Category Archives: 1970’S

What’s So Special About the Past?

Posted on June 20, 2020 by charliecountryboy

The alarm clacks its two bells at six am and I can hear Chuck Berry’s, ‘My Ding a Ling’ playing somewhere in the house. Normally I go back to sleep – I am only fifteen and a full day in … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, History, Humour, Life | Tagged 1970'S, 1972, Child Labour, Chuck Berry, Days Gone by, Engineering, Factories, Factory Work, Fifteen, Glory Days, Life, My Ding a Ling, Remember, Reminiscing | 59 Comments

Clouds, Kids, Love and Soul

Posted on June 13, 2020 by charliecountryboy

The mournful clouds oppress my soul. Of course, we have to presume: A- I have a soul and B – If I have, could it be oppressed. But it’s better than saying, ‘I’m sick of the rain,’ isn’t it? I … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, Freedom, Humour, Life, Love, Opinion | Tagged 1970'S, Childhood, Childhood Sweetheart, Clouds, Grass, Lazy Sunday Afternoon, Lazy Sundays, Reflections, Small Faces, Sounds and Smells, Sunshine, Teenage Liaisons, Teenage Love | 59 Comments

Memories, Smells and The Bus

Posted on June 6, 2020 by charliecountryboy

The aroma of the bus. I have never been able to identify it. Plastic seats soaked in decayed human sweat, a definite metal acidity and stale smoke? But at six o’clock in the unearthly hours of 1973, it was easy. … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, History, Humour, Life | Tagged 1973, Albert Finney, Bus, Embassy, Parkdrive, Peter Stuyvesant, Players No6, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Senior Service, Smoking, Smoking on a Bus, The Brotherhood of Man, The New Seekers, Woodbines | 73 Comments

Strange Thoughts and Yoga

Posted on May 2, 2020 by charliecountryboy

Eyes searching upwards from the laptop capture the blue sky before the sunlight pierces the cornea, forcing me to squint. Now 70’s channel plays The Archies ‘Sugar, Sugar’ and I recall fancying the brunette when an adolescent, so I have … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Coronavirus, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, Opinion | Tagged 70's Music, Achilles Tendon, Adriene Yoga, Blog, Blogging, Exercise, Humour, Life, Sports Injury, The Archies, Yoga, YouTube Yoga | 40 Comments

Oh! The Working Men’s Club

Posted on March 28, 2020 by charliecountryboy

Picture this. A warm alluring bar, rich, mellow music, intimate seating and culinary delights to tease your taste buds into a frenzy. Well, a Working Men’s Club wasn’t quite like that. When I was a lad this was our Sunday … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Dancing, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, Over 50's, people | Tagged 1970'S, Bingo, Humour, Life, Northern Dance Bands, Pie and Peas, Social Clubs, Tetley Bitter, Working Class, Working Men, Working Men's Club, Working Women | 35 Comments

Sexual Awakening

Posted on March 14, 2020 by charliecountryboy

If you have a disinclination towards sex, then it may be prudent of you to ‘click’ close now. One dark cold night last week I was reminiscing to an age gone by and ‘the sexual awakening.’ I was eleven or … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, people | Tagged Adolescence, Childhood, Growing Up, Hells Angels, Oral Sex, Sex, Sexual Awakening, Star Trek | 36 Comments

Another Old Girl

Posted on March 7, 2020 by charliecountryboy

“That’s the best Curry I have had in 44 years,” I said. The waiter, quite possibly the owner of the Kashmir Restaurant in Bradford gave me one of those looks. I’m kinda used to them by now. He appeared to … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, Railways, Travel | Tagged 1976, Bradford, Curry, Great Victoria Hotel, Karachi Restaurant, Kashmir Restaurant, Prostitutes, Railway Hotels, Victorians | 29 Comments

My First Valentine

Posted on February 15, 2020 by charliecountryboy

I had considered a brooch but I wasn’t my Grandad and this was 1972. A brooch was hardly Rock’n’Roll. Gazing around the jewelers I was confounded by the amount glittering remuneration a boy could extend to a girl and decided … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, History, Humour, Life, Love, Opinion, Valentine Day | Tagged 1970'S, Adolescence, Blogging, Charlie Robinson, Human Interest, Humour, Life, Opinion, People, Relationships | 32 Comments

The Trilby and the ‘Mod’

Posted on January 25, 2020 by charliecountryboy

Construction offices are strange places, all those drawings, plans and schedules. So, there I am waiting to review an apprentice with the Site manager, Trevor, and he asks me about the book I am working on. I explain it’s set … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Fashion, History, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, Music, Opinion | Tagged 70's, 70's Fashion, 80's, 80's Fashion, Carnaby Street, Duran Duran, Goths, Johnny Rotten, London, Mods, Mods and Rockers, Punks, Reggae, Rockers, Ska, Skinheads, Teddy Boys, The Cure, The Small Faces, Trilbys | 31 Comments

The Boy in the Short Pants

Posted on April 27, 2019 by charliecountryboy

The city sun was no different to the country sun, so why was it so scary? A strange question to ask your 10 year-old self? I should have asked why the other boys were throwing stones at my legs, but … Continue reading →

Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Freedom, Life, Opinion, people, Relationships | Tagged Blogging, Bullying, Life | 70 Comments