Birmingham in 1960s

[Vivienne14]

Didn't know Cadburys Selection boxes were first exclusive to Brum. Although you wouldn't have found a Curly Wirly in your selection box until the 1970s.

 

[I Am Nico]

That’s fantastic Peter. What a lot of memories…. We just need a Time Machine now to go back to those good old days. Apart from the outside toilets!
Btw I do wash on a Monday, have our milk from a Milkman and cook a Sunday roast.
Yes I’m a dinosaur …!

Me too, no Microwave, no work on a Sunday, Roast dinner . No decking. No patio heater. Partner still darns and mends. Makes attractive nutritious meals from left overs, not bubble and squeak thankfully though. No video. The outside toilet is still here but is now inside but still like it was. Still got a spinner you put your knee on to hold it.

 

[I Am Nico]

Lemonella you're the first young lady I've heard complain about the clothes of the 60's

My mum liked them she said I love the modern fashions you can wear what you like.

 

[I Am Nico]

NIco perhaps I should have said imitators , copycats trying to relive those fantastic days long after they'd gone . It's a bit like records Nico you get cover versions but nothing beats the original

I like a cover if it has a different take on it, if you know what I mean. But not rip offs.

 

[I Am Nico]

I went to a disco where mum worked around 1967. They played games like pass the balloon woman to man and pass the key dropping down your clothes, I wasn't trendy I wore my school trousers and a sleeveless pully, I watched the girls dancing in tent dresses, wearing hippie bells and some men had flower power shirts. Remember Flower Power? I got some flares when I was 14 and a flowery shirt from peer pressure, but I never had a Barathea. I had a 2nd hand imitation suede code with hideous imitation fur yellow check lining. My mates made fun of it but I was warm as toast as they froze at the bus stop. Saying that I used to go out with wet hair in the winter in a cardigan, and my hair froze then melted on the bus.