General Chat

I was lucky enough to win a colour tv in 1974, just before colour was officially switched on in Oz.

Shared a flat with my brother at the time........ we would switch on the tv just to marvel at the colour test pattern lolol

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I used to hold the cellophane off a Quality Street sweet up to my eyes to pretend we had a colour TV :-)

We finally got around to getting a colour set in the early 1970's it was the size of a washing machine!

"Its great service you get
renting your colour set from Granada
Its better TV, we're sure you'll agree
rent Granada"

Who put a sheet of coloured cellophane paper over the screen of the B&W tv?

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I still clean our fire grate and still hold a newspaper across the front of the fire sometimes to make it draw :-D

Lesley x

Yes, hubby and I are nodding our heads remembering all the good oldies and yes Trish, I can remember our village Co-op store with the sawdust on the floor and the cash being whizzed on the wire into the cashiers box, and then the great excitement with pay-outs on Divi-Day. Lovely memories and happy days as I recall.

Our Co-op butcher had sawdust on the floor too.

Just across the road was main Co-op shop, where little money cannisters used to glide on a wire above our heads to the young lady assistant in the glass-fronted office in the corner. She sorted out the change and popped it in the container and back it came along the wire, as if by magic.

A few weeks before Christmas Mum had a cleaning frenzy and Dad was called on to fix the rods and brush together to sweep the chimney' before Father Christmas comes'.
We children used to run into the garden and shout when the brush poked out of the chimney top.

Gwyn

I remember Sainsbury's when they only sold bacon, cheese & cooked meats.

We used to write our names in the sawdust on the butcher's floor.
Can remember Mam's Coop. divi, to this day ( I have it as one of my pin nos.)
Coal man arriving and counting the bags as they were carried to the coal-house door :-D

I do remember the sawdust in the Co-op and I also remember when my nanna sent me there with a little list she used to write her divi number on it (it was 44158) and I had to tell the lady I gave the money to.

I also remember us having Rediffusion telly and a little box with a dial on.

When we moved into a new house (about the late 50s/early 60s) my mam was so proud that we had an open fire that had gas jets under it so that you just put the coal or coke on and lit it. That was the only heating in the house so we still had ice INSIDE the windows when it was really cold.

I remember all of them,haha,I must be old.
In our local Co-op,there used to be sawdust on the floor,the children used to shuffle it about,whilst waiting for our Mums to do their shopping.
Who remembers that one??????????????
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Yep can remember all of them and Pearl and Dean adverts were at the cinema.

Mcb we had a key on a string til we discovered a new neighbours boy found out we did so took it down.

Funny thinking about the tv shutting down at 11pm. Imagine if we went back to that .lol.

Guess we are getting old its just some of us dont feel we are!!

Florence
In the hebrides

Hey, wotchit - I still clear out my grate :-D

Paula - you're lucky - I don't just forget names, I forget simple words when I'm talking to someone :-(

Biscuits sold loose by the pound, - not sure that all hands that dipped in were that clean.

Christmas parcel post often was delivered from the back of a removal lorry hired from a local firm. I worked on one as a student needing cash.

Door key hanging on a piece of sting through the letterbox.

Try that nowadays !!!

The local Co-op grocery section having a long long counter where everything was sold loose and given in brown paper bags apart from butter which was cut from a large slab and wrapped in greaseproof paper.

And the Postman doing a delivery on Christmas Morning. Usually had a drink at most houses, and was pretty well oiled by the time his round had finished.

Listen with Mother
Andy Pandy
And the Woodentops
Wakey Wakey the Billy Cotton Show.....

And in our house a true favourite 'Dick Dot in the Dreen' - Dixon of Dock Green, I could not pronounce it properly and was known by my title forever in our house.

Can remember all those Col and Jonesey.
Remember Mam renting our first tv from Radio Rental same as the wireless.

Now I am old..but don't feel it..LOL

Can remember all thos Col and Jonesey.
Remember Mam renting our first tv from Radio Rental same as the wireless.

Now I am old..but don't feel it..LOL

Hello Col, I can remember every one of these, yes! I'm that old.
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School milk put me off milk for life.

In the winter they used to put the crates near the big old fashioned radiator to thaw out as the cream had pushed the tops off