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Just for a bit of fun, what is your favourite decade and why?
Listening to some music earlier got me thinking, what is my favourite decade?
Without question, it is the 60's.
I left school in July'66, just in time to watch England win the World Cup
I started my first job for the princely sum of £7 a week, £3 of which I handed over to Mum for my “keep” £4 a week for myself after just 15 shillings a week doing a morning paper round. I felt like a millionaire.
Beer was cheap, Watneys Red barrel was 2 shillings a pint and Double Diamond was half a crown (2/6d) and lager was unheard of. I didn't smoke and there were no kebabs or curries around to get me fat! Fast food was a Wimpey or Fish and chips. No BK or McDonalds in those days.
Girls, beer, music and cars were my weakness once I turned 17 later that year.
Flower power was at its height, I had myself a Lambretta and life was good.
Got myself a Ford Anglia after passing my test at 18 and thought it was the dogs danglies though I secretly wanted a Mini Cooper or if I saved hard enough, a Lotus Cortina! I had a part time job pumping fuel at an upmarket garage in Canford Cliffs, a posh part of town just outside Bournemouth.
Tony Blackburn used to breeze in with his white E-Type and Pete Murray and Max Bygraves were often seen in their Mercedes and Roller. The 60'swere in full flow.
The Anglia was the first car I owned, and the first car I modified. An Ian Piper race cam and Cortina GT 4 branch manifold followed by a respray in Dark brown with a yellow stripe (very 70's already) I thought it was great until it threw a conrod on the A3 near Camberley and spewed all the oil on the road and then seized the engine.
I'd like to say I owned a lot of great cars, but an early marriage meant money went on different priorities. Moving on from the scrapped Anglia, I took ownership of my Dads ageing Triumph Herald 12/50 that had a fair turn of speed but had a horrible habit of tucking in the rear wheels when cornering hard.
I got myself a Mini Cooper in the early 70's but it wasn't the cooking 1275s model.
Then the music, an era that will never be bettered IMHO. The Beatles started it in '62 and right through until the 70's I enjoyed going to concerts, topped by seeing Led Zeppelin in '69. Pink Floyd always escaped me and I regret never seeing them to this day. Some great artists were beginning and I loved the Who, the Beach Boys, David Bowie and the Motown stuff from Marvin Gaye and the Four Tops. The Stones never did it for me despite a few great singles.
Then the girls. Mini skirts, hot pants, the pill. Thank you the 60's!
I found that owning a car came in very handy on the dating scene. Met my then wife to be #1 in a Bournemouth pub. Shame it didn't last.
So that's my teenage years. The 60's were the best time ever for me and the millennials will never know what it was like.
How about you?
What is your favourite decade and why?
Listening to some music earlier got me thinking, what is my favourite decade?
Without question, it is the 60's.
I left school in July'66, just in time to watch England win the World Cup
I started my first job for the princely sum of £7 a week, £3 of which I handed over to Mum for my “keep” £4 a week for myself after just 15 shillings a week doing a morning paper round. I felt like a millionaire.
Beer was cheap, Watneys Red barrel was 2 shillings a pint and Double Diamond was half a crown (2/6d) and lager was unheard of. I didn't smoke and there were no kebabs or curries around to get me fat! Fast food was a Wimpey or Fish and chips. No BK or McDonalds in those days.
Girls, beer, music and cars were my weakness once I turned 17 later that year.
Flower power was at its height, I had myself a Lambretta and life was good.
Got myself a Ford Anglia after passing my test at 18 and thought it was the dogs danglies though I secretly wanted a Mini Cooper or if I saved hard enough, a Lotus Cortina! I had a part time job pumping fuel at an upmarket garage in Canford Cliffs, a posh part of town just outside Bournemouth.
Tony Blackburn used to breeze in with his white E-Type and Pete Murray and Max Bygraves were often seen in their Mercedes and Roller. The 60'swere in full flow.
The Anglia was the first car I owned, and the first car I modified. An Ian Piper race cam and Cortina GT 4 branch manifold followed by a respray in Dark brown with a yellow stripe (very 70's already) I thought it was great until it threw a conrod on the A3 near Camberley and spewed all the oil on the road and then seized the engine.
I'd like to say I owned a lot of great cars, but an early marriage meant money went on different priorities. Moving on from the scrapped Anglia, I took ownership of my Dads ageing Triumph Herald 12/50 that had a fair turn of speed but had a horrible habit of tucking in the rear wheels when cornering hard.
I got myself a Mini Cooper in the early 70's but it wasn't the cooking 1275s model.
Then the music, an era that will never be bettered IMHO. The Beatles started it in '62 and right through until the 70's I enjoyed going to concerts, topped by seeing Led Zeppelin in '69. Pink Floyd always escaped me and I regret never seeing them to this day. Some great artists were beginning and I loved the Who, the Beach Boys, David Bowie and the Motown stuff from Marvin Gaye and the Four Tops. The Stones never did it for me despite a few great singles.
Then the girls. Mini skirts, hot pants, the pill. Thank you the 60's!
I found that owning a car came in very handy on the dating scene. Met my then wife to be #1 in a Bournemouth pub. Shame it didn't last.
So that's my teenage years. The 60's were the best time ever for me and the millennials will never know what it was like.
How about you?
What is your favourite decade and why?
