10am to 2pm – Easter Crafting – Brigg Heritage Centre, The Angel. Paint and decorate a duckling money box, scratch art egg decorations, ceramic egg trinket boxes. Small donation requested, no need to book. 01724 296771.
Tuesday 7 April
8pm – TV Nostalgia Back in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s – Illustrated talk by Terry Richards for BASH (Brigg Amateur Social Historians), Brigg and District Servicemen’s Club, Coney Court. Free. 01652 657053.
Wednesday 15 April
7pm – Talk on Hordes of Hoards by Dr Kevin Leahy – The Buttercross, Brigg. Tickets £7, including refreshments, from Brigg Heritage Centre. 01724 296771.
Friday 17 April
7 for 7.30pm – Brigg Town Business Partnership Charity Fashion Show – The Angel Suite. Tickets from Adore Fashion, 64 Wrawby St. 0788 6718904.
Saturday 25 April
9am to 3pm - Brigg Farmers’ Market and Spring Food Festival - Brigg Market Place. Brigg Farmers' Market is joined by other producers of quality local foods to create an amazing market on the streets of Brigg. With cookery demonstrations, street entertainment and competitions. 01652 657053.
10am to 2pm – St George and the Dragon Crafts – Brigg Heritage Centre, The Angel. Small donation requested, no need to book. 01724 296771.
10am to 2.30pm – Antique Fair – 1st floor, The Buttercross, Market Place. Organised by Brigg Heritage Centre. Stalls £10. Tea, coffee and cakes. 01652 618736.
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TV nostalgia, eh!
ReplyDeleteThe 1950's were my prepubescent days; only interested in wimmem folk for being the mechanical propulsion for me go-cart.
Some programmes stand out....The Army Game ...The Adventures of Robin Hood - 'Robin Hood, Robin Hood riding in the glen...(repeat) Loved by the good, feared by the bad - Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood' - then there was a twang as the arrow embedded itself in a tree..!!
How about the hit & miss programme - the original Juke Box Jury? Billy Bunter - Whack-O! - Emergency Ward 10 - the more serious, What's My Line? in which someone enters, does a funny action and the panel had to guess what job the person did...then there was the first ITV ad - Gibbs SR - showing a toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste in a cube of ice......Rag, Tag and Bobtail...the Epilogue - the National Anthem - the fading spot as the telly is turned off at 10.30pm, if not before.
Then there was the Test Card....the 'Interlude' sequels of the kitten with the ball of wool - the potter's wheel. the windmill.......
One was posh if you had a 12" screen. No colour...but even snooker matches were televised... Not forgetting, The Grove Family - Tony Hancock - and 'Children's Hour' rotating around the Alexandra Palace's mast just before the kid's programmes started at 5pm - off at 6pm..... on again at 7.30 with the News and serious programme stuff, often introduced by Richard Dimbleby....and how about the spaghetti tree spoof one April Fool's Day?
These were the pre-Beatle days - Alma Googan, Billy Fury, Tommy Steel.....Wilfred Pickles, Gilbert Harding, ...The Lady & The Tramp...the Student Prince - ?Ivor Norvello...door commissionaires with medals and stripes.....policemen wearing shoulder capes when it rained...Zebra Crossings......and the very serious public road safety adverts on telly 'Don't Dazzle other Drivers'..and the other about using a hankie when you sneeze....really dead good advice for us little snotty kids...