In every 70s UK home ever

kitchen hatches
Radio Times
'C' batteries
a half used tin of Creamola Foam in the back of the cupboard

tea towels with traditional Welsh/Scots recipes on
Mousetrap with bits missing
dimple pint glasses

Unread James Clavell novels.

Reader's Digest Strange Stories, Amazing Facts book.

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can remember reading about spring-heeled jack, the Reichstag fire and the disappearance (probable murder by the KGB) of Lionel "Buster" Crabb. Intriguing stuff when you are a little kid and there are only 3 tv channels!

• Book club editions of books that have never been read
• Buckaroo that either won't kick or kicks so much it's unplayable

Packets of Angel Delight
Casdon Soccer
Fab 208 annual
Clackers

Winfield (Woolworths) own brand products

Were the green lady paintings '70s or '60s?

John Noakes: "This could happen to your clackers!" *explosion*

xp late 50s early 60s but very common in the 70s

xxp including Winfield branded lightbulbs

Butterick sewing patterns
Kays catalougues
Rented furniture and TV sets

TV repairmen

See also: renting your TV.

... I just said that!

I don't remember the 70s (I was only alive for 3 and a bit years of it) but pretty much everything in this thread also fits in my experience of 80s UK homes. this may be because I grew up in a place that time forgot

Kays catalogue was based in Worcester, my mum and my granny both worked there at some point in the 70s/80s

xp The argument for renting being that if your telly broke and it was rented, they'd swap it out for another one. If you'd bought outright it you'd save money in the long run but only if it never broke down. My parents had bought ours and one time the repair person was there for over an hour to fix a problem with the power button. Cost a fortune.

Saccharine tablets for when the Tate & Lyle runs out

TV's were prone to break down a lot, in fact electrical goods in general were pretty ropey. Which brings me to the fact that I don't think I've changed a fuse in decades, I don't know if that's down to the electricity supply being more stable or what.

In the era of RCBOs your breaker will trip out on the slightest imbalance on a circuit or fault current. In the old days people used to put tack nails in those cartridge fuses!

If they didn't have any fuse wire those good old bs 3036 fuses would still work with a nail!

artworks made from coloured thread looped round pins on a board covered with black velvet. there was probably a name for it. also vintage cars etc made from clock parts.

Thelwell cartoons.

Spirograph set

Willow pattern plates.
As I was reminded when taken for a curry last week and that was the Delph being used.

Was the reliance on repairmen for electrical goods prior to the proprietary nature of later electronic goods or part of the same process.

Spirograph set

though the majority of items posted otherwise seem quite different

xxp neither - electronic items got more reliable. The proprietary unfixableness came later.

Also it doesn't make sense to pay someone to come over and fix a 28" TV that cost £150.

Sven Hassel paperbacks.

Don't remember him but on the paperback fiction front I'd offer Dick Francis, Alistair Maclean, Agatha Christie, James Herriot and John Fowles.

Tom Sharpe. Guinness Book of Records. Pears Cyclopedia.

A corn dolly.

At least two packs of playing cards.

Louvre doors.
A loft hatch.

A heartache.

cork floor tiles
rush mats
woodchip on the walls

Pears Cyclopedia.

haha holy shit was just thinking about this the other day

African ornaments

Yukka plants

Rodney Matthews and Roger Dean books
ashtrays stolen from local pub

'things' generally stolen from the local pub

African ornaments

Specifically, that strange hand drum thing that featured in the Karate Kid part 2

(it might not be African)

Eddie, asleep on the couch from last nights party

Okay I'll stop projecting now

I made a reference to clackers at work recently and a colleague who is in their late 20s knew exactly what I was talking about because there was a clacker revival in the late 00s.