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steeljack 07-01-2008 05:40
Something to make you wonder where time has gone
 
a snippet from my local Sunday paper ........will have more than one or two Accy web users wondering where the bloody hell has time gone.
Feb.3 , 1958, this year is the 50 year anniversary of the release of Great Balls of Fire ,
Mar. 24, 1958, yep , 50 years since Elvis was inducted into the army (wonder if Mez and MargaretR still have their poodle skirts and bobby socks ? )

For Wynonie and Cashy, Its also 40 years March 16, 1968 since Otis released "(sittin on) the dock of the Bay "

During my annual phone call over Christmas to an ex Ossy lad pal of mine who now lives in Australia he reminded me it is 40 years since we saw Pink Floyd play at a dance hall in the Isle of Man during wakes week .

better shut up now starting to sound like my Grandad :D :D

WillowTheWhisp 07-01-2008 09:17
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Crikey! Where did all the time go???

grannyclaret 07-01-2008 11:19
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Ooh thanks for that,,,,my foot is now deeper in the grave....:eek::eek::eek:than i thought

shillelagh 07-01-2008 14:35
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Sittin' on the dock of the bay is just as good a record now than what it was 40 years ago

cashman 07-01-2008 14:37
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know what ya mean steeljack. reminds me of a song i aint heard for about 40 yrs, Who Knows Where The Time Goes- Tim Hart n Maddy Prior.:D

cashman 07-01-2008 15:10
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Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 513884)
Sittin' on the dock of the bay is just as good a record now than what it was 40 years ago
agree n that was one of his worst IMHO, just proves what a "GREAT" Otis was.;)

WillowTheWhisp 07-01-2008 15:15
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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 513887)
know what ya mean steeljack. reminds me of a song i aint heard for about 40 yrs, Who Knows Where The Time Goes- Tim Hart n Maddy Prior.:D
I remember Lonnie Donegan singing that at the end of a show he used to do on TV on Saturdays. I can't remember the name of the show though.

pipinfort 07-01-2008 15:19
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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp (Post 513909)
I remember Lonnie Donegan singing that at the end of a show he used to do on TV on Saturdays. I can't remember the name of the show though.
who`s Lonnie Donegan?

WillowTheWhisp 07-01-2008 15:34
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Aaaaaargh! That's when I know I'm old!

MargaretR 07-01-2008 15:35
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Originally Posted by pipinfort (Post 513910)
who`s Lonnie Donegan?
BBC - Cult - I Love Lonnie Donegan

WillowTheWhisp 07-01-2008 16:06
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It's a shame that people remember him most for the daft songs like 'My Old Man's a Dustman' and 'Does your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour?' because he did some really great ballads and some fantastic skiffle.

He had such energy and insanity at times too. And boy could he sing FAST! Anybody remember 'Rock Island Line'?

beechy 07-01-2008 16:38
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Originally Posted by pipinfort (Post 513910)
who`s Lonnie Donegan?
no lonnie donegan...
no rock and roll IMHO :theband:

WillowTheWhisp 07-01-2008 17:07
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Absolutely Beechy :)

panther 07-01-2008 17:59
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does anyone remember this..........Coal miners walked out at midnight in their first national strike for almost 50 years. They are looking for an increase of up to £9 a week - on an average take home wage of £25.

remember it....i dont, i wasnt even born:rolleyes:

it was nearly 36 years ago...9th january 1972

MargaretR 07-01-2008 18:11
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When I started work in 1958(50yrs ago) my first wage was £2-18s-6d with 20d tax deducted on alternate weeks. £25 a week was VERY good money - but with a job like that they earned every penny

garinda 07-01-2008 18:13
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Elvis would have been 71 tomorrow, which just doesn't seem right.:eek:

panther 07-01-2008 18:19
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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 513986)
Elvis would have been 71 tomorrow, which just doesn't seem right.:eek:
oh no i will get this of my mother tomorrow:rolleyes:

71 year old, i wonder what he would have looked like??:rolleyes:.......................fat and bold or another tom jones (trying to look young but failing miserably):p

MargaretR 07-01-2008 18:25
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1 Attachment(s)
Someone tried that
BBC NEWS | Scotland | Photo shows elderly Elvis

panther 07-01-2008 18:28
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Originally Posted by [email protected] (Post 513996)
LOL.....that looks spooky:mosher:

WillowTheWhisp 07-01-2008 20:37
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Lonnie Donegan was 71 when he died and he didn't look that bad! http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/i...milies/eek.gif

mallard 07-01-2008 20:42
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That dose look realy spooky but it,s good how they have done it.

Wynonie Harris 07-01-2008 20:47
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1968...sitting on t'deck with Isaac and Florrie...drinking Chris's frothy coffee in the Dahlia...dancing in a circle up Accy Disco...drinking too much at the Jazz Club...was it really all 40 years ago? Frightening! :eek:

WillowTheWhisp 07-01-2008 21:01
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1968 I was still at school and desperate to be old enough to get into places I wasn't old enough to get into. Funny how time changes things.

Lilly 07-01-2008 21:12
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I would have loved to be a teenager in the 60s. :)

cashman 07-01-2008 22:13
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if ya go back 50 yrs, ITV pinched Jack Good from the "BeeB" (6-5 special) and created the first in yer face rocknroll show in britain Oh Boy, whereas 6-5 was much more sedate, Oh Boy you have to thank i think for the real explosion of British rocknroll 1958.;)

WillowTheWhisp 08-01-2008 11:22
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Originally Posted by Lilly (Post 514099)
I would have loved to be a teenager in the 60s. :)
It was a good time to be a teenager - in spite of the dance I wasn't allowed in to because I wasn't 16 (I was one week off!) and my friend WAS allowed in despite the fact that her birthday wasn't until April!

grannyclaret 08-01-2008 12:02
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I got married in 1961,,,,It was a wonderful era.....:D

cashman 08-01-2008 13:55
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Originally Posted by Lilly (Post 514099)
I would have loved to be a teenager in the 60s. :)
it was something else Lilly, but would you want to be n owd "fart" now as i am?;)

beechy 08-01-2008 16:45
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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 514286)
it was something else Lilly, but would you want to be n owd "fart" now as i am?;)
owd and wiser hey cashy
i think not.....but we can dream :cool:

shillelagh 08-01-2008 16:56
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1968 i was in nappies after being born in 67. So cant remember much of that year!!! lol

panther 09-01-2008 11:31
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Originally Posted by garinda (Post 513986)
Elvis would have been 71 tomorrow, which just doesn't seem right.:eek:
just had to say that elvis would have been 73 not 71:p, my mother told me:rolleyes: he was born in 1935:cool::tongueout

cashman 09-01-2008 21:57
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Originally Posted by panther (Post 514691)
just had to say that elvis would have been 73 not 71:p, my mother told me:rolleyes: he was born in 1935:cool::tongueout
correct Elvis Aron Presley born jan 8th 1935 tupelo, missisipi.:)

firth_dawn 09-01-2008 22:04
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Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 514352)
1968 i was in nappies after being born in 67. So cant remember much of that year!!! lol
same here. i was born in 67 so cant remember much of that year also. :D

ANNE 09-01-2008 22:32
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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp (Post 513929)
It's a shame that people remember him most for the daft songs like 'My Old Man's a Dustman' and 'Does your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour?' because he did some really great ballads and some fantastic skiffle.

He had such energy and insanity at times too. And boy could he sing FAST! Anybody remember 'Rock Island Line'?
I liked that one best willow.

ossylass 09-01-2008 22:47
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Panther- I remember the power strike in 1972. I'd just started a new job as an editor, after time off to have my three kids, and the first week there, I had to work by candlelight.

WillowTheWhisp 10-01-2008 06:55
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I remember working by candlelight in the bank and one of the cashiers set fire to somebody's Kay's Catalogue payment and we had to go chasing after the customer to get duplicate details! :D

cashman 10-01-2008 10:15
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was a wood machinst at the time of the power strike, so candlelight was well out of the question for us.:D seem to recall we had a 3-day week.:confused:

Helen 30-04-2008 19:39
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I used to live in Accy but emigrated to Canada in 1975. I'd forgotten there WAS a singer called Lonnie Donegan until I saw him mentioned on this site! It's amazing how many things you forget about until someone or something reminds you. I saw in another post that Moorhead is going to have yet another name change. It was Accrington High School for Girls when I attended it. Why the latest name change?

polly 30-04-2008 19:56
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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp (Post 513909)
I remember Lonnie Donegan singing that at the end of a show he used to do on TV on Saturdays. I can't remember the name of the show though.
You know I remember something very saimilar, definately Lonnie Donegan don't recall if it was the end or the middle of a programme. some sort of variety show?

MargaretR 30-04-2008 21:15
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Originally Posted by Helen (Post 569685)
I used to live in Accy but emigrated to Canada in 1975. I'd forgotten there WAS a singer called Lonnie Donegan until I saw him mentioned on this site! It's amazing how many things you forget about until someone or something reminds you. I saw in another post that Moorhead is going to have yet another name change. It was Accrington High School for Girls when I attended it. Why the latest name change?
You may be interested in this thread
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...hool-8089.html
there are some recollections from the time before the name change

cashman 30-04-2008 21:16
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Originally Posted by polly (Post 569697)
You know I remember something very saimilar, definately Lonnie Donegan don't recall if it was the end or the middle of a programme. some sort of variety show?
know fer fact Lonnie Donegan appeared on 6-5 Special @ Oh Boy many times, maybe thats what yer thinking of polly?

Eric 30-04-2008 21:57
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I remember watching Sputnik in '57 ... it was on bonfire night ... and sitting up waiting for the first Telstar broadcast ... Remember the first tv appearance of the Beatles on Jimmy Saville's show ... and everyone who was alive at the time seems to remember what they were doing when they heard the news of Kennedy's assasination ... I was playing snooker at the Con Club in Accy when is saw it on the tv ... Black and white of course. And I was underage at the time. Beer tasted better when you were under age.

Eric 30-04-2008 21:57
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Which reminds me ... time for a beer.

West Ender 30-04-2008 22:46
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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 569729)
Remember the first tv appearance of the Beatles on Jimmy Saville's show ...


They first appeared on a programme called, I think, People and Places. It was 1962 and I had only been married a month or so and was staying with my parents as my husband was on a course with the RAF. I remember my dad and I were watching the programme and I said, "They're good." My dad, a former dance-band drummer, said it was a pity the drummer (Ringo) didn't know how to hold his sticks properly. :D

West Ender 30-04-2008 22:50
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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 569729)
... and everyone who was alive at the time seems to remember what they were doing when they heard the news of Kennedy's assasination ...

I was nearly 8 months pregnant with my first child and was waiting for my parents to arrive at our home in Rutland. They were coming to stay for a few days as my husband was away on an exercise. When the news came on the telly, I cried.

Royboy39 30-04-2008 23:10
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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 569729)
... and everyone who was alive at the time seems to remember what they were doing when they heard the news of Kennedy's assasination.
Sorry Eric...I was 24 then..young and daft...I remember the whole sequence of events regarding the assasination but cannot for the life of me remember what I was doing at the time.

steeljack 30-04-2008 23:21
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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 569729)
... and everyone who was alive at the time seems to remember what they were doing when they heard the news of Kennedy's assasination ... .
I had an after school job in a television rental shop , it was a Friday afternoon/tea time and the shop became packed with folks who came in paying their weekly 7/6d and didn't want to leave.

(wonder how many rent their televisions these days ;) )

Eric 30-04-2008 23:34
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Originally Posted by steeljack (Post 569768)
I had an after school job in a television rental shop , it was a Friday afternoon/tea time and the shop became packed with folks who came in paying their weekly 7/6d and didn't want to leave.

(wonder how many rent their televisions these days ;) )
You worked for Granada? Oh for the days that I played snooker at tea time:D

Eric 30-04-2008 23:38
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Originally Posted by West Ender (Post 569745)
They first appeared on a programme called, I think, People and Places. It was 1962 and I had only been married a month or so and was staying with my parents as my husband was on a course with the RAF. I remember my dad and I were watching the programme and I said, "They're good." My dad, a former dance-band drummer, said it was a pity the drummer (Ringo) didn't know how to hold his sticks properly. :D

That was it; "People and Places" .... followed by Coronation Street on ??Tuesdays and Thursdays?? Ena Sharples and Minnie Caldwell rule:theband:

Eric 30-04-2008 23:39
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Oh, and Albert Tatlock too.

Eric 30-04-2008 23:41
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And Len Fairclough ... I gotta quit this eh.

jaysay 01-05-2008 09:32
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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 569729)
I remember watching Sputnik in '57 ... it was on bonfire night ... and sitting up waiting for the first Telstar broadcast ... Remember the first tv appearance of the Beatles on Jimmy Saville's show ... and everyone who was alive at the time seems to remember what they were doing when they heard the news of Kennedy's assasination ... I was playing snooker at the Con Club in Accy when is saw it on the tv ... Black and white of course. And I was underage at the time. Beer tasted better when you were under age.
I was at the Youth Club in St Mary's Centre in Lock Street when I heard about Kennedy's assasination

cashman 01-05-2008 09:43
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Originally Posted by Royboy39 (Post 569759)
Sorry Eric...I was 24 then..young and daft...I remember the whole sequence of events regarding the assasination but cannot for the life of me remember what I was doing at the time.
and i was younger n no doubt dafter, was either rat arsed or stoned n honestly not a clue where i was, like royboy i remember everything virtually, but "NOT" where i was.

beechy 02-05-2008 14:07
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i seem to recall playing snooker up the Elite at
the time JFK was shot :(

Eric 02-05-2008 19:01
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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 569860)
and i was younger n no doubt dafter, was either rat arsed or stoned n honestly not a clue where i was, like royboy i remember everything virtually, but "NOT" where i was.
Plus ca change .... :hidewall:


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