Web Page No 2682

1^st May 2020

1st Picture. Place setting

 2nd Picture. Fish knife

3rd Picture. Pickle fork

4th Picture. Kensitas Cigarettes

Eating at home.

One thing that my family always set great store by was good table manners. Come a main meal we all sat around the dining room table and ate together. The table would be set with a table cloth (with matching napkins on Sundays) decorative place mats, cutlery, condiments and sauces, tomato and/or HP or Daddies along with Colemans mustard. If the meal was to be cold meat, this was often on a Monday when mother used up the remainder of the Sunday Roast Joint, there would always be a dish of home cooked beetroot, a jar of Pan Yan Pickle or assorted pickles with pickle forks on the table as well. We all had our regular set places to sit with fathers being at the head.

First of all came the call by my mother from the kitchen ‘Have you washed your hands and face?’ so it was a journey upstairs to the bathroom to undertake the obligatory wash and brush up before eating. Having done so I came down and sat in my appointed place and waited for my meal to be served. Eating with one’s fingers was certainly a real no no in our house that’s what the cutlery was for, we even had fish knives and forks for any sea-based dish, which was normally just once a week. I think these were family heirlooms from some distant relative. I do not remember glasses on the table even water glasses but they may have been there. We never said Grace at the table before or after a meal in our house but it was clearly understood that no one started eating until every diner had all sat down and was ready to eat.

Once I had completed my first course, I always had to place my knife and fork together on the plate to indicate that I had finished. Then came the pudding or afters, apple crumble and custard, fruit pie or maybe rice or macaroni pudding or even a milk jelly and again the rule of placing the cutlery neatly on the plate when I had finished applied. I then had to wait until everyone at the table had finished eating before I could ask if I could leave the table. This I was told was just good manners.

Conversation was always very stilted at these meals as we understood that you did not talk with food in your mouth so conversation was somewhat limited. Although, after the meal was finished and tea or coffee served in the sitting room and where my father and grandmother lit their cigarettes, my father Kensitas (as he collected the coupons) and my grandmother Senior Service, my mother did not smoke, and the world would be put to rights.

All the food was home cooked by either my mother or grandmother. One of my abiding memories is of my grandmothers homemade Cornish Pasty’s. They were cooked from chopped raw meat and vegetables and were enormous but tasted wonderful. Mind you she did have an advantage; she was actually Cornish being born in the west country! My grandmother, my mother’s mother, came down from her home in central London and lived with us from 1952 whilst my father was posted to Ceylon for two years. That was the original plan but she stayed until her death in 1974. Another memory that now comes to mind is her steamed bacon and onion suet pudding.  Delicious!   

One of the other things that my parents would insist on was never to put your elbows on the table. I am sure most households had the same rule, never bolt your food or stuff your mouth full of food and never chew with your mouth open.

All this was good practice for eating out but I really cannot remember ever going to a café, let alone a restaurant with my parents. But I suppose that it was training for later life!

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Jonathon Writes:-

Hi Peter

I was ruminating on our childhood days at Solent Road Primary School here are some of my thoughts.

We used to walk to school from Rectory Ave along Woodfield Avenue over Gillman Lane and on  through the Recreation Ground left down Farlington Ave and right into Solent Road wind, rain or shine.....even snow. No shutting down of schools if it gets a bit too cold for somebody's liking!!!!!

The school playground had houses backing onto it and one of the owners was Arthur Pelley. He was a WW1 veteran I seem to remember and a TocH buddy of both our Fathers'. I remember there used to be very occasional fights between boys in that playground and everyone would surround the pair baying"fight fight fight". One memorable fight took place between my elder brother Christopher and someone who was shoving me around. I think that was the first and only time as young boys that he ever stood up for me. Later he was good to me in the Sixth Form when he helped me become a Senator or Prefect just before he went up to Leicester University and died in a tragic accident.

I remember the little "tuck" shop across the road from the school, wasn't it Shaw's. I vividly remember the wide range of inexpensive sweets and lollies on offer. One of my favourites was the big block of rough honeycomb on a stick and chocolate dipped. Only a penny. Also the penny flat slabs of bubble gum with a "space card" in the wrapped offering. I collected everyone of those cards and saved them for several years until our move to Ethiopia in 1958 when my Father gave all my toys and possessions away. Not much a ten year old can do about that is there!!!! My most grievous loss was a superb set six Meccano that I had won in a competition in my Mum's weekly magazine as a six year old. It was that Meccano set that started me on my eventual Engineering career.

Our teachers were strict and I have written about that before. But caning for very trivial offences was extremely common. Now most of those teachers would be imprisoned, the code of behaviour has changed beyond recognition.

Mary Writes:-

I loved my record player which was a Bush, a present on my 14th birthday from my parents. There were also a few records. One was Shirley Bassey & she sang "Kiss me Honey, Honey" which was considered quite racy at the time. My father & I spent many a happy time in Weston Harts choosing records, which became the gift to buy when you were given money for birthdays & Christmas. I wish I still had my record player as Griff has. I can understand how he treasures it. Whilst I was living away my mother gave it to a young lad who lived near us. Apparently he took it apart to see how it was made!!! I wasn`t best pleased. Take care everyone, Mary

Griff writes:

Dansette Part 2

The very first Dansette model available in 1950/51 was the Plus~a~Gram and the Senior, these were very expensive and many teens and adults could not afford record players until later. It retailed at 33 guineas which today would be approximately £800. Imagine that!   

In 1962 a Dansette Popular 4 speed record player would be sold for 11 guineas in Curry's and Weston Harts in Portsmouth and for another 2 guineas you could opt for the Bermuda with a 4 speed autochanger with legs. (see picture) 

 Despite this, many teenagers acquired one, taking them to parties, and purchasing the latest singles (45s). Did we ever !  

 Many Dansettes were sold in December as Christmas presents, or as in my case a 16th Birthday present but the majority would be purchased with the then readily available "hire purchase". I know for a fact Curry's Hire Purchase was 33% down and the rest paid in weekly or monthly instalments because my Mum did exactly that back in 1962. 

 In 1958, Dansette started producing the Dansette Junior and later the De Luxe designed to appeal to the teenagers who would take them to and from parties.

By the late 1960s, recording techniques were becoming more sophisticated. Stereo had been virtually ignored until then and there was a change of direction from the 45's to the LP. Customers began to seek more modern Hi-Fi systems. 

 Inevitably the market dried up for record players. Imports from Japan took over the market with cut-throat competition and the company went into liquidation. Dansette production ended in December 1969, following the introduction of relatively cheap and efficient Japanese and other Far Eastern imported Hi-Fi equipment.

During the years 1950-1969/70 over one million Dansettes were sold.

Many of these record players still remain in use but have been refurbished, there are now many firms in the UK who restore these players as well as independent engineers who restore the players as a hobby. There is nothing you cannot buy to refurbish a Dansette and other record players but the companies who do the professional restoration will charge well over the £100 mark for a basic refurbished working model and up to £400+ for a totally guaranteed restored to a new one and the selling/buying market is very strong as well. The most sought after Dansette model is the red and white record player.  Wishing that you kept your Dansette record player now?  lol

I hope you enjoyed my look into the past of how we enjoyed our music as teenagers but I can assure you I am no dinosaur as I have Spotify and Alexa around the house but it's just not the same as hearing the comforting clunk of the record auto changer spindle dropping another 45 onto the playing deck and the hiss of the stylus needle as it rested gently onto the record before you heard the music play is it.

Take Care......And Regards to Everyone  Melvyn (Griff) Griffiths.  

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  On 1^st May 1960-1965

On 01/01/1960 the number one single was Do you Mind - Anthony Newley and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Wagon Train (ITV) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the week was Soviet Union shoots down American U2 spy plane flown by pilot CG Powers

On 01/01/1961 the number one single was Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley and the number one album was GI Blues - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was No Hiding Place (AR) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the week was Castro makes Cuba Socialist.

On 01/01/1962 the number one single was Wonderful Land - The Shadows and the number one album was Blue Hawaii - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 01/01/1963 the number one single was How Do You Do It? - Gerry & the Pacemakers and the number one album was Summer Holiday - Cliff Richard & the Shadows. 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 Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Churchill retired.

On 01/01/1964 the number one single was A World Without Love - Peter & Gordon and the number one album was With the Beatles - The 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 Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 01/01/1965 the number one single was Ticket to Ride - The Beatles and the number one album was Beatles For Sale - 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 Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

Web Page No 2680

24th April 2020

1st Picture. John Barry

 2nd Picture. John Barry Seven

 3rd Picture. John Barry record cover

4th Picture. John Barry Memorial concert

John Barry and the John Barry Seven.

John Barry Prendergast, OBE who was born in November 1933 was known to us as the leader of the John Barry Seven but over the years he became a composer and conductor of film music. He was the son of an English mother and an Irish father. His mother was a classical pianist. His father, John Xavier "Jack" Prendergast, from Cork, was a projectionist during the silent film era, who later owned a chain of cinemas across northern England. John became well known when he  composed the scores for 11 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1987, and also arranged and performed the "James Bond Theme" to the first film in the series, 1962's  Dr. No. He wrote the Grammy and Academy Award-winning scores to the films Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa, as well as the theme for the British television series The Persuaders and was appointed OBE for services to music.

Born in York, he spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father. During his national service with the British Army in Cyprus, he began performing as a musician after learning to play the trumpet. Upon completing his national service, he formed his own band in 1957, The John Barry Seven. He later developed an interest in composing and arranging music, making his début for television in 1958. He came to the notice of the makers of the first James Bond film Dr. No, who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. This started a successful association between John Barry and Eon Productions that lasted for 25 years.

He received many awards for his work, including five Academy Awards; two for Born Free, and one each for The Lion in Winter, Dances with Wolves and Out of Africa. He also received ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning once for Best Original Score for Out of Africa in 1986. He then concentrated on live performances and co-wrote the music to the musical Brighton Rock in 2004 with Don Black. In 2001, he was appointed a Fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and, in 2005, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. John Barry was married four times and had four children. He moved to the United States in 1975 and lived there until his death in 2011.

Take a look at the John Barry Seven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxn5BdoVr_g

  

In 2001, the University of York conferred an honorary degree on him, and in 2002 he was named an Honorary Freeman of the City of York.

He was married four times. His first three marriages, to Barbara Pickard, Jane Birkin and Jane Sidey all ended in divorce. He was married to his fourth wife, Laurie, from January 1978 until his death. The couple had a son, Jonpatrick. He also had three daughters, Suzanne (Susie) with his first wife, Barbara, Kate with his second wife, Jane, and Sian from a relationship with Ulla Larson between the first two marriages.

He suffered a rupture of the oesophagus in 1988, following a toxic reaction to a health tonic he had consumed. The incident rendered him unable to work for two years and left him vulnerable to pneumonia and he died of a heart attack on 30^th January 2011 at his Oyster Bay home, aged 77.

Music he was best known for in the 1960’s:-

·         "Hit and Miss" as The John Barry Seven plus Four, UK#10 (first charted 1960)

·         "Beat for Beatniks" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#40 (1960)

·         "Never Let Go" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#49 (1960)

·         "Blueberry Hill" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#34 (1960)

·         "Walk Don't Run" as The John Barry Seven, UK#11 (1960)

·         "Black Stockings" as The John Barry Seven, UK#27 (1960)

·         "The Magnificent Seven" as The John Barry Seven, UK#45 (1961)

·         "Cutty Sark" as The John Barry Seven, UK#35 (1962)

·         "The James Bond Theme" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#13 (1962)

·         "From Russia with Love" as The John Barry Orchestra, UK#39 (1963)

·         "Theme from 'The Persuaders'" as John Barry, UK#13 (1971)

His four highest-charting hits all spent more than 10 weeks in the UK top 50.

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Last week on Peter's Manor Court web chat I showed you a picture of my Fidelity record player from 1969. Many of us though would have had a Dansette record player in the 1960's and I did have one as well but this was sold about 15 years ago when I was having a massive clear out for a very good price that I could not refuse I do have to say. The  Dansette "Viva" model is shown in the photograph. This model was about £8-10 shillings in 1961/62.         

My Mum worked for Curry's in Commercial Rd back in 1962 and for my 16th birthday she bought me a Dansette record player as my present for the princely sum of 6 guineas after staff discount.  Now it has to be said the Dansette record player was of a far more superior quality to the Fidelity range of record players and for those of you with long memories you will also know  that Curry's produced their own brand of record players labelled as "Westminster" which were made mainly by Fidelity in London but not always as other manufacturer's were commissioned by Curry's to produce their Westminster range of electrical products.

The Collectors World of Old Record / Gramophone players is vast and I don't want to enter the World of being a Nurdy expert on this subject......lol   so I will keep it brief out of interest and here are some facts that may jog your memory from a time long ago.

The first Dansette record player was manufactured in 1952 and at least one million were sold in the 1950s and 1960s. Dansette became a household name in the late 1950s and 60s when the British music industry shot up in popularity after the arrival of acts such as Cliff Richard, The Beatles, and The Shadows. Teenagers would have used various Dansette players to take to and from parties to listen to the latest records. ( yes, we did ! )

A Dansette was a common sight in many British households during the 1960s and is a statement and artifact of the vibrant, popular youth culture which developed during the period.

The Dansette was a versatile machine with many being equipped to play 7, 10- and 12-inch discs of 78, 45, 33⅓, and 16 ⅔rpm. Larger models such as the Bermuda could be fitted with optional legs for home use, while the Viva, Junior and "Diplomat" models were designed to be transportable, with a handle and studs affixed to the side of the case and latches to secure the protective lid. Like almost all record players of the day, they had built-in speakers. Some models of Dansette record players had a BSR autochanger allowing several records to be loaded at once, and played in succession.

Even though Dansette players were expensive, some experts and fans of the industry argue that the players were overrated. Despite this, the Dansette brand outsold other makes such as Dynatron, Bush, Kolster-Brandes, Ferguson, Fidelity and others.

Dansette set a "standard look" for all portable record players of the time - a latched lid on top, a speaker and control knobs on the front, and sometimes a carrying handle.

Part 2 to follow next week.

Regards Melvyn (Griff) Griffiths     ( currently in week 5 of Corona virus lock down. )

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  On 24th April 1960-1965

On 24/04/1960 the number one single was My Old Man's a Dustman - Lonnie Donegan and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Armchair Theatre (ABC) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 24/04/1961 the number one single was Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley and the number one album was GI Blues - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was Bootsie & Snudge (Granada) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 24/04/1962 the number one single was Wonderful Land - The Shadows and the number one album was Blue Hawaii - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 24/04/1963 the number one single was How Do You Do It? - Gerry & the Pacemakers and the number one album was Summer Holiday - Cliff Richard & the Shadows. The top rated TV show was Labour 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 Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 24/04/1965 the number one single was Ticket to Ride - The Beatles and the number one album was Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

Web Page No 2678

17th April 2020

1st Picture. The site of the robbery

 2nd Picture. The arrest

 3rd Picture. Bruce Reynolds

4th Picture. Royal Mail carriage

The Great Train Robbery

In the most daring crime in British history on the night of August 8th 1963 a 15-member gang intercepted the Glasgow-to-London mail train and made off with £2.6m in used bank notes. The audacious nature of the crime captivated Britain and launched a massive police hunt.

By the very nature of the crime and the way in which it was executed, police immediately believed the job was pulled with inside knowledge. The train, which was carrying used bank notes on their way to being destroyed, was stopped by a fake red signal at a secluded spot at Cheddington in Buckinghamshire. Ordinarily these notes would have been transported by high security train carriages but at the time many of them were broken or had been taken out of service forcing the Royal Mint to transport them by a standard 'travelling Post Office.' With meticulous timing at 3.10am, the engine and front two carriages were uncoupled before being driven up the line. Whilst this was happening the gang were smashing their way to overpower sorting staff. 800 yards later the train was stopped where two vans were waiting to be loaded with 120 mailbags. The whole operation took just forty minutes.

The alarm was raised ten minutes later by train driver Jack Mills and his fireman, David Whitby. The driver, aged 58, had originally tried to stop the gang and as a result was hit over the head with an iron bar. David Whitby, who had got down from the train when it was stopped in order to phone for help at a trackside telephone, was pushed down an embankment where he was handcuffed and told not to make a sound.

The gang made their way to a nearby farmhouse, Leatherslade Farm, which was in the heart of a small farming community 27 miles from the site of the robbery. The original plan was for the gang to lay low at the farmhouse for up to two weeks, but while monitoring a police broadcast the following day they overheard news that was to change their plans. The police reports suggested that the thieves had used army vehicles at the scene of the robbery and were suspected to be holed up in a farmhouse in the vicinity. Becoming nervous, the gang abandoned their plans to stay at the farmhouse and fled back to London. They 'hired' a man to clean up the farmhouse and wipe away all incriminating evidence including fingerprints. But the man double-crossed the gang and took the money and ran. Eight days later, working on a tip-off from a member of the public the police moved in. Within a day of the farm being forensically examined for evidence the first gang member, Roger Cordrey, was arrested and charged with taking part in the robbery and a suitcase containing £100,000 was recovered from woodlands just a few miles from his house.

A week later Charlie Wilson was arrested in London and police announced that they were anxious to contact Bruce Reynolds, Jimmy White, Roy James and Buster Edwards to "assist them with their enquiries." A month later Ronald Biggs was taken into custody and transported to Scotland Yard for questioning and was subsequently arrested for his part in the robbery.

Thirteen of the gang members were caught, tried and sentenced received prison sentences. Ronald Biggs escaped from prison 15 months into his sentence, fleeing to Australia. When police were tipped off he fled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and although traced he could not be extradited because he had fathered a Brazilian child. As a result he lived openly in Rio for many years, completely untouchable by the British authorities.

Charlie Wilson escaped and lived outside Montreal. He was tracked down by Scotland Yard. The story of Ronald "Buster" Edwards, who fled to Mexico but later surrendered to authorities, was dramatised in the 1988 film, ‘Buster,’ Buster Edwards became a flower seller outside Waterloo Station on his release from prison and was a well known sight outside the station. He committed suicide in 1994.

The robbery was investigated by Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Slipper of the Metropolitan Police who became so involved with its aftermath that he continued to hunt down many of the escaped robbers in retirement.

Train driver Jack Mills suffered a black eye and facial bruising in the robbery. He never fully recovered from the attack and never returned to work, suffering from constant trauma headaches for the rest of his life. He died in 1970 from leukaemia.

After suffering several strokes in the late 1990’s, Ronald Biggs announced that he wanted to return to England. In May 2001 he flew to London, where he was arrested by police. Biggs was sent back to prison to complete his sentence, but his declining health led officials to release him in August 2009. He died December 18, 2013, London.

Bruce Reynolds, the chief architect of the Great Train Robbery, died on 2013 in England aged 81. He first holed up in a friend’s house in London, made his way to Belgium, then Toronto and finally to Mexico, where he lived the high life on his ill-gotten gains for five years. When he ran out of money, he returned to England, but he was arrested in Torquay in 1968, by Thomas Butler, the Scotland Yard detective who had pursued him with a passion. Reynolds was tried and served 10 years.

Very little of the money from The Great Train Robbery was ever recovered.

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Griff Writes:-

How many of you still have their old record player from way                   back when?  I still have my Fidelity record player from 1969. 
Bought from Curry's in Commercial Rd.   I think it cost 
£10 guineas but can't quite remember now. It is in perfect 
unmarked condition and still plays 45's ( good multi record 
auto drop as well lol ) and 78's and still with a good 
reproduction of the sound. I have had it stored away in a box 
in the loft for many years but have brought it out for a dust 
off and a check over this week. 

   Great fun showing the Grandkids the auto drop of the 45's 
and of course they cannot quite believe this is what was
regarded as high tech for us youngsters way back then. 

    Amazing that these record players are now being sought 
by people as the old vinyl records are coming back into 
fashion. So what's the value today of this record player in 
2020, 50 years on?  In this unmarked condition and in full 
working order around £50.

Regards to everyone    Melvyn ( Griff )  Griffiths.

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Sad to hearof the death of Stirling Moss. Belowis a picture of the last time I met him at Goodwood a few years ago.

Peter

 

On 17th April 1960-1965

On 17/04/1960 the number one single was My Old Man's a Dustman - Lonnie Donegan and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Armchair Theatre (ABC) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 17/04/1961 the number one single was Wooden Heart - Elvis Presley and the number one album was GI Blues - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was The Budget (All Channels) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 17/04/1962 the number one single was Wonderful Land - The Shadows and the number one album was Blue Hawaii - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 17/04/1963 the number one single was How Do You Do It? - Gerry & the Pacemakers and the number one album was Summer Holiday - Cliff Richard & the Shadows. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 17/04/1964 the number one single was Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles and the number one album was With the Beatles - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was The Budget (All Channels) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.The big news story of the day was Hayley Mills enjoys first Big Screen kiss.

On 17/04/1965 the number one single was The Minute You're Gone - Cliff Richard and the number one album was Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions