen in Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party play, that was televised. Well worth watching. I suppose from a kid's point of view, the 70s was a great decade. We picked up on the nice sounds of the great pop music, the quirkiness of space and science fiction back then, and the rough and tumble of the outdoors. Kids today are not inclined to climb trees, are advised on this and that, spend their hours looking at tiny screens or never-ending video games, and are exposed everywhere to what I call aggressive pop music, for which the only discernible words are the expletives. The world today no longer represents a mystery to the very young. I think we wonder less today. And that technology has become an end in itself. I think I just miss today just staring at the television and a good film or programme, in the company of others. That's what no longer happens today. It's each to his own (device). I watched The Muppet Show with family in the late 70s, early 80s, on the big TV. Today? I mean why would you watch The Muppet Show on your own, on a tiny screen? In snippets? But that's what folk do. That's not civilisation! And as a society, we are poorer for it. As I said, the technology has become an end in itself. Our humanity has been undermined by all the fancy technology today.
I was born in 1960 and I remember those times when I was a kid in 1960s and then I was 19 years old in 1971 then I was 20s years old in the 1980s and then I was 30 years old then in 1990s I was 40 years old then in 2000 I am now 59 years old
I was born in 1996 and wish I spent my life in the 70s due to skinheads and ska music, my mom and dad tell me about the good times they had in the 70s where as now this generation is full of spoilt miserable bratts
Britain in the 70s were a time of extreme poverty, family's were i grow up outside London were dirt poor, because of mass unemployment, if your parents could afford to buy you a new coat then you were considered rich by your friends, the media will never tell you how bad the 70s really were, education was a shamble, teachers were allowed to get away with murder, if you had a disability, and came from a poor family, then you were basically fucked, things only got better after 1979, the 1980s were really the best decade.
Absolute rubbish. I was a kid in the 70's, it was the best time. I went to school in the 70's, there was this little thing called discipline. I don't remember kids bringing knives to school, nor taking drugs, no gangs either except for kids who pretended they were the Famous Five!! (Enid Blyton books where kids went off to have adventures.) The majority of people seemed to have jobs and I don't remember much in the way of poverty where I lived. There were actually communities and people chatted to each other on their way to work or to the shops. There was also were less isolation and people looked in on neighbours to see if they were ok. I am sure it wasn't perfect but it was way better than the farcical society we have today.
Born 66" loved my childhood " i feel lucky.
God bless England 👍
I was born in 1965 and the 1970's were the best years of my life. I can remember as far back as 1968 when I was three years old and going to nusery School but that is as far back as I can remember. No one can remember being much younger than three years old because the memory part of the brain doesn't start until about the age of three that is why no one can remember being a small baby. I am not an expert on the human brain but I have researched this. Anyway the 1970's were really fun years. Most people including me had no central heating or double glazing in their houses. The were only three channels on the television which was a rental black and white television and it was before the days of television remote controls as well if you wanted to change channels you went over to the television and did it. The old RT and Routemaster buses were the best buses ever with the conductor or conductress coming round to take the fares. People queuing up to use the telephone box with the dial phone before press button phones came out with the phone directory under the metal shelf that was under the phone and waiting for the pips to go before putting your 2p or 5p in. Home phones were around but not too many people had them. Now people walk around the streets like zombies staring into their mobile phones. Aslo vinyl records and typewriters. Getting a few ordinary basic toys for Christmas before all the technology came out, I am not saying I wasn't grateful for them because I was. Family holidays were great fun as well staying in a chalet. There were pound notes and half pence coins. Music was much better in the 1970's as well compared to the rubbish that is out now. Todays so called music is a dreadful tuneless noise done by people with less talent than a goldfish. Spending time with the family was always good as well. People still spend time with their families now but people seemed to do it more in the 1970's. School was good as well. Playing out in the street with mates but not going too far from the house and going home and going in at the time your parents told you to be in. Going to bed early if you had School the next day especially at Primary School age. I am nearly 50 years old now and I loved growing up in the 1970's. I know that there is no such thing as time travel but if there was I would go back to 1970 when I was five years old and do it all again. I will never forget the 1970's they were the best years of my life.
I was born in 1971, but I totally agree. Simpler and happier times. Too much choice and instant gratification, that's what is wrong with today's world.
good onya dave☺
Dave Wiseman, I was born in 1964 and agree with all you say.
Who told you no one can remember anything under the age of 3 years old ? The brain and memories start way before that. I can remember my mother taking a few pics of me behind our home when I was 18 months old. I have those pics in my possession today. My daughter can remember things around the same time as well.
Look up childhood amnesia. Two and a half years old is the furthest back anyone can remember. Any memories before that are only what people were told when they got older. I don't believe that anyone can remember being 18 months old. Anyone could say "I remember that photo being taken". Just because they say it does not make it true. People often remember things because their Parents told them what happened in later years and they are remembering what they were told not the actual event at the time.
This is a time i really wish to go back to lads and see for myself. Any one have a time machine they can lend out?
fyx13579 if you find one take me with you 👍🏻
Wish there was more like this family films from England magic 😊
Went from childhood thru my teenage years in the seventies . Fabulous times.
I was born in London 1967 and remember the mid 1970s , we used to play in the streets and mum always had the front door open , and a mars bar was about 10p it was a teat to have chocolate then as well . I also remember there was a man used to come round the street with a bicycle that had a sharpen wheel on it and sharpen mums knifes and scissors. Oh and meant to say thank you 90s VHS for posting , oh the nostalgia.
mis-d- white the tuck shop van used to pull up and sell all the half penny sweets 👍🏻 10 for 5p , living the dream in the 70’s ❤️
I was born in 57.I'm so proud to say I'm a true cockney, born in st Pancras, But my folks moved up north to Blackburn, for work, and cheaper lodgings.and we moved to an old Lancashire cotton town, two up two down, a lovely old town called Blackburn,. I love the old place.We didn't have much, but we were happy.
Wonderful. Quite mesmerising!
It's like looking at another world.
Lovely film . lovely family. The freedom children had then just playing silly games . I miss
Wish there was more of brit family films in the late 60s and early 70s born in late 60s grew up in the 70s
Fab times i was born in 68 grew up in the 70s you never take in wats going on around you at the time when ya look back it's fun and great to see wat clothing you had toys house retro wallpaper cars the games ya played magic my brother was born in the 70s he was like them still in terry nappies fab mems the fun we had
Did you say your brother was born in the 70's and is still in terry nappies?
It's true what they say about time being another country.I grew up in those years.There have been many changes since.Some maybe for the better.But a lot unfortunately for the worse.People used to socialise more back then.
Great decade happy times .
Am I deluding myself?
Im 45 and remember the 70s as a wonderful time.
Is that me with rose goggles on?
The strikes, the power cuts etc , but lifes never been as good since
DJ UK I agree , I’m 50 and there wasn’t a better time to grow up than the 70’s , safe to play outside , warm summers , snow in winter and streets lined with blossom trees , the last generation to get a decent state education , lots of new housing built , where did it all go wrong ???
Great stuff, & thx for sharing. Love the warts an-all videos. We're looking at a good few quid in film there back in the day. What happened to the happy couple?
@90sVHS Do you still have the original films? - if so you should try a digital photograph copy of some frames and check how much clearer they are ( I think you'd be pleasently surprised !) It might then be worth re-copying.
This is great - Thanks !
I heard that England was an extremely Conservative country back in the late 1960's and early 1970's.Was there any truth to that?
Well, times have certainly changed. Many countries were extremely conservative 40-60 years ago. I don't think Britain was any more buttoned up than any other country.
@@Hedgemist Old school parents, You knew if you were in the wrong in those days. Good times.
@miniporter2000 not sure exactly...it was an old film camera (with no sound). Took the "reels" into a camera store to convert to VHS years ago & have now backed up the VHS tape onto our computer/youtube to share with family abroad. :-)
Those babies will be in their 40s by now.
Spot on, we are indeed! ;-)
+Hedgemist And the rest of them al...somewhere else
Paul Tergeist dead probably mate
1:33 I don't see many people with serving hatches now.
We loved ours . 1970s 🍭
I think the 70s was just like the 60s - I think the decade of the 1970s was one in which mass advertising in colour and colour television broadcasting, which only properly established themselves in the 70s, tricked the mind into thinking every new thing was swish and fancy; that, in the words of Oliver Hardy, "Now we're getting some place!" - when in reality the standard of living and the quality of life was no different to the 60s. So it was a decade of silly, fanciful dreams. People simply did not have the money.
It was a decade of continued closed minds, as people enjoyed the novelty of huddling together on the super-soft Seventies sofas to watch the novelty of colour television and cosy light entertainment programming.
Ashtrays abounded in sitting rooms, and there was the not uncommon practice of people drying their wet socks or stockings by hanging them from the mantelpiece in front of the coal fire. Tumble dryers and dishwashers were probably only for the Danes, Swedes and Germans. But usually parents were good at taking their smoking to the kitchen.
I suppose nobody felt too claustrophobic because all your friends and contemporaries watched the same TV programmes, what with only three TV channels available. The 1970s was much more akin to the 60s. The 80s to the 90s.
But the music ... I must say the 70s was probably the most versatile decade for music. Without that, I think we would have had winters and summers of discontent throughout. Never mind the Winter of Discontent, in '78! That's the pretentiousness of the 70s for you! The pretentiousness abounded, too. A taste if that is seen in Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party play, that was televised. Well worth watching.
I suppose from a kid's point of view, the 70s was a great decade. We picked up on the nice sounds of the great pop music, the quirkiness of space and science fiction back then, and the rough and tumble of the outdoors.
Kids today are not inclined to climb trees, are advised on this and that, spend their hours looking at tiny screens or never-ending video games, and are exposed everywhere to what I call aggressive pop music, for which the only discernible words are the expletives.
The world today no longer represents a mystery to the very young. I think we wonder less today. And that technology has become an end in itself.
I think I just miss today just staring at the television and a good film or programme, in the company of others. That's what no longer happens today. It's each to his own (device). I watched The Muppet Show with family in the late 70s, early 80s, on the big TV.
Today? I mean why would you watch The Muppet Show on your own, on a tiny screen? In snippets? But that's what folk do. That's not civilisation!
And as a society, we are poorer for it. As I said, the technology has become an end in itself. Our humanity has been undermined by all the fancy technology today.
I was born in 1960 and I remember those times when I was a kid in 1960s and then I was 19 years old in 1971 then I was 20s years old in the 1980s and then I was 30 years old then in 1990s I was 40 years old then in 2000 I am now 59 years old
Turkish gamer1974 you were born in 1960 and you were 19 by 1971? That's some fast ageing
hi 90s VHS can I use some of this footage for a little music video I am making please? Many thanks PW
Is this a standard 8 movie camera or super? nice images
I was born in 1996 and wish I spent my life in the 70s due to skinheads and ska music, my mom and dad tell me about the good times they had in the 70s where as now this generation is full of spoilt miserable bratts
i feel im intruding on private memories watching this
@vinvj67 Yes, that's exactly where it is! My grandparents used to live there :-)
Hi 90sVHS I would love to use some of this footage for a music video I'm making. Please could you let me know if that is permissible thank you...
Britain in the 70s were a time of extreme poverty, family's were i grow up outside London were dirt poor, because of mass unemployment, if your parents could afford to buy you a new coat then you were considered rich by your friends, the media will never tell you how bad the 70s really were, education was a shamble, teachers were allowed to get away with murder, if you had a disability, and came from a poor family, then you were basically fucked, things only got better after 1979, the 1980s were really the best decade.
Absolute rubbish. I was a kid in the 70's, it was the best time. I went to school in the 70's, there was this little thing called discipline. I don't remember kids bringing knives to school, nor taking drugs, no gangs either except for kids who pretended they were the Famous Five!! (Enid Blyton books where kids went off to have adventures.) The majority of people seemed to have jobs and I don't remember much in the way of poverty where I lived. There were actually communities and people chatted to each other on their way to work or to the shops. There was also were less isolation and people looked in on neighbours to see if they were ok. I am sure it wasn't perfect but it was way better than the farcical society we have today.
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Where the hell is the sound??
What a load of bollix.
Bollocks not bollix