Quote: Billy Bunter @ 14th May 2022, 10:32 AMYes, we have CDs now and, as we all know, you can do anything with them - even spread jam om them - and they will still play perfectly ?
I remember them saying that on Tomorrow's World many years ago...............how wrong they were - that and the DVD are such a flaky medium. Convenient, but flaky.
1953........... Get in the swim with the world famous, no less Roxy at only 7/6 (seven shillings and sixpence) - 37½p in today's money.
I had one of those horny speakers once. Bought in a 'junk' shop in Blackpool I included it in our things when we went to Egypt , then moved it to Cyprus when the UK gave up the Canal Zone, but I eventually left it in Cyprus. I think I gave it to a friend.
It was sensitive enough to run straight from a crystal set, no batteries, no mains (converted) electric power, just ran on broadcast power from the radio signal.
Quote: billwill @ 15th May 2022, 3:58 PMI had one of those horny speakers once. Bought in a 'junk' shop in Blackpool I included it in our things when we went to Egypt , then moved it to Cyprus when the UK gave up the Canal Zone, but I eventually left it in Cyprus. I think I gave it to a friend.
It was sensitive enough to run straight from a crystal set, no batteries, no mains (converted) electric power, just ran on broadcast power from the radio signal.
Would be worth a fair bit now.
1981.........
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 14th May 2022, 10:32 AMYes, we have CDs now and, as we all know, you can do anything with them - even spread jam om them - and they will still play perfectly ?
?
1940............. BOGOF Bottle of Cider under 5p and toothpaste 2½p
I have no words for these.....
Albany Life, 1983
Bloody Hell!
"Now tell me Darling, what was your birth date? I need it for this form I'm filling in."
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 17th May 2022, 11:09 AMBloody Hell!
"Now tell me Darling, what was your birth date? I need it for this form I'm filling in."
Ha ha ha ha..... What an incredible and distinctive marketing strategy.
1994..............
Gaymer's cyder, 1955
Couldn't help myself singing the Pepsodent jingle 
Concorde, 1989 - Service started in 1976 and closed in 2003
Luxury flight across the Atlantic
Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 18th May 2022, 9:16 AM1994..............
Exactly 70 years previous, 1924............
That's it. Though mine was much bigger.