Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2015

vhalla1478

Those as well, Bigjenny.

maryb

Sunday Night at the London Palladium

jinny

Oh I remember all those too.
I still listen to the archers as well.
it was bathnight and hairwash then bedtime after Sunday night the the london paladium.

I dont think some children have a proper bedtime these days
8pm sharp on a school night for our generation.

Educating Archie was a programe with ventriloquist on the radio!!!!lol

nursemaggie

I remember all those radio programs too plus lots of others. My mum could not stand Billy Cotton, she switched the radio off while he shouted Wakey Wakey. More often than not she was too late. Dad liked the music so it went straight back on.

Mrs Dales Diary, The Navy Lark, 20 questions, !!!!!! Barton. I would love some of those sort of programs now the pictures are so much better on the radio. So often when a book was adapted for a radio program I would remember I had read it from the pictures in my head.

I was not born in the 50s but the 40s.

silvasava

Nursemaggie - I was a spoiled 'only' & I often used to get a full house fried breakfast in bed on a Sunday listening to the Billy Cotton Band Show with Alan Breeze. I think my mum just wanted me out of her way lol. My favourites were the Navy Lark (left hand down a bit & Poveyyyyyy!) Hancock's Half Hour, The Goons & Round the Horn. I remember Jimmy Edwards in the Huggets (Ron & Eth) Happy Days.
Another stint at bottom scraping as the weather has been fine this morning we're about half way now. DH was dumping the scrapings into the site bin (we put a plastic sheet underneath 'cos anti foul is somewhat nasty) & someone had put 2 small rolls of leftover foam backed vinyl in there so they have been rapidly rescued for future boaty projects
BTW Vhalla - seems 1946 was a good vintage for us!

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Ah the wonderful wireless,far more interesting than sitting watching the t.v.I still listen to the Archers every Sunday morning and well remember Grace dying in a fire:) and folk taking flowers to the BBC How odd is that:):) Saturday night was wonderful with Vic Oliver then Saturday Night theatre usually the only night I was allowed up late :):) as I was the youngest in the family.We had a big black kitchen range and in the wintertime we would sit around it with the wireless on and my Mum would toast big doosteps of bread on a long brass fork.My two brothers and I were allowed to listen to it if we behaved during the day usually it was often a detective story and if we guessed the murderer correctly then who ever guessed got the first toasted slice:)

My Dad would sit in his big leather armchair which seemed huge to me, and read his evening paper and smoke his pipe.Mum would be making the toast and my eldest brother would be making something with his Meccano and my middle brother make model aeroplanes out of balsa wood and tissue paper,the glue had the oddest smell I would be sitting on the box that was attached to the fender (there was one at each end ) and they held the wood in one and tightly rolled up screws of paper in the other .My job was to make the paper as tight as possible so Mum could use it for lighting the range in the morning. How many times have I heard my Mums voice saying ('Don't sit too close to the fire lassie you'll get chilblains ) Never ever had one in my life when the paper was done then I was allowed to carry on knitting my dolly's clothes.

If Mum needed wool winding-it was considered a girls job- I had to hold the hanks in my hands while she did them into balls (Wool was bought in hanks in those days )hated that job as it always made my arms ache.The boys were expected to clean shoes or chop the firewood for the kindling.The radio went on for the six o'clock news and no child was allowed to make any noise and Dad always listened to it ,very boring for children though.Sunday night was 'getting ready for school and when we came home from evensong it was laying out uniform for school everything had to be clean and ready for the morning then cocoa in your nightie and dressing gown and the Palm Court orchestra on the wireless

I too remember two way family favorites with Cliff Michelmore and Jean Metcalfe, Life with the Lyons,Meet the Huggets,Round the Horn was considered quite risque for its time,Take it from Here was a hoot ,and I honestly thought Archie Andrews was a real little boy when I was small.

I longed to be allowed to listen to Journey into Space in comfort but it was past my bedtime, so I'd creep downstairs after lights out and listen at the door shivering with both excitement and cold :eek:
Lino on the floor and no central heating in those days .!!!!!! Barton Special Agent, and a really exciting programme called The Man In Black with Valentine Dyall.I can remember hearing the Carroll Levis discovery show on the wireless, and when I actually saw a picture of him he was nothing like I imagined him to be,but he definitely had a voice for radio :):)

The Goon show was great and my late Mum thought it was just silly.She liked Mrs Dale's Diary and Womans Hour.

At school we had 'How things Began' and Music and Movement '

I'd listen to Workers Playtime which was broadcast usually from a factory some where, while I ate my lunch as I would come home at lunchtime from primary school My Mum had looked at the school's kitchen and decided her daughter wasn't going to eat anything out of it

I also liked Wilfred Pickles in Have a Go:) "Give her the money Mabel "
Radio made you use your imagination more I think and you also learned to multi-task as you could sew or knit while listening to it .

I have never been without one and after losing my late OH it was sometimes just the noise of a voice in the house which cheered you up.It is such good value as far as I'm concerned, and when I was working I'd be driving at the crack of dawn sometimes and be listening to a Farming Today programme and wonder if somewhere there were farmers, perhaps milking, or early risers like me also listening While I drove around central London, somewhere halfway up a mountain in Wales perhaps there was someone else listening in as well :):) Its that comforting friend on night's when sleep is hard to come by.No home should be without a wireless.

Apart from her children it was the one thing my Mum grabbed when she was bombed out during WW2.She had a lovely one in a rich dark brown highly polished wooden cabinet which she had been given as a wedding present before the war and it was polished and dusted every day unti she died in 1962. As children were wern't allowed to play with it, or turn the big black and gold dial.I loved wondering where the places were on there I couldn't figure out where Hilversum was for years .

In my teens it was Radio Luxenborg wonderful 208 which caught your fancy and to hear pop music which often went in fits and starts as it wasn't a brilliant signal so you would be listening to a record and suddenly the soud would trail offf:); then return several moments later .Who can remember the charts from DECCA, and, the adverts extolling us to buy an Horace Bachelor watch from Keynsham in Bristol :):) over sixty years ago but I can still remember getting cross because I wanted to hear Blueberry Hill and it kept fading out :):)

vhalla1478

Goodness me, what a load of memories have come flooding back today with everyone's reminiscences. I remember when I was a little girl my beloved nana used to tell me what it was like for her as a child in the 1890s; it's good to keep all these memories alive for the ensuing generations. I really will have to get round to writing my autobiography!

A recipe to look forward to for when English strawberries come into season.

Cheshire Cheese Salad with Rocket and Strawberries - serves 4 as a starter.

50grams rocket, 250grams strawberries, 150grams Cheshire cheese, 40grams hazelnuts, toasted and chopped.

For the dressing
2 tbsp. sunflower oil, 2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil, tbsp. balsamic vinegar, half tsp sugar, salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Divide the rocket leaves between four plates, hull and slice the strawberries and scatter on top of the rocket. Break the cheese into small pieces and divide between the portions. Whisk the dressing ingredients together, drizzle over the salad and scatter the chopped nuts on top.

1946 was an excellent year, silvasava.

Viv x

nursemaggie

I was born in 1946 too.

JackieO When I got married in 1967 we rediscovered !!!!!! Barton as we did not buy a TV. My ex was in the RAF and we knew were were going abroad in a few months. We were both so surprised !!!!!! Barton was still going.

I shared listen with mother with my children and my Eldest son grew up preferring the radio. I remember listening to the last episode of Mrs Dales Diary. Funny how it never kept up to date yet the Archers have.

maryb

Oooh Jackie, I remember Music Movement and Mime and Singing Together on the radio at school!!

Some of the songs we learned so innocently - In Amsterdam there lived a maid and she was mistress of her trade, I'll go no more a roving with you fair maid

silvasava

What lovely memories we have - my DS1 still prefers radio to TV & loves the utube clips of the old programmes. Nursemaggie I married in 66 (first time!) and what different times they were. I do remember talking to one of my elderly customers some years ago who was born just before the turn of the century. She said no one would see the changes in their lives like she had. Going from gas lighting & horse drawn carriages to electricity and space travel. Makes you think.