olden days

While we are still wandering down memory lane let me just mention that Radio Caroline is now over 50 years old!

You can still listen via www.radiocaroline.co.uk. The 60's and 70's show on tuesday evenings is great.

Here's a pic of the Radio Caroline ship, the Ross Revenge, moored on the River Blackwater in Essex.

Paul

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jollyrodger said:
And don't forget "Crackerjack"
Or the saying couldn't win a cabbage in crackerjack:)
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CRACKERJACK!!! Remember how many items they tried to load on the contestants... Lesley Crowther was the host.

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I remember having baths in a steel bath placed in front of the coal fire in Mays Lane. Only had an outside loo, don't remember a bathroom at all.:frowny:
 
Old Soldier said:
In your mind, not mine!!
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That was why they where taken OFF the jars, Some P-C divy complained that it was Racist.

My 2 Sons had the whole of the Golliwog Marching Band, little 2" high porcelain bandsmen, they stood on their bedroom window cill for years!

BTW. I still have my 110volt DC, Halicrafter, short wave radio. I could get BBC world service and VOA virtually anywhere in the world. It needs a valve, which are no longer available.

Pete
 
PeteH said:
That was why they where taken OFF the jars, Some P-C divy complained that it was Racist.

My 2 Sons had the whole of the Golliwog Marching Band, little 2" high porcelain bandsmen, they stood on their bedroom window cill for years!

BTW. I still have my 110volt DC, Halicrafter, short wave radio. I could get BBC world service and VOA virtually anywhere in the world. It needs a valve, which are no longer available.

Pete
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Won't mention the golly's!!. Keep your fingers crossed Pete, I might have one in the attic, as with another thread, I never throw anything away!!
 
Lesley Crowther was the host.[/QUOTE]

Go back a bit further
Eamon Andrews
(black n white day's) ;)
Oh and the Black and White minstrel show

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jollyrodger said:
Lesley Crowther was the host.
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Go back a bit further
Eamon Andrews
(black n white day's) ;)
Oh and the Black and White minstrel show[/QUOTE]


Yes, you're right. Did he also compare the Black and White Minstral shows?
 
Three vinyl single records cost £1 , 6/8 each
 
As this thread started with the cost of things in those days, and we have somehow got round to TV shows, can anyone remember the cost of the TV licence ( Black and White, of course!!)
 
The Bald Magician?.
Annette Mills (Muffin?) Noddy?
Four Feather Falls!!!!!
Richard Green as Robin Hood!
Dragnet! (the names have been changed to protect the innocent!!)
 
I'll nip up the crem and ask the old man !:)

10s or was that a radio licence

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PeteH said:
BTW. I still have my 110volt DC, Halicrafter, short wave radio. I could get BBC world service and VOA virtually anywhere in the world. It needs a valve, which are no longer available.

Pete
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Bet you a tanner if you started a new thread on valves someone would come up with one!
 
Glass spark plug tester brand name was Gunstone colour tune, use to set petrol mixture on old cars, if it showed yellow it was running too rich so adjusted it till it turned blue, Mick still has one, old b***er
 
runrig said:
Glass spark plug tester brand name was Gunstone colour tune, use to set petrol mixture on old cars, if it showed yellow it was running too rich so adjusted it till it turned blue, Mick still has one, old b***er
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Well done! Been wracking my brain over what it was called!....:clap:

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[="runrig, post: 1381411, member: 690"]Glass spark plug tester brand name was Gunstone colour tune, use to set petrol mixture on old cars, if it showed yellow it was running too rich so adjusted it till it turned blue, Mick still has one, old b***er[/QUOTE]

Weren't that for tunning the carbs ? I still got one somewhere

Edit just re read the post doh! Its past my medication time
 
Jaws said:
I will qualify the above with my wages ( gap year and all that jazz.. which turned out to be somewhat longer ! )

I worked for DER as a television engineer ( and nooo.. not a bottle jockey but a proper, component level engineer ) .. My take home was £5.18.6d
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DER , id forgotten about them:)i remember the man coming to the house and emptying the money box at the back , id get two bob for my pocket money that week:)

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I can remember the man coming around the tenement in Glasgow to turn the gas light on and if you were really lucky he would give you a piece of carbide , which would then start a peeing contest amongst the boys to see who could wee on it ,the stuff would fizz when you did that.
 

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