The FOC thread.

Blue Mist said:
I blame the Americans.
Until they started sending us proper comedy we had the likes of Harry Worth.
Oh how we laughed when he used his reflection to make it look like he was raising 2 feet in the air.

6pm Sunday evening.
Sat around the coal fire, ice on the windows, eating tinned peaches listening to Songs of Praise from a church we'd never heard of and were never likely to see.

And they say things have got worse !
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Oh you are awful..
But I like you.
 
When I was nipper, our back yard had the obligatory outside toilet, Anderson shelter, and prefabricated coal shed. At the time, the Levenshulme version of Disneyland.

Twenty a side football in the street, no parked cars in the way, no traffic. Bonfires on the croft, zero H&S.

We got a posh frosted glass front door in the mid 60s. I ran straight through it when I was being chased by some kids from Gorton. Not a cut on me.

I remember going to see my dad's old house in Hyde (from the 1910s)... the 'allocated' toilet was in a block with about 20 others, located about 50 yards away from the house.
 
We had a larder in the kitchen and there was 7 of us I don’t remember it being rammed with food especially when at Easter the shops would close on the Thursday nigh and not open til the following Tuesday. We all managed and I suppose the food lasted longer unlike today.
 
I remember an outside loo, a cold kitchen tap only, plus tin bath times, Sunday evening, in front of the fire, Dad first, then me and my little brother. Never saw my Mum have a bath...always thought she didn't until we moved.
 
Lavinda Past said:
Twenty a side football in the street, no parked cars in the way, no traffic. Bonfires on the croft, zero H&S.
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And no worry about pervs, I dare say — they've always been around, by the way, nothing new about them — because the kids were in hordes, whether in the street or in parks, or coming back from school.
 
KS55 said:
The 1950s and early 60s were dire for British comedy. It was full of second raters from the music halls. Harry worth, Jimmy Edwards, Ted Ray, Terry Thomas, Jewel and Warris, Archie Andrews, Arthur Askey, the Clitheroe Kid, The Navy Lark, and a host of others I forget.
Archie Andrews summed it up: a ventriloquist star of a radio show!
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Improved in 1965 with the advent of Round the Horne
 
Is it my mind playing tricks on me but wasn't the fog more of a green colour back in the 60s
 
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