Having four very young children then I never had a lot of time for myself the telly was my luxury

There were three TV channels in 1970.  People actually used to talk to each other then.  I am very glad that I had my teenage years in the 1970s rather than now.

I used to listen to music, read, play cards and games with the family

Me too

I was 16. Music, music, music and probably GCE "O" levels.

I was eight and played with Sindy dolls and rounders in the street. We coped without the internet because it didn't exist and when something doesn't exist you don't miss it obviously

Kids were much more content with what they had.  I hate hearing kids moan these days "I'm boooooooooooored".  Give me a carrier bag and a bit of string in the 70s and I would play for hours with my kite

I was never in, it was great!!! Youth clubs, movies, local dance on a friday night and hours of fun with loads of the neighbours kids under the lamp at the top of our road. We were allowed to stay out late because our parents could see us and it seemed much safer then.

1970 I was in the second year of secondary school.I was out at my pals houses etc,we didn't stay indoors as much as now.

Oh aye music,vinyl singles played on the"Dansette" record player..class!

I used to play wiv me Sindy

1970 I was 7....we'd be out till well after dark butr when it was too cold or wet we'd either be in th barn of playing 'murder in the dark' in one of the front rooms cos they have big wooden shutters on the windows so it was pitch black and great fun

I would be sitting cross-legged indoors with my incense burning, playing Deep Purple

Actually right about now I would probably be trying to tape stuff off the top 40 with a tape recorder without picking up all the background noise around the house (and failing miserably)

I agree, Tartan. I don't think I've ever been bored in my whole life.  Whilst the technology we all take for granted now is wonderful, you would have read about things like netbooks and iPods in SF books in the 1960s and 70s.   I'm sure the countless TV channels and reliance on technology have contributed to the dumbing down of our society.  We might not have had nearly as much in terms of material possessions a few decades ago, but at least we respected what we had and were able to make our own entertainment.

Me too. And schools were a bit different back then as well.....

Me too.... I still can't hear Hot Chocolate singing 'So you win again' without hearing my sister tell to shut up!  (She walked into our bedroom as I was recording it and I was frantically signalling her to be quiet!)

HAHA!..there's probably old tapes up and down the country with 'mum...tell her/him' in the middle of them

True Croc!  They were played to death too... all those interruption really have become part of the song in some cases!

We'd be watching the black and white telly, if there was anything on (electricity included), playing with the mice, fighting each other, or off playing in the woods or fields. Them there peeedoes weren't invented until later. 

 you were posh ..........we had beetles and cockroaches

We had a local peeeeedo!....when we me across him in the woods we'd just tell him to pee off and walk past (with our German Shepherd we took everywhere)

I used to play with spiders. I loved them.

My brother got one white mouse and we woke up one morning to find a few hundred babies in there. (I may be imagining it was more than it really was)

My brother got a buy one get two free guinea pig once.  Brothers had all the luck.   I got my white mouse in a plywood box with a glass slidey lid from the pet shop.  Next day I had an empty box with a mouse sized hole chewed in it.

I used to play on the train tracks.

We were rarely inside either.  Always playing footy in the street or the park or just hanging around really.

Oh god in the summer I'd snatch some breakfast then disappear outdoors until I got hungry or it got dark and my folks never worried about it since all us kids were the same. 

And Sunday evenings as a teenager in the late 70's - a cassette deck and the Top 40 in Radio 1. Trying to hit the stop button before Tony Blackburn spoke over the song.

LOL.... I don't remember having much spare time in the 70s, what with children, work and home..... but I used to watch the 3 channels we had.... and read a lot.... oh and talk to people.

Just read Croc's post...oops sorry.  

I remeber watching Pot Black on a black and white tv

Sunday afternoon tea was a treat in front of the telly with home made cakes and sandwiches watching "On The Move" followed by "Songs Of Praise". We never watched ITV - my folks thought it was common.

Home made jam tarts!

And wasn;t Some Mothers Do 'Ave ';em on aSunday night?

I don't remember that far back - but certainly as a kid by the end of the 1970's i do recall a Saturday routine: Swimming at Southgate pool in the morning - lunch at the Wimpy bar - then either off to Highbury to watch Arsenal or Green Park, Southgate, to watch Saracens if Arsenal were playing away. Happy days - and usually meeting up with mates in the evening; never home and never standing still!

Wimpy!! They have one in the Virgin ad!

Croc - It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Are You Being Served?, The Two Ronnies, Mike Yarwood, That's Life, Porridge ...

Channel 4 was called Channel 4 simply because it was the 4th channel - I remember that starting. I was 18.

I remember the first night of Channel 4...Five Go Mad in Dorset!

Saturday Night At the Palladium.  The Comedians.    Game shows like The Generation Game and talent shows like Hughie Green's Opportunity Knocks and The New Faces.  Was all that in the 70s?

Yes...the Comedians was on Sunday nights

I wasn't born in 1970 so I guess I'd just stay nestled in my parents reproductive organs.

John Travolta Saturday Night Fever