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Showing posts with label British life 1960s and 70s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British life 1960s and 70s. Show all posts
Monday, March 23, 2026

Did You Know… Life In 1960s/70s Britain: You Could Only Watch Three Television Channels?

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  BBC1, BBC2 and ITV  — and sometimes nothing at all. In 1960s and ’70s Britain , television was a very different experience. Today, there a...
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...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: From Tin Bins to Junk Shops and Rummage Sales - How Recycling Was Different From Today?

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Long before official policies and colour-coded bins, we simply made do. In 1960s and 70s Britain , when it came to collecting our rubbish, t...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: You Once Needed a Radio Licence To Listen To The Radio?

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When tuning in legally required a licence. It was a paper licence that came in a variety of colours over the years, including light blue and...
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...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: The Winter of 1963 Was Known as The Big Freeze - One of the Coldest in Britain Ever?

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  The Big Freeze that was the biggest freeze, bringing the country to a standstill.   The winter of 1962–63 is remembered simply as the Big...
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...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: A Time When Missing a Programme Could Mean Missing Out Forever

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No repeats, no recording — and the pain of missing an episode. In 1960s and 70s Britain , television was often an event, but it was also unf...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: A Time When You Got Paid To Return Fizzy Pop Glass Bottles

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Pop bottle returns and the excitement of reclaiming a few pennies. Long before plastic bottles, ring-pull cans and multipack deals, fizzy ...
Friday, December 26, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas — Day Ten: Christmas and the Sanity Clause

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  The Marx Brothers used to be on television over Christmas all the time when I was growing up. Their films, A Night at the Opera, A Day at ...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas - Day Eight: The Christmas Selection Boxes That Never Lasted Till Boxing Day

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    There are certain Christmas traditions that almost everyone who grew up in Britain during the 1960s, 70s or even 80s would experience. ...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas 2025 - Day Seven: When Snow Was Proper Snow

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  Will we have a White Christmas? Where I live, it looks like rain.  There was a time when I remembered snow at Christmas. There’s a saying...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

The Twelve Posts of Christmas 2025 - Day Five: Shopping like It's The 1970s

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It’s Christmas, 2025 , but yesterday out shopping, I was reminded of the 1970s . No, it wasn’t the sound of Slade or Wizard singing about ...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: A Time When The UK Top 40 Music Chart Was Only Announced Once a Week.

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  No streaming stats — just the suspense of Sunday evening on Radio 1 .   A long, long time ago, before Spotify charts , YouTube views or m...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Did You Know… Life in 1960s/70s Britain: When People collected 'Green Shield Stamps' to Get Their First Toaster or TV

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  Collected from supermarkets and petrol stations , saved in books, then traded in for household goods. Another journey, back in time to the...