Who Remembers Thread

[roman totale]

^ We had that. 79/80? We were leading edge on our street in Radcliffe.

 

[brooklandsblue2.0]

 

[Gabriel]

I've still got one of them, and it gets used!

A thing that had an incredibly distinctive sound, instantly recognisable even today.

 

[bluemoon32]

Can remember as a kid desperately holding it in as I didn't want to use the bog when it was dark, no fcuking lights, spiders the size of dogs and ripped up newspapers as bog roll.
Oh those were the days ffs

 

[manimanc]

 

[lancs blue]

That brings back bad memories of the severe winter of 62/63 when as a scrawny 8 year old I was often the first one out in the morning with a kettle of hot water to break the ice in the frozen solid toilet bowl.

 

[flook]

Ours was screwed to the window sill.

My old man used to install them

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Never seen one of them before. We never had a TV until the early 70's and then you had a dial on the TV itself. Quick Google confirms you had a box like that if you lived in a shit signal zone.

Yes, early cable TV. The local Rediffusion TV shop would have a big aerial on its roof and then the signal was passed via cable to areas that couldn't see transmitters. They were phased out when they started building relay masts. The shops died out when people started buying TVs instead of renting them as they became more reliable.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Those twats in Norfolk beat us the other week how could we forget?

 

[normskih]

Always remember my Mum, when we first got a phone it was in the living room, anyway, the telly was on and on the telly a phone rang that sounded just like our phone. My Mum did no more than get off her chair, walk over and turn the telly down (before remote control days) which of course the volume of the ring went down but she still answered our phone. We all looked at my Mum with puzzled faces and then pissed ourselves laughing:)