Description
Book SynopsisA 1970s childhood was, for many, a life of happy-go-lucky freedom set against a soundtrack of pop music played on a transistor radio dangling from the handlebars of a Raleigh Chopper. It was a playground battlefield of Sindy versus Action Man or a dexterous display of how to handle Clackers without painfully rapping them across the knuckles. After-school television meant a choice of ‘Blue Peter’ or ‘Magpie’, while chewing on an Aztec chocolate bar and flicking through
Shoot or
Jackie magazine. Yet it was also a decade of strikes, the three-day week and the Winter of Discontent which passed most children by unless a power cut meant no television. This fully illustrated book is a celebration of that childhood, its highs, lows and scraped knees, that will readily bring back the forgotten memories of a generation that grew up without mobile phones, the internet and 24-hour shopping.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Welcome Home: Family Life The Best Days of Your Life: School Extra Helpings: Food and Drink Running Free: Recreation Page-Turners: Books and Magazines Switched on: Television The Beat Goes On: Popular Music You Wear it Well: Fashion Epilogue Further Reading Image Acknowledgements Places to Visit Index
