The sixties

I can remember my mum doing that!
callgirl Thank you! What a lovely picture.

Perhaps we did Anniebach That would have been nice wouldn't it ?

I can’t remember the 60s so I must have been there!!

We could have gone to a different jazz club any night of the week, plus folk clubs. They were all smokey and beery, but there was rarely any trouble.
DH and I hitch-hiked everywhere also

Oh yes, the freedom of hitch hiking

BB yes , a lovely thought x

Didn`t you spit on yours Telly? I thought we all did!

How else did anyone use their block mascara? I loved the eye makeup of the time, used to rush into college and put a couple of quick outer eye flicks on before I went to lectures. Probably mascara and lipstick too.
There was an odd rule that for PE classes we must remove jewellery (reasonable) and nail polish (what??). Also residents must not invite male guests into their rooms - lest they saw their washbasins!!
Our principal was a tiny, stern Scot who called us her 'colleagues' - junior colleagues, of course! She also said 'am't I' rather than 'aren't I' which I'd not heard before nor, I think since. Another rule was that we were not allowed to wear trousers.
We were a single sex teacher training college. A year or two after we left men were admitted and things changed!

I was 7 in 1960 and 17 in 1970, so the 60's were my formative years.

I remember radio 1 starting with Tony Blackburn (listen to Radio 2 now

I used to love The Monkees, and spent ages trying to knit a green bobble hat that Mike Nesmith wore.

I loved the fashions, especially mini skirts and flower power. missadventre here is a photo is of me in about 1969 aged 16!

That's an absolute beauty, NannyJan.
You look like a fabulous flower fairy..

Lovely photo, typical of those years.
Even I, 17 years older, had a miniskirt - pleated, yellow with flowers.

glammanana I'm from Liverpool and paid 2/6 to see the Beatles at the Cavern when they first released Love Me Do.I was nineteen then ,loved the 60's

Ah The NME my bible, I bought it religously? every Sat teatime at my local railway station kiosk, fancied the bloke behind the counter too

Thank you Anitampl, that's it Love Hurts.
Yes I'm watching the old Western series too. Love the High Chapparal and Bonanza- the lost episodes on CPS. Am amazed at how clean their shirts always are ? Also loved Z Cars with lovely Colin Welland and Dixon of Dock Green. Enjoyed a series called The Inheritance which doesn't seem to have been repeated, also Peyton Place. The Lotus Eaters with Ian Hendry and Cumberbatch's mother, they ran that taverna in Aghios Nicolios - or something like that!

Ha ha MissAdventure, I have been called many things, but never a flower fairy!

I was born in the 60’s. Just saying .

"love Hurts" that's it, thank you Anitampl. I love the old Westerns too, many are on CBS now - Bonanza - the lost episodes and High Chapparral. Can't get over how young they look and how clean their shirts are! Read online that Hoss (Dan Blocker) was just like his character and all the cast and crew loved him. I had the LP of Hair 12Michael, kept it for nearly 50 years until we cleared out the loft last year and took it to the charity shop. Clearing out the loft was one of the hardest and most emotional things I've done.

And I got married on the day that Radio 1 started. 30.9.67

Oops, sorry I posted twice. Senior moment ??

The great thing about the sixties was the employment situation. I left a Secondary Modern School in 1960 at the age of fifteen with no qualifications whatsoever, and yet in the Bristol area and throughout most of the UK I believe there were more job vacancies than there were people to fill them.

That gave young people the opportunity to "try" different occupations and if you did not like the current job or employer, then move on. Eventually most found the industry that they enjoyed working in and settled down.

For me it was the Road Transport Industry at the age of eighteen and I have been involved with that sector right up until today were at the age of seventy-four I am still working with well over 50% of that work involving the Road Transport industry.

I feel that young people today who do not get the opportunity to work in various Industries at the start of their working lives sadly miss out on what was available to us. Also the opportunity of free of cost lifelong learning was also available to me and many others of my generation.

Yes the 60s where a time of great opportunity I feel.

Despite very happy, sunny, optimistic personal memories of the 60s, I remember a friend of mine getting pregnant in the late 60s while still at school and being put in a place for single mothers prior to the birth, after which the baby was taken away from her for adoption; a few years later and it might not have ended so sadly.

Grandad1943 - something we agree about! Lifelong learning and good opportunities to work were the foundations of our lives.
There were also proper apprenticeships, lasting 5 years. It gave boys the chance to become young men, working alongside men who could be positive role models.
I was able to complete a professional qualification at one of the Poly's, in the late 70's - that qualification would now cost me about £65000. I was a single parent and couldn't have run up a debt of that size. I worked for 35 years in the area in which I qualified. My training was paid for by the Home Office and public service got its money back and more.

Lovely pic NannyJan, you look rather ethereal.

Love that photo Nannyjan53. You look fantastic!

Thank you callgirl1 and moonbeams

I am looking at the photo through different eyes now .