Do You Remember When...?

[Charles_Harding]

With the advent of 24 hour TV I miss those test cards, including that little lovely Carole Hersee (50 years young/old in November this year!)

Incidentally, Carole Hersee is in the Guinness Book of Records as the person who's appeared on television for more hours than anyone else and it's reckoned that she has appeared for an estimated total of 70,000 hours, equivalent to nearly eight whole years.

......and all her father got from the BBC was £100!

"TB or not TB,
That is the congestion!"

[Jack The Lad.]

Can you remember the interludes on the BBC Charles.
As a very young kid, I would sit facinated, by the Potters Wheel one.
What about the announcer -- Silvia Peters.

[Charles_Harding]

[quote=Jack The Lad.;149044]Can you remember the interludes on the BBC Charles.quote]

I remember a stage coach travelling through the streets.

......and an aquarium?

"If you wish to be remembered after your death,
Leave a load of debts!"

[allan40alt]

...and the potters wheel...

Our neighbours used to come round to watch our tiny b&w screen as we had one of the few tellys in our street. We lived in a pre-fab in Montague Road, Leytonstone, London E11. Crikey, how the years have flown!!

[sallytraffic]

The 'free milk' at breaktimes at school. And the wonderful 'merry japes' we played in those days.

The first years (now Year 7) used to rush into the dining room at break, grab a third pint bottle out of the crate, rip the top off and gulp it down in one go.. until....

It was a hot spell, so we removed a couple of bottles, left them in a locker for a few days, then replaced them in the crate just before break one day.

Then sat back to watch the fun

Kids these days have no imagination

[Unknownsoldier]

My grandfather amused me with his japes as a boy (much to my mums annoyance ), he regaled me once with tales of how he used to steal cordite from defused german bombs then use that and bottles to blow up people fences............

Tom

[Charles_Harding]

Originally Posted by Unknownsoldier

My grandfather amused me with his japes as a boy (much to my mums annoyance ), he regaled me once with tales of how he used to steal cordite from defused german bombs then use that and bottles to blow up people fences............

Tom

Dad's Army, Junior Division, I s'pose!

"The reason that so many people turned up at his funeral was that they wished to make sure that he was dead!"

[Unknownsoldier]

Yes he was HG (unnoficially employed) before joining the Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment (The Dirty Half Hundred ), lol.

Tom

[smurf79]

Try having a look at Retro Junk | Hey I remember that , got a load of old tv show intro's on there like M.A.S.K., Thundercats, Bananaman and many more

[Unknownsoldier]

I remeber the Joe 90 stuff from one of these pages, I still have the secret agent briefcase

Tom

[GHGH]

Originally Posted by Unknownsoldier

My grandfather amused me with his japes as a boy (much to my mums annoyance ), he regaled me once with tales of how he used to steal cordite from defused german bombs then use that and bottles to blow up people fences............

Tom

I got through the first critical years of explosives "training" with a clean record and no injuries (not all chemists do), so now I can lean back and lie about all the fun we had in the 70's .

[Unknownsoldier]

Ahhh, explosives, what fun, I remeber we used to make stuff out of what we'd knicked from the Chme lab at school (mine was old fashioned at the time and had split sciences, i.e. Biology, physics and Chemistry). We used ot have greta fun with our concoctions (Napalm is the funnest stuff to play with when your 13-14 ).

Tom

[GHGH]

And your parents didn't have a clue either?
I think the peak was when my fellow student's lab coat - completely yellow/orange stained with picrine acid - got declared an explosive. Oh those were the days....

[Unknownsoldier]

None whatsoever, we used to do it on my mates farm, great fun

Tom