Web Page  No 2200

6^th October 2015

Top Picture: Teddy Girl

 Second Picture: The Jive

 Third Picture: Ten Shilling Note

 Last Picture: Consulate cool as a mountain stream

This week we welcome Mick Devereux to our numbers.

More Memories

I have had a whole lot of do you remembers sent to me so I thought I would share them so off we go on a pure nostalgia trip

How many of these you remember:-

Foot operated headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches with keys on the dashboard.

Illuminated indicator arms on a car
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. 

Tennis racquet carrying clips fitted on the front forks of bicycles
Soldering irons that you heated on a gas burner.

Paraffin blow lamps

Battery driven bicycle horns
Using hand signals for cars without turning indicators.
Sweet cigarettes

Farthings

Running boards on cars

Rimmel Make up

Music cartridges

Bob a Job Week

Bottled fruit

Green pull up Airwick air fresheners

Lucky Bags

Bus conductors

Teddy Boys

To a lesser extent Teddy Girls

Bench front car seats which came with column change gear boxes

Bubble gum cards

The Roxy comic

Cyclemaster petrol engines that fitted in the rear wheel of push bikes

Robbie the Robot
Coffee shops with juke boxes 

Dancing The Jive

Milk Bars

Threepenny bits
Home milk delivery in glass bottles (I still have this)

Pickled eggs

Suede desert boots

Three speed bicycle gears with the lever on the cross bar
Party lines on the telephone

Dickie Valentine

The Beehive hair do

Florins
Newsreels and Look at Life before the main feature

The menthol cigarette Consulate being as cool as a mountain stream

Ten shilling notes
TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. Test Card C
There being only 2 channels (if you were fortunate) I actually remember there being only one!
Peashooters 

Aertex underwear

Mike Hawthorne

Radiograms

School caps or berets

Being slightly afraid of the local policeman
33 rpm records
45 rpm records

78 rpm records
Hi-fi's

Jumble Sales
Metal ice trays with levers
Blue flashbulbs

Timothy Whites& Taylors

Prices name tapes on all your school clothing

Party Seven cans of ale cans

Kodak Brownie cameras
Cork popguns 

Lord and Lady Docker

Spud guns

Max Factor

Wash tub wringers 

Home perm kits

Sunday best clothes

Monk and Glass custard

Cremola Foam

Hearing the air raid siren being tested every week

Mother or Father taking along her own bottle and buying loose sherry or wine from the local grocer

Dreft soap flakes

Francis Barnett motor cycles

Woolworths

Beat the Clock with Bruce Forsyth

3D films

Ernest Marples

Buying a pint of shrimps from the Sidney Slapes fishmonger for Sunday tea

The most exotic food you could buy in the shops being Vesta Curry, Paella or Chow Mein

Not being allowed out to play because ’today is Sunday and no one goes out to play with their friends on a Sunday’

Foreign holidays were only for the rich

Coach Mystery Tours

Daisy Dampwash

Your first day at school

Your last day at school

Keep in touch

Peter

DUSTYKEAT@aol.com

You Write:

Jonathon has memories of Solent Road School.

Mr White was my form master in my first year at Solent Road Junior School and yes we called him Chalky of course. I remember him as being very strict and I got my hand caned by him for talking in class. It certainly hurt and it was my one and only school caning in my whole school career.

Mr King was another of our teachers. He was very scary and strict. Sported a RAF style moustache and was all in all a very good teacher. I think we called him "Doc" King.

Mr Rose "Les" was another of our teachers. He had an unenviable reputation and of this I will say no more.

Mr Wing was another teacher, not a strict person and rather easy to listen to. We called him "Old Pop" Wing. I remember him as a rather portly man always in a three piece suit.

My next class mistress was Mrs MacGee. I remember she always brought her pet corgi, Bosun, into class. She was not too strict but didn't take any nonsense. I seem to remember she ran the school choir, but wherever she went so did the dog.

My final class mistress was the dreaded and indeed dreadful Miss Moore. In my memory she was a large strong looking middle aged woman who wore filmy silk blouses and had her greying hair scraped back in a bun. To me she came across as horrible. Today she would probably get a jail sentence for cruelty. She would stand the whole class on their chairs and march around the classroom firing times tables questions at you. In those days she made us learn up to our 15 times table. If you answered correctly you got to sit down. If you stumbled you stayed standing on your chair. I am glad to say that never was my fate!!!! As the number standing got smaller the questions got harder until the last boy or girl standing was having the most horrendous numbers fired at them from inches face to face spittle flying 7X14.....8X13....etc. The final indignity if you could not get it right was a caning in front of the whole class. 

I remember one poor lad forgot his pen nib on Monday morning. In those days you had a red painted wooden pen with a removable nib and an inkwell on the desk. On Fridays you took the nib home to clean it and bring it back on Monday morning ready for the next week. Anyway this poor fellow forgot his nib and was so terrified of Miss Moore’s potential wrath that he tried to write with a milk straw. He was making a horrible mess on his page when the monster spied him. He was dragged by the hair (I am NOT exaggerating) to the front of the class, three canes were grabbed from the top of the cupboard and he was made to choose his instrument of punishment and then caned viciously.

It still upsets me today to write this......God only knows what it did to the lad in question.

I forgot one teacher, the most senior, Mr Hawkins the Headmaster. I only ever had one lesson from him when he was filling in for an absent teacher. However one other lad remembers that at a school sale he sold Mr Hawkins brand new Homburg hat for 6d. Mr Hawkins was not best pleased.

News and Views:

On this day 6^th October 1960-1965

On 06/10/1960 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 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 06/10/1961 the number one single was Kon-Tiki - The 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 week was Sunday Night at the London Palladium(ATV)".

On 06/10/1962 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 week was Beatles release first single titled Love Me Do.

On 06/10/1963 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 06/10/1964 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 06/10/1965 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.