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27^th July 2014

Top Picture: Stephens Thermometer

Second Picture: Counter Match Box Holder

Third Picture: H. Samuel’s street clock

Fourth Picture: Clocks in Commercial Road in the 1960’s, there are none there now.

Where did they Go?

What has happened to street clocks? When we were younger there always seemed to be a large clock of some sort hanging high outside various shops and stores on every High Street in the country. I remember that in Portsmouth’s Commercial Road there was a large twin faced, illuminated one at the first floor level of H Samuel’s. There was also one outside Picketts and Pursers, these were both jewellers so it is understandable. However other companies also displayed timepieces outside, the London Watch Company under the railway bridge. Then there were the clock faces on public buildings; I know that the Guildhall clock is still there! But clocks on other ones like Post Offices, Council Offices etc are all gone, although we do have a clock on the Town Hall in Gosport but it is so badly lit and badly designed it takes ages to work out the time!

Another public facility that seems to have disappeared is the large thermometers. Occasionally somewhere in a High Street we can see a large digital thermometers but do you remember the large Stephens or Quink thermometers which comprised of a long reading tube with the holder for the liquid being a facsimile of a bottle of ink.

Another service that I remember was the provision of some means of lighting your cigarette in the tobacconist. The two things that stick in my mind are firstly, the chrome matchbox holder standing on the counter with the matches ready to be struck and the other maybe a bit more modern. This was a normal house brick placed on the counter with a quantity of Swan Vestas matches placed in the frog, the idea being to strike the matches on the brick. However these memories go back to the days of having a chair alongside the counter so that the customer could sit down whilst being served.

Thinking about the past a few weeks ago Geraldine sent me the poem below, it sure rings a few bells!

This is from Geraldine

A POEM WE OLDIES CAN RELATE TO !!!

I remember the cheese of my childhood,

And the bread that we cut with a knife,

When the children helped with the housework,

And the men went to work not the wife.

The cheese never needed a fridge,

And the bread was so crusty and hot,

The children were seldom unhappy

And the wife was content with her lot.

I remember the milk from the bottle,

With the yummy cream on the top,

Our dinner came hot from the oven,

And not from the fridge; in the shop.

The kids were a lot more contented,

They didn't need money for kicks,

Just a game with their mates in the road,

And sometimes the Saturday flicks.

I remember the shop on the corner,

Where a pen'orth of sweets was sold

Do you think I'm a bit too nostalgic?

Or is it....I'm just getting old?

I remember the 'loo' was the lav,

And the bog ey man came in the night,

It wasn't the least bit funny

Going "out there" with no light.

The interesting items we perused,

From the newspapers cut into squares,

And hung on a peg in the loo,

It took little to keep us amused.

The clothes were boiled in the wash house,

With plenty of rich foamy suds

But the ironing seemed never ending

As Mum pressed everyone's 'duds'.

I remember the slap on my backside,

And the taste of soap if I swore

Anorexia and diets weren't heard of

And we hadn't much choice what we wore.

Do you think that bruised our ego?

Or our initiative was destroyed?

We ate what was put on the table

And I think life was better enjoyed.

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Another stalwart to the British Entertainment Industry has passed away. Farewell Dora Bryant.

On this Day 27^th July 1960-1965

On 20/07/1960 the number one single was Please Don't Tease - Cliff Richard & 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. The big news story of the day was Plastic carrier bags introduced.

On 20/07/1961 the number one single was You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro and the number one album was Black & White Minstrel Show - George Mitchell Minstrels. 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 were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.The big news story of the day was Berlin Wall erected.

On 20/07/1962 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

On 20/07/1963 the number one single was Sweets For My Sweet - Searchers and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coro nation 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 20/07/1964 the number one single was Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann and the number one album was A Hard Day's Night - Beatles. The top rated TV show was Conservative Party Political Broadcast (all channels) 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.The big news story of the day was Portabl e TVs launched.

On 20/07/1965 the number one single was Help - The Beatles and the number one album was Liverpool. 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 £not very interesting and 11.69 were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Riviera Police (AR)".

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20^th July 2014

Top Picture: The Lone Ranger and Tonto

Second Picture: The Z Cars team

Third Picture: All together ‘ Crackerjack!’

Are you smarter than a 60+ year old?         

Steve sent me this fascinating questionnaire based on the TV programme. How well will you do?  This may be harder than you may think.  The answers will be on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't quite remember the correct answer. Don't look below for the answers until you have tried it out.  This is a test for us 'older kids'! So in the spirit of 60+ here are 60 questions! ( I have added a few of my own!)

01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked  man?  Invariably, someone would answer, I don't know, but he left this behind.  What did he leave behind?________________. 

02. When the Beatles first went tothe U.S. In early 1964, they appeared on the  __________ Show. 

03. 'Get your kicks, __ _________    _______.' 

04. 'The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to _________ ___ _______.'      

05. 'In the jungle, the mighty 
Jungle, ______ ____ ___ ___.' 

06. After the Twist and The Mashed Potato we 'danced' under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the '_____________.' 

07. Nestle's makes the very best “_______________.” 

08. Satchmo was great jazz trumpeter. His name was.  _______  __________. 

09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________. 

10. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their ______________. 

11. The little car with the engine in the back and the boot in the front was called the VW.  What other names did it go by? ____________ &_______________. 

12. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, 'the day the music died.'  This was a tribute to    ___________________. 

13. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit.  The Russians did it. It was called ___________________. 

14. One of the big fads of the late 50's and 60's was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist.  It was called the ________________________. 

15. There was a song that came out in the 60's that was "a grave yard smash."  Its name was the ______  ______! 

16. Alka Seltzer used a "boy with a tablet on his head" as its Logo/.  What was the boy's name? ________ 


17. What was the name of the lead character in the puppet series “Four Feather Falls?”  --- ------

18. What were the opening lines of Dixon of Dock Green? ------- ---

19. You are never alone with a what?  ------------

20. Which children’s television programme was first shown 11^th July 1950?  ---- -----

21. In 1954 the BBC aired the first TV soap opera. What was it called?  --- ----- ------

22. Who was the Ranger Rider’s sidekick?  ---- ----

23. Who was the first national female newsreader on BBC television. --- ------

24. In what year did Dad’s Army start?  ----

25. For how many years did Top of the Pops run for? –

26. I Love ----

27. What was the sub title of the Phil Silvers Show? (I do not mean Sgt Bilko) ----- ----- --- ----

28. Who was the band leader in the original Come Dancing programmes? ------ ---------

29. In what year was Radio One launched? ----

30. Billy Bean and his ----- -------

31. Who was Mr Pastry? ------- ------

32. It’s time for bed said --------

33. What programme was the spin off from Z Cars/ ------ ------

34. What programme was ITV’s answer to Blue Peter?  ------

35. Who were the two people responsible for  Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss? ------ -------- ----- ------

36. Who did Bruce Seaton play? ------ -- --- -----

37. Who was the fat owl of the ‘remove? ----- ------

38. When the Goon Show transferred to TV what was it known as? --- ---------

39. One science fiction programme involving an experiment scared the whole population in the 1950’s. What was it/ --- ---------- ----------

40. What was the real name of Ally Pally? --------- -------

41. Who played Robin Hood in the 1950’s? ------- -----

42 Who was born on a mountain top in Tennessee? ---- -------

43. In the early 1960’s a medical programme was broadcast in monochrome showing surgical operations. What was it called? ---- ---- -- ---- -----

44. Who was the dragon in ‘ George and the Dragon’ ? ----- -----

45. Have gun will travel was the card of a man. Which man? -------

46. Who was Our Man at St Marks? ------ --------

47. What was Miriam Karlin’s character in The Rag Trade? ----

48. What was wrong with Hopkirk? --------

49. In the 1950’s a childrens talent and hobby programme was popular. What was it called? --- ---- ---

50. Who was the Hot Chestnut Man? ------ ------

51. Who was the original sergeant in The Army Game? ------- --------

52. Nicholas Parsons was, for years, the straight man to which comedian? ------ ------

53. What was the penalty if you dropped a gift in Double or Drop? -------

54. Who was the Bed-sit Girl? ------ -------

55. Who played Budgie? ---- -----

56. Fanny and ------ Craddock

57. A famous hospital TV series starring Jill Browne was  ------- ---- ---

58. "Flintstones... Meet the Flintstones,  They're a modern stoneage family. From the town of -------? Where?

59. Who was the quiz inquisitor? ------- -----

60. What was TW3? ---- --- --- ---- --- ---

ANSWERS: 

01.The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet. 

02. The Ed Sullivan Show 

03. On Route 66 

04.To protect the innocent. 

05.The Lion Sleeps Tonight 

06. The limbo 

07. Chocolate 

08. Louis Armstrong 

09. The Timex watch 

10. Draft cards (Bras were also Burned. Not flags, as some have guessed) 

11. Beetle or Bug 

12. Buddy Holly 

13. Sputnik 

14. Hoola-hoop 

15. Shadow 

16. Monster Mash 

17. Tex Tucker

18. Evening all

19. Strand

20. Andy Pandy

21. The Grove Family

22. Dick West

23. Nan Winton

24. 1968

25. 42

26. Lucy

27. You’ll Never Get Rich

28. Victor Sylvester

29. 1967

30. Funny Machine

31. Richard Hearne

32. Florence

33. Softly, Softly

34. Magpie

35. Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin

36. Fabian of the Yard

37. Billy Bunter

38. The Tele Goons

39. The Quatermass Experiment

40. Alexandra Palace

41. Richard Greene

42. Davy Crocket

43. Your Life in Their Hands

44. Peggy Mount

45. Paladin

46. Leslie Phillips

47. Paddy

48. He was deceased

49. All Your Own

50. Johnny Morris

51. William Hartnell

52. Arthur Haynes

53. Cabbage

54. Sheila Hancock

55. Adam Faith

56. Johnny

57. Emergency Ward Ten

58. Bedrock

59. Michael Miles

60. That was the week that was.

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Shame to hear of the death of James Garner, to me he will always be Bret Maverick

On this Day 20^th July 1960-1965

On 20/07/1960 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 20/07/1961 the number one single was Temptation - Everly Brothers 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 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 20/07/1962 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 20/07/1963 the number one single was Confessin' - Frank Ifield 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 20/07/1965 the number one single was Mr Tambourine Man - Byrds 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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13^th July 2014

Top Picture; Freddie in Boxing Mode

Second Picture: Freddie Mills’s grave

Third Picture: Poster for 6.5 Special

  

Freddie Mills: The Legend, Mystery and Tragedy

On 24th July 1965, a car parked in Goslett Yard in Soho was discovered with the body of a man who lay dying from a rifle wound to the right eye. The body was identified to be that of British light-heavyweight legend Freddie Mills, and he was declared dead later that night at Middlesex Hospital.

Freddie Mills was born in Dorset and took the hard route to boxing stardom by becoming a professional fighter in a fairground booth, taking on all-comers. It was here he met former British lightweight champion Gipsy Daniels, who passed on some of his hard-earned ring experience.

Freddie Mills was crowned light-heavyweight champion in 1948 after defeating American Gus Lesnevich over fifteen rounds at London’s White City Stadium, he was of the most popular sportsmen in Britain for over twenty years owing to his colourful character outside of the ring and aggressive courage inside it. He amassed a record of seventy-seven wins, eighteen defeats and six draws from a career that spanned from 1937 to 1950. He won the British and Commonwealth titles by knocking out Len Harvey at White Hart Lane inside two rounds in 1942 and won his world title four years later at the Haringay Arena, having previously lost his first attempt in 1946.

Freddie Mills also made a couple of attempts to move up to the heavyweight division, once against Joe Baksi, (where he gave away 25lb), and later against Bruce Woodcock for the vacant British and Commonwealth titles in 1949. However as brave and tenacious as he was he did not have the physical stature to move up to the heavyweight division being only 5’10½” tall and having a reach of only 72”, statistics that are outdone by most current boxers from middleweight upwards.

Upon his retirement he invested heavily in a restaurant in Soho, which later became a club and it was behind this club that he was found. He was buried in Camberwell New Cemetery in South London. The coroner at the time ruled that he had committed suicide, but the mystery surrounding how he met his end is as hazy now as it was back in the 1960’s.

Freddie Mills’ family have always disputed that took his own life. Reporter James Hogg made a documentary in 1985 in which the boxer's widow Chrissie Mills said that his behaviour on the day of his death was not conducive of man contemplating suicide. His step-son, Donnie McCorkindale described the coroner’s inquest as a ‘bad detective story’ and was convinced that he was shot by an assailant through the open window of his car and the scene was staged to make it look like a suicide.

Professor David Wingate, resident medical officer at Middlesex Hospital the night Mills’s body was brought in, concluded from his medical examination that someone had taken the gun off Mills and shot him with it. Professor Wingate was not called to give evidence at the coroner’s inquest. As a result, several theories as to the circumstances of his death sprang up, some plausible and some less so, but all pointed to various degrees of foul play. Of these theories there are four that are often repeated, but to this day, remain unsubstantiated.

The first relates to the Kray twins and according to various sources, the club Mills owned was suffering financially and he became heavily indebted to the Krays. Chrissie Mills was convinced that her husband fell victim of gangsters who were extorting money from West End club owners at the time – although she does not specifically mention the Krays. Legend has it that a former wrestler who owned a club in the West End at the same time was also approached and protection money demanded of him, and serious consequences would follow if he refused. However Freddie Mills had been suffering from severe headaches and depression, possibly as a result of too many blows to the head and this could have made a significant contribution to his mental state at the time.

A second theory states that it was Chinese gangsters who killed him and staged it as a suicide. Members of London’s Chinese underworld wanted to take Freddie's Soho club and turn it back into a restaurant. This was at a time when London’s Chinatown was just beginning to relocate itself from Limehouse in East London to Soho.

The final two wildly contrasting theories are a claim that he was a homosexual and the other a deadly heterosexual. Ronnie Kray’s then wife Kate refuted the claim that he as a married man with two daughters was secretly a homosexual and had been engaged in a love affair with Michael Holliday. Rumours also spread that Mills and Ronnie Kray were lovers, a rumour that was fiercely denied by the openly bisexual Ronnie Kray. Connected with this was the suggestion that he had been arrested in a public toilet, charged with homosexual indecency and killed himself rather than face the consequences of this knowledge entering the public domain. This may seem like an extreme measure, but bear in mind that homosexuality was not decriminalised in the UK until 1967 and attitudes were very different then.

The most spectacular theory suggests that Freddie Mills was the unidentified serial killer known simply as ‘Jack the Stripper’. This name was bestowed upon the serial killer who murdered at least eight young prostitutes between 1959 and 1965, removed their clothes (hence the name) and left their naked bodies in and around the River Thames. The theory goes on to say that believing himself to be close to being identified and apprehended, he took the decision to take his own life.

All of these theories make for interesting reading and it’s surprising that Hollywood hasn’t got involved to cash in on the mystery that surrounds Freddie Mills’s death. We will probably never fully know whether there were contributing factors or foul play. Whether or not the coroner’s inquest is a true representation of the events that took place, Freddie Mills should be remembered for the excitement and joy he gave thousands of people every time he stepped into the ring as Britain’s biggest boxing idol of the post-war period.

Plus not forgetting his anchor post in the 6.5 Special.

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On this Day 13^th July 1960-1965

On 13/07/1960 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 13/07/1961 the number one single was Runaway - Del Shannon and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Labour Party Political Broadcast (all channels) 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 13/07/1962 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 13/07/1963 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 13/07/1964 the number one single was House of the Rising Sun - Animals 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.

On 13/07/1965 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. The big news story of the day was First Mariner 4 photos of Mars received.

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6^th July 2014

Top Picture; Kontiki Bar

 Second Picture: Sinah Warren Hotel

Third Picture: Hayling sand dunes

A Night Out

Growing up in the 1960’s meant that we travelled from childhood into adulthood and one of the advantages of getting older was that we became drivers after passing our Driving Tests and transport became available, even though it might just have been borrowing fathers car at first before the cash flow was good enough to buy your own car.

Once on the road all sorts of venues for an evening out became available, The Royal Oak at Hooks Way, The L shaped Room in The Bull in Chichester and the Hole in the Wall Club also in Chichester and the Concorde Club in Southampton. But to go a little upmarket it meant a trip off the mainland and onto Hayling Island.

The venue on Hayling was the Kontiki Bar which was within the Sinah Warren hotel complex. As can be seen from the picture the whole place was done out as a traditional Polynesian hut with a long bar all along one side and booths for the drinkers ranged opposite. At one end was a small stage and the evenings that I went were the evenings when there was a jazz band appearing.

This was a prestige venue and was guaranteed to impress any girl that you took there although I must admit that one of my companions, when asked what she wanted to drink, surprised me by asking for a Bat’s Blood. At that time I was drinking Black Velvet’s but Bats Blood was a new one on me. I made my way to the bar and asked for my drink and then for hers. The barman said ‘a what?’ so I repeated the order. ‘Never heard of it mate.’ he said, what is it?’ Well, there I was completely stumped so I had to go back to the booth we were sitting in and ask her what the drink consisted of and was told cider and blackcurrant, on returning to the bar and telling the barman he responded ‘well, that’s a new one on me!’

As far as I remember my relationship with this young lady did not last long and I am ashamed to say that I have forgotten the young ladies last name, although I do remember her first name was Susan, but the story really sticks in my mind and as I will relate it followed me around for quite some time.

Whilst I was at college I worked as a part time waiter on many occasions at Sinah Warren and was consequently entitled to staff discount at the bar, which was very helpful during an evening out when I had a limited budget. But of course it had to happen, the barman one evening recognised me and said’ hey weren’t you the bloke who wanted a Bats Blood?’ The word soon got round the permanent staff that this was the bloke who asked for a strange drink.

It then progressed from there; firstly while working I became known as Bats Blood for a short time, this was then shortened to BB and then some bright spark realised that there was a famous sexy French actress with these initials and so for the rest of my time working at Sinah I was known as ‘Bridget’.  As I normally worked on a Saturday evenings I was soon known as Bridget at weekends. I am only very grateful that none of my mates in the Drayton area at the time learnt of my unfortunate nickname. Please keep this quiet as I have not mentioned this for years!

On leaving the Kontiki to be alone the usual thing was to go and park in the sand dunes but even that pleasure is denied to todays youth as all the sand dune have been flattened and taken away. Health and safety I suppose. These Coucils have no romance in their souls these days!!!!! 

 

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On this Day 6^th 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.

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On 06/07/1961 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 06/07/1962 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 06/07/1963 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 06/07/1965 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