WEB PAGE NO. 2806 31st July 2021 Lucozade 1ST PICTURE: Original Poster

2nd PICTURE: Model Lucozade Lorry

3RD PICTURE Original bottle in yellow cellophane

4TH PICTURE Lucozade Factory

Lucozade When we were ill as kids we knew it was serious if mother produced a bottle of Lucozade! The soft drink manufactured and marketed by the Japanese company Suntory. It was actually created as "Glucozade" in the UK in 1927 by a Newcastle pharmacist, William Walker Hunter who was trading unfder the name of W. Owen & Son. Success followed and in 1938 it was acquired by Beecham's who then sold it as Lucozade, an energy drink for the sick. The company's advertising slogan was "Lucozade aids recovery". It was sold mostly in pharmacies up until the middle of 1990s before it became more readily available as a sports drink in shops across the UK. In 1953, a factory for the production of Lucozade products was opened in Brentford, which, until 2004, had an iconic sign seen on the side of the M4 motorway (now in Gunnersbury Park Museum) This glucose and water solution, was sold until 1983 as a carbonated, slightly orange-flavoured drink in a glass bottle and as we all remember it was wrapped in yellow cellophane. Pharmacists sold it, children were given it when ill, and hospital visitors would regularly arrive on the ward with a bottle and a bunch of grapes The drink was rebranded in 1978 as a "pick me up", and as a sports drink in 1983, to associate it with health rather than sickness. The company switched to a plastic bottle and introduced a range of flavours. As of 2016, a 500 ml bottle contained 62 g (15.5 cubes) of sugar, more than Coca-Cola. In 2017, to avoid sugar tax, the drink was reformulated to contain 22.5 g of sugar per 500 ml of liquid, plus the artificial sweeteners aspartame and acesulfame. In 1989, the Beecham Group merged to form SmithKline Beecham, which further merged in 2000 to form GlaxoSmithKline. In September 2013, GlaxoSmithKline sold Lucozade and another soft drink, Ribena, to the Japanese drinks conglomerate Suntory for £1.35 billion. At the time of the sale, the product was manufactured in England at the Royal Forest Factory in Coleford, Gloucestershire, in the Forest of Dean. Lucozade contains 0.01% ethanol (alcohol), which meant that the observant Muslims could not drink it. However, in 2004, the Muslim Council of Britain ruled that they saw no harm in consuming Lucozade which contains traces of ethyl alcohol that do not bear its original qualities and do not change the taste, colour or smell. GlaxoSmithKline pointed out that fruit juices and bread could also contain the same or higher trace amounts of alcohol due to natural fermentation. The various flavours of Lucozade drinks are marketed as soft drinks; a soft drinks industry spokesman said in response: "By helping people participating in sport to perform better and to recover more quickly, sports drinks can encourage people to exercise more". In May 2016, Liverpool City Council ran a "name-and-shame campaign" entitled “Is your child’s sweet tooth harming their health?”. The short-lived campaign claimed that Lucozade was "the worst offender", containing 62 grams of sugar in a 500 ml bottle, followed by Coca-Cola with 54 grams. Posters for the campaign were displayed in hospitals for a time. In its original high-sugar formulation, Lucozade was recommended by UK diabetes charities as an immediate treatment for hypoglycaemia in individuals who take insulin. Since the drink now includes artificial sweeteners, guidelines have been amended to state that Lucozade should not be used to treat this condition. Lucozade Sport is still a major sponsor of sporting events, teams and athletes in the UK and Ireland, including the Amateur Rowing Association (ARA), FA Premier League, FA Cup, England Rugby Football Union, England Football Team, the Republic Of Ireland Football Team, the London Marathon, Parkrun, Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard, Damien Duff, Ronan O'Gara and Ben Wynne. Since 2012, the McLaren Formula One team has also been sponsored by Lucozade. Stay in touch Peter gsseditor@gmail.com

WEB PAGE NO. 2804 24th July 2021 Four Feather Falls 1ST PICTURE: Tex Tucker with the four feathers in his hat

2nd PICTURE: The Indian Chief

3RD PICTURE Gerry Anderson and Kenneth Connor

4TH PICTURE The DVD

Four Feather Falls This was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television. It was based on an idea by Barry Gray, who also wrote the show's music. Thirty-nine 13-minute episodes were broadcast by Granada from February until November 1960. The setting was the late 19th-century fictional Kansas town of Four Feather Falls, where the hero of the series, Tex Tucker, is a sheriff. The four feathers of the title refers to four magical feathers given to Tex by the Indian chief Kalamakooya as a reward for saving his grandson: two of the feathers allowed Tex's guns to swivel and fire without being touched whenever he was in danger, whilst the other two conferred the power of speech on Tex's horse and dog. Tex's speaking voice was provided by Nicholas Parsons, and his singing voice by Michael Holliday. The series was sporadically repeated on British television until 1968, and was released on DVD in 2005. Gerry Anderson considered the original puppets with static heads, made for his earlier productions, to be unacceptable because the viewer could not tell which character was talking unless its puppet moved up or down. His aim was to make the puppets look as realistic as possible, the beginning of the Supermarionation puppetry process, although that term was not coined until his next series, Supercar. The puppets' papier-mâché heads were replaced by interchangeable hollow fibre glass heads with internal rods that could move the eyes from side to side. The heads also contained sound-activated solenoids, which allowed the puppets' lips to move automatically in synchronisation with the dialogue. The electronics of the day required more space than would be available in a human-scale head, therefore all the puppets in Four Feather Falls had oversized heads. Except for the pilot episode the series was produced in a converted warehouse in the Slough Trading Estate. The cast assembled to record each script without seeing the puppets and synchronization of each character's speech with the movement of its puppet's mouth was performed later. The show was filmed in black and white. Its tight budget precluded the use of special effects, and less-costly alternatives were used. For example, to achieve the effect of muzzle flashes, small specks of black paint were carefully applied to the 35 mm negatives so they would appear as white flashes on the finished prints. The wires used to control the puppets were eight feet long and made of tungsten. Being shiny, the wires had to be blackened. The puppets were made one-third life size with the puppeteers on a bridge eight feet above the set. The horses moved by being pulled along on a trolley, which meant the viewer never saw their feet when they were moving. In the first episode, Grandpa Twink related the story of how it all began to his grandson, Little Jake. Tex is riding up from the valley and comes across a lost and hungry Indian boy, Makooya, and saves him. Tex is given four magic feathers by the boy's grandfather, Chief Kalamakooya, as a reward for saving his grandson. The characters of the town are Grandpa Twink, who does little but rest in a chair; his grandson Little Jake, the only child in town; Ma Jones, who runs the town store; Doc Haggerty; Slim Jim, the bartender of the Denison saloon; Marvin Jackson, the bank manager; and Dan Morse, the telegraphist. The villains included Pedro, who was introduced in the first show and Fernando, who first appeared in the second episode as a sidekick and someone Pedro could blame when things went wrong, as they always did. Big Ben was another villain who appeared from time to time, as did Red Scalp, a renegade Indian. Not many people remember that Nicholas Parsons was the speaking voice of Sheriff Tex Tucker and Michael Holliday the singing voice). Kenneth Connor was Dusty the Dog / Rocky the Horse / Pedro the Bandit / Big Chief Kalamakooya / Bank Manager Marvin Jackson. Denise Bryer had worked with Gerry Anderson on The Adventures of Twizzle, and he wanted her to play some of the voices in Four Feather Falls. He visited her at her home with some scripts and asked her husband, Nicholas Parsons, to help by reading some of the other parts, including the sheriff Tex Tucker. Anderson liked Parsons' interpretation and offered him Tex's speaking voice. The show's music and song lyrics were composed by Barry Gray. Michael Holliday provided Tex's singing voice, and Tommy Reilly performed the harmonica pieces. The best known song to come out of the series was "Four Feather Falls", sung in some episodes by Michael Holliday in the style of Bing Crosby. The closing theme song was "Two Gun Tex of Texas." Michael Holliday was paid £2000 for his singing work on the pilot episode, equivalent to about £38,000, a significant part of the show's £6000 budget. In all, Michael Holliday recorded six songs for the series: "Four Feather Falls", "The Phantom Rider", "The Rick-Rick-A-Rackety Train", "Happy Hearts and Friendly Faces", "My Home Town", and "Two Gun Tex of Texas". The show was adapted into comics form and published as an ongoing strip in The TV Comic. The Four Feathers Falls strip was drawn by Neville Main, and appeared from issue 439 (14 May 1960) until issue 564 (6 October 1962). Jonathon Writes:- You may or may not remember a serialised story in 15 episodes in D.C Thompson's comic the Wizard in the mid 50's entitled the Yellow Sword set in the then future 1969..... It featured a conquering army called the Kushantis from Asia (read China) who conquered all of Great Britain except the mountainous parts of Scotland. It is all about this horribly cruel oppressor who the British underground fighters took on and eventually destroyed. As an 8 year old boy very into Biggles and Gimlet I found the series very very exciting. Stay in touch Peter gsseditor@gmail.com

WEB PAGE NO.2802 17th July 2021 BRYLCREEM 1ST PICTURE: Original Brylcreem Jar

2nd PICTURE: 1950’s Brylcreem advert

3RD PICTURE The Pink Stuff

4th PICTURE Brylcreem Jar today

|One for the lads today What's the story? Keeping quiffs neatly in place since 1928, Brylcreem is an iconic product of men's hair styling. Founded in Birmingham by County Chemicals, it was created as hair cream that was originally only sold to barbers. Men flocked to Brylcreem in droves to recreate that clean, smart hairstyle that was the fashion at the time. And that not-a-hair-out-of-place look remained the fashion for another couple of decades - rather handy for Brylcreem. In fact, a brief history of Brylcreem is like a brief history of men's haircuts. During World War II, members of the RAF were known as Brylcreem Boys thanks to their tidily done dos. The 1950s saw an even further increase with Brylcreem becoming the most dominant product in men's hairstyling. Brylcreem must have been thanking their lucky stars that the super-styled Teddy Boy look was so popular. Slick hairstyles lasted until the early 60s when Brylcreem's luck began to run out. What Happened? Well it's down in part to The Beatles and other such popular music groups of the time who wore their hair much longer and much less-perfectly styled. With this, the demand for styling creams fell and so did Brylcreem's profits. Despite efforts to convince the masses that Brylcreem could still be used on these styles, sales declined and continued to do so into the 70s. Big hair equalled big problems for Brylcreem. The 80s and 90s saw a slight renaissance when the brand tried to reinvent itself for the youth market. In 1997, David Beckham became the face of Brylcreem and showed that it wasn't just for those neat hairstyles of a different era. And now? The original cream is still available in the same packaging it's been in since the 60s plus a few other waxes and gels too. People may still think of it as a product of a certain time but it has embraced the 21st century with social media campaigns and sharp adverts to appeal to the 16-30 market. A good example of this would be their 2007 Effortless campaign where the public were invited to send in clips of effortless little tricks around the house, and the accompanying musician recruited from MySpace. But the history:- In 1895 a small chemist shop was opened in the High Street Coleshill trading under the name of the "County Chemical Company" the founder specialised in oils and lubricants mainly for the car and cycle industries along with puncture repair kits but from 1896 he was trying to develope a grease free hair product for men based on the American lanollin hair gel. The lubricant side of the business was so successful that his hair project was put on hold. The majority of trading was by mail order and distribution points were set up in London, Bristol and Manchester to meet demand. Having out-grown his Coleshill premises by 1905 the company moved to Bradford Street in Birmingham. Production of lubricants continued along with the addition of cleaning products and by 1910 Golf Balls, with the trade name of "Chemico Bob" were being manufactured. It was probably around this time that the company name changed to "Chemico". With the advent of war, production was shifted to aid the war effort with emphasis again on oils and lubricants but with the addition of Body Armour and Gas Bombs (the first ever gas bomb used by the allies was made by Chemico). After the war, production returned to normal and not a lot happened but in 1928 the founders dream of a hair product finally came true when the company chemists invented "Brylcreem" and to the surprise of the company sale were phenomenal throughout the world. In 1931 another well know product was invented by the Chemico Company. It was a household cleaning paste which was sold under the brand name of "The Pink Stuff". Production at the company now concentrated on these two products until 1939 when demand for Brylcreem was so great that the company was struggling to meet it's targets. Having been made an offer, the company decided to sell Brylcreem. During the 1930’s the demand escalated beyond all dreams and in 1939 a very generous offer was made by Beecham Trust Ltd. and the product was sold to them so that the product could reach its full potential. At that time sales were 400 gross bottles per day. In 1940 the Germans seemed to get their own back when the Bradford Street factory was bombed during a raid on Birmingham. A quick purchase of a new factory was made on Stratford Rd in Shirley where production continued with the "Pink Stuff" and other cleaning products right through until 1988. The company was then subjected to a management buyout and the factory in Shirley closed. Production was moved to new premises on Cranmore Industrial Estate, Solihull where they still trade today. You Write: From Martin in New Zealand Hello;is the below item any good to you?From Martin Stanswood ex Court Lane now living in New Zealand.I remember one lass wrote upside down in my 1957/8 year book.Any chance of being able to trace her is she is still alive?I did my first year in Court Lane and then went to Portsmouth Technical High School in 1959. =================================== A very interesting item below in colour.It is 1940 and London is being bombed without mercy by the german air farce.Brave British ,Commonwealth and allied spitfire fighter pilots are doing their best against near impossible odds to shoot down the german aircraft;they are "the few" to whom so much was owed. But life goes on as normal as possible in the form of the posh London fashion show of 1940.And talking of posh do listen to the female commentator accent.Many of the lady models must have been praying for the safe return of their men folk.And a few of them were about to be conscripted into the Womans Land Army to replace the farm men in food production.Their fashion world was about to be replaced by spud digging ! Do look at the below YouTube search.Any frock ideas gals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqvtZoP7bc8 Stay in touch Peter gsseditor@gmail.com

WEB PAGE NO.2800 10th July 2021 1ST PICTURE: School Choral Society that sang The Messiah

2nd PICTURE The Messiah Programme signed by the music master John Stephens

3RD PICTURE John Stephens teaching in the Music Room

4TH PICTURE Speech Day Programme

Some time ago I was sent the list of the members of the school choral society who sang The Messiah. I reproduce it below the members in heavy type over the years I have had contact with but does anyone know where any of the other are. I know that some are no longer with us but it would be nice to know where the others are. SCHOOL CHORAL SOCIETY Sopranos Mary Abbott Kattisha Forbes Ann Piper Rosemary Bailey Gillian Gale Hazel Pratt Sharon Ball Janice Garland Barbara Quinnell Jill Budd Jean Griffiths Susan Richards Heather Butt Christine Guymer Margaret Roberts Linda Capp Christine Hall Jaqueline Stone Deborah Coates Madeline Hallman Susan Sutton Rosamund Coates Valerie Hampton June Thorn Lynda Collins Oriana Henwood Anne Turtle Susan Collins Susan Jones Jill Wakdy Kathryn Cooke Michele Laviers Jennifer Went Ann Davies Anthony Lyne Catherine Whiteman Gillian Davis Linda McIntyre Susan Whitwell Joyce Dodd Marilyn Mercer Lyn Willows Graham Elderfield Janet Munford Sheila Wilton Contraltos Maureen Albertolli Angela Ellis Pat Keers Janice Austin Roberta English Carole Langford Christine Bailey Anne Fido Diane Ledger Jean Bennett Hazel Flowers Sandra Mack Christine Biddlecombe Pauline Flowers Carole Osborne Geraldine Buckeridge Marilyn Flux Susan Perry Christine Budd Geraldine Foley Berenice Pert , Christine Butterfield Carole Gill Norma Plumb Lesley Chapman Yvonne Glasby Kay Ponsford Ann Denly Janet Huggins Diane Thomas Claudia Dunthorn Carol Janczur Irene Thorrowgood Laraine Durow Lorna Judson Ann Williams Tenors Keith Andrews Christopher Farmer Leslie Smith David Bartlett John Halford Christopher Talbot Howard Bradshaw Frank Howells Keith Taylor Peter Bridger Richard James Stuart Turtle Nigel Bridges John Pearce Philip Ward David Cookson John Quarterly Philip Wheaton Anthony Duncan Carl Randall Michael Willenbnich Frederick Dyson Alan Sawyer John Wilson Philip Woods Basses Colin Blake Stephen Carter Robert Cooke Alan Cox Adrian Gee Melvyn Griffiths Barry Jackman Peter Keat Peter Mereckel John Mortimer Peter Odell Brian Palmer Peter Westcott David Wyatt 120 members Ahh! Memories from the past! Jonathon Writes:- Good morning Peter, Greetings from lockdown in South Africa. We have not been able to return to our home in the UK for nearly two years now because of the onerous travel restrictions and the need to stay at huge expense in a government controlled Quarantine hotel ( 3000 pounds). Still we get on with life and make the most of being with our three grandchildren every day in Johannesburg. You reminded me of memories of travelling to school and cycling. My first "grown up" bike was a drop handle bar white racing bike with derailleur gears and I would cycle from Rectory Ave to Tangiers Road off the Eastern Road with my satchel strapped under the crossbar. It was perilous then...... Lord knows it would be deadly now. We had a special way of holding the satchel after dismounting ........from one of the buckle straps very cool and eschewed the use of a shoulder strap, in fact this was removed. The cycle sheds had hangers so the bikes were stored vertically and we never doubted they would be there when school finished. We would smoke secretly behind the cycle sheds with someone on watch for teachers. I eventually got expelled from school for smoking blatantly at the Tangier Road (143) bus stop in uniform. I was by then 18 years old and in my third year in the sixth form and studying for O level Latin to qualify for my College place at Emmanuel as a two language O level requirement was placed on my offer. So I studied the Latin at home and passed it with ease as the Latin teacher gave me all the set book translations before I left. (He is still alive to my knowledge and attends the school reunions currently on Covid hold). I worked my gap year at AEW (Admiralty Experiment Works Haslar) in Gosport as an Assistant Experiment Officer and signed the Official Secrets Act......so I still cannot say what I did there. As a much younger boy my brother Julian and I used to ride our much less splendid bikes from Rectory Ave along the A 27 all the way to Bosham to visit our Uncle and Aunty and three cousins in a little cottage on the sea front. Again a journey you JUST could not think about today as an 8 year old. We also used to walk from Rectory Ave to Solent Road school as littluns and also to the Scout Hut for cubs where I first met you Peter. Very happy memories Jonathan Stay in touch Peter gsseditor@gmail.com

WEB PAGE NO.2798 3rd July 2021 1ST PICTURE: Wooden brief case

2nd PICTURE Leather Satchel

3RD PICTURE Advert for Royal Enfield Bermuda

4TH PICTURE One hot sunny day

Travelling to school. When I travelled to infant or junior school my mother walked with me, it was only a 5 minute walk and I also came home for lunch, so four trips a day. But on moving up to secondry school involved travelling further. This involved a bus trip of four stops to Court Lane. As most of us did I hoped that the bus conductor would not get to me to take my fare before I got off so I could pocket the money. This very rarely happened even though the buses were double deckers, the conductoralways seemed to manage to get to me before I got off. It was all new, new shoes, new uniform and a new school bag. My parents gave me the choice of a new satchel of a school case. I opted for the case and after a time I wish I had not. My father got the case made and it was a small wooden suitcase ith my initials PJK painted on the side. It looked very smart but was a pain to carry around. I was forever banging my shins on it, it was in the way down by my desk in the classroom and being wooden was often stood on by others, it was most certainly not the best choice. I cannot remember the demise of the think but I do know that I very soon had a leather satchel, which was much more convenient, especially when I got my first bike. I had never learnt to ride a bike until one day Colin Pratt arrived at my house with his bicycle and insisted that I try it. Well after a lot of falling off and scrapped knees, that afternoon I mastered the art of bicycling! When it came to a new bicycle I knew what I wanted and that was a Royal Enfield Bermuda in Red and Cream. So for my birthday I was taken by my mother to Wynns toy and cycle shop in Drayton, which was situated in the old wartime British Restaurant. Having bought the bike I insisted on riding home and I disappear along the Havant Road much to my mothers concern. But I was safely waiting for her at home when she had walked the mile or so home. A bicycle opened up all sorts of adventures and in fact I spent quite a bit of time building bikes to ride across the rough ground on Portsdown Hill and Farlington Marshes. But back to travelling to school. Riding to school my parents did not like the idea of me leaving my new bike in the cycle racks at school so it was arranged that I and my friend Willie would leave our machines in my fathers friends garage and then walk the final half mile to school. Which we did. Things seemed much simpler then, we spent hours on our bicycles espoecially in the summer and I think we must have explored every country lane in south Hampshire. Although cycling can cause accute embarrasment. A close friend and I wer cycling home from school when all of a sudden the zip in his trouser broke. Very embarrasing. His solution was to stop, take out his heavy yellow cycling cape and put it on. It was quite a sight seening him puffing and blowing in a thick cape on a hot sunny day whilst making his way home up Portsdown Hill.!!! You Write STAY IN TOUCH PETER gsseditor@gmail.com