Where was 'Spanish Gold' in that list then ? You didn't go back to 78rpm records either.
The first radio station I had any involvement in only broadcast 20 hours a day, during the night they just played a tone, with an announcement every now and again - and that was only in the 1970s !
78's? I still have a collection of them.45's I have every record that was in the top twenty between 1958-1961.Loads more that came out of the juke box over the years.
Remembered the lot --!! I saw a greetings card the other day depicting all the stamps from
Queen Elizabeth's reign. Interesting as is all the bank notes going back to the year dot. Always thought, although I wouldn't back to £sd, that looking at the coins and the date on them was interesting.
And what about Acme wringers, and silver teapots with silver cladding.
I am using my new avatar whatever. Red flower from Dubai. My grandson sorted it out.
i can remember my mum and dad waking my brother and myself to watch (....im not sure but i think it was sputnic .I was born in 1951 so it was between then and 1960,can anyone enlighten me?
Hi kotc, only one I don't remember is No.11 - but let's have it right, coffee bars, not shops!! Ha ha, it made you feel so grown up to say you were going to a coffee bar, when I was about 13 there was one in Manchester City Centre called the Cona Coffee Bar, it was all dark and grown up inside . .heard my first Tamla Motown on that juke box, started my lifelong love affair with blues and soul. We made a coffee last hours and never got thrown out!
Spud guns! Didn't have one, but my brother did - ouch!
The antenna on top of the tv that you constantly had to fiddle with
Hey Libby, looks like we have the same taste in music. I used to hitch hike from Mansfield to Manchester to an allnighter in the late sixties. It was called the Wheel, I have great memories. We used to go in at midnight and dance none stop till 7.30 am, They didn't have a licence to sell alcohol but we didn't want it anyway. Oh those were the days. Guess I am paying for it now.
Radio Luxemburg --At the end of the day just kneel and pray thank you Lord for a lovaely day.I've tried to be good for I no that I should. That's my prayer for the end of the day.I used to frequent a coffee bar in Torquay that only played Radio Luxembourg and when that came on we knew the coffee bar was closing.
Half pennies, 10 bob note and the old tape recorders with reels, the old bush radio (we still have it but it no longer works), Imperial currency, the old brownie cameras. Loved radio Luxemburg and Caroline (my sister and I used to listen to them under the bedclothes until my mum caught us!). Ahhh those were the days......
OH bother , I read this just when I was having a good day, remembered all but the coffee shop one. What about fishing tackle creels made out of wickerwork, and floats made from porcupine quill, centrepin reels and real lead shot.Happy days, makes me glad I was born then and not in these so called modern times.
OMG jubbly - my personal favourite, lasted ages & you got loads of change from 6d.,
jambouree bags? gob stoppers? Saturday morning matinees at the cinema? Sunday school? Cripes and now there's loads of modern stuff I can hardly get my head around.
Mind you, there's plenty worth moving on from - smog, ice on the INSIDE of the windows, your hot water bottle being a block of ice by morning, people dying needlessly, back street abortions (Call the Midwife programe reminded me last night).
Nostalgia is wonderful for the good stuff but I'm glad the bad stuff is where it should be. In the past.
Hope the sun is shining for you all today as it is here in London
Gordon thank you for dick Barton. That stopped Ann, my wife, and I in our tracks.
Though we had not met way back then we both remember it so clearly and felt the years roll away. We should call you Merlin, yo never fail to come up with informative, interesting and diverting stuff - thank you.
Bill & Ben on Wednesdays and my favourites, Rag, Tag and Bobtail.
Those 78" records were made of shellac and if you dropped them on a hard surface they'd shattter into lots of pieces. And the gramophones you played them on needed winding up to keep playing.
after reading all your recalls , scoring 11 and remembering the 10" blackand white Tv I've decided I must be one of the ancient lot too. I can remember no bathrooms and a tin bath on the wall which you took down infront of the fire and filled with buckets from the gas stove and my freinds had to go out across a communal yard to a wash house for toilet ect.
Just to add a little note about Radio Luxembourg - The station closed in 1992 but has been 'remembered' in the broadcasts of Replay Radio, a British based Internet Radio station that I had the pleasure of providing some programming to last year.
Sadly, due to ill health and some other issues, the station was closed in November 2012. A rebel group in Spain have tried to claim the name and operate a service called 'Replay', but this is not official by any means and isn't a patch on the real Replay Radio.
I've just had news that the official and original Replay Radio will be re-launched in April this year. The station will broadcast on the Internet and will concentrate on the 'Luxy years' 1952-1992. I don't have too many details to add to that, but I hope to be part of the team reliving the Luxy era when Replay Radio returns.
I'll post more news when I have it. My shows will be a mix of live and pre-recorded. The show I did last time was 'Gordons Goldies' and featured mainly obscure tracks, songs that were played on the radio in their day, but were not massive hits. My aim was not to play the 'same old' stuff all the other oldies station play, but to be different and entertaining.
All being well, the Goldies show will return and I may be doing some others, I'm not sure just what yet but we've spoken about Motown, Soul and Northern Soul. If I can get my home system sorted out, I may even be doing some live shows on a more general basis. I've just rebuilt a computer base to act as a server, and extended my home network to allow for that to be added.
Sweets yorkshire mixtures and poor bens and sherbet dip and all manner of lovely things which I know we can still get now but they don't have the same magic as they did then my mother used to buy me a choc biscuit and I spent ages taking the chocolate off eating the biscuit and then the chocolate later on . I know it may sound odd but we did not have a lot of money my father was wounded in the war. And we lived on a pension which wAs not a lot of money, so my mum had to make do with very little I got my biscuit once a week. But I would not change a thing . And it taught me to appreciate every thing I have be lucky enough to have through my life these blogs have brought back some lovely memories of my childhood.
Remember all these and what about Paul Temple and Mrs Dale s Diary on radio and going way back the coalman and his horse and cart and my grandad with a shovel and bucket collecting residue for the garden. The start of re-cycling I wonder.
So little in the way of material possessions but much in other ways. I do wonder whether today's children will recall their childhood in quite the same way -------- hmmmmmm nostalgia not what it used to be.?
Any one else remember getting the free cod liver oil and concentrated orange drink, given in the 40s and 50s to children, and I believe to pregnant women?
I'm glad you can now get cod liver oil in capsules. Having to swallow a spoon full of that daily as a kid wasn't really fun
TV - Mr Ed, Garrisons Geurillas, the fugitive, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Rawhide, Adam Adament, Robin Hood, Last of the Mohicans, The Original Startrek. Memories.......
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