I'm old enough to remember when........

[Front bottom]

People used to keep their political leanings and views to themselves.

Maybe out of etiquette, or maybe to avoid confrontation?


It's a lot different these days though. Social media seems to be completely politically driven sometimes, with all sorts of propaganda based bile flying about.

[The Mad Monk]

StanleyT said:

I remember my Mum telling my Dad what a bad idea it was he'd voted to join the EU.

If possible, go back and tell your Mum that your Dad did NOT have a vote to join the EU.

[Eric Mc]

SidJames said:

I remember it as being quite early morning on TV...

The landing was in the evening..

Armstrong exited the Lunar Module and stepped onto the moon in the early hours of the morning UK time.

Just had a quick Google for the actual correct times as far as the UK (and Ireland) was concerned -

Landing - 20.17.40 UTC 20 July 1969

Armstrong stepping on surface - 02.56 UTC 21 July 1969

The UK was operating on Double BST at that time as an experiment so the timings were actually two hours later at 22.17.40 and 4.56 respectively..

[Eric Mc]

The Mad Monk said:

StanleyT said:

I remember my Mum telling my Dad what a bad idea it was he'd voted to join the EU.

If possible, go back and tell your Mum that your Dad did NOT have a vote to join the EU.

Unless they lived in the Republic of Ireland, as they had a vote on the matter in 1972.

[Frank7]

I can remember running out into the street after an air raid around Surrey Docks, (now Surrey Quays), SE London, with my mum screaming blue murder, and burning my fingers picking up shrapnel, and then my mum coating me rotten, (London expression for severe scolding).
I can also vaguely remember her picking me up, wrapped in a quilt, and running to the air raid shelter, when I was about 2 or 2 and a half.
I can also remember my first wife’s phone number was BER xxxx, for Bermondsey, eventually it went to 237 xxxx.
Jeez, please God I see another Christmas.

[Voldemort]

Eric Mc said:

The landing was in the evening..

Armstrong exited the Lunar Module and stepped onto the moon in the early hours of the morning UK time.

Just had a quick Google for the actual correct times as far as the UK (and Ireland) was concerned -

Landing - 20.17.40 UTC 20 July 1969

Armstrong stepping on surface - 02.56 UTC 21 July 1969

The UK was operating on Double BST at that time as an experiment so the timings were actually two hours later at 22.17.40 and 4.56 respectively..

Good stuff.

This is one of my earliest memories. I was 5. The build up and excitement leading up to it had captured a small boy's imagination in a way nothing since has.
I remember my dad waking me up so we could watch the coverage with, iirc, James Burke.

[Blib]

When grapes had pips.

[MrsMiggins]

When the street outside the house had so few cars parked that you could play 'kerby' with just the occasional passing vehicle interrupting play.

[SidJames]

Eric Mc said:

SidJames said:

I remember it as being quite early morning on TV...

The landing was in the evening..

Armstrong exited the Lunar Module and stepped onto the moon in the early hours of the morning UK time.

Just had a quick Google for the actual correct times as far as the UK (and Ireland) was concerned -

Landing - 20.17.40 UTC 20 July 1969

Armstrong stepping on surface - 02.56 UTC 21 July 1969

The UK was operating on Double BST at that time as an experiment so the timings were actually two hours later at 22.17.40 and 4.56 respectively..

Jeez. I was 6. I didn't give a monkeys what time it was in the states or in space. it was fking early to be dragging me out of bed. and on a b&W telly too!

[Eric Mc]

The live footage of the first moonwalk was from a simple black and white TV camera - so having a black and white set was no disadvantage.

Apollo 12 brought a colour TV camera but Al Bean wrecked it early in the moonwalk by pointing the lens directly at the sun.

All the later moonwalks were shot on colour TV cameras and the quality got better with each successive mission.

[SpudLink]

Voldemort said:

Good stuff.

This is one of my earliest memories. I was 5. The build up and excitement leading up to it had captured a small boy's imagination in a way nothing since has.
I remember my dad waking me up so we could watch the coverage with, iirc, James Burke.

I was not yet 4 (3 and 3 quarters in kid speak). My only memory is being in the back garden, telling my dad I was there to watch the men on the moon, and him explaining I had to come in and watch it on the telly. I don’t remember the actual landing.
That might not be how it happened, but that’s how my brain recalls it.

[Roofless Toothless]

Eric Mc said:

The live footage of the first moonwalk was from a simple black and white TV camera - so having a black and white set was no disadvantage.

Apollo 12 brought a colour TV camera but Al Bean wrecked it early in the moonwalk by pointing the lens directly at the sun.

All the later moonwalks were shot on colour TV cameras and the quality got better with each successive mission.

What else can you expect when you send Mr Bean to the moon?

[NDA]

When you could put anything in a bin and it would be collected - no bin bags either.

You could get orange juice in half sized glass milk bottles delivered with the milk.

[MYOB]

I remember the frequent power cuts and having to retrieve the candles.

[Roofless Toothless]

In the fifties you could get highly concentrated orange juice from the chemist. I recall it came in medicine bottles, just like the ones adults used to get sticky red 'tonic' in. It seemed to be an effort by the Americans to keep their allies alive while they rebuilt Germany.

[fouronthefloor]

NDA said:

When you could put anything in a bin and it would be collected - no bin bags either.

You were also allowed to help yourself to anything at the tip. In fact, anything that appeared to be any good was set aside in case anyone wanted it. As kids, the tip was a great source for old bikes which we used to strip and paint, put knobbly tyres on with motorbike handlebars - a precursor to the modern mountain bike.

[glenrobbo]

Roofless Toothless said:

In the fifties you could get highly concentrated orange juice from the chemist. I recall it came in medicine bottles, just like the ones adults used to get sticky red 'tonic' in. It seemed to be an effort by the Americans to keep their allies alive while they rebuilt Germany.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/clowesstreet/medicines-from-childhood/

[NDA]

fouronthefloor said:

You were also allowed to help yourself to anything at the tip. In fact, anything that appeared to be any good was set aside in case anyone wanted it. As kids, the tip was a great source for old bikes which we used to strip and paint, put knobbly tyres on with motorbike handlebars - a precursor to the modern mountain bike.

Yes indeed - in fact my brother gave my tricycle to the dustmen when I was about 8. There was nothing wrong with it - he just didn't want me to have it any more.

[glenrobbo]

We never had long trousers though...


Or shoes

Or modern buildings like that ^^^

Edited by glenrobbo on Wednesday 26th September 10:14

[alfie2244]

Do 7yr olds still sit outside the tube stations with a guy made out of old clothes and stuffed with newspaper (dad wasn't happy using his best shirt) sitting in a cart made out of fruit boxes and pram wheels?

Penny (1d) for the Guy please mister?