For anyone who is interested, you can watch all the “look at life” tv show on talking pictures tv on sky, or on the website of the same name. All those and a collection of tv and films from across the decades, just not current tv.
Dreadful vocal technique. Terrible, tight, nasal sound. Completely wrong. Singers would not model themselves on this dreadful example of vocal technique. Pears was one of the worst tenors of all time. Listen to Caruso.
After WW2 ended,Britain ruled motorbikes throughout the 1950's,until the Asians joined the game in the 1960's,after that,they left British bikes,most of which were designed before WW2 in the proverbial dust!
Weren’t like that for my late parents. Father (1917-1981). Mother (1927-2005). I was born too late in 1956 to understand any of this at Brentwood in Essex, and trendsetters was correct, do people really dress/hair like that in 2024?.
The Model Railway Constructor of November 1957 exemplified the Dad with his Pipe and his school boy son, and the model of a station and trains. The station in question was the Kyle of Lochalsh. In those days there was no Skye Bridge so ferries/ fishing boats came and went. Ther was, a few yers ago , maybe still is , a layout of Kyle of Lochalsh in one of the former waiting rooms as it was before the bridge. Eilean Donan Castle still there.
Although the 3rd Reich built motorways/ autobahn,s. they apparently got the idea from the dual carriageway around Winchester. In the Cold War era W German Autobahns had dual width straight sections which could be used for landing / takeoff for combat aircraft for dispersal. The USAF Starfighter being one such combat aircraft.
What was that comment about " piddling little branch lines " and therefore needing Diesels to update.our system. Locomotive designers like Gresley and Stannier and Bulleid for example. What about Express trains, for example, like the Red Rose from Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston. Come on.😮 And don't forget Beechings random cuts - and his pal the Minister of Transport Ernest Marples, of Marples and Ridgeway who built motorways. 😮 . The North West of England had more Motorways in PM Harold Wilsons constituency than the 3rd Reich. On some motorway bridges there had been painted " Marples must go ". Well he did - he fled to his Villa at Cap d'Antibes with his money and unpaid taxes.
Mallard. 75th Anniversary at Carlisle. Gresley s " Union of South Africa " and Duchess of Sutherland on parade. excursions.and met at Carlisle. ( Citadel).Great cheering at Wheelspin. Carlisle station built by the Caledonian Railway . Similar looking to Perth.
i'm american and have a small lionel collection but sometimes i wish i could experience trains like those made during the edwardian age, bassett lowke , marklin etc were like the rolls royce of model trains especially in gauge 1 and larger - live steam , fully furnished coaches that had insides like the real deal and don't forget operating mail cars
Thomas and friends is what awakened by love of trains and railway’s in the first place. I still remember watching cranky bugs for the first time and how charming the early episodes of the show were.
Anyone here ever heard of ever heard of Lionel? They’re an american toy company that made model trains and such as well. There founder I forgot his name had a love of engineering much like Frank.Hornby. Several Lionel trains have become sought after collector items like the Banker’s special or a personal favorite of mine the Black diamond.
It's interesting that the BBC caption says that in the 1960's Britain was 'starting' to take recycling seriously...as though WW2 had never happened! The saddest thing is that all the good habits people developed so quickly during the war were instantly dismantled when war ended. We all joked about being brought up to save wrapping paper, bits of string, elastic bands and the like, but absolutely everything was used and reused during the war. Children collected what the business man and housewife didn't. Now we know that we can't dump rubbish in the sea or a hole in the ground, some of that discipline would be good to bring back. The amount of single use plastic,at a time when we have peak oil and oceans full of the stuff,is still growing and we simply have to stop wasting these finite resources.
I like Ian Rice's comment that building a model railway at home is a waste of time really for it's never going to pay the mortgage or put food on the table. But it may just save someones sanity and therein lies the benefit of building a model railway when depression so besets modern life for a model railway unlike a video or computer game is 3D and you can get your hands everything. You can learn so many skills from carpentry to electrical to kit assembly to building structures from scratch to soldering to DCC software. For people who retire model railways keeps their mind active for once you're no longer working a full time job then the challenge you apply your mind to is no longer there and you can start to slide quickly downhill until life is meaningless and you pass away. So whilst some may think that a model railway has no part to play in the modern world I say they're very wrong and model railways are more important than ever simply for keeping one sane.
Memories are made of this... Early '60s, I lived in England. I bought a NorVin in quasi-Black Lightning tune for 600 pounds...and everyone I knew said I should be committed. But it was the fastest thing on two wheels, or 4 for that matter as only a VERY few exotic cars were faster (and none of them had the NorVin's acceleration). I rode it for 3 years, bringing it back to the states with me. It was a long time ago, but I don't remember having much trouble with it once I'd gotten the electrics de-bugged (damn you, Joseph Lucas, Prince of Darkness...the English drink warm beer because they all have Lucas refrigerators!). Stateside, the NorVin was even more remarkablek, as it just gobbled up freeway miles, and this was the era of vast expansion of the Interstate highway system. Funny thing is, I can't for the life of me remember what happened to it... And, yes, I'm an old fart now (86 and still riding), but I still remember many lesser bikes I've owned and sold. I think the NorVin may have been part of the trade than netted me a beautiful '57 Corvette with newer brakes and a ton of rare go-fast parts...but I'm not sure. If I'd kept all the bikes and cars I've owned over the years, I'd have a collection worth many millions of dollars, but I've got my memories...and those are priceless (and I don't have to store them)!
Got my first train set, Hornby 0 gauge clockwork, in 1953. Have been modelling railways ever since. A great hobby, you meet other modellers and help each other with any problems that arise. Visited the Bassett Locke shop in High Holborn many decades ago. On visits back to UK visited as many model shops as I could. Semi-retired in Picton, South Island, New Zealand.
I m 64 . I would have been 4 years old in 1964 .yet this is also me .I have for many many years have leaned towards the sixties.soul or northern soul which it became known as at the end of the sixties iwas into .then came in 1979 the mod revival along with phil Daniels and quadrophenia .it hasn't t gone away .over the many years the music the mods and everything to do with the sixties and mod movement has still been going strong. My brother and me with mates who we knew in the mid to late 70 s we had the scooters then my brother had a g s vespasian loads of lights and mirrors mod ralleys still going now as then. Northern soul the mods and the unforgettable sixties even though I wasn't there in 64 I m still in around about way apart of it all sharing the experience.
Odd beliefs, I’ve always modeled about a half Century or more before my time. I’ve never liked the railways I grew up in nor live in. I’ve always modeled early 1900s and cheat and add motive power from the 1940s as the newest. All heavyweight coaches from the era. British trains are the same about 1910- 1940 that I model. BR never even exists yet on my railway.
My father's 79 & rides a 63 3ta & I'm 53 & ride a 67 T100T Daytona we ride out every Sunday & love every minute of that time with my Dad keeps him feeling young
