Bygone days ....

Pipp · Jul 21, 2014

Pipp said:
A yes, Brownies. I was a fairy.
Our song for dancing round toadstool,
"We're the fairies glad and gay,
Helping others every day"
I didn't even get to be a seconder though.

I got a needlewoman badge for darning a sock.

zand · Jul 21, 2014

Pipp said:
A yes, Brownies. I was a fairy.
Our song for dancing round toadstool,
"We're the fairies glad and gay,
Helping others every day"
I didn't even get to be a seconder though.

I was a Pixie seconder!

lizdeluz · Jul 21, 2014

Pipp said:
A yes, Brownies. I was a fairy.
Our song for dancing round toadstool,
"We're the fairies glad and gay,
Helping others every day"
I didn't even get to be a seconder though.

Ooh yes, I remember that song, now you mention it!

Pipp · Jul 21, 2014

lizdeluz said:
Brownies was great. I was a gnome. At the start of the session, we danced around a toadstool and put our 2 pence (old money) subs on the floor around it. I never made it to be a 'Sixer' but I was a 'Seconder' - story of my life! I remember doing 'Laying a Table' badge, which was useful.

Here we are the laughing gnomes
Helping mother in our homes.

Pipp · Jul 21, 2014

zand said:
I was a Pixie seconder!

Look out, we're the jolly pixies
Helping others when in fixes

lizdeluz · Jul 21, 2014

Pipp said:
Here we are the laughing gnomes
Helping mother in our homes.

Which would I rather be, 'glad and gay fairies', or 'laughing gnomes'? Or pixies rhyming with fixes?
Glad you can remember all this, it's priceless.
I enjoyed polishing my pixie/leprechaun badge carefully every week.
My sister polished her badge too, but IT was an Elvis Presley fan club badge, a gold crown on a gold 45rpm disc.

sanguine · Jul 21, 2014

There you go, 45 rpm discs - when I first bought them (Can't Buy Me Love by the Beatles, so 1964?) they were 6/8d, exactly three for £1. Which was a bu$$er if you'd only got a ten-bob note as a birthday present. LPs were 37/6d. Record players had speeds of 16, 33, 45 and 78.

And then the cassette. When they first came out it was like something out of the space age. I never quite got 8-track cartridges, although they were of better recording quality than cassettes. The cartridges were just too big though.

lessci · Jul 21, 2014

Being a child of the 80's - The video Man (My uncle) who did the rounds with the vhs/betamax rentals, we also had a moblie shop and the grimsby fish man. Dad playing the pools 8 from 10. TV you had to change at the set, and then a remote control with a cable! Smash hits Magazine and cutting out the song lyric to learn them. MIDI Centres, 7" Singles, recording the top 40 on cassette on a Sunday night and getting cross when the DJ talked over the end of the track you wanted

zand · Jul 21, 2014

sanguine said:
There you go, 45 rpm discs - when I first bought them (Can't Buy Me Love by the Beatles, so 1964?) they were 6/8d, exactly three for £1. Which was a bu$$er if you'd only got a ten-bob note as a birthday present. LPs were 37/6d. Record players had speeds of 16, 33, 45 and 78.

And then the cassette. When they first came out it was like something out of the space age. I never quite got 8-track cartridges, although they were of better recording quality than cassettes. The cartridges were just too big though.

The first 45rpm disc I bought was also the Beatles - Hello Goodbye/I am the Walrus....gone up to 8/6d by then though!

noblehead · Jul 21, 2014

sanguine said:
There you go, 45 rpm discs - when I first bought them (Can't Buy Me Love by the Beatles, so 1964?) they were 6/8d, exactly three for £1. Which was a bu$$er if you'd only got a ten-bob note as a birthday present. LPs were 37/6d. Record players had speeds of 16, 33, 45 and 78.

And then the cassette. When they first came out it was like something out of the space age. I never quite got 8-track cartridges, although they were of better recording quality than cassettes. The cartridges were just too big though.

Now we are talking, vinyl is making a comeback and thankfully I never did get rid of my record collection and it's tucked away in the attic.

I use to like buying the 12" picture discs, often they were a limited edition so you had to get there first on the day of release.

Our first tape recorder was an old reel-to-reel that my dad got from someone at work, just remember the tape always breaking and the sound quality being very poor.

sanguine · Jul 21, 2014

Was the first vinyl picture LP the one by Curved Air?

noblehead · Jul 21, 2014

sanguine said:
Was the first vinyl picture LP the one by Curved Air?

Not sure tbh, I bet Google will say Sanguine.

sanguine · Jul 21, 2014

Yep, "Air Conditioning" from 1970.

JohnD54 · Jul 21, 2014

Walking to school in the London smog, scarf round mouth, balaclava the norm.
Cold milk in the winter, lovely, wam milk in the summer argh not for me.
200 houses in our street, 1 car.
Days out in summer, get home before it dark were the only restraints.
Huddle round the radio to listen to "round the horn" on a Sunday, crystal radio sets under the covers for Radio Luxemburg.
We didn't have it bad, we had great times.
I'm not yet sixty but think we had it easier than children today.
HAPPY DAYS

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Pollylocks · Jul 22, 2014

..Transistor radios! Used to hide mine under my pillow so I could listen to Radio Caroline late at night!

zand · Jul 22, 2014

Pollylocks said:
..Transistor radios! Used to hide mine under my pillow so I could listen to Radio Caroline late at night!

Yes, me too...also in our bags so we could listen during Chemistry lessons........now I remember why I failed Chemistry O level, and there was me thinking I was just so bad at science.

Bluetit1802 · Jul 22, 2014

My 19 year old grandson asked for a vinyl record player for Christmas. He is slowly building up a collection. What goes round comes round. The first record I ever bought (for my lovely new Dancette) was Walking Back to Happiness, Helen Shapiro.

noblehead · Jul 22, 2014

Pollylocks said:
..Transistor radios! Used to hide mine under my pillow so I could listen to Radio Caroline late at night!

Me too, except it was Radio Luxembourg, the frequency would always break -up and you had to re-tune the radio time and time again

Pollylocks · Jul 22, 2014

JACKTHELAD said:
Grandmas home bread my bottom!
Every Sunday to hers for Sunday dinner ... smell the home made bread wafting up the street.
Beautiful got the juices going.
I don't find out till adulthood it wasn't home made at all.
She would buy a couple of large tin un sliced white loaves and cover them with a piece of cloth and leave for days to go stale.
Not bad or moldy just all the moisture gone ... stale.
She would then on a Sunday stand the loaves in an inch of water for a couple of hours and then bung in the oven and viola .... the entire street could smell her home made bread baking ....

...we had Sunday lunch at my granny's each week too...remember asking her once why there was only one rabbit instead of two in the hutch in her garden...we had him for lunch she said...

lizdeluz · Jul 24, 2014

Pollylocks said:
..Transistor radios! Used to hide mine under my pillow so I could listen to Radio Caroline late at night!

Once, wrapped my trannie in a towel in the bathroom while I was having a bath... (Why? Dunno, no idea) (Too much information? Yes, probably!) I then completely forgot about it. Later, my dad, doing some household chores, picked up the towel and, to his surprise, launched my transistor radio in a high arc across the room to a crash landing in the (empty) bath.

I got a bit of a telling-off about that. Poor dad, he'd been a Royal Marine bandsman during the war and had seen plenty, but I think the flying trannie still gave him quite a shock.

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