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8th November 2014

First Picture: Wipac Wing Mirrors

Second Picture:  RAC Badge

Third Picture: Practical Motorist 1960

Happy Motoring

We must all have known, or seen, the man down the road whose car seemed to be something of an icon to worship, nothing could interfere with the great God car. There he would be out on the drive every fine Sunday morning washing, shampooing and polishing his pride and joy before taking the family off for a short spin in the countryside providing it did not look like rain and the country lanes were not too dusty. If it did rain however he soon put the car back into the garage and carefully dried it off with a piece of chamois leather. There were certain things that you could almost guarantee would be inside his car. Driving gloves, sun glasses and a driving coat, a travelling blanket neatly folded up on the back seat with a cushion placed on the top of it. Other essential items would be an out of date road atlas and maps plus a packet of Polo mints in the glove compartment to keep his breathe sweet.

He would invest in some of the up to date accessories for his car, wing mirrors (they were not standard fittings then) which he fitted himself likewise spot and fog lights, strip screen heaters to demist the front windscreen, a Perspex draft guard to fit around the driver’s door window to reduce drafts when the window was open and almost always a shiny and polished St. Christopher badge on the radiator. But for the dedicated motorist this was not good enough the badges had to be attached to a Chromium plated badge bar with his club badge (AA or RAC)  and Veteran Motorist badges all neatly spaced out along the bar .

He would invest in some of the, then state of the art, electrical pieces for his car, a car vacuum which was clipped onto the terminals of the battery and was so weak and underpowered that it would pick up virtually nothing at all. Then there was the parking light, again attached to the battery terminals, which he could hang over the window to warn other motorists where he was parked at night. But there was never, never an in car radio in his car as they were regarded as terrible American inventions meaning that you could not listen to the tone of the engine as you drove along to try to pick up any potential problems early. There again to have one a car radio the owner was not covered by the radio licence at home so it meant that he would have to purchase a separate car radio licence which cost £3.00 a year plus £1.00 tax!

He would always carry a pristine tool kit in either a dedicated tool box or they were individually oiled and then wrapped up in cloth and place in an old biscuit tin (this was the method preferred by my father). These were kept in the boot plus and an old coat to put on if he ever had to lift the bonnet or change a wheel whilst he was out and the weather was bad. Mind you those are the days when you could repair your own car at the roadside, today I lift the bonnet of mine, scratch my head and close it up again!

Once the car had been dealt with it was carefully put away in a pristine garage with strategically placed drip trays and lengths of carpet attached to the walls so the sides of the car did not become scratched. In that garage everything was neatly boxed, labelled and stacked on shelves ready for use. After having put the car away and closed the garage doors he would then walk down to the local newsagent and buy a copy of Practical Motorist, take it home and read it from cover to cover.

Then along came the 1960’s and younger folks could at last afford a car of their own, my first (a Morris) cost me the princely sum of £25.00. Being young and carefree most young car owners started to customise their cars to their own tastes.  This meant white wall tyres, fluffy dice, names on the windscreen, tiger tails and other such meaningless but fun items. There was also a period of time when the young motorist, if they had the money, could buy added fitments for inside the car, fake walnut fascia’s, extra consoles with spaces for tapes and packets of cigarettes, specially impregnated screen sponges to stop misting up, these did not work either! 

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I did smile when I read about the little pink pills. My first job was at St Marys Hospital in the pharmacy. I dished out hundreds of ferrous sulphate and ferrous gluconate pills mainly to the patients from the ante natal clinic. Some years later when a patient myself at an ante natal clinic in Singapore I was given the magic bottle. I didn`t feel well at all. Then it was discovered that I didn`t absorb iron very easily. I was told to eat vast amounts of spinach and even liver (this isn`t allowed today) before having to have iron injections in my legs. By the time my daughter was born my legs were covered in bruises. Perhaps it was a just punishment for doling out all those pills to those expectant mothers! 

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On this day 8th November 1960-1965

On 08/11/1960 the number one single was It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley and the number one album was Tottenham Hotspur. The top rated TV show was Bootsie & Snudge (Granada) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £ and 13.68 were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.The big news story of the day was Conservative Party Political Broadcast (all channels).

On 08/11/1961 the number one single was Walkin' Back to Happiness - Helen Shapiro and the number one album was Twenty One Today - Cliff Richard. The top rated TV show was The Royal Variety Performance (ATV) 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 08/11/1962 the number one single was Telstar - The Tornadoes and the number one album was Out of the Shadows - Shadows. 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 08/11/1963 the number one single was You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & the Pacemakers and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was The Royal Variety Performance (ATV) 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.The big news story of the day was US recognises new regime in Saigon.

On 08/11/1964 the number one single was (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandy Shaw 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 08/11/1965 the number one single was Get Off Of My Cloud - Rolling Stones 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 Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

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1^st November 2014

First Picture: Sky Banner

 Second Picture: Drinking Fountain

Third Picture: Pink Pills for pale people

Another of those do you remember? pages.

 It all started off the other afternoon when Pam and I were sitting quietly reading in the garden when we heard a light aircraft pass overhead some way off. It was not until I looked at it that I noticed that it was towing something. We both looked and realised that it was towing an advertising banner, rather like the one in the illustration something that neither of us had seen for a very long time. Three times this plane passed overhead and in each case it was east to west so the banner was back to front to us so we have no idea what it said,( we are assuming that the west to east leg was done along the north coast of the Isle of Wight. However it was definitely worth seeing as it brought back memories of our childhood and the way these advertising banners patrolled a lot of the south coast beaches in the 1950’s and 60’s. Whilst talking about things aerial who remembers the parachutists jumping from an old barrage balloon moored in Portsmouth airfield every Sunday afternoon? I wonder who they were? I never have found out.

Another of those do you remember things are drinking fountains. All around the city there were dotted drinking fountains, normally in public parks or playing fields. Three different types readily come to mind. The first was a squat cast iron piece looking rather like a mile marker with a round top facing outwards. This round top had a handle looking rather like a lemon squeezer in the middle. This handle was rotated and the thirsty one had to bend down and drink from a water spout underneath. However try as I might I cannot find a picture of one. I remember one being in the lower half of the Rec in Farlington Avenue, the area all round it seemed always to be muddy but the water was icy cold and delicious on a hot day.

Then there was the bowl type of fountain with a hand operated spout within the bowl. These were very common around Portsmouth and were really ideal for spurting water all over everyone with the dextrous use of a figure over the spout.

Another, less common type was the wall mounted drinking fountain with a round bottomed cup on a chain attached to it. We were always told not to drink using the cup because you never knew who had been there before you. As luck would have it this was almost always impossible as nine times out of ten the cup had been wrenched off and stolen.  

My godmother always had a saying which went something like, “ she looks unwell, she needs those Pink Pills for Pale People”, we all laughed and dismissed it as just her, being a country girl not understanding modern medicine.

You can imagine the surprise when I searched the Internet and found out that there were actually Pink Pills for Pale People. The story is below.

Here’s a big-business remedy which originated in Canada. “Dr Williams” was a brand name, and the pills were manufactured by George T. Fulford of Brockville, Ontario. Born in 1852, Fulford went into the patent medicine business in 1886 and four years later bought the rights to the Pink Pills recipe from Dr William Jackson for $53.01. The Pills arrived in Britain by 1893, and the company had premises on Holborn Viaduct, London.

The Pink Pills included ferrous sulphate, so they would have had a genuine effect against anaemia, but they were weaker and far more expensive than the ordinary iron pills commonly prescribed by the local doctors.

Advertisements in local and national papers were written so that they  appeared to be news stories reporting a miracle in some distant town – the miracle always turning out to be a result of someone taking Dr Williams’ Pink Pills.

In 1905, George Fulford had the dubious honour of becoming the first Canadian to be killed in an automobile accident, but his company remained in business until 1989.

 REMARKABLE AFFAIR IN YORKSHIRE.–The daughter of Mr.  J.  Bridges,  42,  Foljambe-Road,  Eastwood View,  Rotherham,  has  been  the  theme  of  a  well- authenticated report in the Yorkshire papers, the facts having been investigated, and the  lady and her parents seen, by press representatives. Miss Bridges at seventeen was described by her parents as “prematurely old.” She could  not  eat,  had  no  strength,  and  was  nearly copper-coloured, suffering severely from palpitation of the heart. But when seen by  the  reporter  she  was  in the bloom of health, eating and sleeping well and quite free from heart-trouble, with complexion  like  the  rose —a recovery entirely due to the now  famous  remedy, Dr.   Williams’  Pink  Pills  for  Pale  People.   

When a    girl    is   pale,   weak,   easily   “tired   out,”   troubled   with    headache,    backache,    pain in the side;   when   her  temper  is  fitful  and  her  appetite poor—she  is  in  a  condition  of  extreme  peril, a fit subject for the development of the most  dreaded  of all diseases—consumption. Dr. Williams’  Pink  Pills will assist the patient to  develop  properly  and  regularly; they will enrich  the  blood,  and  danger  of  consumption and premature death will be  averted.   Prudent mothers will insist  upon  their  daughters  taking Dr.  Williams’ Pink  Pills  upon  the  approach  of  the period of womanhood and thus avoid all  chances  of disease or early decay.   The same  medicine  cures rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia, paralysis,  locomotorataxy, nervous headache, scrofula, chronic erysipelas and influenza. A specific for the female sex. In   men   they   cure   all   cases   from   worry,   overwork, or excesses.

Sold by  Dr.  Williams’  Medicine Company,  46,  Holborn  Viaduct,  London,  and   by chemists, at 2s. 9d. a box, or six boxes 13s. 9d., post free.  Only  genuine if ina  pink  wrapper  with  full  name, Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People.

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On this Day 1^st November1960-1965

On 1/11/1960 the number one single was Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Bootsie & Snudge (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 1/11/1961 the number one single was Walkin' Back to Happiness - Helen Shapiro 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. The big news story of the day was Stalin removed from Lenin's tomb.

On 1/11/1962 the number one single was Telstar - The Tornadoes and the number one album was Out of the Shadows - Shadows. The top rated TV show was The Royal Variety Performance (BBC) 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 1/11/1963 the number one single was Do You Love Me? - Brian Poole & the Tremoloes 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 1/11/1964 the number one single was (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandy Shaw 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 1/11/1965 the number one single was Tears - Ken Dodd 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 Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

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25th October 2014

First Picture Gina in her Heyday

Second Picture The supposed wedding picture

Third Picture Gina today

Gina Lollobrigida

Yes lads that screen siren whose name we could never spell when we were 16 was born on July 4, 1927 in Subiaco in Italy. Destined to be called "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", Gina possibly had St. Brigid as part of her surname. She was the daughter of a furniture manufacturer, and grew up in a very pictorial mountain village. The young Gina did some modelling and from there, went on to participate successfully in several beauty contests. In 1947, she entered a beauty competition for Miss Italy, but came in third. The winner was Lucia Bosé (born 1931), who would go on to appear in over 50 movies, and the first runner-up was Gianna Maria Canale (born 1927), who would appear in almost 50 films. After appearing in a half-dozen films in Italy, it was rumoured that, in 1947, film tycoon Howard Hughes had her flown to Hollywood; however, this did not result in her staying in America, and she returned to Italy (her Hollywood movie fame would not come along until six years later in the John Huston film Beat the Devil (1953)).

Back in Italy, in 1949, she married Milko Skofic, a Slovenian (at the time, "Yugoslavian") doctor, by whom she had a son, Milko Skofic Jr. They would be married for 22 years, until their divorce in 1971. As her film roles and national popularity increased, she was tagged "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", after her signature movie Beautiful But Dangerous (1955). She was also nicknamed la "Lollo" as she embodied the prototype of Italian beauty. Her natural looks and short hairdo were especially influential. Her film Come September (1961), co-starring Rock Hudson, won the Golden Globe Award as the World's Film Favorite. In the 1970s, she was seen in only a few films, as she took a break from acting and concentrated on another career: photography. Among her subjects were Paul Newman, Salvador Dalí and the German national soccer team.

A skilled photographer, she had a collection of her work "Italia Mia", published in 1973. Immersed in her other passions (sculpting and photography), it would be 1984 before she appeared on US television in Falcon Crest (1981). Although she was always active, she only appeared in a few films in the 1990s. In June 1999, she turned to politics and ran, unsuccessfully, for one of Italy's 87 European Parliament seats, from her hometown of Subiaco. Gina was also a corporate executive for fashion and cosmetics companies. As she told "Parade" magazine in April 2000: "I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake". She went on to say: "I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers".

But recently things have changed as she hit out at her only son after the pair were locked in a ‘horrendous’ legal fight over her £30 million fortune. Andrea Milko Skofic, 56, her  only son and heir, had asked a court in Rome to appoint a judge to oversee her wealth amid claims that she had been duped into marrying  Javier Rigau y Rafols, a businessman 34 years her junior. She is 87. Mr Skofic claimed his mother had become ‘unable to think for herself’. But the Sixties’ screen siren, labelled her son’s legal battle a ‘dirty, ugly business and I’m speechless that my son could consider taking this to court. I’m delighted the request was dismissed but I would have preferred it if none of this had never happened.

The actress met Rafols at a party in Monte Carlo in the 1980s and the couple became companions and they were set to marry in 2006 but she changed her mind before the ceremony could go ahead. Meanwhile, Rafols, who insists the wedding did take place, faces fraud allegations in Spain and Italy.

The actress, known for her rivalry with fellow Italian Sophia Loren, made headlines the world over last year when she claimed that Rafols paid an impersonator to stand in for her at a proxy wedding in Spain in 2010.

 The former sex symbolsaid she had no knowledge of her 2010 wedding to Mr Rafols and would never have agreed to it and that she only discovered it by chance on the internet.

She is reported of having said  'I knew nothing about this until I did some research on the internet. He invented a false document to carry out this wedding and now he will pay. I will not rest until he has been brought to justice. He is nothing but a vulture, circling me, sniffing my blood. He falsely married me and was waiting for me to die so he could inherit my possessions.'

But Rafols claimed the marriage was ‘completely legitimate,’ and witnessed by eight people.

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On this Day 25^th  October 1960-1965

On 25/10/1960 the number one single was Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Take Your Pick (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 25/10/1961 the number one single was Walkin' Back to Happiness - 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 Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 25/10/1962 the number one single was Telstar - The Tornadoes 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. The big news story of the day was Cuban Missile Crisis.

On 25/10/1963 the number one single was Do You Love Me? - Brian Poole & the Tremoloes 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 25/10/1964 the number one single was (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandy Shaw 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 25/10/1965 the number one single was Tears - Ken Dodd 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 Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

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28th September 2014

Top Picture: Typical 1950’s class room

Second Picture: School Milk!

Third Picture: Who remembers mixing the ink powder?

Those Early Days at School.

We all have strong memories of our first few days at primary school, although nowadays most children tend to go to pre-school, so it is not such a shock to the system for them as it was for the children of the 1950’s and 60’s!

When we started school there were no state pre-schools or nurseries, so for most children just turning 5 years old, their first day at school was the first time they had been on their own, away from home. Most mothers did not work outside the home, so for many of us this was also the first time they had been apart from their mothers. Consequently the first day of infant school was a very tearful event for both child and parent! My first day was in the Solent Road Annex in a wooden hall behind the Methodist Church in Station Road. In fact Keith Conlon and I both started school together.

Having got over the first pangs of separation, school life soon fell into a predictable routine. School milk was part of this routine. In Post War Britain school milk, a third of a pint per child per day, was introduced in schools to supplement the child’s diet as food shortages were still rife. In 1971 school milk for the over-sevens was withdrawn  by Margaret Thatcher, then Secretary of State for Education – for this she was dubbed 'Thatcher, Thatcher, Milk Snatcher' in the press. During the harsh winters of the late 1950’s it was a common sight to see the small crates of milk outside the school gates with the shiny bottle tops standing proud above the bottles on a column of frozen milk. Of course the only way to defrost the school milk was to place it by the radiator, or in some classrooms round the coke stove. This had the effect that we were then forced to consume watery, lukewarm milk. And forced we were – “milk is good for you child, you WILL drink it all up!”

The School Broadcasting Council for the United Kingdom had been set up in 1947 and the wireless or radio played a great part in the education of school children in the 1960’s but I cannot ever recall listening to a radio programme during any lesson in Infant, Primary or Senior school. For some schools ‘Music and Movement’ was one such program and all over the country in school halls, children could be found leaping and stretching to the commands on the radio, but not us. We had PE or PT lessons and in the lower schools there was no such thing as ‘gym kit’ so the children just removed their outer clothes and did P.E. in their vests, knickers or underpants and bare feet or plimsoles (usually purchased from Woolworths).

Another such program was ‘Singing Together’ where the class would gather to sing traditional folk songs and sea shanties such as ‘Oh soldier, soldier, won’t you marry me’, ‘A-Roving’ (see below), ‘Michael Finnegan’, ‘The Raggle-Taggle Gypsies’ and ‘Oh No John’. Again this was not something we experienced although we did have singing lessons and learnt most of the songs. However, when as an adult you examine the content and meaning of some of these old folk songs, you ask yourself whether they were indeed suitable for the under 11s is another question!

Visits from the school nurse would break up the daily routine. The nit nurse used to make regular visits to check for headlice and all the children in each class would line up to be examined in turn, their hair being combed carefully with a nit comb to see if there was any infestation. There were also routine eye and hearing tests, and visits from the school dentist.

There was  the polio vaccine, given at school to every child on a sugar lump but before this could be administered mother had to be present. Measles, German Measles and Mumps were not vaccinated against; most children contracted these diseases in childhood and it was common for healthy children to be taken to play with infected ones so their immune systems could be built up. German Measles, or Rubella, can affect unborn babies in the womb if contracted in pregnancy and so if a girl in the class caught German Measles, it was not uncommon for her mother to throw a tea party for the rest of the girls so they could also catch the disease.

Class sizes in the 1950s and early 1960s were large, often between 30 and 40 children to a class, as these were the ‘baby boomers’, us children born after the Second World War. The teachers had to cope on their own as there were no classroom assistants and so discipline was usually strict. It was quite common for a disruptive child to be rapped over the knuckles, on the buttocks or on the palm of the hand with a ruler or for more serious misdemeanours the cane came out, but only for the boys.

When we went to school it was very much ‘talk and chalk’ education, with the teacher at the front of the class and the children sitting at desks facing the board. Reading, writing and arithmetic (the Three ‘R’s) were very important, as was learning by rote. Times tables were learnt by chanting aloud in class and poetry such as Wordworths’ I wandered lonely as a cloud’ would be learnt by heart for homework. Neat hand writing was seen as very important and practised daily ( I never got the hang of that!)

Nature study was popular and often the only science taught at primary school with the children being asked to bring in things such as leaves and seeds for the teacher to identify and then placed on the Nature Table and later on these items were used in art and craft work.  

Of course this was also the age of the 11-plus. We would practise previous papers in school in order to prepare for these tests, which included writing an essay, a maths paper and other papers. There was even a non-verbal reasoning paper which was designed to test a child’s IQ with a puzzles and problem-solving questions. This was always – and still so today - a contentious method of school selection, the 11 plus system did facilitate social mobility, as places at the grammar schools and other senior schools in the 1960s were allocated according to the results of these tests, and not on ability to pay.

It all seems a very long time ago as it is almost 65 years ago. I really am getting old!!!

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On this Day 28th September 1960-1965

On 28/09/1960 the number one single was Tell Laura I Love Her - Ricky Valance 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 Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton 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 28/09/1965 the number one single was Tears - Ken Dodd 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.The big news story of the day was LPs cost 12/6d.