The Oldies Thread

[chrismpw]

...That's why you had films like this.

Survival of the less stupid though. Look at what wrapping kids in cotton wool has given us instead.

 

[davids]

Usually Sam Kydd and Irene Handl or Kathleen Harrison, with Peggy Mount as big tough landlady type.
View attachment 70920

And Thora Hird if they needed a northern one
Steady work, can't knock it.

Sky Ch 328 Talking Pictures shows some classics of that era.

 

[degsy]

The Original DELTIC diesel just before Allerton Station, iirc, painted in what's now called Electric Blue(?)

Used an engine from a MTB

 

[degsy]

Survival of the less stupid though. Look at what wrapping kids in cotton wool has given us instead.

We used to play on the railway too, putting halfpennys on the line to get squashed. Must've given the drivers a heart attack.
The express to London - The Red Rose, used to thread its way out of Lime street, EdgeHill, Wavertree then start to wind it up on the long straight from Mossley Hill.
By the time it went past our house, with the coal tender freshly loaded up to over flowing it was going lickety split about 80mph
It used to lose coal from the over filled tender, great big lumps of top grade welsh coal, my gran used to send us on the railway to pick it up. Some of it that big it took two to carry it. Then we had the job of smashing it up with a lump hammer.
Smash that to bits with a hammer kids - 9year old heaven.

 

[bigjonny]

Sky Ch 328 Talking Pictures shows some classics of that era.

I watched Spare the Rod on there this week, Donald Pleasance and Max Bygraves as teachers and a young Richard O'Sullivan as one of the kids.

 

[degsy]

Merseysides 'management centre' aka nuclear bunker under Bootle Town Hall.


And in case the fall out fell

 

[tommytowne]

The Original DELTIC diesel just before Allerton Station, iirc, painted in what's now called Electric Blue(?)
View attachment 70924
Used an engine from a MTB

Electric Blue to me was the titty vhs cassettes that were available from the first corner shop video rental stores.

 

[tommytowne]

We used to play on the railway too, putting halfpennys on the line to get squashed. Must've given the drivers a heart attack.
The express to London - The Red Rose, used to thread its way out of Lime street, EdgeHill, Wavertree then start to wind it up on the long straight from Mossley Hill.
By the time it went past our house, with the coal tender freshly loaded up to over flowing it was going lickety split about 80mph
It used to lose coal from the over filled tender, great big lumps of top grade welsh coal, my gran used to send us on the railway to pick it up. Some of it that big it took two to carry it. Then we had the job of smashing it up with a lump hammer.
Smash that to bits with a hammer kids - 9year old heaven.

You tell a lovely story there.

 

[tommytowne]

See below this fine 1967 example of urban blight/regeneration Birkenhead Town Station
View attachment 70851

This would have been as the train first emerged from Woodside station where it would then join the Rock Ferry line onwards to Chester just past Green Lane.
The coke works shown used to sell bags of the stuff to the public on Thursday night. I used to walk down the hill from Tranmere with my mam using my younger sister's push chair to bring the stuff back up the road.

 

[summerisle]

 

[Johnniepk]

I'll raise you Neil Young 1973,my then girlfriend worked for the Daily Post and got free tickets,we went to the pub first and discussed if it was another drink or the support group,which ended up being the Eagles.

I will see you. I have Mott the Hoople at the Stadium , Liverpool. November 1973. Waited until the support was finished before going in.
That Queen were never going to amount to anything!

 

[Eggs]

I will see you. I have Mott the Hoople at the Stadium , Liverpool. November 1973. Waited until the support was finished before going in.
That Queen were never going to amount to anything!

....I really like Mott the Hoople, I saw Elton John at the Empire around 1973 but my mother-in-law trumped that when mentioned to me the other day that she saw Nat King Cole there. Not sure when it was, but she’s 91.

 

[Blues Harp]

I'll raise you Neil Young 1973,my then girlfriend worked for the Daily Post and got free tickets,we went to the pub first and discussed if it was another drink or the support group,which ended up being the Eagles.

I was at that gig but I think it was 1975, at the Empire....Young was going through his moody phase and didn't play any of his back catalogue......the Eagles blew him offstage

 

[tommytowne]

Osibisa and Sha Na Na at the Stadium an experience indeed.

 

[gonetomorrow]

Osibisa and Sha Na Na at the Stadium an experience indeed.

Osibisa. That rings bells.