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28th September 2013

Top Picture: Jack Frogatt in his heyday

Bottom Picture: A crowded scene in Fratton Park

Jack Frogatt

Now lads who remembers ‘Jolly’ Jack Froggatt the ex Pompey player turned pub landlord? I think that most of us as youngsters at one time or another went into his pub, The Manor House, between Old Manor Way and Court Lane, to the Off License to buy sweets or pop. Then later, as we gre older, into the bar for a swift half.

Jack Froggatt came from a footballing family and he started his footballing career in 1945, whilst he was still in the RAF. His uncle, Frank and his cousin, Redfern both played for Sheffield Wednesday, with Redfern totalling 434 games for the team.

After being demobed from the RAF Jack started work in his fathers butcher shop in Sheffield but continiued to play football when in 1945 he was spotted by a scout and signed for Portsmouth as initially a centre-half but managed to persuade the then manager Jack Tinn to play him as an outside-left.

That season he crowned his Pompey debut with a second-half goal at The Dell in a War League South match against Southampton and from then on he went on to become a regular goal scorer. He was very agile and fast, had excellent ball control and was very strong in the air, making him one of the most versatile players Pompey have ever had.

He was a stocky player, who was known for his robust running and sharp shooting. He earned his first England cap on 6th November 1949, where he scored on his international debut, from the outside-left position in England’s 9-2 victory over Northern Ireland at Maine Road.

At this time Pompey had a distinguished line up with three top line players, Jack Froggatt, Jimmy Scoular (he made 268 appearances for Portsmouth and later moved to Newcastle, and Jimmy Dickinson, whose house in Staunton Road we would often pass on Hayling Island as we walked from the railway station to the beach. Jimmy Dickenson appeared for Portsmouth 845 times and was capped 48 times, making him Portsmouth’s most capped player ever. This remarkable line up was often seen as the most powerful half-back line in immediate post-war football as Pompey won consecutive the first division titles in 1948–49 and 1949–50.

Jack Froggatts inside left position was eventually taken over by Dougie Reid in his last season and for the rest of that seasons matches he was played out on the wing again. Reluctantly he left Pompey in March 1954 and then went on to play 143 matches for Leicester City, scoring 18 goals. In September 1957 he signed for Kettering Town for a staggerring fee of £6000.

He became player/manager of the club from January 1958, replacing Harry Mather until September 1961. Under his tenure the club saw promotion, a relegation and a Championship season and eventually he was succeeded by Wally Akers, but Jack still continued to play for the Kettering. His final league game being on 23rd March 1963.

His 20-year football career came to an end on 6th May 1963, and this was in a benefit match against one of his former clubs, Portsmouth. A crowd of 1,800 turned out to see Pompey race into a 4-0 lead after just 35 minutes, before goals from Dennis Randall, Jack Froggatt and George Armour made the score a bit more respectable.

Retiring from football, he returned to Portsmouth to become a publican. For 22 years, he kept the Manor House in Old Manor Way, East Cosham, then he took over The Milton Arms which was sited very near to Fratton Park and finally he took a hotel in Partridge Green, West Sussex.

Jack Frogatt died on 17^th February 1993 aged 70.

One thing to bear in mind is that the conditions at Fratton Park were vastly different in the days when Jack Frogatt played. There was little or no seating and the fans were packed in as tight as possible. The record number in the park is held by the FA Cup match against Derby in 1949 when the number of fans in the Park was reported as 51, 385 take a look at the picture above.

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Jonathon Writes:Hi Peter you are probably more of the norm than I in only moving three times. I really have lost count. As a child I lived in three addresses in Coventry, two in Warwick and then moved with my parents and brothers to Portsmouth in 1956. 
On getting married Carol and I had our first home in Cambridge, second in Bedhampton, third in Kingswinford and fourth in Warwick. We then emigrated to South Africa and had a succession of house moves, Jasmyn Apartments, Leipold Street, Donkin Street, Eugene Marais Street, Vlaardingen Street, another house in Eugene Marais Street, all the above in Sasolburg. Then we moved to Johannesburg and were in Sadie Street, Marico Road, Elephant Hills Apartments, and finally Vue Magnifique in Roodekrans, Krugersdorp. In between we lived in a number of houses in Reading, Bahrain, and Seoul. At a rough count 23 times. Sheer madness I know but that was the way you had to live in my wandering Contract Engineer's profession.

Griff writes:

I don't remember brown paper being put up at the windows of an empty house either but I do remember "Windowlene" a pink liquid window cleaner being applied to all the front windows which then dried to a white opaque finish and was a real elbow bending job to clean off to achieve a sparkly clear window glass.

You wouldn't dare do this today and why would you want to advertise your empty property really?   Hello ....empty property here..... ready for occupation by squatters...

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Marvin Rainwater, best remembered for the #18 hit "Gonna Find Me A Bluebird" in 1957, died Tuesday (September 17) at his Aitkin, Minnesota home after what was described as a short illness. He was 88.

On this day 28th  September 1960-1965.

On 28/09/1960 the number one single was Apache - The Shadows and the number one album was Down Drury Lane to Memory Lane - A Hundred and One Strings. The top rated TV show was The Army Game (Granada) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions

On 28/09/1961 the number one single was Reach for the Stars / Climb Ev'ry Mountain - Shirley Bassey and the number one album was The Shadows - Shadows. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 28/09/1962 the number one single was She's Not You - Elvis Presley and the number one album was Best of Ball Barber & Bilk. 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 Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 28/09/1963 the number one single was She Loves You - The Beatles 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 Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 28/09/1964 the number one single was I'm Into Something Good - Herman's Hermits 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 25/09/1965 the number one single was Make It Easy On Yourself - Walker Brothers and the number one album was Help - The Beatles. 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 Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions

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21^st September 2013

Happy birthday Mrs. K  for tomorrow!

Top Picture: A traditional Pickfords lorry

Bottom Picture: A heavy haulage unit on the move

On the Move

In my lifetime I have only moved house three times, once when I was 8 months old from Newcastle upon Tyne to Portsmouth, then in 1967 Pam and I moved into a flat in North End when we got married and then two years later we moved from there to Gosport and here we have stuck. I know I am lucky not moving every few years as some folks did. For example Pam moved from Bordon, to Weymouth, from Weymouth to Newcastle  upon Tyne (I had already moved out by then), Newcastle to Reading then to Germany, back to Southsea and onto Cosham and then with me to North End and Gosport. A total of eight moves.

What prompted me to write about moving house was that someone the other day mention what a trail it was in the 1950’s and 60’s moving. The movers (usually Pickfords) arrived first thing in the morning, ready to pack the lorry. They had already delivered a pile of tea chests so our parents could start to pack away delicate things a few days before the big move. The thing that I had forgotten that came up in conversation was that if you were going to leave a house empty for a while, ie people were not moving in straight away, the usual thing was to stick sheets of brown paper over the insides of the windows so that no one could see in. Does anyone else remember this I wonder? 

Things today must be so much easier when moving. Furniture is now much lighter wardrobes are not made of solid heavy wood and very few people own a grand or upright piano that has to be moved on special little trolleys these days. However a relation of Pam’s lived in Newcastle and he had inherited his fathers large heavy safe (his father was in business), which was kept under the stairs. When they came to move south to Telford the removal company took one look at the safe and refused to move it so the original makers of the safe had to be called in to actually move and reposition the safe in the new house. This cost a small fortune. The gentleman in question has recently passed on so when his son comes to sell the house he is going to have the same problem all over again! Unless he sells the house with the massive safe as a feature!

In our younger days the removal me arrived wearing white bib aprons with a khaki storemans coat over the top and possibly a flat cap as well. No sign of trainers or jeans. These were the days of the Pantechnicon vans, this was a word originally used for horse drawn removal vans and a word which seems to have been totally lost today.

Just looking back to Portsmouth in 1964 the city was well served with Removal Company’s how many of these do you remember? Ashley’s of Cosham (I knew Peter Ashley very well), George Blower of North End, Bridges of Landport, Culverson, Charles Ellis and Curtiss &Co., Humphrey Brothers all of Southsea. Manchip of Eastney and the North End Carriers. Pickfords, Parham, Parrington & Morrow, Charles Taylor & Sons, H Watts & Dowding, webs and White & Co. We were really spoilt for choice. There was not the facility, in those days, for hiring a van and moving yourself  although if you were moving a business the local railway company would do it all for you. There is a marvellous British Transport Film entitled ‘Farmer moving South’ where the LMS railway move every thing from the kitchen table, the tractors and even the livestock from the Yorkshire Dales down to another farm in West Sussex.

Then there were those mysterious places where peoples furniture went, when it went into storage, places called Depositories. We never used one but at one time around the City you could spot large warehouses with the word ----------Depository on the side. Where have all these gone now? Maybe people do not store furniture any more!

Just one other thing Pickford’s, who were later bought out by British Road Services (BRS) but retained the distinctive dark blue and white livery, were masters in heavy haulage. If a power station needed a transformer moved Pickford’s had the high powered tractor unit and low loader to do it and the maintained a vast stable of specialized units and trailers to move items around the country.

The only moving I do now is things out of my loft and off to the tip, I sincerely hope that I will not ever have to move house again!

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On this day 21st  September 1960-1965.

On 21/09/1960 the number one single was Apache - The Shadows and the number one album was Down Drury Lane to Memory Lane - A Hundred and One Strings. 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 Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 21/09/1961 the number one single was Reach for the Stars / Climb Ev'ry Mountain - Shirley Bassey. The top rated TV show was "Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25. An Argentinian swims English Channel both ways non-stop The big news story of the day was Take Your Pick (AR)".

On 21/09/1962 the number one single was She's Not You - Elvis Presley and the number one album was Best of Ball Barber & Bilk. 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 Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 21/09/1963 the number one single was She Loves You - The Beatles 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 Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 21/09/1964 the number one single was You Really Got Me - Kinks 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 21/09/1965 the number one single was Make It Easy On Yourself - Walker Brothers and the number one album was Help – The Beatles. 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 Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 Champions.

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14^th September 2013

Top Picture: The original Dr Who

Bottom Picture: An original Police Box not a TARDIS

William Hartnell

William Henry Hartnell ( known to most of us as the first, and the best, Dr Who) was born in St Pancras, London the only child of Lucy Hartnell, an unmarried mother. He was brought up partly by a foster mother, though he did spend many happy holidays in Devon with his mother's family of farmers, where he learned to ride.

He never found out the identity of his father (the name was left blank on his birth certificate) despite efforts to trace him. William was known as Billy at school and Bill during his acting career. He left school without prospects and became involved in petty crime. Through a boys' boxing club, he met the art collector Hugh Blaker, who would become his unofficial guardian and arrange for him initially to train as a jockey and then helped him enter the Italia Conti Academy Acting Academy, the theatre was a passion of Hugh Blaker and he paid for William Hartnell to receive some 'polish' at the Imperial Service College, though this was not to his liking and he ran away.

His first theatre job was in 1925 working as a stagehand. He appeared in several Shakespearian plays, and in She Stoops to Conquer  and School for Scandal. He also appeared in 'Miss Elizabeth's Prisoner' in 1928' a play that featured Heather McIntyre. The following year they married. His first of more than sixty film appearances was Say It With Music in 1932. He was cast as 'Albert Fosdike' in Noël Coward's 1942 film In Which We Serve but turned up late for his first day of shooting. Coward berated him in front of cast and crew for his unprofessionalism, made him personally apologise to everyone and then sacked him. 

At the outbreak of the Second World War, he served in the Tank Corps, but was invalided out after eighteen months suffering from a nervous breakdown and returned to acting. He usually played comic characters, until 1944 when he was cast as Sergeant Ned Fletcher in The Way Ahead and from then on his career was defined by playing mainly policemen, soldiers, and thugs. This typecasting bothered him for even when cast in comedies he found he was playing the 'heavy'. In 1958 he played the sergeant in the first Carry On film comedy, Carry On Sergeant, and in 1963 he appeared as a town councillor in the Boulting brothers' film Heavens Above! with Peter Sellers. He also appeared in The Mouse That Roared in 1959 (again with Peter Sellers).

His first regular role on television was as Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore in The Army Game from 1957–1961. Again, although it was a comedy series he found himself cast in a "tough-guy" role.

After living at 51 Church Street, Isleworth, next door to Hugh Blaker, the Hartnells lived on the Island, Thames Ditton. Then in the 1960s they moved to a cottage in Mayfield, Sussex. He lived in later life at Sheephurst Lane in Marden, Kent.

His performance in the film This Sporting Life was noted by Verity Lambert, the producer who was setting up a new science-fiction television series for the BBC, Doctor Who and she offered him the title role. He was uncertain about accepting a part in a children's series but he was persuaded to take the part, and it became the character for which he became best remembered. He later revealed that he took the role because it led him away from the gruff, military parts in which he had become typecast, and, having two grandchildren of his own, he came to relish particularly the attention and affection that playing the character brought him from children. Doctor Who earned him a regular salary of £315 per episode by 1966 equivalent to £4,050 a week in modern terms.  By comparison, in 1966 his co-stars Anneke Wills and Michael Craze were earning £68 and £52 per episode at the same time. Throughout his time as the Doctor, he wore a wig whereas in private life he himself favoured the short-back-and-sides.

In 1965 his aunt Bessie Hartnell, who had looked after him during his troubled childhood, died. But the production schedule on the series was so tight, with a typical 48 episodes a year being transmitted, that it prevented his even taking time off to attend her funeral.

According to some of his colleagues on Doctor Who, he could be difficult to work with. Others, however, notably actors Peter Purves and William Russell, and producer Verity Lambert, spoke glowingly of him after more than forty years.

His deteriorating health (he suffered from arteriosclerosis, which began to affect his ability to say his lines), as well as poor relations with the new production team on the series after the departure of Verity Lambert, ultimately led him to leave Doctor Who in 1966. When he left Doctor Who, the producer of the show came up with a unique idea: since the Doctor is an alien, he can transform into another man when he dies, thereby renewing himself. William Hartnell himself suggested that Patrick Troughton should be cast as the new Doctor. In Episode 4 of the serial The Tenth Planet, the First  Doctor regenerated into the Second Doctor.

He reprised the role of the Doctor in the 10th Anniversary story The Three Doctors (made in 1972, and broadcast 1972–73) with the help of cue cards, due to his failing memory, but appeared only in pre-filmed inserts seen on video screens. His appearance in this story was his last work as an actor. His health had grown worse in the early 1970s, and in December 1974 he was admitted to hospital permanently. In early 1975 he suffered a series of strokes brought on by cerebrovascular disease, and died peacefully in his sleep of heart failure on 23 April 1975, at the age of 67. His death was reported on the BBC News and a clip of the Doctor in the TARDIS from the end of "The OK Corral", the final episode of The Gunfighters, was shown.

He was survived by his widow Heather McIntyre they had a daughter, Heather Anne and two grandchildren. His widow, Heather, died in 1984. The only published biography of him is by his granddaughter, Jessica Carney (real name Judith), entitled Who's There, and subtitled The life and career of William Hartnell.

No were YOU one of us who always watched DR Who from behind the sofa?

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Mary Writes:-

Didn`t I have a giggle when I read today`s blog. When I started Court Lane School I had no idea of sex education and I certainly wasn`t told anything at home. Once on the way home on the bus I laughed at what I thought was a fat lady wearing strange clothes, only to be told by Linda Gubby (bless her) that the lady was going to have a baby. There was a programmne on TV one night which explained it all but I wasn`t allowed to see it. Next day a few of us were discussing it and I can remember thinking that this can`t be true and that my parents wouldn`t do anything like that. After we moved to the country where animals were producing their young all the time, I soon learned!!! Still my parents said nothing and no thoughtful, little books were put by my bedside. When I left school I went to St Marys Hospital and trained to be a dispenser. I learned so much about life. Some time later my mother asked me about my work one day and I said that I was now doing the dispensing for the clinic which dealt with sexually transmitted diseases. My mother was shocked and horrified, but still nothing was said. When I married and had children I vowed that this wouldn`t happen with them. We all talked about things very freely. Even when they were much older they would say "We can ask Mum anything". Strangely enough, one day my mother said that she envied me and how we could speak openly about anything. It was my turn to be shocked and I actually felt sad.

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On this day 14^th  September 1960-1965.

On 14/09/1960 the number one single was Apache - The Shadows and the number one album was Down Drury Lane to Memory Lane - A Hundred and One Strings. 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 Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 14/09/1961 the number one single was Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was First Mothercare shop opens in Surrey.

On 14/09/1962 the number one single was She's Not You - Elvis Presley and the number one album was Pot Luck - Elvis Presley. 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 Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 14/09/1963 the number one single was She Loves You - The Beatles 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 Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 14/09/1964 the number one single was You Really Got Me - Kinks 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 14/09/1965 the number one single was (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones and the number one album was Help - The Beatles. 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 Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

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7^th September 2013

Top Picture: Books for the Adolescents

Bottom Picture: Did the sexual revolution start with the pill?

Sex Education

Sex education at school for most folks of around our age was almost if not completely non-existent; this was an addition to the standard school timetable that was never, every considered by the school board (there were no GCE’s in this subject!). We had all heard the fantastic tales that were widely spread by our parents, grandparents and uncles and aunts over the years. Tales such as “You were found under a gooseberry bush” or, “You were found in a cabbage or rhubarb patch” (causing us all to avoid any cabbage or rhubarb patch like the plague), “the Stork delivered you” was another, as was “the Midwife brought you along in her bag on her bike” and the rather strange one I heard remembered lately “The Midwife brought you because your Mum was lying poorly in bed and could not go out and get you!”

I know that none of us were satisfied or fooled by any of these stories but in most cases, Pam and myself included, our parents fought very shy of even talking about it and any form of Sex Education at school was totally unheard of. The nearest some of us got to sex education was if we happened to take Biology. During some of these classes Nelson Trowbridge went through the basics of the reproductive cycle of the rabbit but never, ever touched on the emotional and physical properties of the act as it applied to human beings, it was all put down to the birds and the bees!

I must have been about thirteen or fourteen years of age when one afternoon, after school, I discovered a booklet with a blue headline band produced by the Daily Mirror on the facts of life carefully placed on my bed. The book had a teenage couple holding hands and staring into each others eyes of the front of it and as far as I can remember it was not at all a “user friendly” production and I think, at that time, I already knew more than the book discussed.

The nearest my father came to talking to me about the facts of life was when he told me that there were some undesirable women who hung around the Dockyard and Guildhall areas which I should have nothing to do with. But he never told me why!

Pam says that she had a similar reading experience when she was about the same age when she discovered a facts of life book on her bed one day which she assumes was placed there by her mother.

During the 1950’s and early 1960’s sex education was never a topic taught in junior and very, very rarely in senior school, most certainly not ours! It was inferred that this definitely was not a subject for discussion. On very rare occasions parents would sometimes allude to it very briefly and sometimes even some religious institutions and youth clubs sometimes offered guidance, but not many. Unfortunately, this led to many misconceptions that existed about sex during the 1950s. In many homes, the discussion of sexual issues was simply considered totally impolite and so this topic did not often or ever arise in conversations and was normally swept quietly under the carpet. The Marie Stopes publications and Family Planning Clinics and advice were unheard of in our house.

As teenagers we grew up through the 1960s, during the so-called "Sexual Revolution" where some people challenged the established moral and socially acceptable guidelines of the majority of the older population. Additionally, university researchers began devoting more attention to the topic of sexual education as a legitimate subject.

Then of course there were those sex scandals of Profumo, Keller and Rice-Davis affairs and the like which we all heard of and lived through.

The rise in promiscuity may have contributed to an increasing incidences of sexually transmitted diseases during the subsequent thirty years or so but this is not a subject I intend to go into.

Maybe you had more liberated parents with less hang ups than most of us and maybe you were lucky enough to have everything explained to you but I suppose the way to sum up the attitude at that time and in particular our own sex education at the time would be, if you will excuse the pun, a “hands on” experience.   

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Some time ago, through some quirk of the Internet I managed to contact the 1960’s American star Bobby Rydell. We have corresponded for some time and he is now happy to pass on news about his activities.

Bobby has just returned from a successful tour of Australia and is really looking forward to performing with, as he puts it, the one & only Chubby Checker in the very near future. He will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from UNICO (Unity, Neighbourliness, Integrity, Charity, and Opportunity.) at the organization's national convention July 31 in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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Sad to hear of the death of Sir David Frost, one cannot imagine the 1960's without him and That Was The Week That Was. It is also sad to hear of the death of David Jacobs.

On this day 1^st  September 1960-1965.

On 01/09/1960 the number one single was Apache - The Shadows 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 Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 01/09/1960 the number one single was Apache - The Shadows 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 Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 01/09/1962 the number one single was I Remember You - Frank Ifield 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 Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 01/09/1963 the number one single was Bad to Me - Billy J Kramer 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 Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 01/09/1964 the number one single was Have I the Right? - Honeycombs and the number one album was A Hard Day's Night - Beatles. The top rated TV show was No Hiding Place (AR) 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 01/09/1965 the number one single was I Got You Babe - Sonny and Cher and the number one album was Help - The Beatles. 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 Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.