Web Page  No 2324

3^rd December 2016

Top Picture: Paddy Roberts Album Cover

Second Picture: Strickly for Adults LP cover

Third Picture: Gerhard Hoffnung

Forth Picture: Hoffnung Album cover

Roberts and Hoffnung

For many of us  John Godfrey Owen "Paddy" Roberts  was part of the late 1950’s. He was born in in Durban 1910 and died at the age of 65. He was known as  a British songwriter, pianist  and singer who had a wide and varied career but most of us remember him for his songs ‘The Tattooed Lady, the Ballard of Bethnal Green and the like. He  lived in Devon having previously had several other careers; he had been a lawyer and then during World War Two was a RAF pilot at the end of the war he joined BOAC as a Captain and flew Lockheed Constellations for that airline in the late 1940s/1950s.

He enjoyed success with a number of songs in the 1950s and 1960s and wrote songs for several films. He also released several LPs and EPs of his own material, often featuring what were, for the time, slightly risqué lyrics. One of his most popular and amusing compositions that he recorded himself was entitled "The Ballad of Bethnal Green" which was also recorded by Beatrice Lillie Not many people know that he was a five times the winner of an Ivor Novello Award, four for song writing and one for services to the British Music Industry.

Apart from recording his own material he wrote for other artists for example he co-wrote the 1955 UK chart-topper, "Softly, Softly", as sung by Ruby Murray, and "Lay Down Your Arms" by Anne Shelton, which reached No. 1 in the UK charts in 1956..He also wrote ‘Pickin’ a chicken’ for Eve Boswell Many of his recordings were made available in the United States. "Merry Christmas You Suckers" was issued with an alternative title of "And A Happy New Year".

Although most the albums were only issued in mono, it appears that the studio albums at least were recorded in stereo. The tracks from the album Strictly For Grown Ups that are included on The World of Paddy Roberts" set are in stereo, leading to the assumption that the whole album was recorded that way (but never issued that way).Songs for Gay Dogs was issued in stereo for the first time in 2006 when released on CD.

Gerhard Hoffnung was  born in Berlin the only child of a well-to-do Jewish couple, Hildegard and Ludwig Hoffnung He was sent to England under the name Gerald, where he attended Bunce Court School in 1938. In 1939, his parents left Germany; his father went to Palestine to enter the family's banking business. Gerard went with his mother to London, where she rented a house in Hampstead Garden Suburb,and this is where Hoffnung lived for the rest of his life. In 1939 he enrolled at Highgate School, where, according to one biographer, he was "remembered for his anarchic spirit". He had a talent for cartooning and had his first cartoon published in the ‘Lilliput’ magazine while he was still at school

After leaving Highgate, he studied at Hornsey College of Art, but was expelled for his lack of gravity in the life class. He then attended Harrow School of Art, after which he became a schoolmaster. He was art master at Stamford School (1945–46) and assistant art master at Harrow School (1948), with an intervening and overlapping spell as a staff artist on the London Evening News. He was a staff artist to Cowles Magazines Inc in New York in 1950, and otherwise pursued a career as a freelance cartoonist. He contributed to Punch, The Strand Magazine and The Tatler, and to other British, continental, and American magazines.He also produced advertising work for Kia-Ora, Guinness, and other companies. He presented one-man exhibitions of his work, including one at the Little Gallery, Piccadilly (1949), and two at the Royal Festival Hall (1951 and 1956).

In 1950 he began a career as a broadcaster for the BBC, he was a brilliant improviser with a dry wit and a masterly sense of timing". Probably the best-known example of him as a humorous speaker is an account of a bricklayer's misfortunes when raising some bricks in a barrel to the top of a building. It was part of a speech to the Oxford Union in 4 December 1958.The derivation of the story is confused, but it first arises in the 1930s. It was published in Reader's Digest in 1940 as a letter from a naval officer who had supposedly received it from an enlisted man explaining his late return from leave. Hoffnung first saw the story in The Manchester Guardian in 1957,  the version printed there is identical with the text used by Hoffnung, except for the location, which he changed from Barbados to Golder's Green.

Among his other well-known subjects were his supposedly helpful advice to tourists in London ("Have you tried the famous echo in the Reading Room of the British Museum?") and allegedly genuine letters in fallible English from continental hoteliers ("There is a French widow in every bedroom affording delightful prospects").

In 1952 he married Annetta Perceval, née Bennett. They had one son, Ben, and one daughter, Emily, who became respectively a timpanist and a sculptor. Hoffnung's uncle was Bruno Adler a German art historian and writer who, during the war, wrote for the German language department of the BBC.

In addition to his public persona as an eccentric and wit, he had a deeply serious and moral side. He became a Quaker in 1955 and was active in their prisoner visiting scheme. He collapsed at his home on 25 September 1959, and died three days later at the age of thirty-four.

You Write:-

Griff writes:-

Peter wrote about milk carton vending machines last week. I too remember these very well and I can answer a couple of questions raised by Peter. 

            I worked for Gauntlett & Walker's dairies based in Purbrook as a Saturday Boy from the age of 14 to 16 until I left school. I realised very quickly that delivering newspaper's for Flemings Newsagents for 10/- a week morning and evening was akin to slave labour and left after 3 months.

             Anyway, my job was actually working in the dairy and I had to place the returning crates of empty milk bottles onto a long conveyor belt having checked for chipped, cracked dirty milk bottles before they entered a huge bottle washing machine 20 bottles at a time with a 30 second time delay for the next batch of bottles. I did progress during my 3 years at Gauntlett's as I grew stronger and taller. I have to say I enjoyed my time there. But to get onto Peter's milk vending article.

         One day Mr Gauntlett turned up with a new machine and it was a milk carton machine which would fill those triangular milk cartons and then it would be manually heat sealed by the operator to close up the carton. It was a nightmare to work successfully and people dreaded being assigned to this machine for the day.  I did operate this machine a few times and it was a nightmare as you could not keep up with milk carton flow especially if you ran into a problem carton not sealing.  It was always going wrong and the cartons were sometimes not heat sealed 100% which would lead to leaks. I would think around 500 cartons a day were produced and crated up and collected by an independent van driver to be distributed to milk vending machines around the Portsmouth area.

So troublesome was this carton machine Mr. Gauntlett stopped the production after about a year as not being viable and the machine disappeared one day and I remember last seeing it put away in the corner of a big old barn that was on Gauntlett's dairy site.

Regards to everyone Melvyn 'Griff' Griffiths

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On this Day 3^rd December 1960-1965

On 032/12/1960 the number one single was It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley 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 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 03/12/1961 the number one single was Little Sister/His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley. 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 £not very interesting and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Sunday Night at the London Palladium (ATV)".

On 03/12/1962 the number one single was Lovesick Blues - Frank Ifield and the number one album was On Stage with the Black & White Minstrels - George Mitchell Minstrels. 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 03/12/1963 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 03/12/1964 the number one single was Baby Love - Supremes 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 03/12/1965 the number one single was The Carnival is Over - Seekers 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.

Web Page  No 2322

26th November 2016

Top Picture: A milk machine

Middle Picture: The instrument panel

 

Bottom Picture: The Jubbly

The Milk Vending Machine

What a strange concept this was! They suddenly appeared on our streets and just as soon disappeared again. The only one that I used regularly was the one set on the pavement between Francis Fish and Chip Shop and Masons the Sweet Shop in Drayton near the New Inn.

But these were the days when not everyone had a fridge at home and with most shops having closed by nine in the evening, and the days of the late night store or all night shopping was yet to come, so buying your emergency milk for home from a machine made sense. I remember being sent down to the milk machine in Drayton on my bicycle when Mum ran out of milk of an evening. There was also the social side when a group of us would go into the chip shop for a bag of chips and then share a carton of ice cold milk!

Of course getting the carton open once it was delivered was another matter, how many times did you splash milk down your shirt front in an attempt to open the carton?

Along with the cigarette machines, chocolate machines, postage stamp machines and bubble gum dispensers the milk machine was just one of those bits of street furniture you took for granted. As for the milk vending machine I rather think they began to vanish in the late 1960s to the early 1970s, possibly in the wake of the supermarket revolution along with cheap fridges.  For who would want to stand at what was often a shabby and knocked about machine, fumbling for the sixpence only to discover the coin had got stuck, the machine refused to accept it or worst still there were no cartoons left but the machine still took your money, so removing the machine could have been a blessing.

When they were new these machines were very smart in a livery of white and light blue with an illuminated sign advertising ICE COLD MILK. But the machines, after a time suffered from their positioning at the roadside. Frustrated customers would hit or kick them, dirt from the road and pavement collected on them. Odd indescribable items were often found stuffed in the delivery draw and what dogs did against them does not bear thinking about! So very often these machines were far from clean and I would suspect that a modern Environmental Health Officer would take a look and ban them immediately.

I suppose at the time they fitted into that new high tech way of life that was prevalent in the late 1950s and 60s, and I have to say that thinking back to the period it does look ultra-modern for the time. Plus there was something novel about getting your milk this way instead of from your regular milkman. Not of course that the milkman visits many houses anymore (mine still delivers three times a week) and I hear today that more and more newspapers are about to become only electronic.  As someone who grew up in the 40s, 50s and 60s thinking that milk delivered to the door step along with a daily newspaper was the hall mark of civilized life its demise, as with other things, all seem a little sad. Then of course there was always the security aspect but a 6d a time there could never have been very much money held in the machine.

I suppose that someone must have filled, emptied and serviced these machines but I cannot ever remember seeing it done. There was a time when our local machine offered three sorts of drink from the machine, milk, banana (or sometimes strawberry) flavoured milk and orange juice, a Jubbly. I don’t like flavoured milk or orange juice so it was always just plain milk for me.

Unfortunately I have never managed to find a photograph of the machine in Drayton so all the pictures this week come from elsewhere.

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On this Day 26th November 1960-1965

On 26/11/1960 the number one single was It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley 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 26/11/1961 the number one single was Little Sister/His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley and the number one album was Another Black & White Minstrell Show - George Mitchell Minstrels. The top rated TV show was Sunday Night at the London Palladium (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 26/11/1962 the number one single was Lovesick Blues - Frank Ifield 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. The big news story of the day was First broadcast of That Was the Week That Was.

On 26/11/1963 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 Conservative Party Political Broadcast (all channels) 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 week was JFK shot dead in Dallas and we all remember where we were on then!!!.

On 26/11/1964 the number one single was Baby Love - Supremes 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 26/11/1965 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 Take Your Pick (AR) 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 Mohammed Ali beats Floyd Patterson In Las Vegas.

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19th November 2016

Top Picture: The Start-rite twins

 Middle Picture: Girls Start-rite sandals

Bottom Picture: Foot X-ray Machine

Did you wear Start-Rite Shoes?

Now in its eighth generation family business, Start-rite have been trusted by generations of parents to care for their children’s feet. With a heritage dating back to 1792.  The history dates back to 1792 with the birth of the modern shoemaking industry in Norwich, where Start-rite head office is still based today. James Smith was a cordwainer (or leather worker) based in a small shop behind Norwich market. He was the first shoemaker in the country to offer an alternative to bespoke footwear that few could afford by offering ready-made, off-the-peg foot-wear to a wider audience.

The name “Start-rite” was first used in the early 1920s by Quant & Son, a shoe retailer in Bury St Edmunds and purchased by Southalls for exclusive use in 1921. The decision was also taken at this time to concentrate on marketing and selling products, with investment in advertising and the recruitment of the company’s first London-based sales rep. Having picked up on public concerns about healthcare and particularly children’s fitted footwear, more emphasis was placed on the company’s newest children’s brand “Start-rite” with the appointment of a dedicated production manager. Southalls was the first footwear manufacturer to make a practical contribution to the prevention of damage to young feet. In 1928, the company commissioned an investigation into schoolchildren’s feet to confirm their belief that children should be catered for differently to adults.

The iconic Start-Rite twins were first famously reproduced in a series of posters and press adverts which ran through the late ’30s and ’40s, the brand is still recognised today featured at the heart of the Start-rite logo as the hallmark of well-fitted, quality shoes for children. By the late 1940s, Start-rite shoes were in such high demand that retailers were limited to strict quotas of supplies.

In 1943 James Hanly, then chairman, commissioned a nationwide survey of children’s feet with the help of medical research experts, schools and health authorities. 450 children had their feet measured and tabulated. The results proved that, whilst Start-rite shoes were better for children’s development than other brands, there was further scope for additional improvements, notably shoes which would allow tiny feet to grow through to late teenage years without damage, and the need for the shoes to be fitted by trained people.

In 1952 the company took the brave decision to stop manufacturing adult footwear and concentrate purely on children’s needs and the Start-rite brand. They recognised no two children’s feet were the same, so huge investment was made into special “lasts” specifically for children’s sizes, available in multiple width fittings, and based on the natural shape of a child’s foot. The company also introduced a “heel stiffener” to help with balance and growth.

Then in 1955 Start-rite shoes achieved another first when, as supplier of footwear to the Windsor children, it was granted the Royal Warrant by Queen Elizabeth.

The Start-rite brand was so important to Southalls as a business that the decision was taken in 1966 to officially adopt Start-rite as the trading name. As a result, both the business and brand are known as Start-rite today, although the parent company remains James Southall Ltd and both names are proudly displayed outside the Norwich head office to this day.

I remember that my mother insisted on Start-rite shoes for me and when it was time I was taken into Mr Smith’s shoe shop in Drayton to be measured and fitted. The shop always looked dusty and chaotic to  me and gave the appearance of being none too clean. But this was the local shoe shop so that its where we went.

Mr Smith would measure my feet with the special board and tape, the desired shoes were fitted and then I was transferred to the strange  large X-ray machine so the fit could be checked. Once fitted and purchased the shoes were then packet in an oblong brown paper bag with a picture of the twins on it so the shoes could be carried home. But it was not until we were outside the shop that I was told that I had better take care of these shoes as they were expected to last longer than the last pair!

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On this Day 19th November 1960-1965

On 19/11/1960 the number one single was It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley 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 19/11/1961 the number one single was Little Sister/His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley and the number one album was Another Black & White Minstrell 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 19/11/1962 the number one single was Lovesick Blues - 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 19/11/1963 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 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 19/11/1964 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 19/11/1965 the number one single was Get Off Of My Cloud - Rolling Stones 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 £11.69. The big news story of the day was Take Your Pick (AR)".

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12^th November 2016

Top Picture: A 1962 Tri-ang Catalogue

Middle Picture: The rocker

Bottom Picture: Christmas catalogue

Triang Toys.

At some time in our young lives we all must have owned, either  new or second hand, one of the Triang Toy range.

The range was actually made by a firm called Lines Bros operating under the Tri-ang Toys brand name. Lines Bros Ltd, at its peak in 1947, was claimed by the company to be the largest toy maker in the world. Under the Tri-ang Toys brand name, Lines Bros Ltd also made children's bicycles.

The brothers George and Joseph Lines made wooden toys in the Victorian era, their company being G & J Lines Ltd. Joseph was the active partner while George went into farming. Joseph (or Joe) had three sons, who formed Lines Bros Ltd soon WW1. They were William, Walter and Arthur Lines. Three Lines making a triangle - hence Tri-ang. Arthur's son and Richard Lines, was largely responsible for the Tri-ang Railways. At the start of WW2 production of children's toys was made non-essential by the British Government. As a result, production facilities were converted to weapons manufacture, mainly the Sten Mk III submachine gun. Manufacture of toys resumed shortly after the war ended.

At their peak they had 40 companies world-wide, including the Hornby, Meccano and Dinky brands, but as a result of losses overseas they were in financial trouble. In 1971 Lines Bros. Ltd called in the Official Receiver. The Group was broken up and sold off. Rovex Tri-ang Ltd (which had the Hornby Railways among its portfolio) was Pocket Money Toys Ltd and then sold as Rovex Ltd, complete with its factories at Westwood and Canterbury, to Dunbee-Combex-Marx Ltd. (DCM). G & R Wrenn, a linked model railway company, bought itself free as Wrenn Railways. The remains of the Tri-ang brand was sold off. As a result, the Tri-ang Hornby system took the name Hornby Railways from January 1972, with the Dinky and Meccano businesses being acquired by Airfix.

However the company kept producing toys made of wood such as dollhouses, toy forts, a Noah's ark with wooden animals as well as a small range of wooden soldiers.

Lines Bros had its own railway system, the Rovex system, marketed as Tri-ang Railways. In 1964, Meccano Ltd, which manufactured the Hornby range, collapsed. Lines Bros. purchased the company, and in 1965 the combined model railway was marketed as Tri-ang-Hornby. In 1966 a controlling interest was acquired in a smaller rival, G & R Wrenn. When, in 1971, the Lines Bros. empire was broken up, Rovex - Tri-ang was purchased by Dunbee, Combex, Marx (DCM) but without the Tri-ang brand. Because of this DCM were forced to re-brand the model railway as Hornby Railways.

The range of Tri-ang large scale pressed steel vehicles and lorries were produced from the early 1930s through until the mid-1970s but they were crude by modern standards. The most common are the red tipper lorry, the Shell tanker, breakdown lorry and the London Transport double decker bus, with a couple of cranes and a few railway engines.

Minic Motorways was a system of HO-scale road vehicles that followed a slot in a plastic roadway. The vehicles picked up power via a small wheel on their underside, which was divided into two halves by an insulating flange. At some time in the 1960s this mechanism was replaced by a pair of vertically sprung sliding pickups. These differed from that of racing car systems such as the company's Scalextric.

The Minic Motorways system allowed the modeller to animate the roads as well as the railways in their townscapes.

Various model boats were made by Tri-ang, early yachts were made of steel but they also sold a range of wooden hulled yachts and clockwork motor launches. They produced early battery powered electric motor launches under the brand name of Penguin

When Meccano Ltd faced financial troubles and was acquired by Tri-ang, it also acquired the Dinky Toys range. Tri-ang's own range of model cars, Spot-on, had competed with the Dinky range but never had the success of Dinky and its designs were briefly subsumed into the Dinky range. Tri-ang Minic vehicles last appeared in 1961.

So ended a company that in its day supplied not only toys for boys but also a vast range of dolls houses and dolls house furniture. Among their products were Frog model aircraft kits, model ports and large pedal cars of various designs, metal ride on horses and a car car rocker.

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Peter was talking about Tommy Trinder a couple of weeks back which reminded me that I have signed photo of the Man himself. I discovered this old signed photo when I going through my late Father in Law's lifetime photo's.

                 I am informed that he got it from a Tommy Trinder show in Portsmouth during WW2 but I have yet to get that information confirmed.

                 It is signed:    " Sincerely ... Tommy Trinder "  in faded ink.

Melvyn ( Griff ) Griffiths.

On this day 12^th November 1960-1965

On 12/11/1960 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 12/11/1961 the number one single was Little Sister/His Latest Flame - Elvis Presley and the number one album was Another Black & White Minstrell Show - George Mitchell Minstrels. 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 12/11/1962 the number one single was Lovesick Blues - Frank Ifield 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 12/11/1963 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 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 12/11/1964 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 12/11/1965 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 The Royal Variety Performance (ATV) 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.