Web Page  No 2402

2^nd September 2017

 First Picture: William Horlick

Second Picture: The Horlicks Factory Slough

Third Picture: Horlicks tablets

Fourth Picture: Horlicks Malties

Horlicks

Most of us remember it, some of us liked it ( I did not) but none of us can forget Horlicks the malted milk hot drink developed

The drink was originally developed by James and William Horlick and is now marketed and manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Pakistan   India, and Jamaica.

How is it made? In the initial stage of manufacturing, milled malted barley and wheat flour are mashed together in hot water where the starch is converted into sugars. To this sugar solution dairy powders are added. The water content is then evaporated to form a syrup that is dried in vacuum band driers to form a cake. This cake is milled into the finished powder.

Claims are often made by malted milk drinks such as Horlicks that they assist sleep, but these claims have been difficult to verify. According to GlaxoSmithKline: "While ... research indicates that Horlicks drinks can help you to sleep better, the exact way in which Horlicks works is not clear."

However, malted drinks may help to stave off hunger overnight, which can lead to sounder sleep.

The word "Horlicks" is often taken to be a swear word as in “he made a right Horlicks of it”. This use was exploited by the company in a 1990s advertising campaign, in which a harassed housewife exclaims "Horlicks" in a context where a stronger term could have been expected, thus widening the exposure and usage for a while.

Publicity:

Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future serial was sponsored by Horlicks in 1952 and heard Monday to Friday at 7:15 p.m. over Radio Luxembourg.

In 1961, Horlicks ran a television advertising campaign that featured Scottish entertainer Billy Raymond and an actress. The theme of the advert was "Horlicks – the food drink of the night."

Australia and New Zealand

In Australia and New Zealand, Horlicks is imported from the UK and marketed by GlaxoSmithKline.

Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, Horlicks is known better as a café drink than as a sleeping aid. It is served at fast-food shops. It can be served hot or cold, and is usually sweetened with sugar. It is made with warm milk, and ice is added to it if a cold drink is desired.

India

Horlicks came to India with the British Army; the end of World War I saw Indian soldiers of British Indian Army bringing it back with them. Punjab, Bengal and Madras Presidencies became early adopters of Horlicks and many well-to-do Indians took to drinking Horlicks as a family drink in early 1940s and 1950s. It became a sort of status symbol in upper middle-class Indians and rich classes. The first flavour available in India, as in Britain, was malt. Here it has traditionally been marketed as The Great Family Nourisher, is the largest market for Horlicks. The Indian formulation for Horlicks is slightly different than in most other countries, as it is manufactured from buffalo milk rather than cows milk. In 2003, the brand underwent a revamp which led to the introduction of new flavours such as vanilla, toffee, chocolate and honey, The current line-up of flavours include original (malt), chocolate and elaichi with the latest offering Horlicks Kesar Badaam added recently to the portfolio, providing a more specialized taste offering to the consumers.

In recent years, there has been an increase in the scope of the brand in India. Horlicks has become an umbrella brand for a wide variety of products ranging from the malt drink to instant noodles, confectionery and breakfast cereal. There are special formulations of the malted drink for young children (Junior Horlicks), breast-feeding mothers (Mother's Horlicks), women (Women's Horlicks) and adults (Lite Horlicks) exist. Horlicks biscuits were first launched in 1993 and an energy bar was launched in 2009, named Horlicks NutriBar. Also in late 2009, Foodles, a brand of instant noodles, was launched under the Horlicks umbrella. This was followed in 2011 by launches of Horlicks Gold, a premium variant of the malt drink (dubbed The Best Horlicks Ever), and Horlicks Oats, the first breakfast cereal product under the Horlicks brand.

Southeast Asia

In some Southeast Asian countries, such as the Philippines and Malaysia, Horlicks was also sold as milky-chocolate-flavoured discs in paper packets, which were then eaten as sweets. Horlicks remains popular in Malaysia and Singapore where it packed under licence and sold in large glass and tin containers. It is also available in 1.5 kg refill packs.

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, Horlicks is available in Original (prepared with hot milk), Light (prepared with hot water), Malt Chocolate (prepared with hot water) and Caramel Dream (prepared with hot water). GlaxoSmithKline attempted a rebrand of the product in 2004 for younger consumers by redesigning the packaging and publicising its consumption at a number of trendy London venues such as the Groucho Club.

The company also owned Horlicks Farms and Dairies, a cheese, dairy and cattle breeding Station at "Hort Bridge", Ilminster, Somerset. In 1958, it took over The Cheddar Valley Dairy, and by the early 1960s had retail rounds, depots, and shops at Burnham, Cheddar, Clevedon, Glastonbury, Nailsea, Taunton, and Weston-super-Mare.

Do you remember Horlicks tablets those small round malted sweets? They are still available as Horlicks Malties but no longer in the UK

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Peter

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On this day 2^nd September 1960-1965

On 02/09/1960 the number one single was Apache - The Shadows and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was 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 02/09/1961 the number one single was Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton and the number one album was Black & White Minstrel Show - George Mitchell Minstrels. The top rated TV show was Blackpool Tower Circus (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 02/09/1962 the number one single was I Remember You - Frank Ifield and the number one album was West Side Story Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the week was 20000 killed in Iran earthquake.

On 02/09/1963 the number one single was Bad to Me - Billy J Kramer and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 02/09/1964 the number one single was Have I the Right? - Honeycombs and the number one album was A Hard Day's Night - Beatles. The top rated TV show was No Hiding Place (AR) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 02/09/1965 the number one single was I Got You Babe - Sonny and Cher and the number one album was Help - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

Web Page  No 2400

26^th  August 2017

First Picture: X type TV Ariel

Second Picture: Dip pedal

Third Picture: Cinema News

Fourth Picture: Ice tray with lever

Hi Folks

Another of those do you remember pages, I am sure that will be some things here that you will have forgotten!

As a general rule:-

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans or shorts, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or even had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to school... I walked until I had a bicycle for my birthday.

We didn't have a television in our house until I was at least eight years old and then we had to have a large cross TV aerial on the chimney. It was, of course, a black and white set, with one station, BBC, and that at 10 PM, after playing the epilogue and then the national anthem; it came back on the air at about 6 am for a locally produced news and farming show, featuring local  people but our set was never turned on that early.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk, bread, fish, paraffin, Corona and coal was.

All newspapers were delivered by boys and girls.

Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. Most films were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive.

If  you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.  Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES  from a friend:

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she  died recently) and he brought me an old lemonade bottle.  In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but those of the modern generation had no idea. When questioned they thought  that someone had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons.

Now how  many do you remember?  

Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.

A choke button on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.

Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.

1.  Sweet cigarettes
2.  Coffee shops with juke boxes
3.  Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4.  Party lines on  the telephone
5.  Newsreels before the movie
6.  TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.
7.  Peashooters
8.  33 rpm LP records
9.  45 RPM records
10.  Hi-fi systems
11.  Metal ice trays with levers
12.  Blue flashbulb
13.  Cork popguns
14.  Washing machines with wringers

If  you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If  you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If  you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
If  you remembered 11-14 = You're positively  ancient!

I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

Yours

Peter

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On this day 26th August 1960-1965

On 26/08/1960 the number one single was Apache - The Shadows and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Rawhide (ITV) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 26/08/1961 the number one single was You Don't Know - Helen Shapiro and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Ipswich were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.The big news story of the week was Burma becomes world's first Buddhist republic.

On 26/08/1962 the number one single was I Remember You - Frank Ifield and the number one album was West Side Story Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 26/08/1963 the number one single was Bad to Me - Billy J Kramer and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 26/08/1964 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 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 Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 26/08/1965 the number one single was I Got You Babe - Sonny and Cher and the number one album was Help - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

Web Page  No 2398

19^th  August 2017

First Picture: Dennis Spicer and James Green

  

Second Picture: Backstage at His Majesty’s theatre 1964

Third Picture: Arthur Worsley at the Royal Variety Performance

Fourth Picture: Another Vent act at the time Savene and Daisy May

Dennis Spicer

Now here is a name from the variety stage, an act that was around for many of our teenage years 

In the graveyard of St. Mary’s church in South Mimms is the Dennis Spicer Memorial Plaque carefully maintained by Robert Freeman its custodian a role which he carries out on behalf of The Magic Circle London. At the time of his death he was living nearby in Brookmans Park, in fact the family were in the process of moving to Hertford when he died.

For those who do not remember him Dennis George Spicer was a ventriloquist. He was born in 1935 Hillingdon County Hospital in Middlesex but he grew up mainly in Coventry. He had two sisters June and Rose.He started ventriloquism at the age of eight and got he got his first booking at the Railway Club in Coventry when he was just 10 years old. He worked the clubs and cabaret circuit with his dummies: mainly James Green and Maxwell Monkey, but also Sexy Rexy the Wolf, Puppy Doll the Poodle, Rikki Tikki the Tiger, the Ugly Duckling and Russian Bear. However there was a downside to the ability to throw his voice and he often got into trouble at school for being disruptive. In 1954 he was booked as a member of the Resident Revue Company at Butlin’s Holiday Camp in Filey.

He married June in October 1955 in Newcastle upon Tyne– his regular ventriloquists dummy, James Green, was best man and made a speech at the reception! In the same year he signed an exclusive contract with BBC Television and numerous television appearances followed over the next few years including a regular appearance on Vera Lynn’s fortnightly BBC show.

In America he appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and twice he toured Australia. As well as television appearances he was also kept busy with live stage work where he met and became firm friends with Ken Dodd in fact in 1964 he was one of the acts in the November 1964 Royal Variety Performance. The reviews named him as one of the hits of the show and one of the Queen’s personal favourites. In that show he used a corgi as a dummy and Kenny Baker as a vent dummy which comes to life. In fact the Queen told Dennis that really liked the Corgi jokes!

Tragically, two weeks after the Royal Variety Performance, Dennis was killed in a road crash on the A1 near Stamford Lincolnshire while he was driving his TVR Sports Car leaving his wife June and son Robin. He was returning home after a charity performance. He was just 29 at the time of his death. His funeral was held at St Mary’s in 1964 and was a national news items. Many ‘show biz’ personalities attended including Tommy Cooper, Jimmy Tarbuck, Eddie Calvert and Ken Dodd. The Queen also sent a tribute.

Dennis’s grave was, for many years unmarked as June, his widow did not believe in headstones but in 2001, with the help of Revd Terry Ranson, the plot was identified and, in a simple ceremony, a plaque was unveiled. This was under the Magic Circle’s Memorial Initiative which seeks out, attends and honours graves of past magicians and those in allied arts like ventriloquism.

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Peter

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On this day 19th August 1960-1965

On 19/08/1960 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 First UK motorway service station opens.

On 19/08/1961 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 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 Ipswich were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 19/08/1962 the number one single was I Remember You - Frank Ifield and the number one album was West Side Story Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 19/08/1963 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 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 19/08/1964 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 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 19/08/1965 the number one single was Help - The Beatles and the number one album was Help - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Riviera Police (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 Beatles play Shea Stadium in New York.

Web Page  No 2396

12th August 2017

First Picture: The friendly Bobby

 Second Picture: A regular sight in Portsmouth ‘Britannia’

Third Picture: National Dried Milk

Fourth Picture: Trolley Bus leaving the Depot

English Grammar

Now folks how many of these phrases and sayings do you recognise from your childhood. They were all said by an adult to a child and they seem to be universal. I think my parents and family must have used at least 95% of them how about yours?

Firstly if you queried something or an instruction we were told ‘Because I said so’ with no other explanation and for an impatient child we were always told to Wait and see. When Mum did not know the answer or wanted to avoid giving an answer we were then told you would have to Ask your Dad and then there was always the ultimate threat Just you wait untill your Father gets home! Then if things had gone missing they were always Up in Annies room behind the clock, this always baffled me because we did not have anyone in our family called Annie!

There was a whole series of phrases to do with food, such as No pudding until you have finished your greens or Eat your carrots they will make you see in the dark there was a grain of truth in that one, but the one that was strange was Eat your crusts they will give you curly hair. Plus the ever popular phrase If you don’t eat it there are thousands of starving people in the World who will also If you don’t eat it now you will get it for supper and finally in this food section the two instructions: - Take your elbows off the table and Don’t play with your food! 

Life style was another favourite topic, how about this one if you had done somethingfoolish, If someone asked you to jump off a cliff would you? or What did your last slave die of? or Were you born in a barn? or Were you born in a field? Of our appearance we were told that we looked as if We were dragged through a hedge backwards then as we became teenagers You are not going out dressed like that?  Then if you argued it was Do as I say not as I do and You will thank me one day for this!

Behaviour and grammar was also riddled with popular phrases, If I’ve told you once I have told you a thousand times or Say pardon not what. These were closely followed by It will all end in tears and I want never gets, plus There is no such word as can’t and Who is she? The cats mother. One more, Stop pulling faces, if the wind changes you will stuck like that, which was usually followed by I do have eyes in the back of my head so I can see what you are doing!

Health warnings were another category You will take someone’s eye out with that,  Don’t sit so close to the TV you will get square eyes plus This won’t hurt and for those with a runny nose or cold Use your handkerchief not your sleeve plus we were always told that the medicine Would do us good especially if it tasted terrible! Then there was the ultimate instruction Stop crying or I will really give you something to cry about.

Then there was always the harking back to our parents’ youth, When I was a little boy/girl we would never have done that! plus Modern children have no respect!

But for the ultimate put down the one phrase that was nearly always used and you knew that if it was you had no chance of getting your own way and that phrase was, I’ll think about it.

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Peter

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Chris Writes again:-

Knowing I was keen on fishing my Dad arranged a couple of boat trips. The first a small group of us lads took to the sea off Eastney, but the sea was rather rough and we'd hardly got a few yards off shore when one of the boys was violently seasick so we had no option but to abandon our trip and return to shore. The second occasion was a competition involving several boats in the calmer water of Langstone Harbour just off Milton. I am delighted to say I won the competition with a decent catch of whiting!

Photo of me and my winning catch attached, this would have been when I was 11 or 12 in 1961 or 1962.

I do love what you are doing Peter, it brings back so many great memories of happier and less complicated times.

If you ever manage to arrange a re-union of some sort for Court Lane Juniors, I will do my best to attend, although due to other commitments I may not be able to. I would dearly love to track down some old friends from those days, and my first year at Manor Court - not been able to make contact with any. The loss of Friends Re-united has not made research any easier either.

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On this day 12th August 1960-1965

On 12/08/1960 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 week was First communications satellite launched.

On 12/08/1961 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 Top Secret (AR) 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.

On 12/08/1962 the number one single was I Remember You - Frank Ifield and the number one album was West Side Story Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 12/08/1963 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 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 12/08/1964 the number one single was A Hard Day's Night - Beatles 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. The big news story of the week was Novelist Ian Fleming dies.

On 12/08/1965 the number one single was Help - The Beatles and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Riviera Police (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 week was First woman High Court Judge appointed.