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BBC tonight ......

Flll us in, Mau :-) <3

Oh love your avatar!

Hya BC <3...tonight it's the swinging Sixties :-D


Avatar = Paeonies in the back garden :-)

Oh my the Swinging Sixties, Mau...maybe it will remind me of what I did! :-D :-D

or not? hahaha....I remember ALL mine ;-) :-S :-D

Don't forget to watch :-)

I've set a reminder, Mau :-)...how's the weather with you today? We had a lovely warm day......BC XX

Urging the girls to bed as I type so I can watch in peace lol

...though i do skyplus it to watch again with them at the weekend x

Weather's been canny over the last couple of days.....even *gasps some sun!! and quite warm.....but forcast heavy rain tomorrow :-( XX

Do you read to your girls Muffy? I loved childrens' bedtime...ah happy days :-)XX

I used to Mau. These days I'm afraid they prefer to read their Jacqueline Wilsons and Roald Dahls without me lol x

Yeay they grow up soo quickly :-) ... of course 'Mummy' has her 'Grey book' to read' .;-)lol ...lot of coverage about the book and hasn't the author made a fortune? critics are saying it's not even well written :-0....*wonders what the attraction is* :-S x

Well what was everyone's thoughts about the programme tonight?

Did you, like myself,find some facts weren't quite right? for instance (and speaking from my own experience) I didn't know of any 15 year olds who left home to live in a flat! 18 yrs.old mebbe but no-one left home straight after leaving schoolat 15y......did they in your neighbourhood? and going to nightclubs? or was this just in London? BC will probably know ;-)

And It must have been horrible for Jamaican immigrants at that time.

I did like the Meadows living room, and the brightly coloured wallpaper, I still have my original coffee table lol and wouldn't part with it.
Programme certainly took me right back,but think the term 'teenagers' was first talked about in the Fifties,if my memory serves me correctly.

Mau

I enjoyed the programme, Mau. Well it was just like yesterday for me! :-D Yes I think 15 was a bit young to leave home but think it was ok for clubbing though. I was a bit more than a teenager in the 60s but my skirts were just as short! lol

It all came back to me....the bedsit my pal and I shared was just as grotty as the girl's flat...but heck we didn't care!

Great programme. BC XX

I finished the triology ages ago Mau lol...but yeah it WAS badly written...draw your own conclusions ;-) :-D

I'm a bit disappointed that they bypassed the 50s....was it really THAT boring??? I wasn't on this earth til 1970 and my proper memories don't start til about 1976 so I have no idea how realistic or otherwise this programme was.

I do remember that when I was a very small child..my dad used to work with a lot of *coloured* (using the terminology of the programme) guys and they were the nicest most loyal blokes I've ever met.......they used to train him when he was an apprentice.......then he became their manager......they were HARSH task masters..but put my Dad where he was with their tough love and he never forgot it; They used to call me bobby moore apparently because of my lack of hair until about the age of 2 lololololo.....I know for a fact that the Jamaican immigrants had a positive effect on my family ...they also used to look after my grandad when he was ill and really CARED about us all...over and above what you would ever expect..anyhow..sorry I digress...

Would love to have been about in that era..but feel I'd have been a bit of wimp like the Meadow's girls when push came to shove lol

I did enjoy the programme but just thought BBC had got their facts wrong re the 15yr olds.
Karen at work we were paid very low wages and didn't even pay board at home,never mind pay for a flat........must have been different in London.
My Brother left home when he was 18yrs and led a Hippy lifestyle in the Sixties,but was only one I knew to do so.
Think next week's the Seventies is the last in the series.

Yes BC my skirts were very short,and always had to make sure knicks were matching when going upstairs on the bus to work lol
Loved the music and we used to go to the local ballroom to Twist the night away. Won a competition one time....prize was a box of ciggies :-0

Didn't think the Fifties was boring Muffy:-0 ....well mid. 1950s anyway.....start of Rock'n'roll :-D

Mau XX

My elder sister moved into a bedsit in the '60's - and yes, it was grotty. It was quite big, with the 'kitchen' - a fridge, sink & baby belling behind a curtain. Shared bathroom.
I moved in to one for a short time in the '70's - not much had changed - except I only had a baby belling- no fridge,in the one room, and a washbasin in the corner - shared bathroom again.
There was a creepy man upstairs who came down with a 'po' every morning - and an even creepier landord who lived in the basement and, if I was late back from work on a Friday, would be hanging around my room waiting for his rent.

Despite Twiggy being 'the' model, it was very difficult to get clothes to fit me (I was about a size 6 - but ate like a horse!!)

.....as for caravan holidays - forget it, we lived in one from 1960 until 1966, (that's a family of 4 children and 2 adults - plus cat) and I lived in a couple as an adult - they hold no 'romance' or 'simple charm' for me.

Having said that, me, my sister and 82 year old mum are going on a camper van holiday in August!!!(sister's idea :-|)

I Think this series has not got it right. many flaws I have spotted. I left school in 1944. we were responsible people at that time we had lived through bombing and grew up quickly.
why would young girls get a flat in a building next to their parents? if they wanted to leave home it must have been so they could do what they wanted and not let their parents see what they were up too.? they must have been earning good money to be able to afford that flat. I was married in 1951 and we didnt even have money for a honeymoon or a flat one room was all we had and that was in a relations house so we didnt have to pay much.
Yes we went camping in the first in a tent then in a caravan which we rented. it was all we could afford.

In the 40's and 50's you could go dancing in many halls and never be asked your age maybe that was because the war was on.?

Flats in the 50's and 60's were hard to find. troops had come back from the war and many had moved into the flats and Prefabs which had been built to help rehouse people. as so many buildings had been bombed and not repaired..
Housing waiting list were long and the waiting time was extra long. I had been on the list my number was around 18.600 I never did get a council house or flat.

Hi
I too enjoyed the programme and agree some of the facts weren't as I remember.
I certainly wasn't allowed to go clubbing and I don't think many of my friends went either despite being old enough.

Most of us stayed on at school and I think they might have emphasized this a bit more that in many families teenagers were encouraged(especially girls) to continue in education. I do remember having plenty of equipment at school and there certainly was plenty of optimism about.

I loved the sixties fashion although most of us made our own clothes.

Off course the researchers for these programmes are mostly. Lets face it to be a teenager in the sixties you would now have to be pensioner so probably no longer employed by the BBC :-D :-D

Muffy - we didn't have all the mod cons that we have now so we accepted what we had and got on with life. After all our generation didn't have soft toilet paper and weren't used to all the luxuries of life. Difficult for the Meadows girls.
Take care
Von

Good morning Maggie and Rita

Yes Maggie think my Bil would agree with you about the bedsit,in their early married life he and his wife lived in Brixton. He tells me they also shared a bathroom and their cooker was on the landing,has always sounded grim to me,but then it might have been the norm for a lot of folk living in the big cities.
Your landlord sounds a bit like creepy Rigsby from Rising Damp.

Rita... the girls were only living next door to their parents because it was a tv programme,shouldn't imagine they would choose to find a flat so near....unless somebody knows differently :-S

We went camping with our family too,enjoyable when sunny & dry but miserable when wet and find your tent's blown away :-0..

Mau