A poll for Friday

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1172594]

Comments

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

Only just black and white TV - we didn't have one but our neighbour did. Ours was a reasonably-sized colour TV from the word go.

I remember only having four channels...

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I was working before there were four TV channels.

[nja.livejournal.com]

I don't specifically remember the school leaving age being raised to sixteen, but I was half that age when it happened so I've ticked the box. All the rest, yes. We had a black and white TV until the late seventies, and I still have a small b/w portable somewhere in the attic.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Me too. Only a holiday job, but still a reasonably proper one.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

We've got one in the spare bedroom. It still works.

[overconvergent.livejournal.com]

There was still pre-decimal currency in circulation when I was growing up.

[brightlywoven.livejournal.com]

I remember elm trees, but only because the beetle didn't make it to my home land!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I was waiting for a comment from someone from overseas ... ;-)

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

Rose-hip syrup.

I had graduated, emigrated, and was nearly married before there were four tv channels.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Rose-hip syrup.

Good one.

[nja.livejournal.com]

I grew up in a house on a small estate which backed on to woodland - my father and a few of the other men in the road cut down a few elms which bordered on to the gardens during the early seventies (I think my father was trained to use a chainsaw at work, and one of the other parents also knew how to fell trees). I remember having huge bonfires, and one of my brothers crying because the trees were going (not all of them did, just the ones which might have fallen on houses). I don't know who owned the land - probably the town council, although they never did any management of it.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

What I can really remember is not having elms around any more.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

To be strictly accurate, we had a black and white television until about 1990, and the dial was a bit dodgy so we just got three channels... We had school milk or squash at plyschool and reception, although it was a tiny trickle in the mug and I always had the squash. My former boss had a betamax recorder in her basement, and I remember seeing them at car boot sales. We do have some 8-track tape in the shed somewhere.

I remember when pre-decimal currency was in use at the same time as standard, ie when two shilling pieces could be used as 10ps, but The Change happened several years before I was born (about the time of the Winter of Discontent).

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

If it's a poll for Friday, should I wait until tomorrow to fill it out?

(It's Thursday today)

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I never had a Betamax, though my brother had a VR2000 (and a spare for parts) which he kept for years on the principle it was the best of the video formats.

Remember when there were three TV channels? I can remember when there was one.

I also remember (all too vividly) watching Quatermass and the Pit from behind the sofa...

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what you mean by "remember". I remember people discussing some of them, in the few cases when I was of an age, but I don't really remember them affecting me directly.

So, we had a colour TV for instance, but I wasn't aware how many channels there were. But I knew others who had a black and white. And I knew other people had a video recorder/player, but we didn't have one.

We had milk at school in the mid 1980s, even though it was a long time after free milk had been removed. I remember milk tokens.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I used it as a student, because the licence was so much cheaper.

As for free school milk, that I remember vividly because I hate milk and refused to drink it on my first day at school. Happily my mother sent a letter the next day saying I didn't have to have it.

[sir-rosealot.livejournal.com]

What happened to elm trees?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Dutch elm disease devastated Britain's elm trees in the late 60s and early 70s. There used to be mature elms all over the countryside. Now, they get to be teenagers, then fall over.

Christ, man, I'm 45 years in age.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

It's what happened LAST week that I'm beginning to have trouble remembering.

(I'm sorry, what were we talking about again? I can't recall.)

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

I remember there being only two channels of black and white TV. I have a faint memory of the second one being introduced, at least in some areas.

I also remember there being one radio in the house, it used valves, and was normally tuned either to the Home Service or the Light Programme.

I remember that the parking meters in the centre of Sheffield used to accept only sixpences, and kept on doing so as sixpences were withdrawn, presumably as a way to get them out of circulation double quick.

In fact, I remember farthings ceasing to be legal tender...

Re: Christ, man, I'm 45 years in age.

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

Ah, a youngster, then...

[brightlywoven.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, just go back to Australia and pat them. (Assuming you can travel now!)

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

Hell, I remember only having two TV channels! New Zealand didn't get a third channel until 1989, when I was 10, and I remember everyone watching on the first night.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

I'll see Fran's rose-hip syrup and raise her gripe water.

I'm trying not to remember which milestone birthday I've just passed..

You're not helping ;-)