goldfinchmule
Player Valuation: £5m
No wonder me dad rented out 1st colour tele.
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The Oldies Thread
- Thread starter peteblue
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….as did we, we rented our black and white ones too. I seem to recall we got our first colour telly for the Leeds/Sunderland FA Cup final.
goldfinchmule
Player Valuation: £5m
Yes same final for us too.
….’we plough the fields and scatter’, harvest festival. Taking food to an old person, I remember taking mine to my Aunty Cisse who lived in flats (still there) at the junction of Kensington and Hall Lane. The reality is, old Aunty Cisse spent her days at the bar of the nearby Coach and Horses, good on her.
Laughing at the thought that I’m as old now as the pensioners I visited then
Laughing at the thought that I’m as old now as the pensioners I visited then
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I heard a story when I little don't know if it was just a scare story of somebody doing that and the guy getting stabbed by passing scallies thinking it was just a dummy.Because I was little my brother and cousin would dress me up in my Dad's old clothes, stick the guy mask on me and find an old pushchair and push me around as "penny for the guy" and then run off with the money to buy 10 Park Drive
everybody rented teles in them days ,only the rich bought one.
That seems to jog a memory for me too
I worked in a Currys' shop in 1974, so there are blasts from the past in that list, especially, Zoppas (Ignis was another) Pye and Bendix. I used to deliver them but, after losing my driver's licence, worked in the shop (North Finchley). When I got my licence back, and sat in the queue for petrol during the shortages, I couldn't believe the price had risen to ten bob a gallon!
That could even be me in the Ford Anglia. It was the same blue as the flying one in the Harry Potter film. Mine flew too but ended up on its roof (hence me losing my licence as an irresponsible 22 year-old)
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magicjuan
Player Valuation: £60m
My old man got colour rental from DER for my mum so she could 'watch corrie in colour', just before the start of the 1970 world cup
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
Potato shortage?
I remember crisp being 3p then 2 1/2 new pence .
….can’t say we ever had one of these on our wall but they seem familiar;
