25 Things Normal in the UK in 1975 — Unthinkable Today

Smoke over your pint, a telly that said goodnight, and children who vanished until tea time. This is everyday Britain in 1975, and almost none of it would pass today. Twenty-five ordinary things from the year of decimal money, runaway prices and a country where only about half the homes had a telephone: sweet cigarettes, Radio Rentals, Green Shield Stamps, the cane and the tawse, four star petrol, the red phone box and the back seat with no belts. Counted down from number twenty-five to number one. Which one was your house? Which of these did you do every single day, and then one day just stopped, without ever noticing when? Tell me in the comments. Sources and references Royal Mint, decimalisation House of Commons Library, inflation and prices Royal Mint Museum, "Quick Change" Archive of Market and Social Research, TGI archive Department for Transport, seat belt safety Wikipedia (Cheque guarantee card; Sex Discrimination Act 1975; Equal Pay Act 1970; Radio Rentals; Corporal punishment in schools; Candy cigarette) Policy Studies Institute / Oxford archive, children's independent mobility #1975 #BritishNostalgia #1970sBritain