Memory lane

Gordon. wrote:

WOW!!!! That was expensive Will
Herfy 60 pfg a bottle and around 11 marks to the pound 62-65

Well 1986 prices may be expensive compared to 1965, but what were you earning in 1965 ?...

I seem to remember a notice that was supposed to be displayed behind all bars in BFG to the effect that spirits could only be sold in single measures! Hilarious.

Beachley Boy wrote:

CALLED INFLATION..a pint of beer in the UK these days, what £3 ?

HIP HIP, HURRAH, I MADE IT TO THE OFFICERS MESS, PHEW.

Now I have three pips on here, like I had when I retired from the Coppers.

My round..lemonades?

Congrats Fosters all round then!! ! "Hic"

Quote :

Well 1986 prices may be expensive compared to 1965, but what were you earning in 1965 ?...

About 10 quid including LOA

Gordon. wrote:

Quote :

Well 1986 prices may be expensive compared to 1965, but what were you earning in 1965 ?...

About 10 quid including LOA

Nuff said...

[quote="Beachley Boy"]

Now I have three pips on here, like I had when I retired from the Coppers.

A hefty pension then.

That explains the long cruises !

Orrrrr? perhaps

Only kidding Les

Well done that man !

(I had to ponder that one before the penny dropped).

1950s beer 15 pfennigs, a glass , 12 marks to the pound. ciggies a shilling for twenty, a slap up meal. with drinks two to three marks, life was good in baor in the 50s, does anybody remember the bowl of oxtail soup we used to get in the pubs . 25 pfennigs and it was wonderful on a cold night in germany, happy days, ginger

Dunno about Oxtail soup, but I remember a thick, kind of green pea soup we ate with dry bread! sounds bloody awfull doesn't it lol, honestly it was lovely, we lapped it up.

Actually, the fact that we were usually pissed when we scoffed this particular feast may have had a lot to do with it...

Gordon. wrote:

Orrrrr? perhaps

Only kidding Les

BENT? Not me mate, I was never a Corrupt Defective (Detective.' Honest Uniform copper and a Chief Inspector when I retired in 2003.

Yes the Police Pension keeps the wolf from the door.

I like the rest of you blokes, just have to live a long time to enjoy it.

http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2010/04/what-price-nostalgia.html


check this out old timers

Good stuff Johnboy

"john boy" wrote:

http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2010/04/what-price-nostalgia.html


check this out old timers

Cheeky young bugger !

Good link that. Ah, ye olde days. Some of you dinosaurs would still have a Ferguson B&W TV would you not?

I left UK in late 1966 to emigrate to Australia. My first trip back to UK was in 2002, 36 years later.
This idiot thought everything would be as he remembered dear olde England was in 1966.

WRONG ! I had a rude shock, Motorways, inc M25, McDonalds, Self serve petrol stations, etc, etc.

Some of the towns I lived in during the 50's and 60's I revisited in 2002, crikey, I could not recognise some of the places, just expanded and old buildings knocked down etc.

When I left UK, I think we sold our house in Northampton for £3000. God knows what it would be worth these days. But then inflation hits every where. I purchased our first house in Sydney in 1974 when I got married, paid $30,000. Sold it 6 years ago to move down south, for $500,000.
That is inflation for you.

I remember the first colour television I saw...Panasonic I think....and my mom's reaction was "Tsk...what's the point?" Mind you, at least here in North America, most tv shows were still done in B&W so it really was rather pointless, but a few cutting edge types started taping in colour!

NBC, I think it was, even had a peacock as their mascot (the tail fanned out in all these colours...6 or something, whoopee!).

What I recall is the quality of the colour. Quite washed out actually. And one had to fiddle around with a bunch of dials down below the screen to get the skin tones just right....most sets had the dials set so that the skin tones were a florid purple or a sickly greenish hue! Even those 'techies' able to strike the right balance of tint and hue never quite got it right and the skin tones ended up a sort of washed out peach with a touch of red.

At that time, still, the 'test pattern' was this rather cool graphic featuring the head of an Indian Chief in profile with various circles and bars and lines around it in various shades of black, grey and white...not much use on the new-fangled colour sets. So a coloured screen of solid colour bars was instituted. Just not the same.

Now, understand I was a rather odd boy (no comments out there in the peanut gallery, if you please!!) and remember for years I wanted to get my hands on a copy of the old Indian Chief test pattern as I thought, even as a child, the graphics of it were pretty damn cool....still do! A piece of technological art that nobody realized was as good as it was. Surprised it never became a Pop Culture poster or whatever!

Some sets were huge, set into a massive cabinet with folding doors across so that, when closed, it was this huge piece of furniture. Bulky as all get out. I also remember some sort of magnifier screen one could attach to the front of the set since, despite the set being massive, the screens were relatively small, even in the higher end models. Problem with those was they distorted the images, especially if you were off to the side and viewing it that way. A parallax effect....very distracting.

posh lot , we had a 9 inch screen wiv a magnifying glass attached to the front. ginger

Here's the test pattern I was referring to:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/RCA_Indian_Head_test_pattern.JPG

Who were the NCOs that enforced the rules in military prisons were they drawn from different regiment or were they a fully fledge Corp within the army

Fantastic film dont you think I know there are a few Gaffs in it but hey ho

The film was "The Hill", wasn't it John ?

It was the hill Brum,Here are a few quotes from it

He took over days ago, you still haven't caught on!" —Staff Sergeant Harris
"Don't talk back, you different-coloured bastard!" —Staff Sergeant Williams
"Fancy I saw snow on the top of it." —former Sergeant Major Roberts, talking about "The Hill"

brum wrote:

The film was "The Hill", wasn't it John ?

If they did that to the little scrotes (not military) these days, they would soon stick to the straight and narrow. Wot abart me uman rites?

Johnboy
Military prisons, or correctly named Military Corrective Training Centres, were staffed by members of the Military Provost Staff Corps (MPSC) part of the Provost Branch under the control of the Provost Marshall (Army).

MCTC was staffed by bullies who failed to make it in the army.

Wilf wrote:

MCTC was staffed by bullies who failed to make it in the army.

There was a bunch of MPSC located in The Kesh when we were there.

Never figured out why but they were nice blokes.