It was clean, because we had pride in our country and respect for others.! and it was 1000% better!!!!

i would go back to the 70's in a flash.

Dad anyone else notice the shape of the people? They were almost all slimmer than today. Also one major reason there was very little litter was that there was far less packaging and far less street eating in those days. In those days we didn't need to carry bottles of water around 'in case of dehydration' either! The bottled water industry barely existed, in fact.

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

People ate more, but did more physical industrial work, then the right wing ripped the heart out of British industry and sacrificed it to big banks that crashed the economy big bang, big busts... Big bailout for banks, but not people.

@allysonaustin

3 күн бұрын

The only bottled water in the 1970's was the pop bottle you filled from the tap before the Pop Man needed it back for 2p......

The reason the streets look clean is because there used to be workers (scaffies) that would go round with broom and cart and sweep streets. Personally, I think reason society has changed is that it's all focused on profit now. Then, it was public services

@lorrainehamilton5051

13 күн бұрын

Also...we were brought up to use Litter Bins!

@niallrussell7184

13 күн бұрын

@@lorrainehamilton5051 we actually had Litter Bins.

@IanDarley

13 күн бұрын

They still do in my town. But also back then, most people would wash and bleach the pavement outside the front of their house, I remember my nan used to do it every Saturday, then she's polish the brass on the front door.

@JackMellor498

13 күн бұрын

Yep, true, good public services and better paid public servants incentivising them to do a good job.

@weedle30

13 күн бұрын

The litter bins were removed from railway stations pathways and lampposts because of bombs being placed inside them,by a specific group of people inside them.

Not Big Ben . Princes Street in Edinburgh, Scotland.

@user-yu9uw8wo9o

13 күн бұрын

I thought that too

@Outnumberedbykidsandcats

13 күн бұрын

This is what I came to look in the comments for.

@Rocket1377

13 күн бұрын

Yes, that's the clock tower on the Balmoral Hotel. It's only 60m high. Big Ben is 96m tall.

@stirlingmoss4621

13 күн бұрын

Joel has even been there and seen it for himself...must have been a heavy night out.

@metsogrand

13 күн бұрын

@@stirlingmoss4621 Maybe it was after eating the deep fried Mars Bar .

I was born in 1961 - So thankfully I lived my teen years through the 70's. I so wish we could go back - my first Saturday job was working on the record counter in Woolworths. The troops and a few photos that followed were Northern Ireland.

@marjian6991

13 күн бұрын

My Saturday job was on the sweet counter in Woolworths! I would go back to the seventies in a heartbeat.

@danmayberry1185

13 күн бұрын

Joel didn't clock the Slade photo, but some of us did.

@Kari_B61ex

13 күн бұрын

@@danmayberry1185 My favourites, along with T-Rex.

Society was nicer in the 70’s and people actually cared about things unlike today where nobody gives a crap about even the simplest of things.

@meme4013

13 күн бұрын

That's what so called progressive ideal have brought

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

Strange how we've got so much more selfish since 1979, why ever would that be?!? ;-) Nothing to do with 45 years of right wing"economics" oh no, definitely couldn't be that, could it?!

At the start of the video was a photo of the Waterloo Station sign but you didn’t seem to know that it was the four members of ABBA standing on it ; the song Waterloo brought them worldwide stardom !!

@andybaker2456

13 күн бұрын

Yep, I spotted that and was surprised it wasn't commented on! 😊

@leohickey4953

13 күн бұрын

_...how would you feel if you won the war?_ _...promised to love you for everymore_ _Da-dum-da-dum-da-dumma_ Sorry, I'll get me coat.

@lloydcollins6337

2 күн бұрын

Both the station and the song named after the battle which defeated Napoleon of course - Waterloo station being indirectly named as it was named after Waterloo bridge, which was to commemerate the battle.

Troops on the street will be in Northern Ireland.

@Outnumberedbykidsandcats

13 күн бұрын

Exactly. So with Northern Ireland being in there as well as all the adverts for electric appliances being in dollars, it was more about growing up in the 70s as opposed to in BRITAIN in the 70s

People actually cared then and weren't arrogant to think that "someone else should do that for me". Back in the days when people would hold on to their rubbish until they either found a bin or got home. Shopkeepers would clean and scrub the path outside their own shops and councils would clean the streets regularly.

@chrysalis4126

13 күн бұрын

We didn't have the culture of snacking constantly while out like we do now so less litter to drop, also look how much slimmer everyone was than now.

@MattyEngland

13 күн бұрын

Import the third world,import the third worlds attitude to litter.

@birdie1585

13 күн бұрын

There was plenty of rubbish aound, but life was so very different. Really the only common fast food outlets were fish and chip shops, and many, many people bought them to take home. Others were very largely eat-in places. I left school in 1977 and shortly after that, Pizzaland opened in town, which was quite an event (the chain was only founded in 1970). Also, pubs closed during afternoons and at 10.00 at night, and unless you were in a big city, there was little or no "night-life" in most towns. In the late 60's, early 70's, I recall walking through a town centre on Sundays and EVERYTHING, except hotels, was closed, all day. Litter blew down the streets and there was essentially no traffic. people did not much on a Sunday and weekends in general were for people to chill and be quiet. We could only play in the garden if we were very quiet. There just was not the endless sources of litter that there are today.

@NailHeavenAshford

13 күн бұрын

We had KFC up the road from me and we weren’t a big town, but there were more local litter bins. People used them. They have now mostly been removed to save bin fires and overflowing. In my home town park there used to be multiple bins but last time I went it was hard to see any at all. Probably only one by the shop.

@sputukgmail

13 күн бұрын

My experience of the 70s was that there was a LOT more littering. There’s a reason why the “keep Britain tidy” campaign was needed. The pavements were covered in dog mess, chewing gum and cigarette butts, crisp packets were always around everywhere…and don’t get me started on the strikes with rubbish piling up for weeks on end. Add to that the smoke stacks from the factories putting soot in the air that then landed on everything, a lot of people still having coal fires, farmers burning off the stubble from fields - the air was almost always slightly hazy with smoke - let alone if you went indoors which were absolutely smoky - half the cinema for smoking side but the smoke didn’t stay there, and I don’t think there were many families that didn’t have parents who smoked so everyone’s house was smokey too. I certainly don’t recognise the idea of people “caring” about their neighbourhood or the town, and it was very much an attitude of “someone else will do it - or no one will, who cares, we’re all gonna get vaporised in a nuclear war any day now anyhow so what’s the point of looking after things”.

You're right, London does not look like that...because it was a photo of Edinburgh! 😆

I was born in 1969 (UK) and remember the 70's as a brilliant time to grow up. I could go out to play in the morning, go home when it started to get dark with no problems. Parents never had to worry as they knew id be ok. Front doors were unlocked as all the neighbours knew each other and would happily just "knock and go in" if they needed anything. Times were easy, at least for us kids. Being a teen in the 80's was great too. I miss those days, both the 70's and 80's. People seemed friendlier, happier and were more willing to help each others, even strangers. Good Times 😊

@colinlock-lv9vv

13 күн бұрын

absolutley born in 72 so i remember a bit of 70s but 80s as teenager i think were better

@thefurrybastard1964

13 күн бұрын

Funny you should mention that about unlocked front doors. I was born in 64, but it was in 76 that the unlocked door thing comes into play. We'd gone to visit my uncle in Lincoln for a long weekend, what with it being a bank holiday. Had a great time, but when we got home, we found out my Mum or my Dad had forgot to lock the front door. Anyone could have walked in and stolen our stuff, but nobody had even so much as opened the door. But then again, back then, everyone knew their neighbours and would have challenged anyone acting suspicious in the street.

@stephensmith4480

13 күн бұрын

I was born in 59 and grew up in a Tenement block, everyone looked out for each other. If you were going the shop for your mum, she would say, knock on Mrs so and so's door and ask her if she wants anything brought from the shop. Totally unheard of today. My Mum and all the neighbours scrubbed their front door step and polished the Brass work on the front door. The 60s and 70s were the happiest days of my life.

@JohnGladden-s9g

11 күн бұрын

I was born in ‘68 here in the US and growing up where I did, outside Washington DC in suburban Maryland, exactly mirrored what you wrote.

We had the "Keep Britain Tidy" campaign and The Wombles, dropping litter was a cardinal sin! The '70's were great but they weren't perfect. We had Mary Whitehouse, The "Troubles", Palestinian bombers and hijackers, skinheads etc etc. That being said it was a great time to be a kid, I was born in 1963 so the '70's was definitely my decade. It all went downhill after 1979. xxx

@carolross6583

13 күн бұрын

How about the three day week and the electricity cuts (candles were sold out). 😅

@jerribee1

13 күн бұрын

Yeah, but we also had the best music.

@carolross6583

13 күн бұрын

@@jerribee1debatable.

@thefurrybastard1964

13 күн бұрын

Born in 64, mate. The 70s had some of the best TV too.

@stephenlee5929

13 күн бұрын

@@carolross6583 Be fair some companies are going to 4 day week now. Many people like having candle light. Power cuts, what would you expect with all those electric devices in the Kitchens.😊😊

Soldiers in Northern Ireland during "the troubles".

@neilford7338

13 күн бұрын

They are stills from the movie ’71 , not real photos of events.

@sameebah

13 күн бұрын

The burned-out houses would be representing Bombay Street - my aunt and uncle were living there so my memories of the start of things remain pretty sharp . . .

@leohickey4953

13 күн бұрын

@@neilford7338 Yes, that film or Ken Brannagh's _Belfast_ should help to clarify.

@paulhenman9907

13 күн бұрын

The troops are in northern Ireland and that was not big ben.

@stephensmith4480

13 күн бұрын

@@neilford7338 A lot of 71 was filmed in Liverpool. It's about the MRF that was disbanded after approx 2 years by The British Army.

I can remember the street parties in 1977 for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee.

@101steel4

13 күн бұрын

I was only 6 but remember going to see the Queen at Wimbledon, the streets were packed with people. Then the street party.

@claregale9011

13 күн бұрын

Yes I remember the one in 77 . We had a street party for the coronation of King charles lll on the same green as the one in 77 .😊

@timphillips9954

10 күн бұрын

I do my first real romance at 17

@jenniferlaughlin47

10 күн бұрын

I was a kid dancing round the maypole for prince charles when he came to our town for the jubilee some transferred the film to upload to you tube and spotted myself on it my claim to fame 😂

The peanut butter maker is Americsn, hence the price in dollars. We had nothing like that here. Same is true of waffle and hot dog makers etc.

@Phiyedough

13 күн бұрын

Yes, a mate was given a waffle iron as a gift from someone in USA. I offered to convert it to UK voltage by connecting the top and bottom elements in series but I found they were already in series.

Wow! 15p for a Tube ticket?? 05:45 - there's a reason London doesn't look like that... That was Princes Street in Edinburgh! 11:30 - That's not football fans, that's during The Troubles in Northern Ireland

@viewer.123

12 күн бұрын

5.45 This guy has been in Edinburgh - he's just messing around

Hi JPS, if you want a flavour of life in the UK in the 70s, try and catch the TV series Life on Mars. It may still be on Netflix or Star. Brief synopsis is modern day detective gets hit by a car, and wakes up in 1973.

@Outnumberedbykidsandcats

13 күн бұрын

I literally finished this video and then went to watch live on mars again. I love that show and then Ashes to Ashes

*Nobody* in the UK had a "peanut butter maker", "hot-dogger" or "bean cooker". Those are all US things. Just like using "subway" instead of "tube" or "underground". And the Left-hand drive American car interior used for the 8-track image. Has the compiler ever been to Britain?

@DavidPaulMorgan

13 күн бұрын

my primary school teacher in 1971 had an 8-track in his Ford Capri! I think that was the only one I ever saw "in the wild".

@IvorClegg

13 күн бұрын

@@DavidPaulMorgan My father had one that he moved from car to car, until cassette players became a thing. It's in a box in the attic, along with his collection of cartridges. I must dig it out sometime...

@allysonaustin

3 күн бұрын

Yes, he has, about 3 times - but I noticed those too.

best decade in my opinion, certainly best music. I am glad I enjoyed my best years in the 70's

@Rachel_M_

13 күн бұрын

Winter of discontent? "No blacks, no dogs, no Irish" The Sus Laws. And it was legal to pay women less than men. The equal pay act hadn't been created. Rampant racism was socially acceptable. Drink driving was legal and socially acceptable. Great times 🙄

@paulharvey9149

13 күн бұрын

@@Rachel_M_ I don't think anybody's denying, there was a lot wrong with the 1970s, but there were lots of good things too. No housing crisis, to speak of - cheap rents, loads of council housing still available, plenty of staffed beds in hospitals, more generous benefits, police patrols on foot - so far less crime and a more respectful society that valued its contribution to maintaining good standards, and as Joel says, much cleaner streets. Yes, of course we could add many more iotems to both lists - but, don't you often wonder, if our country could afford all these things while it was still heavily in war debt; why can't it do so now?

@79BlackRose

13 күн бұрын

@@Rachel_M_ And the previous decade was better eh? 🙄

@Rachel_M_

13 күн бұрын

@@79BlackRose nope. Definitely not better. I think the Smethwick Election 1964 sums thing up quite well... Back when blatant racism was socially acceptable. The decade of "No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs" signs

@Rachel_M_

13 күн бұрын

@@paulharvey9149 I'm sick of people thinking the past was a utopian panacea, like in this video. There was far more wrong than right with the 70's. Just look up the catalogues of wrongful convictions, some of which became movies (In the name of the father). If you want a discussion about Thatcherism, Major, Reaganomics, the destruction of industry, militarisation of the police, "Export Credit Guarantee", Westland Helicopters, privatisation and "What Happened To the Family Silver", (1979 to 1997) I'll happily have that discussion. Long story short, it was sold off to the Baby Boomer Generation. Look up David Willets "Pinch: How the baby boomers stole their children's future and why they should give it back". I'm a GenX, a child of the boomers. I watched them pull the ladder up behind them and leave us, and the subsequent generations, behind.

We did not have bottled water to walk about with: Very little take away food. And we took our rubbish back home and put it in our own bins. We kept the pavement in front of our homes clean. And even when it snowed we cleaned it away our selves We took pride in our country

You've got to remember that in the 1970s we didn't have supermarkets and fast food joints churning out polystyrene cups and plastic rubbish en masse, not at the rate they do now. Rubbish generation was better managed on the whole, with weekly bin collections and everything just thrown into one bin. There was no mass plastic consumption. People shopped at markets a lot more, you largely got your food from the butchers and greengrocers. People still had the 'Keep Britain Tidy' mentality when supermarkets started coming into more towns or expanding in the 60s/70s. And adverts to keep the place tidy were on telly all the time. You had that mentality to look after things, keep the country pretty, pick up and take home your own litter. But litter generation wasn't half as bad as it is now. Plus of course there are more people here now = more individual plastic consumption for example. Dumping rubbish and lack of education on the harms of that has sadly become common place across all of society.

@marieparker3822

13 күн бұрын

We had supermarkets. It wasn't that different.

@colinlock-lv9vv

13 күн бұрын

correct mostly shopped at butchers and green grocers. in caerphilly south wales didnt have first supermarket until 72. year i was born and first supermarket in south wale. now today only one butchers up town no green grocers, what happened to woodleys butchers and dewhurst also stokes the grocers

@Gomorragh

13 күн бұрын

you also missed out that most places had nearby bins, even out in the middle of nowhere, if there was a rest stop there would be bins, but its taken the last 20 years to have eradicated most of them, even in town centers

@Dingo-x

13 күн бұрын

@@marieparker3822 The size, the choice and packaging was way different during the early 70s. We shopped more on markets back then and used local shops during the week. A lot of the shops were closed on Sundays and on Wednesdays it was half day closing.

@stephenlee5929

13 күн бұрын

@@Gomorragh The lack of bins, is partly due to them being used for planting bombs also because it cost money to empty them, and local authorities have be cash starved

Only Fools and Horses was 80s, not 70s.

@philipguyott3352

13 күн бұрын

It starts in 1981, so much of the household items and cars on the streets are from the 70's.

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

A great celebration of the reality, not the myth, of "entrepreneurial" Britain, lol!!!

@cobaltmale

4 күн бұрын

​@philipguyott3352 yup September 1981 and went on up to the 1996 specials but certainly not a 70s thing. Bless this House or The Good Life were typical 70s fare

The government would put out "public service broadcasts" to show society what to do. We had educational campaigns like "The Green Cross Code", showing children how to cross roads safely. We had a "Keep Britain Tidy" campaign with the slogan "Find A Bin To Put It In" which is why the pavements and roads looked so clean (we had street sweepers with hand carts, with a brush and shovel that used to patrol the streets, sweeping them to keep them clean. Then there was the "Clunk Click, Every Trip" road safety campaign hosted by Jimmy Savile (encouraging motorists to use their seat belts, if fitted - not every car had seat belts so it wasn't compulsory). We had an amusing campaign with a serious message about calling the Coast Guard if you saw someone getting into difficulties in the sea (who remembers "Cooooee, Petunia - she's waving at us" when the lady in the sea was drowning). Then there was the "Tufty Club" promoting road safety for children.

@lloydcollins6337

2 күн бұрын

And then in London and other major cities in the 80s they took all the bins away as the IRA took the slogan to extremes...

Regards from Dortmund, Germany . You are a good young, open minded guy. Thanx for your reactions.

@anglosaxon5874

13 күн бұрын

I used to go to a British military boarding school in Dortmund: Cornwall School Dortmund. lol Greetings from a 50:50 English/German guy born in BMH Rinteln, Niedersachsen.

@commander545

13 күн бұрын

😊​@@anglosaxon5874

As children we could wander off after breakfast,play all day and our parents didnt really have to worry about us. We were polite,knew how to cross a road,generally knew how to look after ourselves and the world we moved through. High tech toys meant an etch-a-sketch,or a remote controlled car. Clothes wernt the obsession they are now. You literally just put clothes on your body and got on with your day. Wearing hand-me-downs was standard. Noone cared,unless you went to a party, you wore your best things. Most people had none of those food appliances to be honest. A kettle and toaster was about it for most households.

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

Jumble sales, nuff said. Mind you, it was, statistically twice as dangerous to be a kid then, remember Savile and his ilk, every NYE, with Maggie, oy, oy, oy !!

@lloydcollins6337

2 күн бұрын

Although pretty much every housewife had a vest apron they wore most of the day.

They missed out the avocado green bathrooms.

@Outnumberedbykidsandcats

13 күн бұрын

Oh yes!! My parents built our house before the got married in 78. We had the green bathroom and a ton of other things shown here. I have to not watch too much stuff like this as it makes me too sad that life isn’t as good as it was when I was growing up in the 80s.

Life was totally fabulous in the 70's. We were caught up with fashion and pop music. Serious issues were always on the news (like CND, the Cold War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, fishing quotas, the 3 day week, power cuts, miners strikers, food shortages, inflation, etc.) but life seemed carefree and people were friendly. How I wish I could return to those very happy days.

Most people in the UK did not have any of those electrical kitchen gadgets in the 70's, plus the adverts were in dollars, so more of an American thing. We had an electric kettle, that was about it.

@lloydcollins6337

2 күн бұрын

If you were lucky you'd have a stand mixer too, and an electric carving knife!

Yes it was SO MUCH better back in them days! Was a teenager then. I hate how it's gone today!

The 70s had more than its fair share of problems, but it was, in my opinion, still the best decade to grow up in. Clean streets, less crime, and a sense of community where everyone knew their neighbours and weren't just on nodding terms.

@AndrewHalliwell

13 күн бұрын

If you want rubbish in the streets, look for pictures of the general strike. Bin bags piled high...

@russellfrancis6294

13 күн бұрын

Wasn't round at the time, but I'm quite the student of history. So I agree with you.

@Phiyedough

13 күн бұрын

I think the '60s was better as there was less unemployment. I left school in 1976 and there were very few jobs available. the '70s also had high inflation, the oil crisis, the 3 day week etc.

@Lily-Bravo

12 күн бұрын

Smoking was a problem for me. I hated the smoke, and the smell in my hair and my clothes. When I was teaching I had to sit in the staff room next to an older lady who held her cigarette until the ash was about an inch long, then when she took a puff the ash went everywhere. No one thought dropping the butt was littering.

@Lily-Bravo

12 күн бұрын

@@Phiyedough This is true, but I was at college from 71-74, then teaching until 79. I was very happy and optimistic because I was "in lerrrrrve" and working so had a bit of money for the first time, but the job situation started to feel a bit precarious so we went off on a big adventure round the world which helped kick start a different life, When we returned 4 years later there was the miner's strike going on, which was pretty awful for them as communities were destroyed with nothing to move on to.

We still wash the paths outside our homes it's called pride

@lloydcollins6337

2 күн бұрын

You'd see housewives out on their front steps on their knees scrubbing it daily. You didn't have much, but you had pride in what you did have.

The good old days. This is before the days of McDonalds, KFC or Burger King or most fast food places. That's why there is no rubbish/trash on the streets. CHOPPER and CHIPPER bikes. That is NOT London ! It's EDINBURGH ! The British soldiers are in Northern Ireland during " the troubles" against the IRA. Those men are NOT football fans. They are demonstrating against the presence of troops in their city. Those electrical ads were American. The prices were in $ .

@Derek_S

13 күн бұрын

We most definitely had KFC in London from the late 1960's and McDonalds from the mid 1970's. I used to work for Mini Cab company in 1976 that had a contract with them. Their head office was above a shop in Hampstead and they had a huge store in Haymarket and others in Golders Green, Shepherds Bush, Woolwich and maybe others I've forgotten.

@letitiakearney2423

13 күн бұрын

There were 😂fast food places in the seventies in many of the big cities. Plus the music scene was brilliant then and the fashion scene too. There was plenty of clubs and all pubs had great band on at the weekends and nobody asked for IDs then 😂. If I could turn back the clock I would in a heartbeat.

@gillianhollins3003

13 күн бұрын

We definitely had kfc and McDonald's and not burger king but had wimpy

We had one of the electric carving knives and I still use our original orange full slice Tefal toastie sandwich maker, it's been all over the world with me during my time in the Army, one thing I have to mention the 70's were great for kids growing up, but what these photos don't show is the civil unrest at the time , the rolling blackouts, the three day working week , the bin men strikes, the rising unemployment, the high inflation, we grew up in the 70's and we have rose tinted glasses, it was a freer time, as kids you learned fast, you made mistakes and learned from them, you were more self reliant, out to play as soon as you wake up, back home for a jam sandwich for lunch, "be back for tea" (6pm when your dad gets home from work), homemade mince pie,chips and gravy then back out to the continuous game of football, until the light fades, or, whomever's ball it was gets called in by their mum, but no worries, we will continue the game tomorrow.....

@allysonaustin

3 күн бұрын

Another thing it doesn't show is how crap life was for women. Rape was legal in marriage (until around 1994 believe it or not) and if you were pregnant - well, that was your career over with, and welcome to a life at the kitchen sink, washing nappies on Mondays...... A shout out to all our mums - whose life THIS ACTUALLY WAS.

@Ayns.L14A

3 күн бұрын

@@allysonaustin 1992 and my mum worked full time, from completing nursing school at 18 till she retired as a Matron at 60, she had me, in 1968 and didn't have to work, as my dad was a Bank Manager, and earned a decent wage, she chose to.

It's clean and tidy in the 70's because they had morals back then

The UK was brilliant back in the 1970's. I was born in 1969 so these were my childhood years. My Dad worked in the docks repairing ships and Mum made the home. We didn't have much, but what we did have we strived for and you looked after because you probably couldn't afford another one. I lived on a big council housing estate and all my friends went to the same school as me and we all played out together until it got dark. Mum and Dad were friends with all the neighbours and you just left your doors unlocked and people would pop in for a chat. It was just friendly and exciting times. The streets were clean, everyone said hello and please and thankyou, and people were just better Human beings back then it seems. Sadly the UK is turning into our version of 'Portland, Oregon' now because very few people care about the things we cared about back then.

Back then your parents would slap your hands for dropping litter, and make you pick it up and put it in a bin... And nobody would be complaining about cruelty to children or making a big deal out of irrelevant stuff...

It says what it was like to be in Britain in the 70s but then the peanut butter maker and electric fondue sets were clearly American as the prices were in dollars.

The soldiers were in northern Ireland during the troubles

There is a BBC series called the The 70s House where they set up a house with the equipment available in that decade and then have a family live in it for a week. With the right clothes and jobs for all the family. The series starts in I think the 40s and then runs through the decades. I found it fascinating. If you could get hold of that you would have a much better glimpse of real life through the decades. They did a series on a corner shop too. Very enlightening

@user-fm6ul1uz9n

13 күн бұрын

Not 70s house but Back inTime to the 70s

@saffronlouisa

13 күн бұрын

This series was very good if I’m thinking of the same thing! Deffo should react to this if possible!

I don't think all of the electric appliances shown were from the UK as their prices were shown in dollars

There was a massive nationwide anti litter campaign during the 70’s so I guess there was a problem. Dropping litter became a real no-no. Easy to look back with rose tinted spectacles. Certainly was much less litter but on the negative side we all lived with massive air pollution.

Marathon 70's is now snickers 2024

@Howie57

13 күн бұрын

Yes...and who have we to blame for that???

All the electrical items were American, we did not have peanut butter makers etc

I’m old enough to remember the days, when our mums would be out early morning, scrubbing the front step. The streets where very clean/tidy back then. It’s crushing to see constant messy streets these days.

What you thought was Big Ben in London was the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh.

The raleigh chopper. Not great for boys if you slipped off the seat. If you know you know 😂

@dcallan812

13 күн бұрын

yes you grew up without a chopper 🤣 The worse part was going over the handle bats, I did that on more than one occasion. Good job it didn't do any serious damage 🤪🤪

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

Nut crackers?! Everyone's a fruit and nutcake, unironically?! ;-)

I was born in 1955 I would love to go back to them times my first wage in 1971 for 43 hours was six pounds but life was a lot better then

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

Interesting to count wages in 15p mars bars, mine was relatively best in the noughties , strangely. I couldn't afford my house now as the wage/price ratio has shifted against me in both directions.

@linnettsamuel5026

2 күн бұрын

First job £5, a week. £1 10s bus fare, £2 to mother for my keep, £1 savings. Left 10s for make up/ entertainment and fish and chips. The odd penny used on sweets from the corner shop.😂 Felt rich.

Has anyone mentioned power cuts ! As a kid though I think I enjoyed them , candles lit for a few hours .

@101steel4

13 күн бұрын

I can remember them. And the tv strikes, I think that was the 70s too.

@DavidPaulMorgan

13 күн бұрын

I'd forgotten the power cuts. TV stopped broadcasting at 22:30. oil lamps, battery torches and candles. we wouldn't last five minutes today with the lack of wifi & our portable computing devices!

@dcallan812

13 күн бұрын

and the bin men on strike bags of crap building up all over great times. I remember putting 50p in the electric meter under the stairs too. 🤣

I grew up in the 70's, (I am 61) pong was the first console game I played, it is hard to remember now how I coped without the internet. I didn't recognise some of the electronics, but the fashion 🤣. The shopkeepers, near me anyway always used to brush down the paths at the end of the day, especially if they had been displaying things. I turned 18 in 1980 and that is for me when change happened really fast.

@DavidPaulMorgan

13 күн бұрын

there was a raft of hand-held computer games, but they used LED matrixes rather than screens. Merlin, Simon, Speak-and-spell?

11:19 “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland - when British troops were on the streets to keep peace between the paramilitaries of the Catholic and Protestant communities.

There was a drive to Keep Britain Tidy with TV commercials plus in 1973 the Wombles TV show came along to encourage kids (me included at the time I was 9) to put litter in bins. plus, The Wombles were also into re-use & recycling. Pity that can't be said of some today, I see people regularly drop litter. A few years ago I was cycling home in a cycle lane, casually passing along the inside a long line of jammed cars. It was a summer evening. As I went along, a passenger in a car ahead casually dropped a burger box/wrapper into the cycle lane despite warning signs of a big fine (up to £2500 or about $3000). The line moved, so he went ahead. As I got to the litter, I picked it up, caught up with the offender who had the window rolled down, and casually tossed it back into his lap with 'Yours, I believe'. I have never seen anyone so surprised!

My first job, age 16 in 1973...£11.50 per week 38 hour week...which was good wages for an Office Junior. Gives the prices shown some context.

@Phiyedough

13 күн бұрын

Yes, I started work in 1976 and a lunch in the factory canteen was 17.5 pence.

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

Exactly, it's real wage living standards that matter, hence the election result

I was born in 1972. So I remember the 70’s vaguely. You never saw rubbish/trash in the streets back then. People had respect for where they lived.

@catgladwell5684

13 күн бұрын

you clearly don't remember the winter of discontent - 78/79. There was stinky rubbish everywhere.

@timglennon6814

13 күн бұрын

@@catgladwell5684. Ahh yes that winter. How can I forget that. My mum making me walk to school in short pants, and the snow going into my Wellies. I had no choice but to go to school my mum was also my teacher. 😂

@neilmcdonald9164

13 күн бұрын

Though they didn't clear up the dogs mess in those days🎩

@ifonly2448

13 күн бұрын

​@neilmcdonald9164 They still don't, just sometimes put it in plastic bags and cause more pollution instead.

@MattyEngland

13 күн бұрын

​@@catgladwell5684That was a one off event. People still didn't drop litter in the streets. Import the third world, become the third world.

as a brit kid who was born in the late 60's but grew up in the 70's it was a lot of fun. i grew up on a new build council estate(social housing), all the familys knew each other, all the kids knew each other, if you did any thing wrong the old man got to know about it very quickly, you could try n blag your way out of it, but the old man knew the truth, and the belt, cane, slipper was the disipline of the day, and trust me 10 lashes of the belt, you will not do the same dumb shit twice. we didnt own a tv until 1978, we built camps in the woodlands or forests or deserted pieces of land. we went out and discovered the local aera on push bikes. played war games in the old ww2 bomb holes that still ittered the area. no tv, no mobile phones, no computer or computer games to play, we made our own entertainment, we played outside as soon as we had breakfast and didnt return untill dinner or when the sun set. our parents wernt worried about us, as long as we didnt cause trouble, and trouble meant didnt have the police knocking on the front door. we use to take the bikes from our neighbours back yards as long as we returned them in one piece, they we ok with it. we had an open door policy, you never knock on the front door, you go round the back and knock on the kitchen door, "is danny home mrs H" if theres no answer then no ones at home. always call the older mums or dads, mr or mrs, our next door neighbours we called uncle, or auntie, they wernt our real uncles or aunties but we were round thier homes all the time they may as well have been family. the summer of 1976 was the best, we had the hottest summer on record, days just seemed to streach on and on, the old man listening to the cricket on the radio on bench out side our house, us playing british bulldog outside, or learning how to make dutch arrows, swimming in rivers or lakes, illegal night fishing, getting chased off by the park wardens...fucking great days.

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

Strewth you couldn't swim in our waterways now, joys of privatisation, profiteering and sewage

You should react to more videos from BBC Archive. They have some great stuff there.

Apart from the electric carving knife, none of the appliances were a thing in the seventies in the UK . I was there . Peanut butter just wasn't (& still isn't) that big in the UK, hot dogs, popcorn and waffles were things you hardly ever had at home. If you look closely at the adverts the prices were in $. The sought after appliances were pressure cookers , freezers , electric mixers and blenders. Microwaves were coming in at the end of the 70s but they were very, very expensive. The bike is a Raleigh chopper and was THE bike to have. It did have one major design flaw. They put a gear change in the middle of the bike looking like a car gear lever. Unfortunately, this was just in front of the crotch of the rider, so if you braked hard and slipped forward (which was easy due to the shape of the seat) the next few minutes would be a world of pain.

@alansmithee8831

13 күн бұрын

@MrBrianholding. I realised that about the Chopper and asked for a Commando, which was like an early BMX.

@DavidPaulMorgan

13 күн бұрын

yep - my mother bought her first chest freezer in 1971 - the payment card was £Sd & £p. Electrolux - lasted for years. We had a tappan microwave oven at the end of the 70s - the book was all American recipes, so we had to work out the timings for ourselves! We did have the hi-dome pressure cooker - all hissing and steam 🙂

@Lily-Bravo

12 күн бұрын

If peanut butter is not a big thing in the UK who keeps emptying my jars? It's been a thing for me since childhood in the 50s

I had one of those bikes, it was a Raleigh Chopper.. looked cool, but a nightmare to ride

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

All Style over performance, lol

The 70's were brilliant, 1000% better than what we have today. I wish I could turn back the clock.

@Benson...1

13 күн бұрын

Really, there was still crimes, there was still unemployment, the uk was considered the sick man of Europe, discrimination happened as it still does and all the other bad stuff that happened in the 70's. Still need to be realistic and put the rose tinted glasses away

@Rachel_M_

13 күн бұрын

Really? Just look up "The Winter of Discontent". Or try "The Sus Laws". The past was not better.

@amandag5072

13 күн бұрын

@@Benson...1 So not much has chnaged then, as we have returned to being the "sick man of Europe".

@Benson...1

13 күн бұрын

@@amandag5072 that is what I find irritating, people with rose tinted glasses who are waxing lyrical for a time that never was. Especially when there are more than a few similarities between then and now.

@Rachel_M_

13 күн бұрын

​@@amandag5072to be honest we're not far off "no blacks, no Irish, No dogs" again and the Smethwick Election of 1964 that paved the way for National Front in the 70's. History does seem to be echoing....

Why is there no trash? Partly there is less stuff being sold that produces trash- very little fast food and disposable cups, but also people used litter bins more. Littering was a problem- but very much seen as such, not just inevitable as it seems to be today. The 'Keep Britain Tidy' campaign which had been running from the 1950's onwards was very prominant at this time. The photo with the big clock tower and scaffolding was not London - it looks like either Edinburgh or Glasgow to me (apologies for not recognising the landmarks) The military photos (including the one you thought were football fans) are from The Troubles in Northern Ireland. They aren't pissed, they are angry. You didn't spot that the kitchen appliance stuff was all from the US - prices are in $ not £

Very London centric, doesn’t really reflect the rest of the country although everywhere is clean because money was spent on maintenance. People did clean outside their houses and most definitely their shops. It was common for people to scrub their doorstep and swill the pavement down. Sweep any rubbish up. It was considered a respectable thing to do even if you were poor you were clean. The pictures of soldiers would be during the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland as would the picture of men with their hands up. Loved the police cape, a rain cape worn over the normal uniform. Bikes were ‘choppers’ my kids loved them but that was late 70s to 80s. The electrical kitchen equipment is American we didn’t have it. We didn’t have anything like that. We were still a bit post war time and the average house had very little in that respect. Maybe an electric kettle, toasted sandwich maker. That would be about it. Maybe an electric carving knife. Note the prices are in dollars

I was born in the 60s in Scotland and moved to the West Midlands when I was four in 1970. We played in the streets, my parents ran their own business and always shopped at the local shops for our dinner after they finished work. We had milk delivered in bottles, sometimes bread, and the Littlewoods person came on Fridays so we played spot the ball and collected ComOp coupons. One summer holidays my sister and I with two friends went door to door every week collecting silver foil for the blind and ended up with eight bin bags which got strewn across the garden in a storm. The workmen at the bottom of the road always did wolf whistles to my friend and I when we were in our teens, so my younger sister disguised herself as an old lady and attacked them with her umbrella. She was very convincing. All in all we had the happiest memories any children could wish for and I’d go through it all over again if I could.

That's not Big Ben. The clue is in the fact that the Houses of Parlisment are not beside it.

Hello JPS if you want to know what a lot of the older generation think of Britain now from the Britain of decades gone by please react to this video it's very informative. Search: 'Do British veterans regret fighting in World War 2?'

@col4022

13 күн бұрын

Yes react to that video the channel is - Zoomer Historian

i was born in '72 in england, the best years of my life, im so nostalgic for those times.

As someone who was in their late teens/ early 20s…what a weird selection. Shame there’s nothing about what life was actually like, other than the blindingly obvious superficial stuff. As a woman - banks expecting you to ‘get permission’ from your father if unmarried to open an account…..and yes they were told to whistle for that and I still had an account. Research meaning hours spent in the stacks in libraries ( no internet of course) socialising meaning actually meeting people in person, no personal computers…..I could go on. Some things have changed for the better, but a lot of things not so much.

@W0rdsandMus1c

13 күн бұрын

I agree, much better for women now, I married in 1975 and still wasn't allowed hire purchase, if we wanted to buy on credit my husband had to sign for it, even though I was working full time and giving him the money to pay for it, paid terrible wages compared to men, I loved the 70s but love the independence of today.

The photo at 6.07...I worked there ! ( literally . That was Brixton in south London. The shop ( Dunn & Co ) was right next to the tube station and was burnt down during the riots. I had actually quit to start work at Selfridges in Oxford street. I was watching the news when an announcer on the tv said about the riots...the next thing I saw was when the TV camera panned right and showed a close up of the shop...BURNING ! The entire shop was in flames. I rushed for the phone and called the shop in Regent street and found out that the manager and assistant had walked in just a few minutes earlier...shaken but not stirred as they say.

Note the cars,etc,had round headlights,not oblong and the wing mirrors were way down the bonnet,not near the windscreen 🎩

@MisterChrisInTheUK

13 күн бұрын

Yep, they were true wing mirrors, placed on the wings, whereas we now tend to have door mirrors.

The bicycles were called "Choppers" made by Rayleigh in the UK. They are out of fashion now, but still hold a respectable value at antiques sales if in good condition, and one was renovated on a TV program called "The Repair Workshop".

@baylessnow

12 күн бұрын

The Repair Shop.

@mej6519

11 күн бұрын

@@brianbradley6744 nah, choppers are all well sort after these days.

@Lily-Bravo

11 күн бұрын

I've been corrected from my assertion they were Choppers and I had to agree with the person who said they were American Schwinn Stingrays.

I was born on 1960. The 70s were my coming of age era. That was a great time for kids with no responsibilities but a horrible time for adults. The unions were trying to blackmail the government and held the country to ransom, and there was the Northern Ireland troubles ( the images of the army on the streets). Man’s still has remnants of the slums and the blitz We all look back on our past as something magical.The streets in the US always look much cleaner on TV than they actually are too. The camera does lie. Really enjoy your reactions.

Only Fools & Horses was the 80s but there are some familiarities between the two decades

The one thing that I noticed when watching this video that was quite striking was the very few numbers of people walking the streets and also how few vehicles were on the roads then compared with today.

When everyone was like-minded, free to speak, and walked the streets in relative safety, people said good morning, and kids gave up their seats on buses for old people. The police were competent and treated everyone the same. Blacks and whites mixed and interbred; young people enjoyed the freedoms of youth and music, and the country had a sense of being one nation of proud Brits, and flying the English flag was an hour. Then came multiculturalism, Political correctness, and stupid, insane start-up organisations that stood against the British way of life, including corrupt police, courts, and weirdo teachers.

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

Young Morse would disagree with that on police corruption, it was notoriously rampant in the 60s and 70s, for one thing.

The troops, the people with their hands up and the burnt-out houses were images of Belfast at the start of the 'troubles'. Also you didn't get the image of the Swedish band ABBA below the sign to Waterloo station (their 1st hit was 'Waterloo'). Small shopkeepers would washdown the fronts of their shops daily. That changed in 1978 'winter of discontent' when widespead strikes had litter piled up and the dead left un-buried.

joel, you talked about clean, i was a 70's child, born in 1965, i can remember my grandmother washing her window ledges and door step every morning, to her it was a sin to have a dirty door step, you would be talked about. The 70's was also infulanced, by america at the time, skate boards, the TV shows, the american dress as it was back then filtered its way here, I can remember the digital watch era, 1973 ish over here, they cost around 150 pounds, when you think, my first wage in 1980 was only 25.00 a week But the best part od the 70's was the disco's, every friday saturday night,

Kids could play out get on your bike ride around town with your mate,s, local copper would walk round your area and know you by name, everyone looked after each other i remeber going to shops for the older people in our street they would give you some pocket money for sweets glad i grew up back then 😂

my guess is, in the 50s 60s & 70s things where being built or still new, but later in the 90s things looked bad because the stuff was all this the same just old

"London does not look like this." 05:52 That's because it's Edinburgh, Joel...! "Why is he mopping the street up?" Because that's what people in civilised societies do, Joel... Honestly - I'm not taking the piss - people took much more pride in themselves and in their communities, and maintained many good standards. The general (unwritten) rule was that shop-keepers all did their own frontages, sweeping everything into the gutters - as there were people employed as street-sweepers; and every so often, big sucker machines would come round and take it all away - as well as clear out all of the drains. So you didn't get flooding, to the same extent; and minor repairs were reported and seen to quickly, by these council workers in the streets. Public toilets were often attended. The police did foot patrols - so most people didn't break the law - and those that did commit, say, parking offences, got caught and fined for doing so! Buses were all crew-operated - that's to say with driver doing just that - olften is his own compartment; but also with conductor, maintaining standards and collecting fares in the passenger saloons. Littering didn't become a major problem until fast-food outlets began to appear at the end of that decade. Pubs didn't open all day either - and few of them sold food, beyond the usual snacks and sometimes, hot pies. There were numerous cafes and restaurants for this - and many of them offered different menues for different times of the day. There were also sandwich shops all over London! Most shops were closed by 6pm, and most areas had a half-closing day, when the smaller shops would all close by 1pm. 11:43 - no, they're not football fans, and they're probably not pissed either: these scenes are from Northern Ireland during The Troubles, where armed soldiers and police tried their best to maintain order by force on an everyday basis, even though for many, their very presence was the problem... It was a decade of hyper-inflation, as it began with the old monatary system (which was formally abbreviated as LSD - the biblical Lira, Shillings and Denarii, incidentally), even though we called them pounds, shillings and pence; and as each old penny equalled roughly a half new penny, many businesses took advantage of the confusion and doubled their prices overnight. The world oil crisis and much more industrial unrest brought many periods of rationing, not only of oil, but also of electric power, bread, potatoes and other basic foodstuffs, from time to time. Apart from the occasional drunk, there were also no beggars on the streets, nor anyone sleeping there - as there was no real housing shortage to speak of, save for within London and some of the other major cities. That said, a lot of the accommodation that was available was pretty-substandard - but on the whole it was also cheap.

I love a time capsule moment. ‘70s were not a fun time for most people.

@catgladwell5684

13 күн бұрын

Anyone who thinks things were wonderful then would have a shock if they were suddenly transported back there. I was an adult in the 70s (born in the early 50s) and things are far better now. I wouldn'tgo back.

@PokhrajRoy.

13 күн бұрын

@@catgladwell5684 Nostalgia is a slippery slope

@gdok6088

13 күн бұрын

@@catgladwell5684 Totally agree. Born in 1959. No central heating in the early 60s. I remember having to do my homework by candlelight because of daily power cuts during the miners strike and '3 day week' in the 70s. Cars were basic with few safety features, medical care much less advanced and no internet! The first ultra basic calculators cost £80 at launch!! Things are much better now overall.

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

Swings, and roundabouts

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

​@@PokhrajRoy.Nostalgia ain't what it used to be, kids have always been seen as worse than in my day, throughout history, same old, same old, in that respect

The troops are in Northern Ireland during the troubles and the electronic game at the begining was a handheld "football" game in the era before Gameboy

Remember Joel that everything you see was novel and new. The big thrill was to break loose of the 1950s and post war rationing. The cars, bikes and electric gadgets were part of the brave new world we were entering. Moon landings and supersonic flight was more mind boggling than anything the Internet has to offer today in our minds. This was an era where music (albums) football on TV and cheaper clothes, which was unknown to our parents up until then.

12:07 in about 1978 the average weekly salary was £70. A TV set cost £70.

there was a 'keep Britain Tidy' campaign' in the 70's.

@willrichardson519

11 күн бұрын

So why was that needed?!

The television went off at midnight and there were no programmes till eight o’clock in the morning.

5:30 an often overlooked reason for the cleanliness is that things weren't as well wrapped as they are now. If you went into a store to buy a premade sandwich, they'd jusy be sitting on the shelf uncovered, and you'd take them away in some brown paper. Crisp packets were foil lined paper. Plus there were fewer takeaways so less styrofoam trays etc. Drinks came in glass bottles and you'd get a small refund for returning the bottles to be cleaned and reused so it was in your interests not to chuck them. More people brought food from home too so less wrapping was sold to be chucked.

The two buses and the roundabout were all shots taken in Croydon, just around the corner from where I lived and next to where I worked. The next picture was not of London Joel, that was a certain city in Scotland! These were the days, I left school in 1970. As for 10p for a sandwich, until 1972 that will have been 2/- or two shillings for a sandwich - that would have been regarded as expensive. The pictures of the people showing v signs after the pictures of the troops are from 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland. The series of electrical appliance adverts were not from the UK but the US!

Ubiquitous smoking. Hardly any “no smoking areas”. As an asthmatic child it was horrendous having to breathe other people’s smoke in restaurants, cinemas, trains.

We had none of those things, not even the posh bikes. Only heating was a coal fire in the living room, outside toilet that would freeze in winter. Power cuts etc wasn't all rosey.

Only Fools and Horses was the 80's. Minder, George and Mildred, The Professionals, The Sweeney are more the 70's in London.

@leohickey4953

13 күн бұрын

"Get yer pants on, you're nicked!!!" "Bookem George!", then a car chase through some cardboard boxes, some with oranges in, dahhhn the market.

@Bakers_Doesnt

13 күн бұрын

@@leohickey4953 Kojak just couldn't compete. Bodie & Doyle would spank Starsky & Hutch any day of the week.

My favourite decade in the UK, musically and everything else. Every service was better back then, from utilities, to the police, to mail delivery. Some horrendous tank tops though.

Perhaps you need to look into the "Troubles" of Northern Ireland, which was depicted by the British troops.

Wish I could go back! They were a magical time for me as a child!! I'd take the 70's and 80's any day over the current rubbish!

I was born in1954. 70 this year. I started work in 1970. Very fond memories of the 1970s.

I was a 70's child.

You look so much better with your hair like this JP! You look more mature

My favorite decade by far for music. fashions, good fun, stress free and general freedom as a teen.

I was born late 1950’s so my teen years were through the 70’s. It was a great time to go through my teens. I would go back to that time in a heartbeat. People had time for each other. We had great music, great fashions (although you may not think so in this may and age) people cared about each other. I joined the police myself in 1977 and one of my first duties was lining the streets for the Queens Silver Jubilee when she visited Cardiff. The policewomen wore skirts not trousers back then. Sadly “The Troubles” in Ireland was a bad time (hence the troops). We did have some fast food outlets the most popular where I lived was Wimpy. (The best burgers ever imo) I loved the 70’s its was a fantastic era.

I was a child on the 1970s. Yes it was not easy but I actually lived in a community where people looked out for kids. As a kid I had ultimate freedom. Computers didn't exist we actually went outside to play. There was no health or safety to worry about..if we fell over and damaged ourselves we were told to get over it or we would get given something to make us cry for. The cars were brilliant, when we were taken out in cars there were no seat restraints or seatbelts. We also used to be crammed into cars in large numbers as kids I mean six kids in the back seats of cars or if we were transported in a van the rear wheel arched were our seats when we turned corners we fell off the wheel arch. The video games were crude and pixelated videos didn't have age appropriate certificates or they weren't taken any notice of if they were. We recorded our own music on tapes from the radio so music was free. Junk food like a packet of crisps were 2p to 5p pop drinks were 5p sweets were 1p and everyone was the same type of people. Apart from the winter of discontent there was very little rubbish around.. We actually were the first generation to recycle stuff or get deposits back on pop bottles we used to have milkmen who delivered milk and dairy products with electric vehicles they also used to collect empty milk bottles we didn't have plastic bags or plastic food wrapping everything was packed into string shopping bags then carried home or a greengrocer used to put items in a brown paper bag a butchers used to wrap meat in white paper. Basically life was so much better cleaner and more community lead. The 1970s as a child was actually a brilliant time to live within the UK but we had to be tough to survive that decade but the streets were clean and the communities had pride in the local areas they lived

@Lily-Bravo

12 күн бұрын

The streets were not clean, there was dog sh*t everywhere, always on our shoes.

When you said no litter, I can assure you there was, I was born in 1956 started working in 1971, my first wage was £5 for a 40 hour week, that puts the 20p chocolate bars into context, I loved being a teenager in the 70s, we had a lot more freedom than our parents generation, most of the music was great, but I have liked music from every decade, I also remember having to go to work on a rota because of the power cuts, one half of the town had power in the morning the other half in the afternoon, getting back to litter, I think that picture looks like a promotional picture for councils (they always look perfect, even today) Dogs! roaming the streets freely and nobody cleaned up after them, dodging dog mess was the norm, there was a lot of good about the 70s but there was also a lot of bad.

@Lily-Bravo

12 күн бұрын

I'm with you on this. Dog mess, smoking, diesel smoke from lorries and smoke from factory chimneys. Horrible.

There was no or hardly any trash because convenience foods were yet to take off big time. We took any rubbish home or put them in bins.