Let the memories cascade!
Aldermaston, CND, BBC, TV Westerns, Sputnik, Burgess and Maclean,
Never Had It So Good, Teddy Boys! Hula Hoops, Derek Bentley, Oh Boy!
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Jack Good, Michael Miles, Take Your Pick (You did say yes, didn’t you?)
The Goons, Who is the third man? The Sky At Night, Poodle socks,
Much Binding, Brains Tust, Tom Finney, Keep Off The Bomb Site!
David Attenborough, Brighton Rock, Don Cockell, Kenneth Horne, Llandow,
Mortimer Wheeler, The Great Fog! Polio, Jackie Milburn, Rock around the clock.
Lynmouth Flood, Wealdstone Railway Crash, Four Minute Mile, Hydrogen Bomb!
Ducks Arse! Hilary and Tenzing, Coronation, Nuclear Power, Dennis Compton,
England’s Won The Ashes! Tommy Farr, Magic Magyars, Rachman,
Riots in Nottingham Hill! Naked into the Conference Chamber, Mau Mau,
Malaya, Get Some In! ITV, Boom goes Bikini! Fanny Cradock, Jimmy Clitheroe,
Skylon, Films about the War, Morris Mini Minor, Tommy Cooper, Push and Run,
Festival of Britain, ‘He had a good war’, Victor and Hotspur and Hornet, The Mekon,
Gilbert Harding, Gilbert Ryle, Bertrand Russell, Tommy Steele, Skiffle, Sidney Miles,
It’s Trad Dad! Humphrey Lyttleton, Ken Colyer, 100 Club, Crane River Boys,
Lonnie Donnegan! Buster Crabbe, Angela Mortimer, Derek Ibbotson, Devon Loch!
Fred Trueman, Life With The Lyons, Take It From Here, Juke Box Jury, Busby Babes,
Hancock’s Half-Hour! Whicker discovers the world! Under Milk Wood, Raymond Williams,
Pinky and Perky! Evening All, Cross at the Zebra, Klaus Fuchs, Laker takes all ten!
Six-Five Special coming right at you! Eamon’s got the big red book! Munich crash,
VHF, Quatermass, Muir and Norden, Galton and Simpson, Kitchen Sink!
Waiting For Godot, Cliff Michelmore, Coffee Bars, Don’t Look Back In Anger,
Pillar Box War, Gunnister Man, Clyde win the cup! Stratocruiser crash, Eddie Thomas,
Cumbernauld, Auchengeich, Hibs Famous Five! Listen With Mother, Under Milk Wood,
Silverstone, The Archers, Korea, The Turing Test, Narnia comes alive! Corgi Cars,
Gormenghast, Dennis the Menace, ‘It’s an X!’, Easington, Randy Turpin,
Billy Budd, Study for your Os and As and you’ll get on, Pevsner’s Guides,
Watch out for the Triffids! Princess Victoria sinks, 10 Rillington Place, James Bond!
Matthews and Mortensen, Gordon wins at last! Piltdown Man’s a fake,
Down With Skool! Ton Up Boys! Here come the Teenagers!
Maidie and Murray, Terry Thomas, Philosophical Investigations, Omo and Daz,
Let’s all look back at The Good Old Days! Now we can read Linear B!
Fings Aint What They Used To Be! Royal Court, Chiz, Diana Dors, Cliff Morgan,
Ash On A Young Man’s Sleeve, Aneurin Bevan, Empire Games,
No more rationing! Who do you think you are – Stirling Moss?
That’s all from Tonight for tonight – until tomorrow night goodnight!
The Immortal Jukebox 
Hi Thom just finished reading Alan Johnson’s wonderful memoir of growing up in West London in the 50’s. Here’s a few things to add to the 50’s mix.
Outside toilets, buckets of urine in bedrooms, bugs in beds, powdered milk, spam fritters, sugar sandwiches, ration books, women fighting in the street, men fighting in the street, lousy schools, the cane, the strap, Oswald Mosley, racists on the street, the murder of black men, alcoholism and last but not least Max Bygraves!
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Thanks Dave. AJ turns out to be a wonderful writer. So many different 1950s to write about! Regards Thom. Keep commenting!
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Given we were only 3/4 by the end of the 50s it shows what a powerful legacy it laid out for us, with some vivid memories more easily recalled than the 70/80s! Mind you drink played a part with the latter…..
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Thanks … Memory is a strange thing! Thom
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Hi Thom dusted of the cob webs and added to the mix;
Who can forget the 6/5 Special with its distinctive theme tune. One of the first attempt by the BBC to bring rock’n’roll to the masses.
Sunday lunch in Belmont Circle with entertainment from Clitheroe Kid, Life with the Lyons, Goon Show and the Navy Lark to name but a few. I was reminded of the Goon show when based at NSY and visiting the Graftons Pub in Strutton Ground. The pub was owned by the Grafton Family, one member of the family being Goon scriptwriter Jimmy Grafton. The pub was a haunt for many of the Goon stalwarts including Bentine.
The childhood thrill of steam, riding the rattler from Stanmore to Harrow and Wealdstone.
Who can forget the inimitable Leonard Sachs who held the audience of the Good Old Days in the palm of his hand as the MC of the very popular Old Time Music Hall TV show. One should not forget that Sachs had a successful film career as well.
Sunday Night at the London Palladium, one of the most memorable TV variety show began in the mids 50s, the hosts in the early years were Tommy Trinder and a certain. Bruce Forsyth!
Dixon of Dock Green probably the first British Police series that many still revere today .
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Great stuff John! Glad to have stimulated so many memories. More nostalgia to feature later. Regards Thom
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