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

[The Mad Monk]

magpie215 said:

I remember when I got my first car petrol was about 50p a litre

When I got my first motor bike petrol was about 50p (it wasn't, of course, it was about ten shillings) a gallon

https://www.theaa.com/public_affairs/reports/Petro...

That AA thing is misleading the tax and duty on petrol is more than 100%

"VAT is applied after fuel duty, so, for example, the pump price of a litre of petrol currently reflects the pre-tax price plus 57.95p for fuel duty plus 20 per cent VAT on the pre-tax price and a further 11.59p for VAT at 20 per cent on fuel duty".

Edited by The Mad Monk on Tuesday 25th September 10:05

[Shakermaker]

The Simpsons was funny

[Vanordinaire]

The Mad Monk said:

magpie215 said:

I remember when I got my first car petrol was about 50p a litre

When I got my first motor bike petrol was about 50p (it wasn't, of course, it was about ten shillings a gallon) a gallon

https://www.theaa.com/public_affairs/reports/Petro...

I remember it being about 32 new pence for a gallon just after decimalisation, I was too young to be driving on the road then so it must've been for a tractor or chainsaw or something. I remember my first moped having just a half gallon capacity and the minimum sale at the petrol station being 50p so I used to take a (glass) lemonade bottle along to save any I couldn't get into the tank.

[4x4Tyke]

silverfoxcc said:

The failed rescue of the Flying Enterprise ( worth a google)

I don't recall that one, but found this video documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oihi3GddaI

I do recall documentaries about the stricken Torrey Canyon and subsequent bombing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmGvuBAHc-Q

[Cold]

I'm having trouble remembering what I had for breakfast.

[WyrleyD]

silverfoxcc said:

Trams in London esp the 33 up to Manor House

Steam Locos in Kings Cross painted Purple ( or was it LNER Garter Blue?

KGVI funeral

Bit of a bummer as it was on my 5th birthday and therefore no party(those were the days, when there was a death in the family, all the curtains were drawn until after the funeral)

Watching the Coronation on a 9in TV screen, my uncle worked at Bairds in Hastings and we were one of the few in the street to have a TV

ITV starting, and Janet Patch's dad had a set, so every Sun PM all the kids went round to her house to watch Vincent Ball announce Robin Hood!!

The East Anglian Floods

The failed rescue of the Flying Enterprise ( worth a google)

Naming my two goldfish Ramadin and Valentine after the West Indian spinners

Ha! Yes the 33 tram, used to get that with my grandad every Sunday remember travelling through the Angel Islington and on to the Kingsway tunnel then over the bridge. He also managed to get us on the very last run of the 33 tram when it all ended.

[HorneyMX5]

Watching this live on TV.

[tvrolet]

...there were 3-wheel little articulated lorries.
...there were 3-wheel milk floats
...there were 3-wheel blue invalid carriage that belched smoke

We seem to have more wheels thee days.

[andy_s]

I can remember the long hot summer of '76 but I'm buggered if I can find my glasses.....oh here they are, on top of my head.

[nicanary]

HorneyMX5 said:

Watching this live on TV.

Ha! I remember watching it being launched.............prithee.................gadzooks..........

[Northbloke]

Sitting on the stairs in the morning waiting for the newspaper to arrive to see the previous days football scores.

Having an interview and having to beg to be given a mortgage on a house.

Getting pocket money by taking back bottles for deposits

You knew which pubs would happily serve you at 15 years old (no id required) and nobody minded as long as you behaved.

Having to wait to use the phone because your mother was chatting away on it for hours.

Having to buy posh trousers and shoes to get into a nightclub as all the pubs shut at 11.

My dad teaching me to touch up rust spots on my first car with several layers of paint and it ending up looking like I'd driven through a checkpoint in Belfast.

Decimalisation. ISTR you got more Fruit Salad/Blackjacks during the changeover period if you bought them as 2p, 2p, 1p rather than 5p.

We played cricket in the street with a lamppost as wickets.

You looked up to politicians as statesmen.

There were ladybirds absolutely everywhere one year (70s?)

(my brother worked on the Corona lorry so loads of fizzy pop for us)

[magooagain]

Buying nails by the weight at our local blacksmiths.

[gothatway]

Walter Gabriel in The Archers. And Mrs Dale's Diary.

[selym]

...the knife sharpener used to push his trolley up the street. Oh, and later than that when the Corona truck used to deliver fizzy drinks.

[Bob-iylho]

When Dog st was white.

[andy_s]

Pam Ayres, Cyril Fletcher, 'sausages', Rantzen getting carted off in a black Mariah, unusual vegetables; Black and White Minstrel Show, Wheel Tappers and Shunters, Jack Hargreaves and Fred Dineage - How!, Mary Mungo and Midge, Champion the Wonder Horse on the B&W Rediffusion telly my granddad converted to colour with a blue/green transparent film stuck on the screen, Double Deckers, UFO and other Gerry Anderson projects, Space 1999 (is it really gonna be like that in 30 years...? Oh yes...), Colditz...

Now, where are my glasses....??

[Dr Jekyll]

There was a motor show at Earl's court.

The motorcycle show was full of teenagers instead of pensioners.

[P5BNij]

Eric Mc said:

The Mad Monk said:

fouronthefloor said:

My parents sitting me in front of the TV to watch the moon landing.

You should have been in bed.

The landing was around 8.00 pm UK time - so he wouldn't have been kept up too late.

One early TV memory I have is watching "Our World" in 1967, a special broadcast to demonstrate the fact that geosynchronous communication satellites were now in place and ready for action -



https://vimeo.com/214713412

Just over a year later I remember sitting on my Mum's knee as she sang along to 'Hey Jude' when they were on the David Frost Show...



Also remember staying up for the moon landing in July '69, and seeing Mum's face when she told my Dad The Beatles were splitting up just as he was going out the door to work…

[glenrobbo]

magpie215 said:

I remember when I got my first car petrol was about 50p a litre

When I bought my first car, 4 star petrol cost 5s/6d. For a gallon! ( That's approx 4.5 litres for 52.5p Oops!* 27.5p in today's new-fangled decimal money.)
On the American air base near us, the yanks could buy their petrol ( gasoline ) from the AFEX gas station for 10c a US gallon.
So we Brits were being right royally ripped off even back then.

At that time, the USAF base was operating fast jets from the base: F-80 Shooting Stars and F-86F Sabres.
The nearest RAF base had Meteors, Vampires and the new Venoms, but the Spitfire was still in operational service.

I can remember Muffin the Mule before it was made a criminal offence.
The BBC Television Service closed at 10 pm each night with the National Anthem and everyone had to stand to attention.
This only applied if you had a television,
but you still had to stand for the National Anthem when they played it at "The Pictures".

I can remember when the milkman delivered from his horse & cart.
So did the coal man.
The rag & bone man gave you awesome rewards for a bag of rags: a plastic water pistol or a goldfish in a bag.
George the baker delivered in a shiny new maroon & black Bradford Van.
The ice cream man came round on his pedal powered tricycle.

I can remember George Formby beating Geoff Duke in the TT Races.

I remember my Uncle Stan once took our whole family on holiday to Great Yarmouth in his brand new Morris convertible.
That's 3 adults and 3 kids in a 4-seater for 100 miles. I sat on my Dad's knee in the front passenger seat.
What seat belts?

I remember staying at my Uncle and Auntie's place where the lighting was by gas ( they had no electricity) and water was drawn from the well across the yard by a great big cast iron handpump. It took a lot of effort to get it going!
Friday was bath night: a galvanised tin bath was brought in from the shed and placed in front of the kitchen range and filled with lots of saucepansfull of hot water.
After everyone was fully cleansed ( ! ), the water looked like soup. :yuk:

Funny I can remember all this stuff, but I can't remember what I was doing yesterday!

• Edited because I'm still struggling to get my head around this new decimal money!

Thanks Silverfoxcc

Edited by glenrobbo on Tuesday 25th September 13:04

[BryanC]

Blue bags for the laundry