Back to the 70s

"I remember UK holidays in Bournemouth and Looe, Saturday morning TV that included White Horses and Zorro (both in black and white), The Banana Splits and the Flashing Blade (my favourite)! Also The Wombles, The Wurzels, Slade, Gary Glitter, David Dundas, Tiger Tokens, The Basil Brush Show, Dr. Who (Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker), Blake's Seven, Van Der Valk, Eye Level, George Best, Martin Chivers, JPR Williams, Gareth Edwards, Joe Bugner, Henry Cooper, Kevin Keegan, Ally's Tartan Army, Nottingham Forest FC, Leeds Utd., Man. Utd., Arsenal, Sailing (Rod Stewart), Survivors, Grease, Star Wars, Abba, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Happy Days, the Queens Silver Jubilee, Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, going to Church, Sister Dominic, being in the cubs, Roots, A Bridge Too Far, Airfix kits, Airfix toy soldiers, Action Man (you could sit on the Armoured Car and go down a hill on it!), Tonka Toys the Saturday night movie, The Pink Panther (cartoon and films), final score, and the Green 'Un paper. Not only the Raleigh Chopper but the Raleigh Budgie and Grifter (an early BMX??), my Raleigh Arena 5-speed racer and all the people who aren't here anymore. The list goes on........ " Jason

"The 70s to me was the best time to grow up. remembering TV programmes like The Double Deckers, glam rock music, space hoppers, Raleigh Chopper bike. In 1975 I was 12 yrs old and I can still remember those days like it was yesterday. I even have the Double Deckers on DVD now just to bring back those memories. I'm always looking on retro web sites. How I would love to go back in time......" Ian Johnson

"I remember wowing on Bowie a lot, trying to get my head round Jean Genie lyrics, down came the hem lines; Chekhov, strawberries and Blue Nun in Chichester. Red sunsets from a Shoreham bus. Flower power faded but still wearing the ties and the collars as big as saucers. Big boys don't cry - but I did a lot, in telephone boxes when I couldn't get through and then I'd bury my brain in the ICA in London, sampling Bergman, Maoist agitprop from City Limits and trying to surf Dylan's Planet Waves. Best surf was at Woolacombe - playing Pink Floyd round the clock, crashing in a friends cottage, studying love all the time, hoping Proust could teach me something about it." Pop Burns

"Yes...Please take me there!...Please!..."

"I would love to go back to the 70s. It was the best time to be out discoing. German sweet wines you would never dream of drinking now. Always prawn cocktail, steak and black forest gateaux. I still do 70s night food for friends. Ah, they were the days. Take me back please." Ann Thomas