Can you name things that youngsters of today won't know?

[Bollo]

The TV broadcasts ending at midnight.

The plague.

The only overnight radio being Luxembourg or Caroline.

Carburettors.

Slavery.

Transistor radios.

Gary Glitter.

7.62 long rounds.

National Service.

The Raj.

Milkmen.

Biplanes.

Zeppelins.

The blackout.

Cathode ray tubes.

Valve sets.

Cortinas.

British Leyland.

The miners strike.

CND.

Adam and the Ants.

Bodie and Doyle.

Having to periodically buy a new stylus.

MW radio.

MG Midgets.

Blake's 7.

Doing as you're blummen well told at school.

We didn't start the fire......

 

[Dirk]

Bubble cars.

 

[pplpilot]

Regular power cuts.

 

[Lonestar]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMl6HnhFFIA


Trill Phones
No Internet
No Mobile Phones.
Grandstand Sport every Saturday and the original Star Trek
Three TV Channels.
Banana Splits
Saturday Morning Children's Cinema.
Deltics at Kings Cross.

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 5017495, member: 43827"]I'm talking about the British radio serials of the 50s, not the more modern US TV series.

Or are you just adding another contribution?[/QUOTE]
A decade between them.

 

[ianrauk]

The Goodies

 

[Dirk]

Nash Metropolitans.

 

[BoldonLad]

I recall, when my children were actually children (they are aged between 41 - 46 now), I took them on a visit to Edinburgh Castle. As we followed the guide through the numerous rooms, my youngest son asked me "Dad, where did they have the TV?". I replied "they did not have TV, in the 'olden days' ". My son's response was "what? not even black and white!".

While my children and grandchildren have far more in the way of material possessions, than I ever had, it saddens me that they do not have many of the freedoms I enjoyed as a child:

- walking, unaccompanied by adults, to the beach, with a bottle of water and a jam sandwich, to spend the day there doing exactly as we pleased
- playing on "bomb sites" with "guns" made of pieces of wood
- making and sailing "rafts" from debris, and riding across the pit ponds on them
- making (and firing) bows and arrows, we made ourselves
- playing football, cricket and various other games, in the street, until darkness came, using improvised bats, balls etc
- making "telephones" from two tin cans and a bit of string

I have to stop, I am overcome with nostalgia, I feel a slice of Hovis coming on............

All of this was, of course, before "stranger danger" and "health and safety".

 

[albion]

Rotary dial phone.

 

[MikeG]

Noel Edmunds' Swap Shop.

Hand knit jumpers.

 

[NorthernDave]

[QUOTE 5017524, member: 43827"]Dickey Seats[/QUOTE]

Dickie Davies

 

[classic33]

Dickie Davies

A few had problems understanding him though.

Murray Walker

 

[MikeG]

Wooden tennis rackets.

Press for the above.

Spam (in a tin, with a little metal key).

 

[pplpilot]

Tiswas.

 

[welsh dragon]

A pack of 5 woodbine and a penny book of matches. Hot water bottles. Indicators on cars that flipped up from the side of the car. Vim. Going to a hardware store and buying a pound of nails.