Will cash become obsolete ?

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

When I was kid my mum used to roast braising steak and the best bit was always dipping bread in the 'goodie' when it cameout of the oven. Probably the one thing I miss as a veggie!

Neil

[Cornish JackParticipant @cornishjack]

Being 'ink monitor', responsible for refilling the inkwells on school desks; steel pen nibs leaving blots on exercise books and blotting paper ('blitch&#39 an essential!; ringworm a common ailment; Tilley lamps the main illumination; removeable ovens in kitchen ranges being taken out to clean the soot onto the veg patch; outside privies; water from wells; long wire aerials down the garden and batteries and accumulators to go with the battery powered 'wireless' tuned to Athlone or Hilversum (wherever that was!) and finally, to get back to the OP's subject, bills totalled up to the last farthing. Different? – certainly, Better? – some yes, some no, more basic humanity? – most definitely!

rgds

Bill

PS BEEF dripping (with burned 'bits&#39 spread on toast made on a toasting fork in front of a range coal fire … dribble, dribble!

[Peter G. ShawParticipant @peterg-shaw75338]

Hilversum is, or was, a radio transmitter in The Netherlands. But more interestingly, the reference reminds of my parents radio, a Cossor 487AC bought in 1948 for around 14 guineas which I understood in later years was about a weeks wage for my father. This radio had medium, long and short wave together with a marked glass scale showing lots of foreign stations, Hilversum, Oslo, Paris etc along with Light, North, West, London etc.

One station it didn't show was Radio Luxembourg transmitting on 208 metres – I wonder if back then it was considered too risque for the children of the day? Or was the possible corruption of the UK youth by the pop songs of the day? I was fascinated by short wave and all the amateur bands complete with Morse code. And of course, how the number of stations on medium wave increased after dark, although I was too young to realise why.

Best thing though was Two-Way Family Favourites on a Sunday Lunchtime with Jean Metcalfe in London and Cliff Michelmore in Germany and that the last request was always top of the Hit Parade.

Many's the time when my parents went on holiday, and the first thing I did was to cart the radio up to my bedside, followed by waking up in the morning to the gentle shhing sound of the radio being tuned to an off-air channel, Radio Luxembourg if you hadn't guessed.

Ah, happy, simple, days. Would that it was as happy & simple today.

Peter G. Shaw

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Listening to "Journey Into Space" on the Wireless.  Oh and "The Adventures of Dan Dare every evening on Radio Luxembourg.

Russell

Edited By Russell Eberhardt on 14/04/2020 11:52:01

[Peter G. ShawParticipant @peterg-shaw75338]

Journey Into Space: Jet Morgan, written & Produced by Charles Chilton. Light Programme, 7:30 pm. Was it Monday nights?

And, for me in later years, The Navy Lark. It always interested me to discover that some of the actors took multiple parts, Jon (?) Pertwee in particular. Two favourites parts were "the laddie who understands these things" as the Chief Engineer used to say, and Commander Wetherby,"Hhhhh ead OOOOf ssssssssecurity".

Peter G. Shaw

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Posted by Peter G. Shaw on 14/04/2020 10:47:56:

Best thing though was Two-Way Family Favourites on a Sunday Lunchtime with Jean Metcalfe in London and Cliff Michelmore in Germany and that the last request was always top of the Hit Parade.

And June Armstrong-Wright in Hong-Kong. Her son was in my form so he found any mention very embarrassing.

I think by the time I got to a pen rather than the pencil that you licked to make it produce blotchy blue lines we all had fountain pens though we filled them from the ink wells. My first business was with Smithy cleaning and unblocking pens for the price of two sweets. Oh dear I haven't filed a company report for 55 years, the fines will bankrupt us or at least clean out the sweet tin.

[robjon44Participant @robjon44]

Hi all, DMB I feel that I should warn you that I have long held the view that it is possible to die of nostalgia, aside from the fact that I have not yet got over Johnny Kidd & the Pirates after 60 years, all the things you describe were part of my daily life back then, every school day me & my mate across the road would hot foot it to the end of our street to ambush the empty horse drawn milk wagon on its way back to the Coops facility at the other end of town, a short sprint, grab onto the back & place feet on rear axle, bale out as it passed the school gate, that will be why old fools tell you they had to make their own entertainment in those days & of course Health & Safety legislation was still a twinkle in somebodies eye, so think on lad.

Cheers BobH

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