It's Christmas Eve, have a wonderful time.

Peter

More to come in 2015

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A Very Happy Christmas to everyone and thanks for your support throughout the year. Looking forward to 2015 and lets hope that you have used the post boxes already or it will be far too late.

Yours

Pam & Peter

Hope to see some of you in the New Year, we must do another lunchtime meeting.

Below is a shortened version of my Christmas post for December 2008, have I really been writing for so long!!!!

 Christmas Traditions Around the World

On Christmas Eve in Belgium, it is legal for children to throw bananas at police cars but
on Christmas Day it is legal for police officers to throw bananas at children!

In 1643, the British Parliament abolished the celebration of Christmas and Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas carols between 1649 and 1660. Cromwell thought that Christmas should be a very solemn day so the only permitted celebration was a sermon and a prayer service.

Santa is not the only supernatural gift-giver at Christmas time. In Spain and South America, the three kings are the bringers of presents. In Italy, it's La Befana, a kindly old witch, who, if you were bad during the year would give you coal instead of sweets. In Russia, look out for Babouschka or Grandfather Frost. In Germany, Christkind an angelic messenger dispenses the gifts. She's a fair-haired girl with a shining crown of candles. In Scandinavia, there are a variety of Christmas gnomes.

Mistletoe is found on willow and apple trees and the practice of hanging it in the house goes back to the ancient Druids. It is supposed to possess mystical powers, that bring good luck to the household and ward off evil spirits. For Scandinavians, the goddess of love (Frigga) is strongly associated with mistletoe. This link to romance may be where our tradition of kissing under mistletoe comes from.

The Christmas tree is a German tradition, started as early as 700 AD. In the 1800s, the tradition of a Christmas tree was widespread in Germany, then moved to England when prince Albert brought the first Christmas tree to Windsor Castle for the royal family in 1834.

Roast turkey is a newcomer to the British Christmas table and made its way to Europe from  America about 1650. Before then, swan, goose or peacock was considered traditional Christmas fare.

On December 24th, many Ukranian families sit down and embark on a large meal which consists of eating twelve separate courses, each one of which is dedicated to Christ's apostles.

In Japan it is reported that parents and children have been known to queue for hours outside the local Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise to buy a bucket of chicken for their Christmas dinner. This is due to the apparent facial similarity between Colonel Sanders and St.Nicholas.

In Germany, childen leave their newly cleaned shoes on the doorstep on December 6th. If they have been good, St.Nikolaus fills them with chocolate, nuts and fruit but if they have been bad….!!!!

Mexico celebrates Christmas with all the razzmatazz of a carnival. Midnight is met with fireworks, bell ringing, whistle-blowing. Families return home after mass to a huge dinner of traditional Mexican food including rice, chillis stuffed with cheese and a fiery corn wrap. 

Web Page  No 2116

20th  December 2014

Top Picture: Billy Fury Pantomime Poster

 Middle Picture: Frankie Howard at the London Palladium

 Bottom Picture: The Queen’s first Christmas TV speech.

It’s Christmas so it is time for the Annual Christmas Quiz which is below with the answers being in the You Write section.

The 1960’s Quiz

1.    In July 1969 Mike Collins waited alone while his two companions did what?

2.    1960 was the last year in which you could spend a what?   

3.    In the early 1960’s John Drake was a TV secret agent in which programme?  

4.    Between the late 1950’s and late 1960’s who did the actor Dan Blocker play?

5.    In 1962 who was the first American spy to be exchanged in the Cold War?    

6.    In 1967 Warren Beatty and Faye Dunnaway starred in which famous film?  

7.    Which cigarette advert claimed that you were never alone if you had one? And

8.    What was the name of the piece of music featured in this advert and especially written for it?

9.    Between 1961 and 1962 who had a smash hit with the record Stranger on the Shore?

10.        But this was not the original titled as penned by the composer,. What was that original title

11.        In 1965 the Prime Minister opened Britain’s tallest building. Which building was it?

12.        A well know cartoon character of the 1960 lived with his friends in Jellystone Park. Who was he?

13.        What innovation was first introduced onto aluminium cans in the late 1960’s

14.        Published in 1963 the report called ‘The Reshaping of Britain’s Railways’ became known as what?

15.        On 9^th October 1961 there was a massive volcanic eruption on an island in the South Atlantic, which island?

16.        Where, in Wales, was there a tragic mining accident causing many deaths in 1966?

17.        First sung by Frank Sinatra in 1969 which song was in the British charts for 122 weeks?

18.        In 1964 Barbara Hulanicki opened what?

19.        Launched in 1962 the very first communications satellite was called what?

20.        Starting in 1965 Dud and Pete appeared in which BBC entertainment programme?

21.        Published in 1963 the controversial book by Dr John Robinson, the Bishop of Woolwich was called what?

22.        In 1967 which record breaker was killed on Coniston Water in the Lake District?

23.        Launched into space on 12^th April 1961 what was the name of the first man in space?

24.        In March 1987 “the greatest peacetime threat to Britain” was the wrecking of which ship?

25.        During the 1960’s who was the famous cartoonist who specialised in ponies?

26.        In 1969 a new type of pedestrian crossing was introduced, what was it called?

27.        One of the most audacious robberies in British history took place in August 1963, what was it?  

28.        What was the name of the first pirate radio station which started broadcasting in March 1964?

29.        In April 1968 which black American Civil Rights leader was assassinated

30.        On 9^th April 1969 which maiden flight did Brian Trubshaw pilot

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You (I) Write the answers to the Quiz:

1.    Walked on the Moon

2.    Farthing

3.    Danger Man

4.    Hoss Cartwright in Bonanza

5.    Francis Gary Powers

6.    Bonnie and Clyde

7.    Strand

8.    The Lonely Man

9.    Acker Bilk

10. Jenny

11. Post Office Tower

12. Yogi Bear

13. Ring Pulls

14. The Beeching Report

15. Tristan da Chuna

16. Aberfan

17. My Way

18. Biba

19. Telstar

20. Not only but Also

21. Honest to God

22. Donald Campbell

23. Yuri Gagarin

24. Torrey Canyon

25. Norman Thelwell

26. Pelican

27. The Great Train Robbery

28. Radio Caroline

29. Martin Luther King

30. Concorde 002 Take care

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Something different this week, we all hear about the Christmas Number one hits but who remembers those discs that did not quite make to the Top of the Pops only reaching number two. So here is a list of Christmas number two singles 1952-1969

1952  Jo Stafford                                         "You Belong to Me"  

1953  David Whitfield                                        "Answer Me"     

1954  David Whitfield                                        "Santo Natale"   

1955  Bill Haley & His Comets             "Rock Around the Clock"   

1956  Guy Mitchell                                            "Singing the Blues"    

1957 Johnny Otis orch. & Marie Adams "Ma He's Making Eyes at  Me"
1958  Lord Rockingham's XI                            "Hoots Mon"     

1959  Adam Faith                                        "What Do You Want?"       

1960  Elvis Presley                                             "It's Now or Never"    

1961  Frankie Vaughan                                      "Tower of Strength"   

1962  Cliff Richard                             The Next Time"/"Bachelor Boy"         

1963  The Beatles                                               "She Loves You"    

1964  Petula Clark                                              "Downtown"     

1965  Cliff Richard                                    "Wind Me Up (Let Me Go)"

1966  Donovan                                                   "Sunshine Superman"

1967  The Beatles                                           "Magical Mystery Tour"

1968  The Foundations                             "Build Me Up Buttercup"      

      1969  Kenny Rogers                  "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town                                         

Web Page  No 2114

13th  December 2014

Top Picture: 

Pat and Stirling Moss

Middle Picture: 

Pat in racing helmet

Bottom Picture: 

The racing Morris Minor

Two Pats

In the 1960’s Pat Moss became a well-known personality who put down a marker for women in sport.

First let us look at Pat Moss-Carlson. She was the leading British woman rally who has died of cancer at the age of 73 in 2008. She was the younger sister of Sir Stirling Moss, and shared her brother's competitiveness and determination to win as she carved herself a reputation as the world's leading woman rally driver throughout the 1950s and 60s.

Motor sport ran through the Moss genes on both sides of the family. Their father, Alfred, competed in the 1924 Indianapolis 500 race while studying dentistry in the US, and her mother, Aileen, achieved an impressive record of success in trials events driving both Singer and Marendaz sports cars.

Patricia Ann Moss was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, into a family in comfortable circumstances, her parents moving into a spacious house on the River Thames at Bray, near Maidenhead shortly after the birth of their second child. Alfred, by then was a prosperous dentist, had the resources to indulge his children's passion for horses, and both Pat and Stirling became motivated and accomplished competitors from their showjumping days in the early 1940s.

They both loved ponies and jumping and gymkhanas they both stated  that collecting cups and rosettes was a bonus.

However, when it came to motor sport there was no paternal support but it was her brother who taught her to drive when she was just 11 years old. It was Stirling's business manager, Ken Gregory, who fanned the flames of Pat's enthusiasm when he took her on a treasure hunt. She was immediately bitten by the motoring bug and set out on a career that probably did more for the emancipation of women in this male-dominated pastime than any other.

Initially Pat competed in her Morris Minor convertible in national rallies throughout the UK, although at first these events would take second place to her showjumping commitments - her passion for horses would continue for the rest of her life. Like her brother, she was financially astute and in 1954 used the proceeds of her equestrian activities to purchase a Triumph TR2 sports car, which enabled her to rally with a greater chance of success.

In 1955 she was invited to drive an MG TF in the RAC rally that took in much of Great Britain, rather than the truncated event it has become in recent years. On this occasion she had to settle for third in the Ladies' class, but her achievements were noted by the British Motoring Corporation's competition manager, Marcus Chambers, who arranged for her to contest her first overseas event, the 1955 Tulip Rally, in an MG Magnette.

Over the next couple of years she drove a variety of cars, including an Austin A90 on the 1956 Monte Carlo rally, an MGA on that year's RAC rally and a Minor 1000 on the gruelling Liège-Sofia-Liège epic, a legendary car-breaking event, which taxed the physical and mental endurance of all its competitors, Pat rose to the challenge in dramatic style. In 1958 she drove an Austin Healey 100/6 to fourth place on the Liège event; it was the first time that a woman had finished in the top 10 on this endurance rally and the points she gained by doing so clinched her the Ladies' European championship. In that year she met the famous Swedish rally driver Erik Carlsson, whom she married five years later.

In 1960 she drove the "Big Healeys" again, coming eighth on both the Geneva and Tulip rallies, second on the Coupe des Alpes, followed almost at once by an outright win on the Liège. This was an amazing result, as the Healey was not an easy car to drive.

In 1963 she accepted a lucrative offer to join Ford to compete at the wheel of the recently launched Cortina saloon, but soon left to join her husband in the Saab team the following year. Throughout the remainder of the decade she was a consistent front runner. When Erik retired to become head of Saab's public relations, Pat briefly switched to Lancia, but after the birth of her daughter in 1969, she made fewer appearances, and by the mid-1970s she was driving for Toyota in the Monte Carlo. It was when she was with that team that she finally decided, in 1974, to retire.

In the 1980s Pat's interest in horses was rekindled thanks to her daughter's talent for showjumping. Though she kept horses, she still found room at the back of her garage for a Morris Minor in its original green livery. Shortly before her death, she collected a speeding ticket while towing a horse-box.

She died in October 14 2008 after suffering with cancer.

Take care

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You Write:

Griff writes to tell me that Cherry Wainer, the organist I featured a couple of weeks ago died on 14th November in Australia. She had not performed since her drummer husband had died in 2006.

News and Views:

On this day 13th December 1960-1965

On 13/12/1960 the number one single was It's Now Or Never - Elvis Presley. The top rated TV show was The Army Game (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.The big news story of the day was Bootsie & Snudge (Granada).

On 13/12/1961 the number one single was Tower of Strength - Frankie Vaughan 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. The big news story of the day was Grandma Moses dies.

On 13/12/1962 the number one single was Return to Sender - Elvis Presley 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 13/12/1963 the number one single was I Want to Hold Your hand - The Beatles 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 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 13/12/1964 the number one single was I Feel Fine - The 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.

On 13/12/1965 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 2112

6^th December 2014

First Picture: Cornish Ware

 Second Picture: Gas Iron

 Third Picture: Traditional Clothes Horse

In the Kitchen

During a conversation the other evening Pam and I got to talking about the kitchens we had at home when we were kids. The first thing to come was the green and cream kitchen cabinet with the etched glass doors at the top and a drop down enamel surface as a work surface in the middle and ventilated doors to the cupboards underneath for storage. Actually we did not have one of these at home as our cabinet was built in by a previous home owner years before but Pam’s family did have one and so did the two of us when we moved into our very first home, a furnished flat in North End Avenue when we were first married, that was back in 1967.

The conversation soon led onto comparing the Cornish Ware that our mothers owned. Every home seemed to have these they were china storage jars with lids and decorated with stripes usually blue and white with the words of the contents on the side in black lettering. This was supplanted by the modern pottery Hornby wear for the storage of tea sugar and coffee etc. These items usually came in either green or tan with black leaf and branch design. They were a popular wedding present in the mid 1960’s so we all had almost a complete set of these! Other items from our first home included a complete set of Homepride Flour Grader men (large and small), a Horlicks mug complete with blue night cap top, various spice racks and in our case when we got married five different cheese boards.

Back to our life at home when we were young; we both discovered that our mothers owned enamel bread bins with lids that were lifted off from the top and with the word Bread written in shadow letters on the front. But this was not the only piece of enamel ware in the kitchen because lurking somewhere in the cupboards were enamel saucepans, pie dishes, metal plates and kitchen utensils all chipped with nasty flaked pieces of enamel around the edges.

Both of our grandmothers owned that terrifying piece of apparatus known as the gas iron. My grandmothers was green with a black wooden covered handle and once lit it coughed and spat the whole time she used it and it scared the living daylights out of me. My mother was more modern she had a Swan electric iron which she plugged into the bulb holder hanging from the ceiling, this had an adaptor in it so the iron could be used at the same time that the light bulb was turned on. Scares you to death now doesn’t it but it was normal practice then, you all must have seen it.

For the average housewife all kitchen tools, knives, strainers and mashers were all made by just one company, Prestige, they were attractive, colourful, affordable and mostly of poor quality, the knives never keeping their cutting edge for more than just a few days. But then she could always sharpen it on the Prestige knife sharpener which always seemed to strip off shards of metal from the knife every time it was used. For the home baker there was another name to look for, the Tala Range of kitchen utensils. This company specialized in cake tins and tray, piping bags and icing nozzles in fact most items required for home baking. Another weapon in the kitchen armoury was the rotary egg whisk which replaced the old traditional hand balloon whisk. Something else that my mother owned, but never used as far as I know was a strange glass tube like item with a plunger and whisk which was supposed to be a cream maker. I am sure she had no idea how it worked and neither did I, I still don’t.

Wash day in our house was always a time consuming period. My mother never, ever owned a washing machine which meant that any whites to be washed had to be place in a large galvanised pan, normally made by Beldray, which was then placed on the gas stove and filled with water and there it boiled away quite happily with a bar of Sunlight Soap in it until the clothes were deemed to be white enough. Once washed and rinsed it was then time to place all the washing in the now emptied pan and then to carry it out into the garden shed where the mangle lived, but I know I have spoken about these instruments of torture before so I will leave it there. Then it was time to peg out all the items onto the washing line and then to wait for the longed for drying wind. If the day was overcast it meant adopting the indoors drying methods which meant that every open fire in the home would be found with a wooden clothes horse (these made great tents to play in when out of use) placed in front of it with many various items laid out on it to dry.

There we go another wander down Memory Lane it really is amazing to think that most of the above happened over sixty years ago.

Take care

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Peter

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You Write:

Mary Writes:

 I can remember the field where the circus always was. It was long before a road went in and blocks of flats were built. Sometimes several carthorses were tethered in the large area. I did go there with my mother to see the circus and it was supposed to be a treat. My mother thought it would be a good idea for the 2 of us to go. I had just acquired a brother and it was a mother and 1st child bonding time. I was not 4 and when the circus band struck up the noise horrified me. My mother said I shouted that it would wake my baby brother up. He was safe at home with my grandparents.  At some stage my shoe came off and as we were on the raised area my mother had to get a member of staff to retrieve it. I don`t suppose I was very popular that day! We did go again over the years and enjoyed it. We always had the circus on TV for Christmas Day too. Times have changed and so have ideas on animal performances so there are only a few circuses in the UK.

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On this day 6^th December 1960-1965

On 06/12/1960 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 Armchair Theatre (ABC) 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 06/12/1961 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 £13.25 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 06/12/1962 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. The big news story of the day was Heavy smog kills 55 in London.

On 06/12/1963 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 06 /12/1964 the number one single was Little Red Rooster - Rolling Stones 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 06/12/1965 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 2110

29th November 2014

First Picture: Lady Saunders ( Katie Boyle) with her new Triumph Herald

Second Picture: Lady Isobel Barnett with TV actress Eleanor Sommerfield

Celebrity

The cult of celebrity is nothing new, in fact it was rife on television during our formative years but then the Celebrities were all titled personages. Do you remember these two well known ladies?

Katie Boyle, Lady Saunders was born Caterina Irene Elena Maria Imperiali di Francavilla on 29th May 1926 and is an Italian-born British actress, television personality, and game-show panelist, well known for appearing on TV panel games such as What's My Line? and for presenting the Eurovision Song Contest in the 1960s and 1970s. She was also a former agony aunt, answering problems that had been posted to the TV Times by readers.

She was born in Florence and is the daughter of an Italian marquis (the Marchese Demetrio Imperiali di Francavilla) and Dorothy Kate Ramsden. She came to Great Britain in 1946 and started a modelling career, which included work for Vogue. She also appeared in several 1950s films, the first being Old Mother Riley, Headmistress, (1950) followed by The House in the Square (1951), Not Wanted on Voyage (1957), The Truth About Women, Intent to Kill (with Richard Todd ) in Les Carnets de Major Thompson/The Diary of Major Thompson (1955), with Jack Buchanan.

Having been an on-screen continuity announcer for the BBC in the 1950s in the 1960s she became a television personality regularly appearing on panel games and programmes such as What's My Line? and Juke Box Jury. She was the presenter for the 1960, 1963, 1968 and 1974 Eurovision Song Contests, all hosted in the UK. According to some sources she hosted the 1974 contest minus her underwear, which was cut off from under her satin dress moments before the broadcast began. She also hosted the UK qualifying heat, A Song for Europe, in 1961.

In 1982 she played herself in the BBC radio play The Competition, which told the story of a fictitious international song contest being staged in Bridlington. Katie Boyle was guest of honour at the Eurovision fan club conventions staged in 1988 and 1992.

She appeared at the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest held in Birmingham as a special guest of the BBC. Her other work has included theatre, television and radio. In 2004, she was a guest on a special Eurovision-themed celebrity version of The Weakest Link on BBC1, hosted by Anne Robinson. In a unique moment, she became the first, and to date the only, contestant ever to vote herself off the programme.

In 1947 she had married Richard Bentinck Boyle, 9th Earl of Shannon but the marriage was dissolved in 1955. The same year she married Greville Baylis, a racehorse owner, who died in 1976. In 1979 she married theatre impresario Sir Peter Saunders, who died in 2002. There were also rumours that she had a long-standing relationship with Prince Philip in the 1950s.

She is a lover of animals, especially dogs she now lives just off East Finchley's prestigious Bishops Avenue.

Isobel, Lady Barnett (30^th  June 1918 – 20^th  October 1980) popularly known as Lady Barnett,  she was a radio and television personality during the 1950s and 1960s.

She was born Isobel Morag Marshall in Aberdeen, the daughter of a doctor. She went to the independent Mount School in York and, following in her father's footsteps, studied medicine at Glasgow University. She qualified as a doctor in 1940, and married solicitor and company director Geoffrey Barnett the following year. He was knighted for political and public services to the city of Leicester in 1953. Lady Barnett gave up her medical career in 1948 and for the next twenty years was a Justice of the Peace.

In 1953 she arrived on BBC television as one of the original panel members of What's My Line? This made her a household name. She actually appeared on the programme for ten years. Elegant and witty, she was regarded by audiences as the epitome of the British aristocracy (although her title actually came from the fact that her husband had been knighted she was not an aristocrat, nor had she married into the aristocracy). She also made regular appearances on the long-running BBC radio series Any Questions?, on the radio.

The crystal-clear voice and discreet and engaging smile also made Lady Barnett greatly in demand as an after-dinner speaker, a role into which she slipped confidently, always delivering a highly amusing and perfectly polished speech.

When the more informal culture of the 1960s and 1970s brought an end to her television career, she became a reclusive and with an eccentric existence. In 1980, she was found guilty of shoplifting, being fined £75 for stealing a can of tuna and a carton of cream worth 87p from her village grocer. This brought her briefly back into the public eye; just four days later, she was found dead, when an electric fire was found in her bath with her.

Her story was sensitively recounted by several of her friends and colleagues in a 1991 BBC Radio 4 documentary in the Radio Lives series, which confirmed that she gave no indication whatsoever to any of her friends that she was planning to take her own life, and that she kept up a façade of "business as usual". She had one son, Alastair (born 1944). Her husband Sir Geoffrey died in 1970.

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On this day 29^th November 1960-1965

On 29/11/1960 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 29/11/1961 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 29/11/1962 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 29/11/1963 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.

On 29/11/1964 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 29/11/1965 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.