I GREW UP IN THE SEVENTIES (1970s)— WE WERE HAPPIER THEN | JON GAUNT
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🗓️ 13 August 2025
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Were we happier in the Seventies — the 1970s — and have we lost our way?
I grew up in Coventry with discipline, community, and respect.
Today we’ve got more stuff than ever… but are we really better off?
This is me in the Seventies — eleven years old, outside my local church with my cub and scout group. My dad was a copper, my mum was a dinner lady. We didn’t have much, but we had order, rules, and a real sense of belonging.
That church is gone now, demolished. My mum died just months after this photo was taken. And looking at it today, I can’t help but ask — were we happier back then? We’ve traded community for convenience, respect for self-interest.
In this video, I’m talking straight about what’s changed, what we’ve lost, and why we’re paying the price. This isn’t nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake — it’s a wake-up call.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. Welcome to the John Gaunt podcast. I grew up in the 70s, as you probably know, |
| 0:08.9 | the 1970s. And I'm saying we were happier then than we are now. Am I right or am I wrong? |
| 0:17.7 | As this video progresses or this podcast progresses, I'm going to try and convince |
| 0:22.6 | you we had less then, but we had much more. This has all been prompted by this photo that's |
| 0:28.6 | behind me and you've seen it on Facebook and on the Twitter and everywhere else today. |
| 0:34.5 | I wasn't going to do a show. I was too hot. I was too bothered. |
| 0:37.9 | I thought, I won't bother. I thought, I don't want to talk about asylum. I don't want to talk about the boats. I don't want to talk about politics. And then out of the blue, a mate sent me this and said, have you seen this picture, John? And he said, see if you can find yourself. And that green arrow you can see in the background, that was to point out somebody else. |
| 0:55.9 | It's not... and he said, see if you can find yourself. And that green arrow you can see in the background, |
| 0:57.7 | that was to point out somebody else. |
| 0:58.5 | It's not me. |
| 1:00.6 | But see if you can spot me. |
| 1:06.1 | But that church is St. Nicholas Church in Oradford, in Coventry, |
| 1:08.0 | where I was brought up. |
| 1:10.3 | It's no longer there either. It got demolished. It was only built in the early |
| 1:13.1 | 60s. It got demolished. It had cricket, it had concrete cancer. But tonight, I want to talk to you |
| 1:21.9 | about it because it's triggered something in me, which I think you might agree with. You might totally disagree with. |
| 1:31.1 | In the 70s, we had less money, fewer possessions, but we had more discipline. We had more order. |
| 1:37.9 | We had more sense of community. And this picture of the 8th Scouts, which is what it is, |
| 1:43.1 | the 8th Cub unit and the eighth |
| 1:45.0 | scouts run by a man called Eddie Ogle who was like a father figure to us. Marvelous man. |
| 1:51.5 | That's him just in the background underneath the cross outside the church. I think we had that |
| 1:58.3 | discipline. We had that control. We had that spine, we had that collective |
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