how things have changed

yes iv just finished watching randel and hopkirk deceased and its so strange to see such empty streets in london and of course of parking was a issue .like it is today .

meant wasn't an issue

Sorry to disillusion you, but London streets were never that deserted - It was a film set at  Elstree Film studio which started in circa 1927.

Randall & Hopkirk was fimed there in 1969.

The series The Professionals were filmed in Beckton Gasworks, Harefield Grove, Honeywell House and Southall Gasworks to name but a few of the locations.

Sadly, parking has always been a significant issue in London.

i do realise that alot of the tv serise back then was filmed in studios because you can spot the canvas drops or some times you see them passing the same postbox or the same group of trees when the car isent really moving , time and time again.i find it hilarious .esp when the car has no window screen hence no driving mirror . 

but there are location shots which does show less traffic ,maybe more buses people did use buses more then .maybe thats the difference.

Nevertheless they were both good programmes for those times, primitive though they were.

I for one used to watch them and enjoyed them enormously.

i have a lot of 70s shows on dvd ,including ,jason king ,dept s, when the boat comes in,rising damp,on the buses,are you being served, love thy neighbour and steptoe .etc 

Now you are talking my language.

I still love them all.

The problem is that everything is too PC today. Can you imagne Steptoe being allowed on the box today?

dont have to hun thats why iv brought all the box sets . they wont change history in my house .life was simplier back then and most people rubbed along together ok . 

i have even got the box set of life on mars/ and ashes to ashes because although made in in 00's it was set in the 70's and 80's with non pc material that couldnt be used in a drama set today .

they are in the  new run of these serise they are going to heavly censor it

so it wont be true to the date that to me is changinfg history .

i also have complete boxsets of george and mildred and man about the house, last of the summer wine . some sweeny,dixon of doc green.and zcars . dads army, in sickness and health  .the good life,  open all hours ,and porridge. so many memories .

I understood what you meant and I went off at a slight tangent as a result!!

Do you remember when they chnged frfom Imperial to Decimal?  An excuse to double all the prices!

 

But we had endless assurances from the politicians that it would make no difference, didn't we? It was just going to be more convenient.

yes and now its done in litres so we dont question the price like we should ..i remember someone saying i was only 11 at the time but it stuck in my mind , that decimalsation wouldnt make a difference to the value of the  pound in your pocket

i must have been a wise child because i thought then how that wasnt right , how can you go from 240 pence to 100 pence to a pound with out it being devalued .

biggest conn ever ! thank god we didnt go to the euro

 

Do you remember the years, yes years, when petrol was four gallons for a pound?

yes i can remember the signs at the garage 

My first car was a 1959 Ford Pop 100E, and I recall having it serviced (including oil and parts) at a cost of 22/09p (in old money).

How much do you think that would cost today?

The equivalent car would not only have an air filter but an inboard computer. the garage would need a computer. Cost, may I guess £220. 

i am am relying on you having an answer.

It would cost today more that I would be happy to pay for it, and that's for sure.

It must be the Scottish blood in me.

Either that or it's because I'm a tight Yorkshireman. 

Well Archemedes, that is some combination. Fancy the job of Chancellor of the Exchequer ? It  should be vacant soon. 

Oh yes, George Gideon Oliver Osborne should shortly be consigned to the bin, as will all his cronies, but then what?

More years of disasterous Labour over-spending, or maybe something new, a Fuher in the shape of Farage, or worse still Cleggy making and breaking more promises?

Whatever happens, I have the feeling that not much of it will be good for the populace.

that would be 22/- 9d old money ,9p is new money .

no top of the class today .hahaha

You are 100% correct Tiswas.

I put it down to my age and to my decrepit physiology.

Well done, full marks.....

well iv got to be good at something.

its funny what i learnt befor decimal came in has stayed. but i can not get the hang of metres millimetres etc i think its true what goes  in early   stays there.

My rule of thumb is that 1 meter is 1 yard and a bit, and 1 inch is 25 millimetres and a bit.

Although I had to use the metric system in my work, now adays I always calculate things using the old Imperial system ie. inches, feet, yards, miles, pints, quarts and gallons, with the exception of metric curreny which I have been forced to adopt.

Why oh why do those who have made these decisions to change so much, have not accepted that we used the old systems very well for over a thousand years?

They wil have us driving left-hand drive cars next on the wrong side of the road, and they call all this progress.

 

so right hun i mean how simple is it to say 1inch as apossed to 25millimetres . so daft . i liked imperial it made us British .

And achieved what Napoleon was unable to achieve in his lifetime.  We pass others in the road sword arm to sword arm, free men. Not at a defensive disadvantage to be driven off the road from behind by Napoleon's enslaving armies, slaves of a greedy repressive monster.

OMG George where did that poetic licence come from?

As it so happens I do totally agree with you.

How many wars have the French and Germans waged against us and failed?

Now they are attempting the all-encomassing nice-guy approach to get us to call ourselves Europeans, and in so doing become slaves to Brussels - NEVER.

I would dearly like to see our version of the Treaty of Rome greatly watered-down, and it not that, then less control on what we do and how we do it in our own country.

We are British despite what Brussels might think.

yes we are but consider we had an empire once

we dont amount to much now i am afraid .

Yes, but it was only a matter of time before the natives realised that we were stealing their resources, so they decided to keep the best of what we had done for them and boot us out together with all the rubbish that we had either created of brought with us..

If you look at all the great empires throughout history, every one of them failed in the end, and that is the greatest lesson we have to learn from history.

We are best left to our own devices, and proudly say that we are British.

yes i sort of get were your coming from .

 

I do not think Brussels quite approves of people being British. I am quite sorry for them in a way. But being British would not realy suit then. They would not quite have the nack. I mean, leather shorts or horisontally striped vest at a Buckingham Palace garden party would not be quite the thing.

Very much to the contrary, I think they espire to being like us, and there is something very Freudian in their apparent dislike of us.

I often think that the French would like to bend down for us,  but the threat of another German invasion forces them to be rather more masculine than as they would like to be, feminine.

Mmmmmm interesting take. There are rather more Germans than French. So a bit of bluff thrown in?

The Germans are a little less confident in themselves than they once were, as most of them regret joining the Euro.

I could almost hear their teeth grinding the day Greece asked for yet another bail-out.

The French on the other hand will steadfastly carry-on with anything vaguely resembling one of Napoleon's ideas, although it will probably sink them.

The question is, do two Frenchmen equal one German? The answer is probably yes because at least the French have the courage of their convictions.