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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: tizaala on May 15, 2012, 08:07:25 pm
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What are your earliest memories?.... I was born in the January of 1946 but have vivid recollctions of being in my pram and the wicked winter of 1947 , I can remember being taken through the snow to the isolation hospital in an old cream coloured Daimler ambulance when I caught scarlet fever in the big epidemic of 47, it must have been very traumatic to have etched itself in my memory.
Lets see now, on the radio wireless we had :
Forces favourites,
workers play time
listen with mother
Elsie &Dorris Waters
Wilfred Pickles ( give e'm the money Mable )
journey into space
Dick Barton,
Victor Sylvester
Palm Court Hotel
the goon show
Hancocks Half hour
Rays a laugh
Archie Andrews
Max Bygraves
Jimmy Edwards
The Archers
Mrs Dales Diary ( I'm still worried about Jim)
The navy lark
PC49
meet the Huggetts
OK lets see what some of you can come up with...
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Quatermass and the Pit.?
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Yes Sylvia I think that was about 1953/4 on tv , did you watch ' In Town Tonight' then we had watch with mother with Muffin the mule & andy pandy ,bill and ben ,
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In my day it was the clangers, magic roundabout, the herb garden, Hector's house, wacky races, catch the pigeon, marine boy, crystal tips and Alastair, interminable black and white minstrel show, Peyton Place ( the au pairs used to be glued to that)
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Didn,t have tv till was 9 :o
Magpie
space 1999
Captain Scarlett
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The magic roundabout :thumbsup: loved it.
Don't remember living in a caravan on a dairy farm in Anglesey for the first couple of years of life but it must be imprinted on me somewhere as I'm itching to live somewhere like that now ;D the sheepdog lay under my pram in the field apparently to keep the cows at bay :o. Must be where my love of dogs comes from :love:
Do remember the move into our first house( aged 2) And the sound of bare floorboards and strange noises of urban life.
First tv was exciting even in b&w.
The sixpence and shilling days ;D
1 car between full extended family. Grandad as chauffeur
Sorry tizaala and silvia but cannot remember much of you list . Too young ;D ;D
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The Wooden Tops & Camberwick Green ;D
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TVs going from B&W to colour. I used to sit for ages in front of our TV set waiting for it to change into colour. It never happened!!!.
Waiting outside the sweet shop after school on decimalisation day to receive a new penny.
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Yes Sylvia I think that was about 1953/4 on tv , did you watch ' In Town Tonight' then we had watch with mother with Muffin the mule & andy pandy ,bill and ben ,
We didn't have TV, it was on the radio (wireless) on a Sunday evening, I think. Also Journey into Space. Listen with Mother weekday afternoons. I loved Forces Favourites on Sunday mornings
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And childrens favourites with Uncle Mac , the runaway train, teddybears picnic , Christopher Robin went down on Alice....
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Tizaala you're BAD!
I remember being fascinated by the 'dot' on the TV screen and being scared of the girl that used to come up with the blackboard and the clown(?) when there were no programmes on.
I loved Mary, Mungo and Midge, and , what was the programme called with Hartley Hare, had a fluttery eyed ostrich too and lots of clocks' alarms going off all at the same time? Didn't like Doctor Who-always seemed very much a boys' show (Love it now-but then there are yummy doctors in it nowadays :yum:) I remember hiding behind the sofa when allowed to watch Hammer Horror films. Ragtime I liked, specially the jazzy tiger. Michael Bentine's Potty Time was fab with all the invisible people and explosions. Oooh, The Goodies, bizarre but I liked it-goodie goodie yum yum. Banana Splits - one banana two banana three banana four five bananas make a bunch and so do many more ;D. Later on does anyone remember Ludwig, a violin playing egg or were my parents slipping me mind altering drugs?
I remember going shopping in Bulwell with my Mum and getting a sugar mouse from the post office, which I found a treasure trove and a sausage ??? from the butchers.
Eating a whole tin of sweetened condensed milk (bleurgh nowadays), loving pilchards in tomato sauce on toast. Going on trips to the seaside on Bulwell buses with my dad and his friends who worked at the depot and the smell of the depot, very blokey and fuelly.
Shall I stop now! Could go on and on....
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Pedwardine, that was Pipkins! Octavia was the ostrich! Ha ha I remember Ludwig, was he the one who spied on people with binoculars? I liked bag puss and trumpton too ooh and Mr Ben! I am the youngest of three so always had hand me downs, I remember my mum taking me to the market and buying me a real afghan coat :o. I loved it, it was new and all mine! Happy days ;D
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Ah Pipkins, thanks Dixie. That's stopped my brain from being hurty thinking about it.
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I remember being fascinated by the 'dot' on the TV screen and being scared of the girl that used to come up with the blackboard and the clown(?) when there were no programmes on.
Other space fillers I remember were the one with the spanish peasant asleep on his donkey cart gonig along the road and the garage attendant running along oiling the squeaky wheel as the cart was going past his forecourt.
Also - lots of ones of factory processes - particularly bottles being filled and biscuits being made.
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Andy Pandy, The Flowerpot Men, The Wooden Tops (I even had a set of them at home!) Listen with Mother, Womans hour (Mums favourite) Music while you work.
Anybody else remember a programme called Sarah and Hoppity, about a girl with a friend who had a gammy leg. It was lovely and I think it was in ITV in the afternoons.
Z Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Softly Softly and Emergency Ward 10. Wrestling on a Satruday afternoon with Kent Walton!!
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Wrestling on a Satruday afternoon with Kent Walton!!
And Shirley Crabtree taking the p1ss out of the other competitors.
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My earliest memory is of when I was three years old. I had just scalded my arm in almost boiling water and my granddad was rubbing it and saying "Never mind, duck." My mum was standing in the doorway looking shocked then she disappeared. She had actually gone to get a clean nappy to wrap my arm in and it took ages to heal. Don't think Granddad helped as the flesh was peeling but he did his best.
I have lots of memories of living in what is now Greater London but was the suburbs then and we moved when I was not quite six. We played Hide and Seek in the alley (the access road behind the houses) and covered our eyes by an old tree stump which was also 'home'. I took a boy called Peter Easter to the end of the alley and said, "Don't tell anyone but I'm going to marry you when I grow up." He promptly ran down the alley shouting, "Lesley's going to marry me when she grows up." Our garden wall was ten feet tall and I had to stand on tiptoe to see over it. funnily enough, when I went back to see the area when I was fourteen, the wall had shrunk to about four foot.
I loved the Wooden Tops. We also listened to Children's Hour on the wireless. My mum listened to the Archers. she doesn't now but I do. When we walked to school I always walked along a small wall past a factory and the wireless was playing, "Workers' play time".
When I was almost six, we moved to Hastings. We had a Morris Traveller car - the sort with wooden frameword and we had an armchair in the back. I suppose it didn't fit in the van. We were stopped by the police as the car was swaying from side to side.
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My Dad used to love watching wrestling. Remember Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks? They wouldn't get away with names like that now-be laughed out of the ring :D
Playing in the street 'til 9 at night. Falling off the highest bar of the climbing frame in the park on the Common. I was hanging upside down. It hurt! No bouncy surfaces in those days, just good solid concrete.
First day at school and snotting and crying all over my brother (3years older) who was so mortified in front of his mates. Tee hee :D
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In my day it was the clangers, magic roundabout, the herb garden, Hector's house, wacky races, catch the pigeon, marine boy, crystal tips and Alastair, interminable black and white minstrel show, Peyton Place ( the au pairs used to be glued to that)
Ditto Suzie, must be similar ages all of the above plus Magpie,Blue Peter (Val Singleton John Noakes& Peter Purvis days laterely lesley Judd) Was to scared to watch Dr Who, loved the wrestling too always tea at grannys to watch it after saturday shopping in Ripon or Thirsk!
Mandy :pig:
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MGM, my dad had a Morris Minor 1000, (green in colour, registration 997 HPJ). I have 2 much older brothers, and the five of us used to go down to a farm in Cornwall (Polzeath) for our holiday every year. We took loads of food and all our bedding with us, the car was filled to the roof as well as suitcases on the top! Being the youngest,I had the dubious pleasure of sitting in the middle of the back seat, perched on piles of sheets and blankets. We used to travel down from Essex on a Friday night, stopping off just outside Basingstoke for a rest and a snack, then again later on for Dad to have a little snooze. By that time though, having slept during the journey, I regularly kept everyone awake by fidgeting. Oooh happy days!!
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Mary, I remember those days. My two brothers and I used to play corners. Everyone leaned into the corner - horrible when you were on the inside but you got your own back when the road went the other way and you were on top (no seat belts then). Horrible for my baby brother who was always in the middle and got squashed whichever way the road went.
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My parents ran a small grocery shop in Aldersley Road, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton 1947 - 1950 , and I can remember the whole family standing round to watch dad open a long orange coloured wooden crate of the first bananas in the area since 1937, I was given a bite of my brother's.
I can remember sweet rationing ending , and clothes rationing.
For pear growers, Tettenhall is the home of the very rare Tettenhall Dick pear tree.
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I can remember sugar coming in dark blue paper bags (still sugar rationing ) but one abiding memory and it still makes me smile is my Dad shouting up the stairs "Come along, it's half past six and the sun's cracking the walls! Who's going to help me this morning?" It was always me and my elder brother " That's better, come on now, it's Monday morning, day after tomorrow is Wednesday, that's half the week gone and nothing done yet!!!" ;D ;D
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Another vivid scene from childhood was the whole family sitting around the dinner table for one of Mums delicious roasts. I always sat opposite my Dad with my back to the window. My elder brother said to me "Ooh Mary look at that plane in the sky". I turned my back to look out of the window for this damned plane, nothing. I turned back to my plate and noticed that my darling big brother had nicked my roast potato!! Ive never let him forget that I can tell you.