The photo on the left shows me on my Spacehopper in our back garden in 1971 when I was about 10 years old. I was recently approached by The History Press to write a book entitled 'A Childhood in the 1970s'. So much happened in that decade and I'm finding it very enjoyable putting it all together. The chapters include things like the music, pastimes, toys, school etc.
Remember when kids all played conkers and marbles or built their own dens and go-karts? We always seemed to be out and about and up to something back then. There's so much to write about, the crazy fashions (I remember a girl at school falling off her platforms and breaking her ankle), glam rock (remember when the Bay City Rollers came to Plymouth?), the endless strikes and power cuts, the television (there were only three channels), decimalisation, Chopper bikes and all the wonderful toys you got back then like Rocket Racers, Action Man, Clackers, Slinkys and all the board games like Haunted House, Buckaroo (later copied with Jaws), Ker-plunk!, Subbuteo, Cluedo, Operation, Battleship, The Fastest Gun, Rebound, Escape From Colditz. Connect 4 and Haunted House.
It all seems such a long time ago but is still fresh in my mind. I've lots of photos to include in the book but I'm still looking for more. If anyone has any, and doesn't mind them being in the book, I'd love to include them.
