🇬🇧 UK Nostalgia Thread – Come Have a Proper Trip Down Memory Lane 🇬🇧 Keep the thread going and build up a thread of happy memories!!

Alright… let’s rewind the clock ⏪

This thread is for everything nostalgic about growing up in the UK....the good stuff, the cringe stuff, and the things you didn’t realise you’d miss until they were gone.

We’re talking:

• 🍭 Food & snacks you’d sell a sibling for (or beg your mum for at the corner shop)

• 📺 TV shows you’d sprint home to watch, scream the house down if you couldnt watch em.

• 🧸 Toys & games you swore were the best thing ever, top quality plastics compared to today! What was your fave toys??

• 🏖️ Places you went on school trips or family holidays, was it butlins or seaside capers?

• 👨‍🦳 Dad habits that were annoying at the time but weirdly comforting now, dad dance in his tank top?

• 🚲 Stuff you did as a kid that would probably cause a safeguarding meeting today, nicking milk off door-steps or carol singing?

• Cars of the time that cool capri 2.8 Injection

Got photos, old videos, random screenshots, retro packaging, school pics, or even something you’ve still got in the loft? UPLOAD IT.
The messier and more “you had to be there” the better.

No pressure to be clever — just share whatever makes you go:

“Bloody hell, I forgot about that.”

Bonus points if it makes everyone else say:

• “My dad did that too”

• “I can smell this picture”

• “Why did we all have this exact same experience?”

• Remember the taste of that.

• Why did they get rid of Findus Cripsy Pancakes??

Let’s laugh, cringe, reminisce, and collectively realise how weird and brilliant growing up in the UK actually was 🇬🇧✨

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of being a kid?

If you love what a member has posted and brings back happy memories then like the post!

I still have my old Nintendo Donkey Kong Games. Has a placement in my lounge glass cupboard. Sometimes let the kids play it and tell then that this is all we had, just the one game and should be lucky to have a choice. I think you made do with the limited selection of games.

This was just before Commodore 64 came out and changed my world. Even my old man was playing "Raid over Moscow" game. Was magic.

You would trade game cassettes with school mats then spend 20 mins loading them in only to find out it was a bad copy. ohhh the struggle lol

Was a big fan of

The Professionals
Minder
The Saint
Tales of the unexpected ( loved the one with the boy that disappeared on the back of a turtle. weird)
Tom & Jerry
Danger Mouse
Tenko (why.. goodness knows)
Shine on Harvey Moon
Why Not you
Runaround
Tizwaz
Monty Python

All this, I guess, depends on exactly when/where you grew up.

B**ggering about at the moment with phones/broadband/car insurance etc. Making me feel nostalgic for simpler times when you had a chunky black bakelite phone with a dial, you paid all your bills at the Post Office with real cash, and the insurance man came round to your house!

Memories of snacks - always had a thing for Mars bars, but how they've shrunk over the years and don't taste the same.

Used to go to life-saving swimming classes after school once a week at Joseph Street baths in Hunslet, Leeds (long demolished). Always had a Wagon Wheel afterwards - another thing thats shrunk while growing price -wise, Iirc they were only 2d back then.

I don't feel nostalgic about the damp 2 up, 2 down terrace where I started life though (also long demolished). No inside WC, just a communal block of four for the whole street. Still a source of some amusement though - older boys used to keep old ladies pinned down in there with salvos of air gun pellets! Every time I see a rerun of "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" where Albert Finney does something similar, reminds me of that.

Life om Mars😍

Ashes to Ashes 😍

Top Gear

Fifth Gear a proper car show 😁

Many of todays old fuddy duddies in the 50's/60's will remember the early days of making wood aircraft model kits which was simply a carded box of roughly outlined sawn bits of wood with sandpaper - rub on stencils - diecast wheels - clear glazing sections, so who's the old fella's on the forum who made such things ?

I never did such wood models, my time with models was from the mid 1970's with Revell/Matchbox/Airfix/Frog which was plastic injection kits.

As a young un who visited car scrap yards in the 1970's on a late sunday afternoon ? When they was shut!

Just to nick car badges/emblems/steering wheel centres just to put up in the shed