When I was a kid - that's in the 1970s - I used to stop over at my grandparents' house on School Road, Crookes, usually on a Saturday evening. (I think this was to prevent my parents killing me as it gave them a well-earned night out away from me.)

Amongst a treasure trove of memories, including what we would watch on TV on a Saturday evening (Black Beauty, Golden Shot, Generation Game and Dr Who to name but a few) are the noises which these days we no longer hear.

Come a summer's day, we hear the electric sounds of lawn-mowers, sheers and drills. The sound of pressure jets cleaning cars, everything to some degree automated (and it must be said, irritating). Back in the 1970s, a summer's evening brought the snip-snip of hand-held sheers, the rolling sound of a non-electric lawn mower and in the distance, the bells of the ice-cream van. All subtle and part of the imagery of a youthful summer evening.

But best of all was the sound of a cockerill every morning that some neighbour kept in their back garden. Every Sunday morning I'd hear this cockerill at what must have been some early hour.

Lovely peaceful noises that didn't intrude in one's life. Whereas today everything seems so noisy that you have to shut your windows!

Does anyone else have any recollections of these pleasant summer evening noises - or particularly the cockerill/hen that lived on or near School Road in the 1970s?!

Ah! those were the days - best decade by far. I can relate to everything you said there even the cockerel although it wasn't the same one you heard, our neighbour at the time used to keep chickens and he had one that crowed early morning. We also used to get eggs with white shells from him - what happened to them then?

Brought back some good memories there, i was begining to think those days where just a nice dream i'd had.
I used to love the sound of the church bells on a sunday or whenever there was a wedding too, listening to jimmy clitheroe on the radio, follyfoot farm on the tv, i can't remember that girls name from that programme but she and jenny handley starred in many of my boyhood erm... fantasy's

Janet Ellis on Blue Peter always did it for me.....

Originally posted by Ousetunes
When I was a kid - that's in the 1970s - I used to stop over at my grandparents' house on School Road, Crookes, usually on a Saturday evening. (I think this was to prevent my parents killing me as it gave them a well-earned night out away from me.)

Amongst a treasure trove of memories, including what we would watch on TV on a Saturday evening (Black Beauty, Golden Shot, Generation Game and Dr Who to name but a few) are the noises which these days we no longer hear.

Come a summer's day, we hear the electric sounds of lawn-mowers, sheers and drills. The sound of pressure jets cleaning cars, everything to some degree automated (and it must be said, irritating). Back in the 1970s, a summer's evening brought the snip-snip of hand-held sheers, the rolling sound of a non-electric lawn mower and in the distance, the bells of the ice-cream van. All subtle and part of the imagery of a youthful summer evening.

But best of all was the sound of a cockerill every morning that some neighbour kept in their back garden. Every Sunday morning I'd hear this cockerill at what must have been some early hour.

Lovely peaceful noises that didn't intrude in one's life. Whereas today everything seems so noisy that you have to shut your windows!

Does anyone else have any recollections of these pleasant summer evening noises - or particularly the cockerill/hen that lived on or near School Road in the 1970s?! That cockerill was probably your grandad........:help:

Brought back some good memories there, i was begining to think those days where just a nice dream i'd had.
I used to love the sound of the church bells on a sunday or whenever there was a wedding too, listening to jimmy clitheroe on the radio, follyfoot farm on the tv, i can't remember that girls name from that programme but she and jenny handley starred in many of my boyhood erm... fantasy's

Hi. The girl from Follyfoot was called Gillian Blake. Loved the programme. Loved the 70s. Happy days

i used to go to my grandmas on saturdays in the 70s, 80s too
i dont remember any sounds, but i remmeber wrestling on telly (big daddy etc), going to the park, and dinner where grandad would put hendies on everything

endcliffe park 1971, transistor radios....

the hippies used to sit all afternoon listening to them. i got very excited one day when walking past with my mum and heard the first chart song that i can ever recall being familiar with, which was "chirpy chirpy cheep cheep" by middle of the road.

i once stood under the bridge between rustlings road and the park, aged 4, singing "get down" by gilbert o'sullivan. the place had a great echo for vocal! and there was the sound of the stream running past, for added atmosphere.

:)

always remember listening to the top 40 on my mums radiogramme

think it was tom browne who did the top 40 then

endcliffe park 1971, transistor radios....

the hippies used to sit all afternoon listening to them. i got very excited one day when walking past with my mum and heard the first chart song that i can ever recall being familiar with, which was "chirpy chirpy cheep cheep" by middle of the road.

i once stood under the bridge between rustlings road and the park, aged 4, singing "get down" by gilbert o'sullivan. the place had a great echo for vocal! and there was the sound of the stream running past, for added atmosphere.

:)

Stone me, Pete! That song is also the very first pop song I can recall. What year were you born?

Ousetunes. The sounds you recall do strike a happy chord with me - particularly the snip of shears and the sound of the rotary lawn mower. I think there was much more birdsong in those days - the noise of sparrows chirruping in the ivy and swallows screaming on summer evenings are part of my sound picture of those days - as was the occasional and welcome noise of the burner of a hot air balloon......

Car engines cranking over and failing to start
Hitting the top of the telly to coax it into life
The racket of the twin tub spinner
The howling of school kids as they got beaten by teachers
Cries of pain of people getting their heads kicked in by skinheads

Yes,those were the days !

My neighbours guinea pigs squeaking.

"Clackers" Those things with the plastic spheres on string and..

Those long plastic tubes that kids used to spin around themselves that made the Whhhooooo sound...

Oh yeah, and the firm CRACK of a teachers cane agaist the palm of my hand :D

i once stood under the bridge between rustlings road and the park, aged 4, singing "get down" by gilbert o'sullivan. the place had a great echo for vocal! and there was the sound of the stream running past, for added atmosphere.

:)
biggest gig you ever played then eh pete :P

I loved the 70s . Starsky and Hutch on TV, fizz bombs, proper Tizer and Jusoda, cabanna bars, the sound of the steel work hammers at night in summer and the smell of fires when everyone was allowed to burn rubbish in their gardens. Oh and listening to Elton John's Captain Fantastic album on me dads 8 track in the car !

...being the first on our street to have a "trimphone" back in 72? As first seen on the new "Golden Shot" with Bob Monkhouse and Anne Aston! It only came in two-tone green (like ours) or two-tone grey at first, and was a real "revolution" at the time time because of its futuristic style and "space-age" bleep!!!!!! A far cry from the type we were all used to at that time ! (like the one Noel uses on Deal or No Deal)

The 'Sounds of the Seventies' that bring back memories to me are the ones from the Saturday night 'Seaside Special' shows.
Here are a couple of links;
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xtp6BLqeZkQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9x0TLNE50

Stone me, Pete! That song is also the very first pop song I can recall. What year were you born?

perhaps there is something very memorable about the song which has made us both remember it!

for me, it was the line "where's your mama gone? (where's your mama gone!)" which got me. i was three, and so i thought it must be a kid's song with a line like that!

now you can work out the year!

:)

biggest gig you ever played then eh pete :P

lol! very good melthebell! :)

the gig under the bridge actually came about from a nasty prank by my big brother:

"wait there," he said, leaving me in the park, "i'll be back in a minute!"

i spent the next half hour alone, enjoying the acoustics of the bridge, and for ever after was hooked on rock 'n' roll.

it has been downhill ever since....

:)

Stone me, Pete! That song is also the very first pop song I can recall. What year were you born?

What about their Samson and Delilah then ? ;)

the big rounded collars on shirts,the flared trousers and platform shoes,crossroads and coronation street,the old top of the pops with jimmy saville,it aint half hot mum,sundays being the most boring day ever,nothing open,being frightened to death by appointment with fear on a saturday night. summer was summer then,and you were guaranteed snow in winter,who can forget the summer of 76????

.....,and you were guaranteed snow in winter,who can forget the summer of 76????

wasn't there a mass of snow in winter '76? i seem to remember walking knee deep in it up in ringinglow over christmas....

but as this thread is about sounds, i have to add: i love the sound of crunching snow!

:)

perhaps there is something very memorable about the song which has made us both remember it!

for me, it was the line "where's your mama gone? (where's your mama gone!)" which got me. i was three, and so i thought it must be a kid's song with a line like that!

now you can work out the year!

:)

Same lines got me Pete - and the answering chorus of 'Far, far away.......'

The church bands going along the road at whitsuntide going to firth park
tv programmes like land of the giants. I used to stop what I was doing every sunday tea time to watch it. Who can never also forget the banana splits and the theme tune-altogether now, tra la la, la la la la, tra la la lala la la, one banana two banana three banana four. I am sure you know the rest

The church bands going along the road at whitsuntide going to firth park
tv programmes like land of the giants. I used to stop what I was doing every sunday tea time to watch it. Who can never also forget the banana splits and the theme tune-altogether now, tra la la, la la la la, tra la la lala la la, one banana two banana three banana four. I am sure you know the rest
the theme tunes to the old classics which were trotted out every summer school holidays,white horses,and the flashing blade,the poorly dubbed french and yugoslav t.v series,s which were on every weekday morning.
the music was summat else too,the sweet,bowie,mud,bolan,the rubettes....the sound of your flares flapping as you ran for the bus,then the bang as your platform sole caught in the trouser leg and tripped you,followed by the expletives uttered,and the stifled giggles of all who had witnessed it.

A Laker Airways jet taking off...