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 
Do you remember having “bread and milk” for supper? And something called “mock goose” which I think was one of those wartime recipes. A sort of vegetarian roast. Mum also used to make bacon and onion suet pudding, like a savoury spotted dick, altho I suppose that’s now a non PC term. Maybe “skin challenged penis” nowadays? They were wrapped in an old tea towel and boiled for hours. When unwrapped they had a leathery skin. My gran used to use the leg of her old knickers to wrap them in when she made them!!!
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Wow! You’re really trawling deep for memories. Do remember bread and dripping. Regards Thom.
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Yeah! Bread and dripping and toast made in front of an open fire using a toasting fork.
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OMG I’d forgotten about sugar sandwiches. My Mum used to make ones for me with condensed milk in them. I also used to be given something called “Double dooce” It was wedges of peeled apple rolled in sugar. I think it was probably “double juice”, the idea being that the sugarmade the apple more palatable. A pee bucket in the bedroom was very common when you lived in an old house with a communal toilet and didn’t want to risk going down the common stair in your night attire. We had a “guzunda” A chins pot which “guzunda” the bed. They were emptied as soon as you got up. It was a comment on your social standing whether or not you covered the pisspot when taking it to empty or left the contents in full view.
Alan Johnson is a great read. I’ve just finished his autobio. He and I literally grew up round the corner from each other although I’m a few years older and can’t remember him. I’ve just posted my recollections on North Kensington Histories http://northkensingtonhistories.wordpress.com/ if you’re interested.
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Thanks Gwendoline .. Delighted to have evoked so many memories of a distant time. Keep coming back! Regards Thom.
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For the record, my name is Gwendolen but I get so many variations…. I prefer to be called Gwen and have been known to threaten kneecapping to anyone who uses the full version. 🙂
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That was predictive text Gwen !!
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ROFL. Predictive can be a bugger! I prefer to live with my typos.
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Very interesting read about England in the 50’s. I was born in 1953 in Pensacola Florida and a lot of what you write about is alien to me as an American … sugar sandwich, buckets of urine in the bedroom, etc. I will have to locate Alan Johnson to read, he sounds like an interesting author. My wife and I went to Ireland in 2005 and talked to people my age and times were sure different across the Atlantic! Frank
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