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Previously on "Memories of the 1950s (while I can still remember)."

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    I prefer TV projectors. 4m screen.
    that's one of the plans for Summer.

    Projector from the Manshack onto a sheet slung between the Eucalyptus & a pole and instant cinema!

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    Generation Y its going to be "why wasn't I issued with a 65" HD television"?
    I prefer TV projectors. 4m screen.

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  • vetran
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    worth waiting for takes a time to load SFW.

    BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 47 year old television signals bouncing back to Earth


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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    I remember getting a 625 line television and being able to watch BBC2.
    Generation Y its going to be "why wasn't I issued with a 65" HD television"?

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  • NotAllThere
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    I remember getting a 625 line television and being able to watch BBC2.

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  • vetran
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    yep that takes me back I fixed a few of these in my youth

    Black and White TV Gallery Page 1

    Black and White TV Gallery Page 2

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  • DimPrawn
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    1950's....the last time we had a wider deficit.

    Balance of Payments - Office for National Statistics

    The United Kingdom’s (UK) current account deficit was £32.7 billion in Quarter 4 (October to December) 2015, up from a revised deficit of £20.1 billion in Quarter 3 (July to September) 2015. The deficit in Quarter 4 (October to December) 2015 equated to 7.0% of gross domestic product (GDP) at current market prices, the largest proportion since quarterly records began in 1955, up from 4.3% in Quarter 3 (July to September) 2015.

    Gidiot really has the UK economy sorted.

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  • FatLazyContractor
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    Holy crap !!!

    You are a baby boomer aren't you ?!

    AtW - There you go ...

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  • greenlake
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    Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
    Memories of the 1950s (while I can still remember).
    The parents....?

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  • FrontEnder
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    80,000+ posts? Have you been posting since the 50s?

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  • xoggoth
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    Watching Olly Beak with Murial Young.

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  • vetran
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    its only 19:44!


    I don't remember being a glint in my fathers eye!

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  • xoggoth
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    13 Opening door on a London smog, yellow and so thick it was almost like something solid was coming in.
    14 Buying cheese at the local grocer's and he carved it off a huge barrel shape covered in what looked like canvas standing in corner of the shop.
    15 Everything in shops went in a paper bag, little was pre packaged.
    16 Woolworths sold things like screws and nut and bolts - loose.
    17 Going caravanning, towed behind my father's 10hp Hillman. The hill near was too steep for it. We all had to get out and stand on the pavement with lots of luggage until he came back to collect us.

    PS As you know, we've still got trains hauled by steam engines in our village.

    OI! You added 13 while I was replying! Trying to make me look senile again!

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  • zeitghost
    started a topic Memories of the 1950s (while I can still remember).

    Memories of the 1950s (while I can still remember).

    1. Ice on the inside of the bedroom window
    2. Black and white TV with a 9 inch screen
    3. One TV channel (BBC Ch 5 from Wenvoe, the TV couldn't receive Ch 10 from St. Hilary).
    4. My dad making his & our living putting gigantic Ch5 aerials up so people could watch BBC.
    5. Other people talking about "No Hiding Place" which was on ITV which we couldn't get
    6. Sputnik
    7. Trains hauled by steam engines.
    8. Travelling on the Rhondda and Swansea Bay line from Platform 3 at Neath General to Aberavon (Seaside) on a little train hauled by a saddle tank steam loco.
    9. Being stuck on a failed diesel train at Cardiff.
    10. Travelling on buses and trains coz we didn't have a car.
    11. Not having a fridge.
    12. Rag, tag, and bobtail on Watch with Mother on the BBC.
    13. Going on holiday on the train down to Tenby.


    Ah. Them were the days.
    Last edited by zeitghost; 30 March 2016, 18:31.
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