You could be right. I knew it was one day! If your old enough then you'd remember the the traffic control box in the middle of Church Street (opposite Littlewoods). Well I was with me Ma and we were crossing Church Street. 2 old women in front of us were clacking away in Welsh when the policewomen leant down and told them to stop being so rude!!!
Wednesday was always half day closing where I live.My missus used to work in a television shop until the owner retired about 7 years ago and he closed half day Wednesday right until the very end.
Well if we can see the hills of North Wales then they can see a bloody great conflagration in Liverpool! When London was burning you could apparently see the glow in Winchester.
Cym's family lived near where I am now- I just couldn't remember exactly where. Fires in Liverpool would be easily visible all along this coast.
The half day closing thing is a throw back to the days when the country was run along Christian doctrine and morals, as well as half day closing for shops pubs tv closed down before midnight, we only had two channels, pubs closed for two hours a day between afternoon and evening and 5 hours on Sundays(unless it was a staybehind yard), Friday was fish for tea etc etc Thank **** this country got dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world, the yanks had the best of everything decades before us.
Me too saint, boring as **** and was so quiet like in the movie "the day the earth stood still", hardly a car on the roads and the only sound the ice cream van and church bells.
I live on the coast If you go anywhere high by me you can see the glow of the street lights on Merseyside.
No proper footie on Sundays in those days, had to go to church, and me dad watched bloody All Our Yesterdays. It was only on for an hour but it seemed like several. I could feel Monday morning looming (hated school) and there wasn't enough to distract me.
I'm not suggesting we go back to the way things were but let's not pretend things are better these days - they are just different. For everything that is supposedly good about modern life you can find lots of things that have got worse. As for licensing hours then you have to go back to the First World War and thank the drunken munitions workers at Woolwich for that. The half day closng was supposed to compensate retail workers for working the Saturday afternoon - it had nothing to do with religion. As for the tv channels, we might have a myrid of them now but the ones we have are full of crap!
All our yesterdays. The program was tucked away in my subconscious until you just mentioned it, Brian Ingliss presented it and I hated it but had to watch it, another one I hated was What the papers say.
