Lifestyles

We used to buy Agree Shampoo and Conditioner from Woolworths and it smelt so nice. It helped us all avoid 'the greasies' in the 70s, and all my friends used it. It was particularly aimed at teenagers, because of the ...

These where akin to Sparklers but they where classified as matches not fireworks, because they where self-igniting and could not be stored with fireworks for this reason. Bengal matches looked like normal matches, but where slightly larger, stronger and chunkier. ...

I can remember in the mid 80s BT launching a telephone chat line. I think it must have been the first of its kind in the UK and i even remember the advert featuring the BT Buzzby Bird! It was ...

After the punks and the mods and before the 'massive' was invented was the 'Casual'. The casuals were always seen hanging round the local park in Fred Perry, Le Shark or Sergio tracksuits or chinos. If you were sensible you ...

During the 80s, as well as collecting scratch and sniff stickers, it was quite 'cool' to collect erasers. I had a wicked collection which included a hotdog with a white sash, a hamburger, which you could take apart, a playing ...

This range, from what I remember, was sold in bargain shops and for good reason too! I used to buy lipsticks etc in the mid 80's, thinking to myself that I was so sophisticated wearing the then popular 'pink eyeshadow ...

Dimenson Shampoo was probably the first "two in one" shampoo to hit the market in the early 80s! The advert showed two girls going into a shower. The first girl has two bottles (shampoo and conditioner) but the second girl ...

This Hair Gel had one of the best names for a product EVER!Dippity Do, was a hair Gel that was available from the local "budget saver" (The Equivalent of Poundland in the 1970's and 80's).I was MAD for the spiky ...

Circa 1988 there was some kind of lottery pen pal system and, out of the blue, you would get a form to fill in which would ask you to state your interests and where you would like to have a ...

Goth. 1980s early 90s Goth was a life style and music and fashion scene I did love from the 80s. I was a geeky teenager and loved Laura Ashley and hppy styles until I saw some girls in town wearing ...

The excitement of getting hold of Mum's Autumn/Winter edition of Empire and Kays catalogues in the 70s was too much to bear! The Autumn/Winter editions were particularly relevent as these contained all the Christmas toys you could ever wish Santa ...

Mod was the cult that hit our school around 1980ish? I think the film Quadrophenia kicked it off because after that came out we all wanted to be seen wearing smart clothes and looking as trendy as possible. After a ...

I remember in the 70's when I was young my Mum and Dad smoked (shame on them) Players 'No.6'. In the packet was a coupon, 5 points in a packet of ten and 10 points in a packet of 20. About ...

Punk as we know it began in the early 1970's. Bands like The Fugs, the MC5 and The Stooges set the foundations for punk, but punk remained an underground scene until 1976 when two bands - The Ramones and the ...

The Rag and Bone man (epitomised by Steptoe and Son) used to venture once a week or fortnight into housing schemes with their horse and cart. They also blew a horn to tell you they were there! The Rag ...

Was anyone in British Rail's Rail Riders club? I was until around 1988 - and it was a great club for rail enthusiasts. I still have my badge and Star Traveller's Badges and Sticker Station Stamps, but I lost my membership ...

Skinheads are a very British cult but now adopted worldwide. They are generally accepted as having originated in London and at its peak 1969-1970 but there were skinheads before this and also some stayed true for many years after. Skinheads ...

Every teenager had one in their room... a picture with a black background and a Ferrari or Lamborghini in the foreground. They were usually framed with a red plastic frame, and sometimes the car was overshadowed by a pair of ...

In the 70s Vosene contained one of my favourite toiletry ingredients (I was a big reader in the bath). It was Sulphosuccinated Undecylenic Monoalkylolamide. It's probably been renamed now, or removed altogether because it was found to cause blindness in ...

A weather house is in the shape of a small German or Alpine chalet that indicates the weather. A typical weather house has two doors side by side. The left side has a female, the right side a male. The ...

In the eighties, it was 'de rigeur' to have a filofax and a mobile phone. That's mobile in the same way that a 20 inch telly is mobile. This was the age of the yuppie, or young upwardly mobile professional.The ...