Things you dont see anymore

[Spoonz Red E]

Watching Channel 5 documentary on the summer of 76, that I recorded. Fascinating memories.

The summer I was working 10 hour shifts in a foundry ...

 

[Tim Long]

The summer I was working 10 hour shifts in a foundry ...

Years before the trend for 'hot yoga'

 

[iscalad]

The summer I was working 10 hour shifts in a foundry ...

Shame child labour was banned too late for you.....

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Watching Channel 5 documentary on the summer of 76, that I recorded. Fascinating memories.

The long hot summer. My last school summer holidays.

The West Indies starting their dominance over England for a long time that Summer. Viv Richards in his pomp with a couple of double tons & very nearly a triple at The Oval. He missed the Lords Test but still knocked over 800 runs in 4 Tests.
Rain at Lords on the Saturday. No play in front of a full house with the gates shut at 10:40.
Probably the only time it rained in 3 months !

 

[Spoonz Red E]

Shame child labour was banned too late for you.....

I was working there on my 21st Birthday.

Now as for my three paper rounds when I was 12 ....

 

[tom_ecfc]

Boost Guava flavour chocolate bar.

 

[Grecian2K]

Probably the only time it rained in 3 months !

It was!
At the Reading Festival it started about 5pm on the Bank Holiday Saturday - just as Manfred Mann's Earth Band came on stage.
By the time we got back to Exeter on the Monday it had rained so much that the cellar at the old Pack Horse Inn had flooded. Bottled beer only that day.

 

[Grecian2K]

Those "Big Green Parcel Machines".
(Tuffnells have just gone bust)

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

I think these were called Traffic Light lollipops?

 

[Oldsmobile-88]

Buzby....”Make someone happy with a call”

Started out advertising for Post Office Telephones before he flew to British Telecom on privatisation of the phone network in 1981.