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Showing posts with label 1970s British homes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970s British homes. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Did You Know… Life In 1960s/70s Britain: You Had to Put Money Into a Coin Meter for Electricity?

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For many households in Britain there was a time when paying for electricity did not involve monthly bills, online accounts, or direct debits...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: Daily Life Before Mobile and Smartphones - The Red Phone Box Era

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  We made arrangements; “I’ll meet you there” was a firm commitment — and that was that. It’s almost impossible now to imagine daily life wi...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: From Domestic Goddess to Women's Liberation - The Changing Role of Women

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  Changing expectations and the quiet revolution inside British homes. In the 1960s and 70s Britain , housework was seen as " women’s w...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: People Would Phone the Speaking Clock, Known As TIM (and some still do)?

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So yes, did you know people really did phone the Speaking Clock  — thousands of calls a day — just to set the time? Another wonderfully pe...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: Central Heating Wasn't Common in British Homes Until the Late 1970s?

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  So yes, did you know that for most UK households , central heating didn’t become the norm until the late 1970s? Many of us grew up in c...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Five Signs of an English Baby Boomer - Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

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  1) We would often have sugar sandwiches for tea, usually because we had run out of jam — or money to buy jam. White bread, margarine, an...
Friday, July 14, 2023

That Friday Feeling… A Journey back in time to 1966, 1968 and 1970

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Here are three things that we may never see again. 1) A pay packet with actual money in it (but not much money). So low, that they paid no i...