When you was at school

My Dad was a huge cowboy fan - everything from books, to films, to TV - so I remember a steady diet of Gunsmoke, Rawhide, High Chapparral, Bonanza and The Virginian. I think I had my first crush on Little Joe in Bonanza :giggle: Mum was a murder mystery fan but watched all the dramas... Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Danger Man, The Avengers. What was the one about the gentleman cat burglar? I think Anthony Valentine was the actor. As for children's TV, I watched it all! The Gerry Anderson shows were always favourites... Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett, etc. but I still remember Watch With Mother from my tiny tot days - Andy Pandy, Muffin the Mule and The Flowerpot Men. As a family, we also had a voracious appetite for reading and Dad's job meant that we had a constant supply of brilliant books... Dad's pile consisted of cowboys, Mum's of murder mysteries and mine was anything and everything suitable for children! I still get through about 2 books a week on my Kindle when I'm not out and about in the van. Don't watch TV so much any more though.
 
Main tv here was itv when it started though i did not see much as out playing in fields looking for spricks/sticklebacks in ponds or tadpoles.
 
No TV, our radio was powered by an acumalator,( a glass jar which had to be charged up at the shop in the village) we were rich as we had 2 of them, one in one out, cant have TV if no power to use it, lighting was parrafin lamps down stairs and candles up stairs, and stable lamps for outside, i was 18 before we got electricity.:cool::cool:
They called it the good old days, whos kidding who.
Ken
 
ken sowerby said:
No TV, our radio was powered by an acumalator,( a glass jar which had to be charged up at the shop in the village) we were rich as we had 2 of them, one in one out, cant have TV if no power to use it, lighting was parrafin lamps down stairs and candles up stairs, and stable lamps for outside, i was 18 before we got electricity.:cool::cool:
They called it the good old days, whos kidding who.
Ken
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We lived in a rented cottage which had been done up and it had electricity, round the corner was a row of cottages which had gas lights, we all had outside toilets we never had a television, but i do remember the tin bath on a nail outside
 
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