General Chat

I think my parents must have got their tv for the Coronation, but I was too young to have been interested. As I grew up I loved 77 Sunset Strip. There were so many Cowboy serials too that I loved because of the horses! Rawhide, Sugarfoot, The Lone Ranger, Waggon Train, the Ponderosa. :-)

The only neighbours with a telly invited the local children in to watch the coronation. I was sitting on the floor at the front, eyes glued like everyone else. Some wished they had never gone to watch at all which I never found out until I was a teenager.

We got our telly the year after - very 'posh', with two folding doors. It looked like a cabinet.

When I was a teen, my parents bought me a Dansette black and cream record player which also had legs. I thought it was the bees' knees but I sold it in Oz along with lots of other things before returning to England.

So, Allan, if it has walked to your state, I'd like it back please. :-D

My uncle Fred was a sales exec with GEC so we got a big discount. A year later we had a 14in which, with ITV add on, was running as 2nd string until uhf came in.
My favorite progs were 65special, z-cars, blue Peter and Dr who. Hated Tonight, B&W minstrels, juke box jury, tomorrow's world.
I never saw Pathe news at the cinema tho my mother liked it.
Those old TVs were v basic and used all manner of analog devices but were easy to understand and fix. The tube generated huge voltages and lots of xrays. The weight was mostly down to the heavy lead glass which stopped the viewers from being fried.
Maybe the obesity crisis started with tv remotes.

I remember lying on the pavement peering in through the open door of the only person on the street who had a TV. I think there were about 6 of us kids all trying the same thing.

The big thing was to go to the cinema later and watch it on the big screen.

Heaven knows how much CIIIR will cost no idea they went to such trouble. Great playing I-spy with all the classic cars. Many new back then so London was not as broke as the history books say. Our set was 9in with a thingy on the front. I am told my only interest was with the horses. Same as now.
Thanks for posting super interesting.

Can't get it as I ain't on Twitter but presume it is the Coronation.

No Mr M, I was only a month old :-D. Parents bought a telly and invited the neighbours in to watch it on a very small screen :-D

Were you there LB ? :-)

That looks interesting Mr M.... I'll watch the whole newsreel later, thanks <3 :-D

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