In every 70s UK home ever

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.