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Top Picture: Stars of the 50’s and 60’s, how many do you remember?


Second Picture: Street Hop Scotch

REMEMBER WHEN:

I am very much indebted to Chris for sending me a ‘Remember When’ article which has served as a basis for today’s page. So thanks Chris!

Now, remember when some girl’s schools in the City still insisted on their pupils wearing those ugly gym slips, however that was not all, some of the girls also had to wear big hats or hard straw boaters or, in Pam’s case at the Southern Grammar, a Deportment Sash if they carried themselves well!!! I think that we lads got off lightly only having to put up with collars and ties and school caps. Talking about collars and ties I expect we can all remember when all male teachers wore collars and ties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels, especially Jill Cogan!!!!!

With all our progress over the years, don't you wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace of life and share it with the children of today and tell them that, to us, being sent to the headmaster’s office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you at home when your parents found out that you had been there. The days when the teachers kept a cane or slipper in the cupboard and some teachers even threatened to keep children back a year if they failed the school yearly exams. . . And they did to! On your way home you thought nothing of reaching into a muddy gutter or puddle to retrieve a penny, nobody owned a purebred dog and nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got back from school.

In those days summers were filled with bike rides, cricket, football, Hula Hoops, cap guns, skating and visits to the Lido or the beach; playing Hop Scotch or just playing on the Rec or on the Hill or in the Marshes. The days of eating lemonade powder, sherbet dabs, flying saucers and liquorice sticks. From that period of time how many of these do you remember? Coca Cola in bottles, Blackjacks and bubble gum, home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops (actually, we still do have this but only three times a week now, not daily), Hi-fi's and 45’s and even 78’s. Remember spinning round and round and then getting dizzy and falling down in fits of laughter? Playing cricket with no adults to help with the rules of the game and playing 25 a side football with coats as goal posts! Do you remember when decisions were made by going 'Eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? and a 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?

Catching tadpoles could happily occupy an entire day and it wasn't odd to have two or three ‘Best Friends’? Taking drugs meant orange - flavoured chewable aspirin and the ultimate weapon was not the catapult but the water bomb; and talking about weapons having a weapon in School meant being caught with a slingshot or catapult not a knife or blade.

Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic or childproof seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger. We were happy but maybe deep down we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc. it was our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was always greater than the threat.

Remember when father would go into the living room several minutes before we sat down to watch the television because the set took at least five minutes to warm up

If your family was luck enough to own a car no one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. When you pulled into a filling station you got your windscreen washed and cleaned, oil checked and petrol served, without asking and all this was free every time. The AA or RAC man would salute you if you were displaying an AA or RAC badge and the Ford Zephyr or Zodiac was everyone's dream car...

These were the days when it was considered a very great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents (actually I cannot ever remember being taken out for a restaurant meal when I was a child).

As far as relationships went people went ‘steady’ and were not just ‘an item’ and the worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'chickenpox'?

Ah! All so long ago!

Thanks again Chris that made a really good article.


Stay in touch,

Yours,

Peter

DUSTYKEAT@aol.com
Pj.keat@ntlworld.co.uk

You Write:

David writes:

Jim Fox was older then us he was born in 1941 and lived in Lower
Farlington Road.

News and Views:

Convinced that her dream of a museum will not come to fruition, Debbie Reynolds began auctioning off her collection of Hollywood costumes and memorabilia on June 18th, Marilyn Monroe's white "subway grate" dress from "The Seven Year Itch" went for $5.6 million. Two other Marilyn dresses brought the total to $8 million. A blue cotton dress and ruby slippers made as tests for Judy Garland in "The Wizard Of Oz" and never actually used in the film went for almost $1.75 million. The guitar from "The Singing Nun" was auctioned for $140,000. Even a Charlie Chaplin bowler hat fetched $110,000. It was the first in a series of auctions of Debbie's extensive collection.

On this day 1st July 1960-1965.

On 01/07/1960 the number one single was Three Steps to Heaven - Eddie Cochran and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was No Hiding Place (AR) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.The big news story of the day was Neale Fraser wins Wimbledon men's singles. British Somaliland becomes Somalia, Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell and Texaco in Cuba, Ghana becomes a republic, U.S.S.R. shoots down U.S. RB-47 reconnaissance plane

On 01/07/1961 the number one single was Runaway - Del Shannon and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Harpers West One (ATV) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii, Diana, Princess of Wales was born.

On 01/07/1962 the number one single was Come Outside - Mike Sarne with Wendy Richard and the number one album was West Side Story Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium, Burundi became independent as did Rwanda.

On 01/07/1963 the number one single was I Like It - Gerry & the Pacemakers and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. Beatles record "She Loves You" & "I'll Get You". The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent. ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.

On 01/07/1964 the number one single was It's Over - Roy Orbison and the number one album was Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones. The top rated TV show was Club Night (BBC) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 01/07/1965 the number one single was I'm Alive - Hollies and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

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Top Picture: Cliff and The Shadows. L to R. Jet Harris, Bruce Welch, Brian Bennett, Cliff, Hank Marvin in 1961. (Tony Meehan had left in 1960)



Second Picture: Who remembers the ill fated Portsdown Park?




Jet Harris

Jet Harris who died on the 18th March aged 71 was a founder member of the Shadows and played bass on such hits as Apache, Kon-Tiki and Wonderful Land, and backed Cliff Rich¬ard on many more.

Arguably the first British pop group of the rock'n'roll era, the Shadows were responsible for several other firsts. While the lead guitarist Hank Marvin became Britain's first guitar hero, Jet Har¬ris was the first British musician to record with an electric bass guitar, in place of the traditional upright acoustic double bass as was seen in groups such as Bill Haley and the Comets, this was in 1958.

However Jet Harris left the Shadows at the height of their fame in 1962, just before the rise of the Beatles. Unfortunately his departure was triggered by depression and alcoholism. But after leaving the band he enjoyed further success with the 1963 the chart-topper Dia¬monds, recorded with another ex Shadows member, the drummer Tony Meehan. On the record he made groundbreaking use of the bass guitar as a lead instrument. But after a couple more hits with Tony Meehan, Jet’s career ground to a halt following a bad car ac¬cident and his continued drinking.

He attempted a solo comeback in the mid-1960s but when that flopped, he drifted away from music and worked in various manual jobs. He resumed re¬cording in the 1980s and enjoyed some success on the nostalgia circuit.

He was born Terence Harris just before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 in Kingsbury, North London. His first instrument was the clarinet, which he played in school bands. But by 1956, influenced by jazz and the skiffle scene, he had made his own double bass, which he played in a jazz trio named the Delinquents. He then bought a professional double bass, and began playing with the jazz drum¬mer Tony Crombie, who in 1958 urged him to experiment with an electric bass guitar, an instrument that was unknown in Brit¬ain at the time.

He had a Framus Star bass im¬ported from West Germany and intro¬duced the instrument in the Vipers skif¬fle group before joining Cliff Richard's backing group, the Drifters, in 1959. With the Drifters, he played on the singer's early hits, including his first number one, Living Doll. The group re¬ceived no royalties, only a session fee for playing on Cliff's records, and so in 1959 the Drifters landed an EMI re¬cording contract of their own, while continuing to back Cliff.

It was now that the American vocal group the Drifters threatened to sue over the use of the name, Jet Harris suggested they be¬come the Shadows and so the Shadows they became.

Apache, (a record that Hank Marvin always said was his pension fund) was their second release under the name and it gave them their first hit in 1960, when it knocked Cliff's Please Don't Tease off the number one slot. It was followed by further hits including Man of Mys¬tery. The Stranger, FBI, The Frightened City, Kon-Tiki, which became their second number one in 1961, The Savage and Wonderful Land, which topped the charts in early 1962.

By then the Shadows had also backed Cliff on further hits includ¬ing The Young Ones, and Jet along with other group members ap¬peared in the 1961 film of the same name. But away from the happy-go-lucky character depicted on the film set Jet Harris was a troubled figure. Unhappy in his marriage, he was drink¬ing heavily, and after a series of disa¬greements with the rest of the group, he parted company with the Shad¬ows in April 1962.

He recorded two singles, Besame Mu-cho and The Man With the Golden Arm, both of which reached the charts in 1962, before forming a duo with the drummer Tony Meehan, who had left the Shadows shortly before Jet had. The duo's first single, Diamonds, which also featured the then unknown Jimmy Page as a ses¬sion guitarist, replaced the Shadows' Dance On at number one in the charts in January 1963.

Before the year was out, the Harris and Meehan Duo had two further hits, Scarlett O'Hara and Applejack. But serious inju¬ries suffered in a car crash in 1964 ground Jet’s career to a halt. He returned to make a handful of un¬successful singles in 1966-67 and was considered for the bass role in Jeff Beck's group. But his heavy drinking wrecked any chance of a serious come¬back. Over the next decade he was vari¬ously reported to be working as a la¬bourer, a bricklayer and a bus conduc¬tor.

He eventually returned to making music, performing with a backing band called the Diamonds and with the Shadows tribute band the Rapiers. He also teamed up from time to time with former members of the Shadows at vari¬ous events and reunions, although he was hurt not to be invited to join the Shadows for their 50th anniversary, at the Royal Variety Performance in 2008.

He was appointed MBE in the 2010 New Year Honours and spent his last years living in a cottage in Bembridge on the Isle of Wight but died at the home of his partner Janet Hemingway, in Win¬chester. What a sad nd to a troubled life!


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Yours,

Peter

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Pj.keat@ntlworld.co.uk

You Write:

Griff Writes:

School Careers.

I'm with you Peter!

They were virtually non existant weren't they. I remember the trips out for the Boy's to look at what was on offer and how dismal the prospects were and as far as I remember the boys I looked around employment places with were Keith Conlon, Barry Dunnaway and Bob Webster.
Depressing work places we visited as a group to say the least and the one that will always stick in my mind was the trip to Portsmouth Corporation Bus Servicing /Overhaul Centre at Eastney. I actually walked out the front door after 5 minutes for a ciggie because the place just overwhelmed me with an instant depression and it was at this point I think I had made my decision to do something a bit more exciting with my life and to do this I needed to join the RAF or the Navy. I had been accepted as an Apprentice at De-Havillands located next to Portsmouth Airfield but with my Dad dying from the Big C the previous year ( he was a Manager for DH.... nothing like a bit of nepotism eh! ) and with the DH factory moving to Hatfield that was now out of the question.
To be fair I had always been interested in aircraft from a young age so career wise it turned out to be a good choice and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed my 25 years service of flying and excitement with just the odd exception which is normal in any job over a period of time.
It's true Norman Folland did encourage ALL his boys to join the RAF as he was ex-RAF (so was Bert Ray & Ray Dobson ) and I remember Norman saying to me in a very short 1 minute career advice room interview " Wise choice Melvyn! ".......and that was that.
Manor Court and Court Lane provided the Armed Forces and in particular the RAF with a lot of new entrants.
5G Miss Blit's class provided 3 of them alone Myself, Alan Clarkson & Martyn Smith. If your reading this Melvyn Bridger I always thought at the time you, as a top ATC Cadet would have tagged along with us all into the great unknown.

Cheers Everyone ....Melvyn ( Griff )Griffiths.



Paul Writes:-

I think the Furniture Factory for the Careers visit was White & Newton at Milton.

News and Views:

A case of bacterial pneumonia has forced Jerry Lee Lewis to postpone his show in Chicago

On this day 15th July 1960-1965.

On

15/07/1960

the number one single was Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Rawhide (ITV) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth 13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Italian cyclist wins Tour De France.

On

15/07/1961

the number one single was Runaway - Del Shannon and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Harpers West One (ATV) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth 13.25 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On

15/07/1962

the number one single was I Can't Stop Loving You - Ray Charles and the number one album was West Side Story Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth 12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On

15/07/1963

the number one single was I Like It - Gerry & the Pacemakers and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth 12.64 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On

15/07/1964

the number one single was It's All Over Now - Rolling Stones and the number one album was Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones. The top rated TV show was Labour Party Political Broadcast (all channels) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth 12.24 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Donald Campbell breaks land speed record.

On

15/07/1965

the number one single was Crying in the Chapel - Elvis Presley and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth 11.69 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

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Top Picture: London Road, North End, looking north in the 1960’s. Note the Odeon on the right.



Second Picture: Southsea Common postcard 1963.

The Rest of Your Life

I don’t know about you, but the only thing that I felt really let down about at Manor Court was in the field of Careers Advise. As far as I can remember I actually had none at all. In the back of my mind is the fact that Norman Folland was the Schools Careers Advisor for the boys and Joyce Pipe was the Advisor for the girls. Personally, I cannot ever remember having a careers interview with Norman Folland and those few lads that did, I seem to remember that he invariably recommended that most of them took the RAF Entry Exam. If it comes to that I don’t even remember having assemblies when prospective employers came along and spoke to us about their firms and the prospects within them. Maybe it is an uncharted blank in my memory and it actually did happen, but I do not remember it ever happening. Looking at the girls in the school, maybe it was that Joyce Pipe made a bigger impact on you girls if so come on and let me know!

Preparation for the world work was something that was almost ignored, although there was encouragement for some of us to go to college. To encourage us boys to think about work there were the odd outings to various employers during our 4th year but very little else.

I remember a group of us lads being bussed down to Stanhope Road to look at the printing process of the Portsmouth Evening News. We were taken to see the giant rolls of paper and the enormous printing presses. These were the days of the Comptometer operators who used the "touch typing" system, in the same way that typewriters and computer keyboards are used. After having typed the article it was set up using the hot lead method of casting type and the paper was set to rolling. I remember that it was a noisy, dirty and very unattractive workplace and I think I am right in saying that none of us were impressed and none of us went into the printing business. What really stuck in my mind was that as the company was printing so many news papers that day and on six days they did not even give us one to share on the bus going home.

Another visit was to a hand made furniture factory, again somewhere in Portsmouth. I have an even vaguer memory of this probably because my woodworking skills were terrible. I cannot remember the name of the company or where the factory was, I just remember the sweet smell of newly worked wood.

One group of lads went off to inspect the Dockyard Apprentice School at Flathouse Quay but I was not among their number.

I also remember a school visit to Hilsea Gas Works but I cannot remember if it was a science visit to see how Town Gas was made or a careers visit to see if we fancied working there, all I know is that it stank of sulphur, was filthy dirty and very unpleasant and we did not get to ride on the steam trains that worked there and that we had to clean the coke off of the soles of our shoes before we got back on the bus.

I understand that some of you girls had the delight of being taken to view the wonders of the Twilfit factory. Actually my late step mother in law was, for a time, a senior seamstress in the Twilfit factory and specialised in making corsets (something that our schoolgirls didn’t need I am sure, no samples there either!), later she transferred to that other well known corset maker in Portsmouth, Vollers. Of course today corset making has a completely different profile, they are no longer flesh pink foundation garments (only within the narrow surgical field) they are now very much fashion statements thanks to the pop stars like Madonna etc.

Work to us was important, especially if you were not going on to College but the help in attaining a job seemed very limited.

However the whole world of work was vastly different then. If you had a job and had an argument or disagreement with the boss and resigned or left on the Friday, you knew that with a look in the Portsmouth Evening News that night or a quick trip to the Labour Exchange on Monday morning you would be back in work again within a day or two. How things have changed!



Stay in touch,

Yours,

Peter

DUSTYKEAT@aol.com
Pj.keat@ntlworld.co.uk



You Write:
Barry asks;

Whatever happened to 'bang' the fourth rice crispy brother?


News and Views:

Ottilie Patterson 1932-2011.She was once one of the UK's best-known blues singers but when she was laid to rest in Co Down, it was in complete obscurity. Ottile was buried in her native Comber after dying on June 20th in Ayr. She shot to stardom in the 1950s as a vocalist with the Chris Barber Jazz Band, marrying him in 1959. As early as 1963 she began to suffer throat problems and stopped appearing regularly with Chris Barber and retired in 1973. She became dogged by ill health and suffered the breakdown of her marriage. She had been living almost as a recluse in the Rozelle Holm Farm Care Home in Ayr for the past 30 years. Her death has gone unreported in the media as it seems to have been her own wish that there would be no fuss and she was given a private burial in the family grave. Chris Barber, now 81, is currently on a UK tour with The Big Chris Barber Band.

On this day 8th July 1960-1965.

On 08/07/1960 the number one single was Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Rawhide (ITV) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 08/07/1961 the number one single was Runaway - Del Shannon and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Harpers West One (ATV) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Mario Dubois born.

On 08/07/1962 the number one single was Come Outside - Mike Sarne with Wendy Richard and the number one album was West Side Story Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was 94 die in Bombay air crash.

On 08/07/1963 the number one single was I Like It - Gerry & the Pacemakers and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 08/07/1964 the number one single was A Hard Day's Night - Beatles and the number one album was A Hard Day's Night - Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 08/07/1965 the number one single was I'm Alive - Hollies and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

Web Page 952

Top Picture: Stars of the 50’s and 60’s, how many do you remember?




Second Picture: Street Hop Scotch


REMEMBER WHEN:

I am very much indebted to Chris for sending me a ‘Remember When’ article which has served as a basis for today’s page. So thanks Chris!

Now, remember when some girl’s schools in the City still insisted on their pupils wearing those ugly gym slips, however that was not all, some of the girls also had to wear big hats or hard straw boaters or, in Pam’s case at the Southern Grammar, a Deportment Sash if they carried themselves well!!! I think that we lads got off lightly only having to put up with collars and ties and school caps. Talking about collars and ties I expect we can all remember when all male teachers wore collars and ties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels, especially Jill Cogan!!!!!

With all our progress over the years, don't you wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace of life and share it with the children of today and tell them that, to us, being sent to the headmaster’s office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you at home when your parents found out that you had been there. The days when the teachers kept a cane or slipper in the cupboard and some teachers even threatened to keep children back a year if they failed the school yearly exams. . . And they did to! On your way home you thought nothing of reaching into a muddy gutter or puddle to retrieve a penny, nobody owned a purebred dog and nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got back from school.

In those days summers were filled with bike rides, cricket, football, Hula Hoops, cap guns, skating and visits to the Lido or the beach; playing Hop Scotch or just playing on the Rec or on the Hill or in the Marshes. The days of eating lemonade powder, sherbet dabs, flying saucers and liquorice sticks. From that period of time how many of these do you remember? Coca Cola in bottles, Blackjacks and bubble gum, home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops (actually, we still do have this but only three times a week now, not daily), Hi-fi's and 45’s and even 78’s. Remember spinning round and round and then getting dizzy and falling down in fits of laughter? Playing cricket with no adults to help with the rules of the game and playing 25 a side football with coats as goal posts! Do you remember when decisions were made by going 'Eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? and a 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?

Catching tadpoles could happily occupy an entire day and it wasn't odd to have two or three ‘Best Friends’? Taking drugs meant orange - flavoured chewable aspirin and the ultimate weapon was not the catapult but the water bomb; and talking about weapons having a weapon in School meant being caught with a slingshot or catapult not a knife or blade.

Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic or childproof seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger. We were happy but maybe deep down we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc. it was our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was always greater than the threat.

Remember when father would go into the living room several minutes before we sat down to watch the television because the set took at least five minutes to warm up

If your family was luck enough to own a car no one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. When you pulled into a filling station you got your windscreen washed and cleaned, oil checked and petrol served, without asking and all this was free every time. The AA or RAC man would salute you if you were displaying an AA or RAC badge and the Ford Zephyr or Zodiac was everyone's dream car...

These were the days when it was considered a very great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents (actually I cannot ever remember being taken out for a restaurant meal when I was a child).

As far as relationships went people went ‘steady’ and were not just ‘an item’ and the worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'chickenpox'?

Ah! All so long ago!

Thanks again Chris that made a really good article.


Stay in touch,

Yours,

Peter

DUSTYKEAT@aol.com
Pj.keat@ntlworld.co.uk

You Write:

David writes:

Jim Fox was older then us he was born in 1941 and lived in Lower
Farlington Road.

News and Views:

Convinced that her dream of a museum will not come to fruition, Debbie Reynolds began auctioning off her collection of Hollywood costumes and memorabilia on June 18th, Marilyn Monroe's white "subway grate" dress from "The Seven Year Itch" went for $5.6 million. Two other Marilyn dresses brought the total to $8 million. A blue cotton dress and ruby slippers made as tests for Judy Garland in "The Wizard Of Oz" and never actually used in the film went for almost $1.75 million. The guitar from "The Singing Nun" was auctioned for $140,000. Even a Charlie Chaplin bowler hat fetched $110,000. It was the first in a series of auctions of Debbie's extensive collection.

On this day 1st July 1960-1965.

On 01/07/1960

the number one single was Three Steps to Heaven - Eddie Cochran and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was No Hiding Place (AR) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.The big news story of the day was Neale Fraser wins Wimbledon men's singles. British Somaliland becomes Somalia, Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell and Texaco in Cuba, Ghana becomes a republic, U.S.S.R. shoots down U.S. RB-47 reconnaissance plane

On 01/07/1961

the number one single was Runaway - Del Shannon and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Harpers West One (ATV) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii, Diana, Princess of Wales was born.

On 01/07/1962

the number one single was Come Outside - Mike Sarne with Wendy Richard and the number one album was West Side Story Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium, Burundi became independent as did Rwanda.

On 01/07/1963

the number one single was I Like It - Gerry & the Pacemakers and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. Beatles record "She Loves You" & "I'll Get You". The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent. ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.

On 01/07/1964

the number one single was It's Over - Roy Orbison and the number one album was Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones. The top rated TV show was Club Night (BBC) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 01/07/1965

the number one single was I'm Alive - Hollies and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.