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Back in time......ON TONIGHT 8:00
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AnnCardiff | Report | 6 Feb 2016 20:04 |
anyone watch the programme - family of four transported back to the fifties? very interesting - next episode on BBC2 on Tuesday - 8:00 pm I think |
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Von | Report | 6 Feb 2016 20:07 |
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Bobtanian | Report | 6 Feb 2016 20:10 |
just resurrected my BBC Model B... |
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Bobtanian | Report | 6 Feb 2016 20:11 |
ManicMiner on the spectrum!!! |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 6 Feb 2016 20:30 |
we had a tv for the coronation - our house was packed to the rafters :-D |
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LaGooner | Report | 6 Feb 2016 20:39 |
It bought some very happy memories back to us. :-D :-D |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 6 Feb 2016 22:45 |
Yes...memories.cant ever remember being bored. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 6 Feb 2016 23:02 |
I was never bored |
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Linda | Report | 7 Feb 2016 02:23 |
I was born in 1950 but can remember quite a lot of the 50s I really enjoyed the programme looking forward to the 60s |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 7 Feb 2016 10:16 |
We watched half of it. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 7 Feb 2016 10:28 |
exactly - I don't suppose my mother would have remembered it as I did |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 7 Feb 2016 11:05 |
Nobody smoked apparently. Neither was the air permanently full of soot from the coal heating and steam trains which ensured that everything and anything got covered in a thin grey layer of grime. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 7 Feb 2016 11:28 |
For what its worth, and from what I can remember. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 7 Feb 2016 11:32 |
I didn't go to church, Sunday school or belong to any groups - we lived in a little cottage on a mountain side - I had fun in the fields and the woods, playing in the brook, collecting primroses, mushrooms, nuts and blackberries |
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KathleenBell | Report | 7 Feb 2016 11:35 |
It brought back memories for me too. When I was born in 1948 we lived in a terraced two up two down which was bought not rented - and we were not rich. My parents had rented the house since the mid 1930's and when the owner decided she wanted to sell several properties that she owned she gave my parents first refusal on their home. My mother had laughed and said they had no chance but she was convinced by her younger brother who was in the navy that it was a good idea and he lent them the deposit (£12). |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 9 Feb 2016 19:54 |
on tonight at 8:00 |
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AnninGlos | Report | 9 Feb 2016 21:02 |
Well I didn't play bingo but that was pretty much the first decade of married life. I enjoyed that. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 9 Feb 2016 22:35 |
I don't remember people smashing pianos....that really upset me as I've played piano for over 70 years and even though I have a keyboard electric stage piano,I still have an acoustic one and they are still the best. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 10 Feb 2016 09:22 |
I have a vague recollection of piano smashing but I I think they were only ones that were 'past it', not good ones. I thought a phone call was cheaper than 6 pence but we had a phone in the 60s so wouldn't have used the box so not sure. Otherwise it was pretty accurate. |
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LondonBelle | Report | 10 Feb 2016 10:42 |
I can remember my Dad saying that he couldn't give his parents upright piano away for love nor money when they died in the mid 60s...he tried the local girl guides, scouts, schools etc nobody wanted it and sadly it was smashed up...with it went so many happy memories too :-( |
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