So many here I recall
The radio urgent message announcement.
Most relating to telephone.
My first ~25 years were living in a village. We had telephone as long as I recall. When the neighbours wanted it we agreed to a party line, later when neighbours changed and it was a weekend cottage for them it became a nuisance as they made long calls. The number was just three digits and the exchange covered several villages with around 800 numbers available. To call the same exchange just dial three digits. For adjacent exchanges a local code then full code and number long distance. For a few still once had to connect via the operator. No caller display or even 1471, no idea who was calling and had to ask for number hence a pad and pencil by the phone. No way to store number, dial every time.
Appliance repair was normal. Even smaller towns had a shop for common parts of vacuum cleaner (e.g. paper collecting bags, belt, revolving floor/carpet brushes, flexible fittings, motor brushes), washing machine, kettle elements etc. If not a stock item ordered to collect in a week. The washing machine even had an annual service. Light bulbs tested before selling.
No out-of-town large shops and supermarkets generally did not have adjacent car parks so food carried to the car park a street or several away. Supermarkets were much smaller, the size of a typical Iceland store / not that much larger than some Express stores. Fresh and cooked meat not pre-packed but chosen or cut to order and weighed be that in the supermarket or from Baxters, Dewhurst or an independent. Similarly fish from MacFisheries or an independent. Vegetables & fruit loose from the green grocer. Everything priced as no barcodes. Checkout staff had to key every item in plus weight loose items then either read price from scales or work out from a list of Shops had frozen food but a home freezer was not normal. Ice cream would just about keep a day in the fridge icebox. Frozen fish etc. was cooked either same day or next day. No microwave so normal cooking times in the oven. A quick easy meal was from tins cooked in pans on the hob e.g. mince or frankfurter sausage, tinned vegetables or baked beans, tinned potatoes or powered mash ' just add boiling water '. There was boil-in-the bag but usually took longer. I recall fish with sauce, kippers and Vesta Chinese meals.
Radio was a valve set medium wave, long wave and short wave - manual tuning with stations marked on the panel that the pointer moved behind. The radio frequencies were changed and stickers supplied to attach. VHF broadcasting but only received when valve set died and new radio purchased. Getting your own radio which was just medium wave with a coarse tuning dial and a ' tinny ' speaker. Later first cassette recorder and recording tracks from Top40 5-7pm on Sunday. Making a compilation by wiring your cassette recorder to a friends.
No such thing as a debit card, it was cash or cheque. The latter later supported by a cheque guarantee card.
Credit card put with a 5 sheet carbon copy booklet through a machine to make an impression of the card and store details on each sheet then signed to complete purchase. For a high value purchase the store had to phone Access / Barclaycard / AmEx for an authorisation code.
In some large stores a separate accounts department linked by air/vacuum tubes and capsules to send details of the purchase and payment then return change and receipt.
Ordering route directions from the AA to holiday destinations. Mostly pre-printed sheets stapled together in sequence but occasionally hand-typed. No looking up on Google Maps never mind Sat-navs.