Sheffield in the 70's, What memories!

[sydneygirl 10]

We lived in Dore in 1973. Princess Anne married Mark Phillips that year and remember watching some of the ceremony thru a shop window in town in my lunch break in town . I worked in Town Hall in the typing pool for the Sheffield Treasury. The summer that year was was brilliant and we walked for miles along the horse riding tracks collecting wild berries and enjoying the scenery around Dore.

Our daughter went to King Ecgbert's school that year. Colour TV came on the market and we could only afford black and white at the time. When we visited Blackpool the boarding house we stayed in had a colour television and I remember I couldn't stop watching. The program was part of the "Black Beauty" series. Not all the programs were colour though. Walked along Blackpool prom , visited The Pleasure Beach. The Laughing clown was still there at the gate's entrance. (Is it still there?). It was a busy year but the winter weather was a killer for the hubby's job (brickie). Returned to Sydney 1974. One of the items on our "must have" list when we settled in Sydney was a colour Tv.

[maryjane 11]

White dog poo...never see it anymore

 

Yes! what was that all about, wierd.

[maryjane 11]

New musical express. queing all night for david bowie tickets. hot pants. platform shoes. tues night at the top rank, wearing the hot pants and platform shoes! crazy daisy and geniveves. meeting friends by the fishtank at the hole in the road.

[priddypix 10]

White dog poo - pork....thats what makes it white....maybe dogs are kosher nowadays!

[fuddyduddy 10]

How times change ,could you imagine cigarette machines,chocolate bar and chewing gum dispensers fixed outside shops nowadays as I remember near the Manor top roundabout.Their was certainly more trust or should I say naivety in those days long gone,they wouldn't last an hour in todays criminal society.