Saturday, August 07, 2010

NORMAL SERVICE HAS BEEN RESUMED

A host of other things, including work in Hull and Grimsby, got in the way towards the end of the week - but we are now back in business!
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Ken Harrison said...

Can anyone remember those BBC 'Interludes' of the B/W era aof the 50's?

There were, for example, The Potter's Wheel, the white kitten playing with a ball of wool,...I think there were also the 'The Spinning Wheel, someone ploughing and a windmill...possibly a river under a bridge.

For a longer interlude, there was that icon classic - 'London to Brighton in 4 Minutes'.
When I was at school, our maths teacher gave us the problem of calculating the supposed speed of the train - it work out around 759 mph...so the train would have broken the sound barrier!
Then there were the announcers - Sylvia Peters, Macdonald Hobley, Peter ?Hain + plus more.
In those days, tv came on at 2pm for 15 mins - 'Watch With Mother'; came on again for an hour - 'Children's Hour' (started with the caption rotating around the transmitter at Alexander Palace in North London).
At about 7.30pm it came on again for the news and, I think, 'London To-night' (the one where traffic stopped c=going around Tralfagar Square) with Peter Dimbleby + another.
At about 10.30 - the 'Epilogue' with some vicar, or someone telling us to behave morally - and then 'God Save the Queen'.
When the telly was switched off, a decreeasing dot appeared on the middle of the screen.
We had a Bush, 14inch telly...and sometime around 1960, when the telly was switched on, there was a loud cracking/raoring noise which lasted for days. The BBC informed the viewers that the noise was interference caused by a star expoding million of light years ago and that the radio waves were just passing Earth.
However, the radio interference affected some religious cult who sent its members to camp out on the top of a hill as the Earth would cease at a specific time on a certain day. When nothing happened, the cult leaders said that their prayers had saved the world.
Those were the days warm school milk, (or frozen, if winter) ink-wells, blotting paper and scratchy school pen nibs ...and blots......not forgetting, short trousers and school caps....the Busby Babes. (aeroplane crash - Feb 1958), Mr Marples and his M1...and Liverpool in the 2nd Division!!!!!

And locally, one young Nigel Fisher, fell down a deep hole (relative speaking) in Ash Grove.

8 August 2010 at 11:30

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