Web Page No 2730

 

8^th November 2020

 

1^st Picture: Fish and Chips in Newspaper

 

2^nd Picture: Job Done sticker Bob-a-Job week

 

3rd Picture: Airwick bottle

4^th Picture:  Wash boards

 

 

 

Just for fun

Are you older than the hills?

Here are 50 things from our youth so how many do you remember?

1.    When Fish and Chips were served in newspaper

2.    Glass bottles had a refundable deposit especially at the off licence

3.    All records revolved at 78rpm and broke very easily when dropped

4.    Party phone lines (not us we never had a phone)

5.    Milk was delivered in glass bottles to the doorstep (ours still is)

6.    Television was only in black and white

7.    We saw beat policeman pass by both day and night

8.    The coalman carrying sacks on his back

9.    Shilling in the slot utility meters

10.    Your GP made house calls

11.    You could rent a TV set or even a washing machine

12.    Bob-a-Job Week

13.    The cinema programme had a newsreel, cartoon, adverts, a secondary film and the main feature

14.    The was only one TV channel

15.    Conductors on buses

16.    Usherettes in the cinema

17.    The drink on a stick

18.    The Betterware Man

19.    Smoking sweet cigarettes or coconut tobacco

20.      Telephones with little drawers underneath

21.    Spam

22.    Black Jack Chewing Gum

23.    Pull up Airwick air freshener

24.    The Corona Lorry

25.    Seeing the King

26.    Post Office Saving Stamps

27.    The Coronation

28.    Handstands and Cartwheels

29.    Lucky Bags

30.    Broken biscuits from the grocers

31.    Milk Jellies

32.    Pontefract cakes

33.    Fly papers

34.    Playing Old Maid

35.    Charles Atlas

36.    Davy Crocket hats

37.    Wash Boards

38.    Paraffin heaters

39.    Candlewick bedspreads

40.    Lifebuoy Soap

41.    Gaberdine Macs

42.    The 11-plus

43.    Half day closing

44.    Lord and Lady Docker

45.    Five Boys Chocolate

46.    The Teddy Boy

47.    British Pathe Newsreels

48.    The gas poker

49.    The Twist

50.    Having your own desk at school

51.    Junior School class Christmas Party

52.    Start-Rite shoes

53.    Pepsodent tooth paste

54.    Cremola Foam

55.    Cigarette holders

56.    Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson

57.    Home Made paper chains at Christmas

58.    The diabolo

59.    School Caps and berets

60.    Looking forward to the school holidays

If you remember twenty of the above you are officially just a whippersnapper

If you remember thirty of the above you are officially getting there

If you remember forty of them you are officially over the hill

If you remember all of them, you are officially a Grumpy Old Person but you still have a good memory!

 

Peter

 

gsseditor@gmail.com

 

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On this day 8th November 1960-1965

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

 

On 08/11/1961 the number one single was Walkin' Back to Happiness - Helen Shapiro and the number one album was Twenty One Today - Cliff Richard. The top rated TV show was The Royal Variety Performance (ATV) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 08/11/1962 the number one single was Telstar - The Tornadoes and the number one album was Out of the Shadows - Shadows. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 08/11/1963 the number one single was You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & the Pacemakers and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was The Royal Variety Performance (ATV) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.The big news story of the day was US recognises new regime in Saigon.

On 08/11/1964 the number one single was (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandy Shaw and the number one album was A Hard Day's Night - Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 08/11/1965 the number one single was Get Off Of My Cloud - Rolling Stones and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.