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OK, I am in a rambling reminiscence mood after seeing Spring Gardens mentioned on the shout box. I am sure that a lot of people that frequent this website are unaware of the geography of that general area years ago. Some of the images that come in my ever ageing mind are the shop on Spring Gardens itself,The Social Security cabin, The cabins where the LUDC HQ was, The old Fire Station, Cow Lane, The Allotments, The Air Raid Shelter full of frogs close to where Woodlea school is, Horse-chestnut trees (great conkers !)
After wandering round that area in my imagination,I think it is time to get off home and see what is on the radio, Billy Cotton Band Show ? Sing Something Simple with The Ciff Adams Singers or maybe a bit of Jimmy Clitheroe or Kenneth Horne ? We had no TV at my house till about 1960.
I think that is enough rambling for now.
Very few images on the www from that era alas.
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Billy Cotton on Sunday lunchtime. Round the Horne and Much Binding in the Marsh with Kenneth Horne, The Goons on weekday lunchtimes, Listen to this Space, with the incredible mimicking of Harold Wilson and "I'm sorry, I'll read that again" with most of the folks that went on to Monty Python.
Before we emigrated in 1968, we hadn't bothered with a TV at home - there was so much on radio. US radio was a nasty shock - nothing but music and commercials when we first came over. Now it's also got the political cretins like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Whay anyone would want to pay $30 a month to get a couple of hundread channels of that rubbish on satellite radio is beyond my understanding.
Frank
Frank Damp (wife Eileen, nee Nixon)
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968,
retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
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I liked Archie Andrews, a puppet on the radio? The Huggetts, Kenneth Horne was brilliant. Two Way Family Favourites always got me thinking of the service men and women so far from home, exotic places to me, usually in occupied Germany.
You're right Frank, Rush Limbaugh is a complete moron, I refuse to listen. With a name like 'Rush' I guess he has to be.
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What about Riders on the Range in the 1930`s, with its overture from William Tell. Then there was Romany on Sunday with Raque the Dog. Did anyone mention The Glums - "come,come,come - remember you`re a Glum". Terror by Night - Valentine Dyall? All good stuff, long before T.V. Cheers.
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I am only 47 but I have fond memories of listening to Radio Luxembourg on my radio that had flashing coloured lights on it ! I was about 8 at the time and Radio Luxembourg was the best station for rock music at that time ! I did however spend most of the time repositioning the radio and aerial due to a very weak signal ! I guess that was all part of the fun because when you all of a sudden got a good signal it was " Rock On " !!
i had forgotten all about that radio until you mentioned it. getting a signal was a nightmare but you could listen to the police(not sting) on it back in 70s before they took it of the fm band.
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Our next door neighbour on Golden Hill Lane used to sit in his front garden on a deck chair listening to the police all day ! His name was Mr Gregson and he said he used to be in the police ! He taught me the phonetic alphabet when I was 8 ! On the other side was Mrs Dod she was about 90 then ! She used to give me treacle toffees that I swiftly disposed of when I left her house ! I was convinced she had had them since the 40s ! [  ]
i have a vague memory of mrs dodds house? i was only 3 or 4 but there was a weird musty smell in that house. she wore big winter jackets in summer and them chunky zip up suede shoes that all old ladys were fond of wearing in the 70's and 80's
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Ah, yes, The Glums or 'Take it from here' as it was called on the radio. They attempted to try it on TV in the 70's with Jimmy Edwards still as the old dad and I think Ian Lavender as Ron but it didn't work for me on TV.
As for Radio Luxembourg, The Great 208 ! It always faded out just as a good tune came on although up until the mid 60's all the music programmes were sponsored by the big record corporations and you only got about a minute of the song anyway.
Anyone remember Jack Jackson on 208 ? "D-E-C-C-A decca decca decca,great songs for your musical delight from The Decca Record Company" and of course the football pools advert with Horace Bachelor. Everyone my age must have the town of "KEYNSHAM, spelled K E Y N S H A M, Keynsham, Bristol" burned into the memory.
Yes, happy days with no TV and not much radio, no internet or computers or mobile phones etc etc.
I have got old without noticing somehow !
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Memories! As a kid, I couldn't wait to get home from church on Sunday nights to see if Bill Eastham's "Radio Relay" (like Rediffusion, but locally owned and run) had "accidentally" put Luxembourg on the No 4 position of the bakolite switch by the window.
Fast forward to the early 80s when I was working for Westward TV in Plymouth and my brother Frank (Anacortesdamp)was visiting me from America. Took him to the Torbay Aircraft Museum, which was owned and run by one of Westward's presenters, who was there, recognised me and said hello. "This is my brother, who works for Beoings," told him. "Frank, meet Keith Fordyce." Yes, the very same.
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