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Grandma70s Fri 10-Sept-21 15:35:34

I was a child in the postwar era of rationing and austerity. Luckily for us my mother was a brilliant cook and also very good at dressmaking, so I was unaware of any deprivation. I ate well and looked well-dressed. It did have a effect on me, though. I sometimes look at the absurd amount of choice in today’s supermarkets and think how thoroughly spoiled people are now.

I was in my twenties in the sixties, and lived in London by then. Fabulous times.

rafichagran Fri 10-Sept-21 15:21:10

70's teenager here too. Platform boots, velvet jackets and coats, cheesecloth shirts, glam rock. I loved it too.

Granmarderby10 Fri 10-Sept-21 15:10:56

Yes timetogo2016 that is my memory too ?

timetogo2016 Fri 10-Sept-21 15:05:46

Being a teenager in the 70`s was wonderfull.
The music was the best imo.
And we never felt unsafe away from home,how times have changed.

MrsEggy Fri 10-Sept-21 14:59:49

Early 1960's Redevelopment era - old Victorian buildings demolished, new ring roads, underpasses, pedestrians being sent underground, everything for the convenience of vehicular traffic - all being redemolished now by a new generation of "planners"

halfpint1 Fri 10-Sept-21 14:15:57

I remember the 'mods and rockers era'
Bank holidays at Scarborough and
All those scooters, parkas and Doc Martin's

Grandmabatty Fri 10-Sept-21 14:15:04

The seventies was my era. The end of the hippy time - glam rock - prog rock - punk. It was a wonderful decade to be a teenager.

LauraNorder Fri 10-Sept-21 14:12:20

A teenager in the sixties in Liverpool. Doesn’t get any better. Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers. Mini skirts, hot pants, floppy hats.
In Australia in the seventies, further education and children, early career. Seem to remember Spanish Eyes playing when I was giving birth. Lots of barbecues and surfing, still minis and clumpy shoes.
Eighties much fun, lots of punk parties, wearing safety pins, dying hair blue, clearing bars.
Nineties back in the U.K. busy, don’t remember anything significant about that era.

Trisha57 Fri 10-Sept-21 14:00:02

I was a teenager in the "Glam Rock" era - all glittery eye shadow and stars stuck to my face!!!

Judy54 Fri 10-Sept-21 13:56:04

Loved my childhood in the 1950's and being a teenager in the 1960's. It was a wonderful era for fashion and music and best of all I met my Husband in the 1960's and we have been together ever since.

FannyCornforth Fri 10-Sept-21 06:13:28

I’m very much a child of the Thatcher era.

nanna8 Fri 10-Sept-21 06:11:41

We will undoubtedly remember this present era as the Covid Era but what other eras can you remember? I remember post war London quite well and just about remember rationing. I remember waving a flag among the crowds when the Queen was crowned and they drove along the South Circular ( I was very young around 4 or 5) and of course the Sixties and the Flower Power era ( how daft wandering round with flowers round my neck in freezing Lancashire!)