The 70's and 80's in Ireland

Boys from the Blackstuff. Yosser Hughes, "gis a job".

nearest thing you'd ever get to hot oil wresting on RTE, maybe I should have watched it!

Ipso wrote: »

North and South, starring Patrick Swayze.

and David Carradine as Justin LaMotte - legend of a character.

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxQqUhsNsGQ

The series lasted a lot longer than the war!

The timeline covered by the series spanned 1939-1948.
In Australia it ran from 1976-1983.
They generally showed four or five episodes a week.
In Ireland, it ran for one episode a week and if there was showjumping or snooker, it got bumped.

RTE started showing it in 1978. They still hadn't finished the run by the mid 1990s.

They are 1,114 episodes. 23 volumes on DVD. Bought them all from Eaton Films (UK distributor for Crawfords) ande-watched the lot between 2011-2017.

I'm a biker, and this episode is very silly indeed but also very funny!

Edit: the physical comedy. press Stop at 16 minutes, the rest is just awful, I don't know how I hung on for the bad gags 40 years ago.

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJKRROzmuaI

I'm a biker, and this episode is very silly indeed but also very funny!

Edit: the physical comedy. press Stop at 16 minutes, the rest is just awful, I don't know how I hung on for the bad gags 40 years ago.

Ah Frank Spencer was brilliant.

Anyone remember the TV series of Heidi? I'm currently reading the book to my 6yo daughter and some of the episodes are on YouTube.
It seemed to be on forever!

No Doe, or NCT on cars or vans, floorpans rotten in most cars over 10 years old, you would want to be wearing wellies driving on a wet day

We'd often have the cow's from the field across the road break out through the fence and have a wander into our back yard !
The milk man in his Midland Dairies truck , would stop and give you a lift up the road , on the left footwell of the truck,the panel was clear glass

Milk in glass bottles , the birds would pick through the foil lid if you hadn't a proper set up where your milk was to be left .

Making go carts with whatever wood and wheels you could find , with a rope for steering , often ending up in the ditch , fun times , happy memories.

WildWater wrote: »

I think the families of the 628 road fatalities in 1978 probably did gave a damn. Road fatalities throughout the 70s were 500+ with the 80s little better. Truly shocking especially when you factor in the number of vehicles on the road then in comparison to now.

Even worse when you consider that the population was a lot less back then. We've made huge improvements to road safety.

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Making go carts with whatever wood and wheels you could find , with a rope for steering , often ending up in the ditch , fun times , happy memories.

One of the neighbour kids had one that was basically a door with wheels. You could fit about eight kids on besides the driver (needed another eight to push it).

Rubberlegs wrote: »

The roller skates in the 70s that were adjustable metal bases with straps, you wore your shoes inside them. Then the roller boot skates in the 80s that had the big rubber stoppers on them. Except I couldn't use the stoppers and crashed into hedges, walls, gates or anything available to stop myself. Painful yet fun times

Hence the rubber legs now?

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Making go carts with whatever wood and wheels you could find , with a rope for steering , often ending up in the ditch , fun times , happy memories.

***Disclaimer..do not try this at home kids!

I remember when wheelie bins where a new phenomenon in the country and putting my younger brother or sister standing up in our empty bin and giving them a little push down the road (steep hill).
Another favourite was getting a single bed mattress and putting it at the top of the stairs and going tummy first on it down the stairs praying the mattress wouldn't double back underneath on the way down.

I used to do the mattress thing but without the mattress. Covered in carpet burns I was.

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Am lol at the mattresses , or lack of on the stairs , we lost out on that one as we lived in a bungalow .
Although we did live near the bottom of a hill , so on a frosty night we'd go out and throw a jug of water on the road in front of the gateway *....

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Please do not try this at home!!
We lived in the sticks , and this was in the 70-80's .

In truth, I wasn't sliding down the stairs for kicks. I have dyspraxia (not that anyone knew that, I was just a clumsy, oddball as far as everyone was concerned ) and I couldn't actually walk down the stairs til I was 6. I had to bum shuffle down so sliding was just faster. Also used to climb over the bannister and, keeping myself flush to it, just drop to the floor, or slide down the bannister, or jump from about 8 steps up. I dont know how i managed to stay out of traction. Once got my foot jammed between two bannister posts and was left hanging upside down by the foot for 15 minutes while my mother chatted to the milkman at the front door.

Oh yeah, my brain could co-ordinate my body to do all those moves but could not figure out how to walk me down the stairs. In the 70s/80s dyspraxia and dyslexia didn't exist and those if us with such challenges were treated as backwards, weird and stupid. That is not something I'd like to return to. Enjoyed sliding down the stairs though.

archer22 wrote: »

Also Dogs in the rural areas who used to sit outside the gate all day waiting for cars to chase.

They were into fitness training before it ever caught on with Humans :pac:

There is still a few at it , up the road from me there's a young collie who can't get enough action at his own gate , so he goes to the nearest cross roads which is about 400 m away to keep busy

Racing coverage on ITV, the Fighting Fifth Hurdle, Massey Ferguson Gold Cup and jockeys like Ron Barry John Francombe John Joe O Neill