I'm glad i'm 46 years old.

[British Bulldog]

If i'd been born any later i never would've witnessed the transition from days of black and white tv with 2 channels that shut down overnight, having a larder rather than a fridge, no wall to wall carpet, one coal fire to keep the whole house warm, going to school in winter dressed in shorts, Simple toys like pop guns and a toy car for christmas and all the other luxuries we never had, To the days of 24hr colour tv, internet, central heating, dvd, mobile phone, and machine's that do everything for you. If i'd been born earlier I may have missed it.

 

[7:18]

and the goldstone

 

[British Bulldog]

and the goldstone

Oh yes. Being small enough to squeeze through the turnstile with a paying adult to get in cheaper & put a bit in the pocket of the turnstile operator. Quality!

The last ground I went to was credit card type turnstile, all seater and big screens playing replay's.

 

[Cian]

TV had 3 channels in 1964, so you didn't have terribly long to remember two channels in...

 

[British Bulldog]

TV had 3 channels in 1964, so you didn't have terribly long to remember two channels in...

Not on my old black & white tv it did'nt. BBC & ITV unless my parents were cheating me?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Not on my old black & white tv it did'nt. BBC & ITV unless my parents were cheating me?

405 lines.

Just like the railways before Beeching got at them.

 

[Cian]

Not on my old black & white tv it did'nt. BBC & ITV unless my parents were cheating me?

Dodgy TV that didn't support 625 line picture. So you were getting inferior picture on BBC 1 and ITV when they moved to 625 in the mid-late 60s, too.

 

[British Bulldog]

405 lines.

Just like the railways before Beeching got at them.

Tell me about it, I used to live opposite Lancing carriage works when I was a nipper. Sad thing is it's very rare you bump into an old railwayman in Lancing who used to work there. Bloody glad i've got a few memories of seeing the old place even if it was from my bedroom window.

 

[British Bulldog]

Dodgy TV that didn't support 625 line picture. So you were getting inferior picture on BBC 1 and ITV when they moved to 625 in the mid-late 60s, too.

All I remember about our old tv was a dodgy picture and dad using me as some kind of primitive remote control, There was talk around south lancing school about BBC2 but only the posh kids had that.

 

[NMH]

If i'd been born any later i never would've witnessed the transition from days of black and white tv with 2 channels that shut down overnight, having a larder rather than a fridge, no wall to wall carpet, one coal fire to keep the whole house warm, going to school in winter dressed in shorts, Simple toys like pop guns and a toy car for christmas and all the other luxuries we never had, To the days of 24hr colour tv, internet, central heating, dvd, mobile phone, and machine's that do everything for you. If i'd been born earlier I may have missed it.

Ha, if you'd been born much earlier, you would have had to have dental treatment or operations without any anaesthetic, dodging awful viruses and bacterias that couldn't be treated, only normally available international transport would've been by boat, taking weeks, no simple telephones available at all hours, outside lavs, cars that you often had to wind up to start, indicated with a flipper that popped out next to the door,, and rusted to bits before they were 10 years old. Lots of horse-shit on roads from the rag-and-bone and coalmen. 78 records would have been the norm, and wind-up turntables. Radios sounded great, but took 5 mins to warm up. Buses were slow and noisy, and a conducter reeled off your ticket from a little tickertape machine on his belt or hung round his neck. Dustbins were all metal, you put money in a meter for electricity and gas, and you had to order coal and put it in the shed outside (and go outside in the cold to get more for the fire).

Now, they had it TOUGH.

 

[NMH]

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Classic comedy, and you had to laugh or yer Da' would mince you in't meat-grinder feed you to the dog

 

[NMH]

Plus, pubs would have been full of nasty, stinking SMOKERS

 

[Gwylan]

Blimey, I'm only 51 so I'm not much older than you but I remember living with no TV (of any sort), phone, fridge, central heating or washing machine (come to think of it, I was living in a student house in Bradford with no phone, central heating or washing machine in the early 80s). Don't know about wall-to-wall carpet though - our house just has floorboards, looks much neater and I still wear shorts most of the time (even in winter).

You forgot deliveries being made by horse and cart (and watching the blacksmith at the Open Market for free entertainment), thick fogs in winter and smoking allowed on buses.

Good points however were being able to play in the middle of the road (thanks to the lack of cars), an ice-rink in Brighton, an open air swimming pool at Black Rock, loads of cinemas, young couple being able to buy houses, snowy winters (1962-63 was a particular joy) and a Labour Party that was vaguely socialist (sigh).

 

[bhaexpress]

405 lines.

Just like the railways before Beeching got at them.

What inefficient and hardly used ?

 

[Yorkie]

At 59 I remember those things (although my memory is getting more faulty each year that passes)
My uncle was the ticket seller, signalman, porter and general dogsbody at Henfield station. He lived at station house which was an integral part of the station. There was one train up and one train down every hour. That line was axed because it wasn't electrified but at the time they had a decent bus service every half hour as well.

 

[Storer68]

What inefficient and hardly used ?

but a better network serving more places. And remember, that network was developed by private money and decimated by public money............

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Ha. well we had cable back in the 60's so there!

Coldean had very poor TV reception so we had Rediffusion Cable.

 

[Lady Bracknell]

I was born in the '50s (as the song goes) and we had 2 televisions. Mainly because my grandmother refused to watch ITV and claimed that her television wasn't designed to receive it. We also had fitted carpets UPSTAIRS!

 

[dougdeep]

We had a big Grundig radio, with huge glowing valves in the back. It seemed magical back then.

 

[Eggmundo]

Is this thread NSC's take on the famous "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch?