Growing up in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s
JJ Heath-Caldwell SpeakerNet Sponsor
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- 7th June 2025
This talk is about my memories of growing up in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s. This was back in a time when we wore shoes in the winter but most of the summer we went around in bare feet. Computers, X-Boxes and mobile phones did not exist. We did have a landline telephone in our house, but we used it infrequently as calls were expensive. We spent most of our time outdoors in the daytime and in the evening we all sat around our black and white television set. No arguments about which TV show to watch as there was only one channel. Our favourite programs were American cowboy films like “Bonanza”. Our mother liked to watch the musical called “The Back & White Minstrel Show”. We all liked watching “Coronation Street”. The most popular hobby was collecting postage stamps, each of which was a little window into a world away from New Zealand which we knew existed but none of us had ever been out of the country to see it. Education was free and only about 10% of students went on to university.
For more info please do download a free pdf copy of my book “The Ups and Downs of Jeremy James – Growing up in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s. https://jjhc.info/theupsanddownsofjeremyjames
Views: 37 | Enquiries: 0About JJ Heath-Caldwell
I was born and brought up in New Zealand in the 1960s and 1970s. After studying physics at University I left on a working holiday and came to the UK where I took up a job as an electronics engineer with Marconi Radar Systems Ltd. The company was based in Chelmsford but I was in the Field Services Dept and my work took me to Portsmouth for a few years and then Egypt and the Sultanate of Oman.
I continued to work in the British electronics industry throughout the 1980s and 1990s after which I changed careers and became an internet entrepreneur founding the company Local Surveyors Direct which is a family of price comparison websites for Building Surveys and other property services (www.localsurveyorsdirect.co.uk).
I have always been interested in family history and history generally and have written a book History of the World. I have also written a book about the 1960s & 1970s and a book about the 1980s. More info can be found on my website www.jjhc.info .
My other regular activity is as a member of Winchester Rotary Club where I am one of the organisers of the Clarendon Marathon (www.clarendon-marathon.co.uk).
I prefer giving talks in person. Happy to travel to most places in the South of England. I will also give talks online.
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- A light overview of the English in India from the early 1600s through to 1947
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- The Life of Adm Sir Leopold Heath (1817-1907)
- Two Years in the Sultanate of Oman 1982-1984
- Becoming a Grownup in the 1980s.
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