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Born In The 50's Or 60's; Nostalgia Topics
Topic Started: Aug 17 2016, 04:21 AM (559 Views)
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Thought I'd start a nostalgia topic for the many posters on here who consider themselves to be getting on in years ......having turned 60 recently I often find myself looking back at 'The Good Old Days'...........Believe me that phrase applies to every generation

Just post a topic or a story of your fond memories on here.....can be absolutely anything....and of course the thread is especially welcome to posters born even before the 50's.....some may even still recall World War Two....and even to younger posters who have older relatives such as grand parents they fondly remember

Here are some hints

Black and white tellys
VCR's
Land Line phones
Electric meters
Power Cuts (remember how often they came around when the Miners went on strike ?? ) :crying:
Old style homes or streets you grew up in
Schools you went to
Cinemas or theatres you went to
The days of smoke rooms, bars and lounges
The Bingo Halls
Comics
Cars you used to drive
Steam trains
Propeller aircraft
Holidays / Honeymoons
Music/movies/entertainment / old TV shows


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I'll start off with School Milk

Remember the days as young kids we got a free bottle of the full pasteurised milk at school.....usually infant or primary (aka junior) schools

Now us old timers often boast our bones became stronger because of that

Margaret Thatcher helped to eliminate the 'free milk' back in the early 70's

But there's now campaigns both in the UK and Australia to bring it back (semi skimmed versions this time for diet reasons) at least for under 7 year olds

Got to be honest , I used to love the food served up at our schools .....not just the milk.......Cottage Pie with a huge thick crust , Lancashire Hot Pot , Semolina and Tapioca pudding .....Yummy !!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10904044/School-milk-must-be-available-to-all-pupils-Department-for-Education-says.html


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Other ideas.....Old vinyl records (LP's and 45's).....I've heard they are actually making a bit of a comeback for collectors

Ball and chain toilets with the cistern high up on the wall.....Man ! those things could be a booger to flush sometimes :LMAO:

Corner tobacconists and newsagents ....or the butchers, greengrocers or a fish and chip shop

Pubs and night clubs that no longer exist

Paper rounds or car washing excursions

First holiday abroad

Favourite teachers or teachers who were mean to you

Can you even believe it has been 47 years now since Man landed on the surface of The Moon.....and human beings have not been back there on the surface since December of 1972 .....exact same month Blues played that epic battle up at Liverpool and lost 3-4 after being 3-1 up at HT


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One of the most famous photographs ever taken

Apollo 8 astronauts captured this shot titled "Earth Rise" in December 1968 and while reading a passage from the Book of Genesis in The Old Testament


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I still have very clear memories of how things used to be back in fifties and sixties.

Born in 1952 I remember my first day at infants school. I got smacked - can't remember what for.

In no particular order I have fond memories from those early days of my school life: Wooden pencil cases, Finart Wax Crayons, Radio programmes broadcast at school including Singing Together, Rhythm and Melody, and People , Places and Things.

Raffia, fablon, simple basket weaving ( all at junior school ) Making a woolly ball by winding wool around two doughnut shaped pieces of cardboard until the hole in the middle disappeared. Making a finger puppet by covering a fish paste jar with plasticine and then sculpting it and building up layers of papier mache to create a hollow head which joined a fabric body.

Buying my first 7 inch vinyl records. I used to get these from John James record shop in Solihull. Six and threepence if I recall correctly. Each in a pristine paper sleeve bearing the name/logo of the record company. Names such as Stateside, Columbia, Parlophone, Polydor, Decca, Deram, Fontana, Vertigo. Warner Bros. It all seems to be SONY Vevo nowadays.

EP's ( extended play records ) in laminated picture sleeves. Twice as many tracks and cost about eleven bob each.
I bought these by the Beatles, and the Tornados. Wish I'd kept them.

Early stereo. I love listening to the early Beatles LP's where the guitars, vocals, drums etc tended to be simply allocated to either the left or the right channel. It sounded great.

Pick of the Pops presented on Radio by Alan Freeman on a Sunday afternoon. Poised over the play / pause and stop controls of a cheap open reel tape recorder. Trying to capture the whole recording of the songs I liked.

Childrens TV in the 1950's. Picturebook, Rag Tag and Bobtail, Andy Pandy, The Wooden Tops.

Puppet animation series - the forerunners to Thunderbirds. Supercar ( Mike Mercury ) Fireball XL5, Steve Zodiac - Robert the Robot "On our way home" in his monotonous electronically modified voice - signalling the end of a particular mission.

Hand drawn cartoons such as the early Tom and Jerry which I couldn't get enough of. Possibly why I've never been able to really enjoy much of today's CGI equivalent. To me they lack something, the human touch I guess. A lot of CGI feels as though I'm watching a computer programme with voice overs.

Back to school for a minute. Yes, school milk. Each crate contained 30 x I/3 pint bottles. I know this for a fact because one day a couple of mates of mine thought it would be a good idea to see if they could drink a crate full between them. They managed it too!

Sweets - and the tuck shop at school. Penny Arrows, Wagon Wheels, Jamboree Bags - which each contained a small gift. Smiths Crisps, then Golden Wonder, before Walkers took centre stage.

Bubble gum cards. I remember these from the 1950's when they featured famous actors and film stars. Kids used to collect these and wrap then up in a rubber band, The aim being to get a complete set, with the aid of swaps.

In the 70's I became a hifi fan and bought the amplifier, speakers, and turntable to play the old records. Today's music is more portable but the sound of today's chart music played through a mobile phone headset just doesn't do it for me I'm afraid.

Back to the 1950's. Juke Boxes. filled with the current 45's ( rpm ). I used to love watching the way the juke box worked, spinning the cassette of vinyl discs, selecting the right one and removing it to place on the spinning platter where the tone arm would lower and the record would begin to play. A lot of Shadows records in Juke Boxes at the time I recall.

School again. The Nit Nurse who would call round and check your hair. Vaccinations for Polio, Diptheria etc. I developed needlephobia at an early age.

That's more than enough for one post!







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I was never allowed to watch it, though. :crying:
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Buying my first 7 inch vinyl records. I used to get these from John James record shop in Solihull. Six and threepence if I recall correctly. Each in a pristine paper sleeve bearing the name/logo of the record company. Names such as Stateside, Columbia, Parlophone, Polydor, Decca, Deram, Fontana, Vertigo. Warner Bros. It all seems to be SONY Vevo nowadays.

EP's ( extended play records ) in laminated picture sleeves. Twice as many tracks and cost about eleven bob each.
I bought these by the Beatles, and the Tornados. Wish I'd kept them.

Early stereo. I love listening to the early Beatles LP's where the guitars, vocals, drums etc tended to be simply allocated to either the left or the right channel. It sounded great.

Great stories, mate

Other labels were London, EMI and A & E and I have a huge collection of Jamaican ska/reggae artists (used to buy the hard core reggae from Brian T's Music Mart in the old Bull Ring) , labels such as Camel and Cactus .....I still have my entire vinyl collection, probably have close to 800 singles and about 300 LP's .....just cannot part with them although about a good half of my album collection I now own on CD's .....I dug a lot of them out about 2 years ago and gave them a cleaning with the usual chemicals and special cloths .......unfortunately I had to throw quite a few way just due to a small water leak we had suffered in a closet and they got ruined by mold and mildew damage

I had a fairly small bedroom and I invested in a huge Hitachi stereo rack system (remember them ? they were the sponsor of Liverpool in the early days of shirt sponsors) ,......Filled about 60 per cent of the floor space.....Giant speakers I had to mount on the wall and a twin tape deck with metal heads .....naturally, like most teenagers will recall, my parents used to go livid about the noise and would bang on the ceiling and yell at me to turn it down....hard to find a decent turntable these days even online .....a good firm named 'Technics' were making them up until recent years .....Dying product though isn't it ?? although as I mentioned vinyl has been making a bit of a comeback for collectors of the old LP's and 45's.....the stylus head or 'needle' was the common term (they used to make some of them from real diamonds) are incredibly expensive these days


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Pick of the Pops presented on Radio by Alan Freeman on a Sunday afternoon. Poised over the play / pause and stop controls of a cheap open reel tape recorder. Trying to capture the whole recording of the songs I liked.




What was Freeman's catch phrase ?? .....it's on the tip of my tongue , just cannot think of it :blink:



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Puppet animation series - the forerunners to Thunderbirds. Supercar ( Mike Mercury ) Fireball XL5, Steve Zodiac - Robert the Robot "On our way home" in his monotonous electronically modified voice - signalling the end of a particular mission.






Also Stingray ...I used to work with a fellah whose last name was Tempest :LOL: . Mike Mercury had a pet chimp named 'Mitch ' , maybe that's where Michael Jackson got the idea (LOL) ......Man, you really got me all emotional with those shows .......Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were the puppet creators, they must have made a fortune , they also created Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons (remember that strange 'O' image that floated around ?? ) .......Wasn't their production company called 21st Century Productions or something similar ???....Kind of ironic in year 2016 , eh ??

I'm sure their production company started other futuristic sci-fi shows such as 'UFO' .......I think that the old ATV 'Guru' Sir Lew Grade had some role in the development of those series as well , he formed the promotion company called ITC , always saw that on the end credits ......almost 20 years (maybe more) before the James Cameron blockbuster of 1997 Grade produced a 'Titanic' film which absolutely bombed ....it sank faster than the actual cruise ship ......I think he lost a fortune with that venture


As you know ATV later became Central ITV and were based out of the old studios at Aston Cross across the road from the Ansells brewery and next to The Golden Cross pub ........'Golden Shot' was a huge hit (Annie Aston, , Bob Monkhouse and the crossbow trigger man whose nickname was Bernie the Bolt I think) .....before that was 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' ......the Brummie spoken Janice and her famous "I'll give it foive ""

ABC did the independent weekend coverage, the regional stations only broadcast 5 days a week before they finally scrapped ABC but in London, they kept a weekend station called London Weekend Television which usually attracted some big names and shows ....on week days, they usually did programming out of Thames TV

There was often a studio audience and if I recall the 'waiting lists' to try and attend one were huge ......the BBC had a studio come seated theatre down at Gosta Green.....right by the University of Aston , think they closed it in the 60's to focus more on Shepherds Bush where they had built a fairly new and large studio and also had a theatre type venue in the same district of West London ......Just a few weeks ago I gandered around the Beeb's new facility at The Mailbox.....all the latest techno stuff in there, how times have changed ??

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There was also 'Star Soccer ' that came out of the ATV studios .......which started around 1965 or 1966 as a response to BBC's 'Match of the Day' which was first broadcast at the start of the 64/65 season ....way before the days of Hugh Johns and matches obviously in black and white .....most regions in England featured their local teams .......In London the show was called 'The Big Match'......soon made Brian Moore famous ......the North West version was produced by Granada TV in Didsbury, Manchester .......the first 'Coronation Street' they produced was way back in 1960 .... haven't been personally but isn't that set a big tourist attraction these days ? the setting was based on a typical working class street in Salford .....think they also did a great music show called Ready , Steady , Go .....even The Beatles played regular sets there

Excellent post, mate

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We had a tin bath hanging outside and Fridays was bath night.
We had a blue brick back yard and the toilets were in a row with hessian sacking on the pipes and a paraffin lamp to stop them freezing.
We had a communal wash house with a wooden wringer.
We all helped each other, and my mother cleaned her front step with pride.
We had ice on the inside of the windows.
We had one tap in the house, and one fire.
We stole coal from the barges and ran the gauntlet of the trains to get there.
We walked into town and played on top of the Lewis's building where there were pedal cars on a track.
We didn't have a telly till the late 60s.
We lived happy without any money

That's what I remember about being born in 1952 in Ladywood.

Later in life we had baked spuds from the man in Stevensons place.
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Some good memories of times gone by from you too Parti.

Treasure that vinyl collection as there are bound to be some valuable gems amongst them.

Decades before the NEC and ICC were built we used to go to pop/rock concerts at Birmingham Town Hall. Managed to see Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, and Led Zeppelin there amongst others. Best seats were around 17s 6d. Actually the Town Hall had a great atmosphere and you could sit very close to the stage. 50 years on I still go there on the odd occasion. Last time was to see Francis ( Quo ) Rossi with his own band. Boy was it loud!

Around the time the Beatles released Get Back as a single I used to visit Mothers Club on the High Street in Erdington. John Peel was the resident DJ. I recall it getting so hot in there that you could see the sweat running down the black painted walls. Once again, a great atmosphere.

Alan Freeman - Pick of the Pops? "Hi Pop Pickers" or "Greetings Pop Pickers" were his opening words I think.

Yes, the infamous Janice "Oi'll give it foive" Nicholls on Thank Your Lucky Stars. Ran a chiropody business in Hednesford after her five minutes of fame.

Ready Steady Go - ITV's answer to Top of the Pops. Fronted by Keith Fordyce and Cathy McGowan.

The Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet franchise brought out their own Comic called TV21. I bought the early copies and made a few quid by selling a first edition when I started ebaying a few years ago.

You're right about HIfi. It's all but disappeared. But firms like Sony still produce high end - expensive gear - under the banner "Hi Resolution Audio". It's aimed very much at playing music files rather than physical music media.
My own speakers were Goodmans ( British I think ) and I went through a succession of Leak Amplifiers over the years.

I've often wondered why the BBC don't revamp "The Good Old Days" TV show - still shown on BBC 4. An up to date version could concentrate on the 50's and 60's. Maybe Stephen Fry could replace the legendary Leonard Sachs and his over elaborate introductions! Not sure how much of a market there would be though. They did it with Come Dancing didn't they?

Fortunately though many of our memories can still be found on You Tube. Search for Fireball XL5 theme tune and be transported back decades.

Happy days.





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I can just remember the milkman ( or was it the bread man?) delivering with a horse driven cart.
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I was proud to be on the last Horse pulled Milk Float in my hometown.
1963.
The Co-Op had two Horses, one retired to Devon and her driver/carer re-trained on electric floats.
My lady said she was too old to re-train, and so they kept her and the horse and me on until they both retired.

Their was a miner's village that had 'Corrie' type terraces, frontdoor onto the street, but they were about a mile long.And about 2 Entry ways to the back yards about 30-40 houses apart.
On the electric float you filled two baskets, jammed in bottles, also in your pockets and had to walk back a few hundred yards to get more bottles if people ordered an "extra".
With the Horse, you came out of the entry and she'd walked all the way down to wait for you.

Did it for 6-9 months as that was "gap-years" then.

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On a slightly different theme- remember the only way of communicating with someone quickly was to phone their landline or go and knock on their door- how technology has changed all that
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Wasn't born until 80s but wish I was born early 50s to be a teenager during the 60s - best decade for music, fashion and British culture as a whole
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Wasn't born until 80s but wish I was born early 50s to be a teenager during the 60s - best decade for music, fashion and British culture as a whole
Pools,

I'd agree with the music bit, but the culture was still pretty racist,..... although we didn't think so. That's a sad analogy eh.
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I can just remember the milkman ( or was it the bread man?) delivering with a horse driven cart.
His name was Ernie .....and he drove the fastest milk cart in the West



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In my old Brumagem suburb, there were rear gunners on the milk floats

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On a slightly different theme- remember the only way of communicating with someone quickly was to phone their landline or go and knock on their door- how technology has changed all that
Remember it well, mate........rotary dial phones were around for decades

Plus The old red phone boxes that used to smell of stale urine

And those dreaded pips going on and on because of getting your 10p coin jammed.....or even 2p coins if you track back further in time :LOL:


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Oh ! and there's a Tardis style lift at The BBC Mailbox


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I just cannot get my head around that they still show 'Doctor Who' today......after the Daleks I lost a lot of interest in it TBH


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Some more to prod the old memory banks



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LUTON Airport , Innit ???



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Good game, good game !!!!



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For Gene, who is browbeating us -some of us - to come back to this forum. :LMAO:

Muffin-the-Blooming-Wonder-Mule


Kissing Annette Mills...the sister of Sir John Mills.
When the beeb got 'boredom' letters (My Mum had "Woman's Weekly" and the Radio Times
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All about the amateur clanking and strings on Muffin, they introduced a glove puppet, also silent :LMAO:
Called 'Prudence Kitten", whom only Annette could hear...........again
....much like the alleged paedo, Corbett and "Sooty"

Much murk in the 1950/60's,Television.
Which I doubt Partisan wants to hear and we really shouldn't digress to it...imo.
Espesh as we've had a few pics of some of them already.

On a lighter note, John Lennon wrote "Dear Prudence" and Souisxie and the Banshees had a minor hit with it.
I can remember reading the NME and Melody Maker etc in the late 60's ('68/69??) when the grandfathers of today's trolls were arguing, week-by-week about the origins of the track.
The consensus was that it was dedicated to Mia Farrow's sister, who was called Prudence, and also happened to be with the Beatles in their retreat with their yogi. Can't spell his name :LMAO:

A few years later, Lennon, getting p*****ed off with "old questions" in the Dakota by wannabe 'Rolling Stone' reporters said - looking at Yoko - that it was written about "Prudence Kitten"

Yoko's eyes went wide, and then she smiled, not knowing we presume, but supporting Lennon.

It is still available....On film, on their "Bed-In-For-Peace".

Long way from Muffin ain't it ?

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Good story **thumbup

Also on a Beatles theme we take global television for granted obviously today but almost 50 years ago the pioneering of satellite broadcasts actually began.....The Beatles agreed to do the first satellite TV broadcast out of Britain performing "All You Need Is Love"

The 'Our World' broadcast cut to Abbey Road studios at 8:54 PM London time, about 40 seconds earlier than expected. Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick were drinking scotch whisky to calm their nerves for the task of mixing the audio for a live worldwide broadcast, and had to scramble the bottle and glasses beneath the mixing desk when they were told they were about to go on air.

For the broadcast, the Beatles (except for Starr) were seated on stools, accompanied by a small studio orchestra. They were surrounded by friends and acquaintances seated on the floor, who sang along with the refrain during the fade-out. These guests included Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richards, Keith Moon, Graham Nash, Mike McGear, Patti Boyd and Jane Asher.





Doesn't seem like almost 50 years.....I think if you're a Beatles fan or simply like the band (there is surely no denying the influence they had on so many youngsters in the 60's) their music has been a shining light for decades.......'All You Need Is Love , 'Let It Be' and
'Hey Jude' (heartily sang at football stadia up and down the country) have been arguably the most performed songs ever since
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A lot of older Blues fan will remember this flyover ....those who use to make that long trek to and from town anyway

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It was actually erected as a temporary measure but ended up staying there for decades .....linked Camp Hill and the Stratford Road to High Street /Bordesley/Deritend .....AKA Digbeth although Digbeth is officially further up the hill toward St Martins Church and The Bull Ring
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And there was this monstrosity (King Kong) that used to stand in the old Bull Ring......it ended up in a supermarket car park up in Edinburgh or thereabouts last I heard


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Never did get the Kong connection to Brum :silence: .....people were going ape about the sculpture though


I'll get me Tarzan loin cloth

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Birmingham Snow Hill Station (still used today of course and links up with Moor Street via a refurbished and re-opened tunnel) was one of the iconic Midlands railway stations during the steam era ....was a major hub in the Great Western era......went up to Blackpool (or might have been North Wales) with the whole family from there during the early 60's ....can still remember those coloured bar signals and signal boxes as if it were yesterday ......(sigh) ....and all the smoke and soot you could be blanketed in as they chugged away under a pedestrian bridge

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And the trusty old buses.....conductors and all and platforms on the back, if you were a decent sprinter you could still jump on one as it moved up to 20 mph or so :LMAO: .....and it's hard to believe today but a lot of people used to smoke cigarettes on the top decks for decades ....it was allowed


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Then we went to the 'one man' operation , or in other words the driver ......always had to find the right bloody change ....would have been around early to mid 70's I think ....harder to jump on those as they were moving away from the Bus stop as they had powered doors ....Probably OK if you had a crowbar or large screwdriver in your skyrocket


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Midland Red ....remember them as well ?? used by Brummies who ventured further afield.....Stourbridge, Redditch, Coventry, Dudley ,Wolverhampton etc ....they went even further out to towns like Stafford, Worcester, Leicester, Derby and Nottingham (a couple of those were Express services obviously certainly Nottingham).....and even Sutton Coldfield and Walsall were serviced by MR back in the day as the cream and navy blue buses (or Daimlers) we're familiar with operated within Birmingham boundary lines only and before the West Midlands PTE came into being ......and I recall Bearwood Bus Station (open air but had a nice little café) and always used by Midland Red buses, both double deckers and single deckers was literally just yards from the Brum boundary on Hagley Road West, opposite The Kings Head pub and adjacent to Lightwoods Park....the pub and café are still there to my knowledge

Midland Red Buses had much more comfortable seats than the Brummie counterparts operated by the old BCT as well



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