Great Britain And The 80S

[Bunnyblatter 1,012]

Born in 73 and back in the 80's you could get loads of sweets for a quid lol.

Loved going down to the shop my gran worked in on sat morning with my spending money. Home in time for footy focus then out dossing all day in the woods.

Wish I could go back to them times.

[forest of dean redneck 12,022]

Born in 73 and back in the 80's you could get loads of sweets for a quid lol.

Loved going down to the shop my gran worked in on sat morning with my spending money. Home in time for footy focus then out dossing all day in the woods.

Wish I could go back to them times.

Little paper bag of sweets for 10 p for us poor people,lol

[Blackbriar 8,569]

Born in 73 and back in the 80's you could get loads of sweets for a quid lol.

Loved going down to the shop my gran worked in on sat morning with my spending money. Home in time for footy focus then out dossing all day in the woods.

Wish I could go back to them times.

A quid ? A whole pound for sweets ? When I were a lad, you could have bought the bloody shop for a quid !

 

Me and my sister (3 years younger than me) used to go into town, buy 20 fags, have a night on the beer at the Horse and Jockey, pay a quid to go upstairs to Harvey's disco (clubbing hadn't been invented !), have some chips when they kicked out at 1am and we'd still have change out of a tenner each !

 

And that's true !!

[dodger 3,587]

 

Born in 73 and back in the 80's you could get loads of sweets for a quid lol.

Loved going down to the shop my gran worked in on sat morning with my spending money. Home in time for footy focus then out dossing all day in the woods.

Wish I could go back to them times.

Little paper bag of sweets for 10 p for us poor people,lol

10p mixes but would always try n put n extra one in if shop keeper wasn't lookin never an extra 2 tho that'd just be takin the piss lol

[Bunnyblatter 1,012]

 

 

Born in 73 and back in the 80's you could get loads of sweets for a quid lol.

Loved going down to the shop my gran worked in on sat morning with my spending money. Home in time for footy focus then out dossing all day in the woods.

Wish I could go back to them times.

Little paper bag of sweets for 10 p for us poor people,lol

10p mixes but would always try n put n extra one in if shop keeper wasn't lookin never an extra 2 tho that'd just be takin the piss lol

 

Lol. How very true.

I so wish it was like that for my kids and grandkids but unfortunately it's a totally different country now.

[Blackbriar 8,569]

 

 

Born in 73 and back in the 80's you could get loads of sweets for a quid lol.

Loved going down to the shop my gran worked in on sat morning with my spending money. Home in time for footy focus then out dossing all day in the woods.

Wish I could go back to them times.

Little paper bag of sweets for 10 p for us poor people,lol

10p mixes but would always try n put n extra one in if shop keeper wasn't lookin never an extra 2 tho that'd just be takin the piss lol

I can't remember the last time I saw sweets for sale out of a jar !

"Quarter of Kola Kubes please."

[dodger 3,587]

 

 

 

Born in 73 and back in the 80's you could get loads of sweets for a quid lol.

Loved going down to the shop my gran worked in on sat morning with my spending money. Home in time for footy focus then out dossing all day in the woods.

Wish I could go back to them times.

Little paper bag of sweets for 10 p for us poor people,lol

10p mixes but would always try n put n extra one in if shop keeper wasn't lookin never an extra 2 tho that'd just be takin the piss lol

I can't remember the last time I saw sweets for sale out of a jar !

"Quarter of Kola Kubes please."

1/4 midget gems for me n try n get a few extra blackens in there for me please..

[Bunnyblatter 1,012]

Oh yes buying in 1/4 bags. And Mars Bars were massive !!!

[Mister Gain 1,764]

I was a happy lad in the 60's if I got a 5 bob postal order or a ten bob note in a birthday card, would last me for weeks for sweets. My teenage era was late 60's early 70's.

[Waz 4,293]

Born in 73 and back in the 80's you could get loads of sweets for a quid lol.

Loved going down to the shop my gran worked in on sat morning with my spending money. Home in time for footy focus then out dossing all day in the woods.

Wish I could go back to them times.

A quid! jeezuz. 10p was plenty! some were only 1/2 a pence each. Bag of crisps was 10 pence!

[Bunnyblatter 1,012]

Yes and they were full bags of crisps.

I remember buying my first single on vinyl from there too lol. This that was about 70p so rest went on sweets.

[Blackbriar 8,569]

I remember me and my mates making a big thing of buying our first legal pint, on our 18th birthdays......even though the landlord had been serving us for 18 months !!

 

The landlord and the police didn't care as long as you caused no bother.....any trouble got sorted out, one on one, in the car park.

Edited August 11, 2016 by Blackbriar

[trigger2 3,307]

Birds pecking the milk bottle tops on your door step , still drank the fecker and survived lol

i was born in 79 i can remember the silver top milk on cold mornings about the top 3rd was cream and the lid would be off the bottle but still stuck to the cream. we lived in the sticks there was a row of 6 houses and i can always remember being sent round the houses for a 50 pence peace for the electric meter.

[stealthy1 3,964]

I remember everyone letting their dogs out onto the streets with the other dogs when the went to work, and letting them in when they came home. lol The invention of the modern lurcher cross maybe.

[peterhunter86 8,627]

I remember everyone letting their dogs out onto the streets with the other dogs when the went to work, and letting them in when they came home. lol The invention of the modern lurcher cross maybe.

 

 

Thats the way it was around here and if there was a bitch in heat there would be hundreds of dogs following it killing each other