Interestingly, it seems as though the Queen's coronation was the defining
moment in the UK where the presence or absence of a TV was noted. In the
US, the broadcasting of the manned space flights in 1961 and 1962 were
probably the defining moment when many people without televisions realized
My dad bought a TV especially for the Queen's coronation, and all the
neighbours came in to us. He went without to give us kids everything he
could.
I also remember him going to the White City Stadium by bus and paying at the
turnstile to go in and see the final of the 100m (100 yards then) at
In the Netherlands we were way behind: we did get a TV trill 1963, when I
was 12.
AND, to pay for the license, we had to give up our weekly Donald Duck
magazine.
Agnes Boddington
Elloughton UK
TV wasn't even here in Australia then. It came here in time for the
Melbourne Olympics in 1956. But w
At 10:07 AM 5/07/2012, Martha Krieg wrote:
We did not have a TV until I was 6. I remember going with my mother
and brother to a neighbor's to watch the coronation of Elizabeth II.
TV wasn't even here in Australia then. It came here in time for the
Melbourne Olympics in 1956. But we crowded in
We did not have a TV until I was 6. I remember going with my mother and
brother to a neighbor's to watch the coronation of Elizabeth II.
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Martha Krieg
Michigan USA
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Couldn't resist sending this BTW I am ancient!!! VBG
Bring back any memories?
Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite 'fast food' when you were
growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously.. Where did
In reply to my:
My primary school (7 - 11 years) was next to a paper factory that
produced soft toilet rolls. Scot something I think it was.>
David wrote:
I've remembered - it was Bowater Scott.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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Vast areas of Australia still had outside dunnies until about 1970.
We certainly did in the 50s. The light was a candle and the paper
was, as you described, newspaper squares. The walls were covered with
wonderful cuttings from the "Women's Weekly" magazine - lots of
Charles and Ann
At 08:10 AM 13/02/2007, you wrote:
If you want a reminder of 'the good old days', take a
look at this old pack of loo paper.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1960s-Vintage-Buff-Woolworths-Square-Pack-Toilet-Paper_W0QQitemZ260085535140
I don't remember even seeing any packaged this way in
the USA.
Alice,
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Not only torn up newspaper on a string, but some people had outside
toilets
as well. The one in the first house we bought in 1965 would ha
Not only torn up newspaper on a string, but some people had outside toilets
as well. The one in the first house we bought in 1965 would have been an
outside toilet if the previous owners hadn't built an enclosed lean-to which
meant it was "indoors". The house had no bath.
Not only did public t
Not 'that' old because it has the Winfield logo on it. Don't remember when
they changed.
We used to have Bronco at home. Mum still used it (because the tissue stuff
gets too wet - TMI :-o) and I think there is still a roll in the
bathroom (or had dad got rid of it, Jacquie?), and possibl
Alice, that would have been a luxury, we used to have squares of
newspaper cut and hanging on a string when I was a girl.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Alice, that was posh stuff, ready cut into little sheets. The brand I
remember was Izal (sp?) which came as a roll of perforated sheets,
shiny and totally non-absorbant! As the seller of the Woolworth's
paper says, it made good tracing paper. Some public loos continued to
have the shiny
If you want a reminder of 'the good old days', take a
look at this old pack of loo paper.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1960s-Vintage-Buff-Woolworths-Square-Pack-Toilet-Paper_W0QQitemZ260085535140
I don't remember even seeing any packaged this way in
the USA.
Alice in Oregon -- where the sun just peeked o
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