Blast from the past - remind us of a thing

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bimsb6 said:

You can still buy matchboxes .

Yeah I've got some of them in the kitchen drawer. I meant proper matches. Not girlie safety matches.
Ten Woodbine and a box of England's Glory please. Ta.
PS: I'm Scottish

[dandarez]

anonymoususer said:

From memory the Radio Times (BBC) and TV Times (ITV) Came out on a Tuesday morning during the 70s
I would buy them on my way to school and look ahead to what the Monday Night Appointment With Fear Horror movie was going to be.
I remember one morning being interested and intrigued to see it was going to be Taste The Blood Of Dracula .

The Radio Times was printed on very thin paper with a yellowy look to it, The TV Times was better quality pretty much like a lot of magazines you see these days.

Re bold, just hit a memory for me.

In Sept 1972 I drove the 65 miles with my girlfriend to London, parked up all day at White City (free! - how times have changed!) and we caught the tube into the centre and spent the afternoon wandering around.

London was a 'head for' us young back then. Today, not so much.
She used to 'hitchhike on her tod' (thumb lifts on her own, if you don't understand) - again, how times have changed! - to go those 65 miles before I met her, predominantly to shop at Biba in Kensington Church St and later Kensington High St.

That September evening we decided to go to the flicks (as we used to call it, cinema/movies today) in Leicester Sq.
Dracula film was having it's premiere that month and without much thought we just thought, new film, let's go in. Hadn't paid much attention to the AD1972 bit and that it was actually 'set in London' and not the usual Transylvania!

Christ, she was petrified as we came out in the dark so decided best to go for a few drinks. After, we strolled near towards Hyde Park but she dragged me back: 'I'm not walking through there, let's go for another drink!
To be honest, I was a bit uneasy too... looking over our shoulders in case 'Johnny Alucard' (read his surname backwards) was nearby!

[markymarkthree]

Tar balls, haven't seen any tar on the beach for years.
As a kid in the 60s, i remember my parents were paranoid about these blighters. Me being me, would always find one to squash and end up in a right mess. Dad had to whip off a fuel pipe on the Mk1 Cortina to get some petrol out to clean me up.

[paulguitar]

dandarez said:

hitchhike

Whatever happened to that?

[hidetheelephants]

markymarkthree said:

Tar balls, haven't seen any tar on the beach for years.
As a kid in the 60s, i remember my parents were paranoid about these blighters. Me being me, would always find one to squash and end up in a right mess. Dad had to whip off a fuel pipe on the Mk1 Cortina to get some petrol out to clean me up.

They still appear in sttier parts of the world; you don't get them here because oil tankers no longer flush their tanks and dump the proceeds over the side. This was banned within 50 miles of land in 1959, within 100 miles in 1962 but it was a bit of a pinky promise and there was a lack of enforcement or penalties until 1983 when it was banned entirely.

[Stan the Bat]

dickymint said:

hidetheelephants said:

dickymint said:

Stan the Bat said:

I remember my dad talking about a 'cats whisker'.

Do you the cats whiskers' as in something really good? Same as 'the bees knees'?

A cat's whisker was a fine wire that was moved over a semi-conducting crystal, generally galena; it acted as a tuning circuit for primitive radio sets.

Yeh I knew that but wasn't sure if Stan was referring to radios or something else.

Yes a radio, just following from the previous 'wireless' post.

[shed driver]

I remember my sister and I doing recorder concerts for our parents. It must have been dreadful!

SD.

[nobrakes]

shed driver said:

I remember my sister and I doing recorder concerts for our parents. It must have been dreadful!

SD.

Yes! In a suite of colours.

A recorder - a few quid. But then you got mixing it with school muiso types and next thing you know you’re parents are on the hook for a real/proper/grown-ups instrument.

[Sticks.]

Recorders were dipped on TCP at junior school for hygiene.

[eldar]

paulguitar said:

dandarez said:

hitchhike

Whatever happened to that?

Serial killers?

[Sheets Tabuer]

I'd love to know the total amount of people forced to use a recorder at school that went on to be a professional recorder player.

[nobrakes]

Sheets Tabuer said:

I'd love to know the total amount of people forced to use a recorder at school that went on to be a professional recorder player.

Loads?!

To be fair, they were a great tool to introduce the world of music and musical instruments.

[dickymint]

The first and only tune I learned on the recorder has become an irritating 'ear worm' ever since. So it's only fair that I share it with you...................




My parents wouldn't buy me a piano but they did relent and got me one these when I was 12................




Never did find out how it got broken

[nobrakes]

dickymint said:

The first and only tune I learned on the recorder has become an irritating 'ear worm' ever since. So it's only fair that I share it with you...................




My parents wouldn't buy me a piano but they did relent and got me one these when I was 12................




Never did find out how it got broken

You weren’t that guy from Sparks who played the 2note song on keyboards then?

[Purosangue]

nobrakes said:

dickymint said:

The first and only tune I learned on the recorder has become an irritating 'ear worm' ever since. So it's only fair that I share it with you...................




My parents wouldn't buy me a piano but they did relent and got me one these when I was 12................




Never did find out how it got broken

You weren’t that guy from Sparks who played the 2note song on keyboards then?

now thats a blast from the past..............one brother was influenced by " Stan Boardman" ..........the other ...well err .

[dickymint]

^^^ One of my favourite bands back in the day that I've yet to see. A quick google and they're touring this year and new album out. 3 venues in the UK but alas a trip to London for a gig is out of my comfort zone nowadays!! The only other band on my bucket list of 'not seen' would be DEVO

[Soloman Dodd]

dickymint said:

My parents wouldn't buy me a piano but they did relent and got me one these when I was 12................



:

I can remember the advert spokesman.

[swisstoni]

I remember his kids TV series Swim with Rolf.

[glenrobbo]

dickymint said:

My parents wouldn't buy me a piano but they did relent and got me one these when I was 12................




Never did find out how it got broken

That is AWESOME!!!

[Randy Winkman]

nobrakes said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

I'd love to know the total amount of people forced to use a recorder at school that went on to be a professional recorder player.

Loads?!

To be fair, they were a great tool to introduce the world of music and musical instruments.

Yes - I always assumed that was the point. Pretty much the whole of my class (if not the whole lot) learned recorder when I as a kid in the early 70s. I think the basic recorders (possibly Dolmetsch) we were all encouraged to buy (unless you could inherit one from a sibling) cost 90p. But perhaps Dolmetsch was the next step up from the cheap ones.

I think that we all started and then after a few weeks we were allowed to drop out if it wasnt our thing. I remember trying to play "Go from my window" with little success.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=go+to+my+window+...