Being off school and watching Kids' Educational programmes in the morning (80s). Transfixed on that 60 second countdown when the 60 white blocks, around the clock face, would sequentially disappear. Then, if you were lucky, it'd be Stop, Look and Listen or Look & Read - with that mad ****er Wordy.
I was in Norwich the other week and walked by the Anglia tv building. I stopped and stared, my mrs what you looking at you tit!! She just didn't get it.
Just had a look at a Radio Times and TV Times from 1975. Sod all on BBC but a bit more on ITV. Memory was right, Emmerdale Farm was on followed by the excitement of Farmhouse Kitchen. If you have nothing at all slightly interesting to do you can look through some old editions of TV Times inn the link. When you consider there was next to nowt on BBC you have to wonder what today's young uns would have done on holiday. Read a book? Played outside perhaps? https://radiosoundsfamiliar.com/the-tv-times-archive-1970s.php
One of my mates at Wilberforce Junior High, his dad was in the Black & White Minstrels, he used to turn up occasionally to pick him up in a beautiful car. He was a real nice lad, last time I saw him he was landlord of Duke in Cott, and his dad was spot on anarl.
Saturday morning Mecca followed by Picadish, followed by jumping on a train to Hessle with the lasses we'd met at Mecca. Still remember their names, wonder what they're up to now.
There's a memory which brings tears to the eye. Literally. Today's youngsters would never be able to cope.
That's brilliant thanks. Picked 1973 with Harry worth. Family at war, I remember that. We managed with 15 minutes news at 5:45 and news at ten. Then 1976 Nicholas Pearson on the front cover. There was a programme on in the afternoon about an autistic daughter. I'm going to look into that, well ahead of its time.
Did your local ABC Minors sternly announce that if people didn't quiten down or stop throwing lolly sticks covered in foil (which gave a great effect on the screen as they passed through the air) there would be no cartoon after Flash Gordon or whatever was on? An announcement normally followed by a barrage of them and loud booing when the lights came on and the projectionist stopped projecting.
It's on youtube with the wife from Duty Free - can't remember her name. Bit that sticks in my mind is how they perceive the Humber Bridge will transform their lives: 'it'll be like Klondike around here'
