June 6, 20179 yr 3 hours ago, Osgood is Good said: Radio Rental, the shop used to be on the High St, remember my dear old Mum, going in and making the payments, I think every week in the early 1970's. Got our first colour telly in 1972. Remember when we first got colour, staring at the BBC test card logo in colour, being just fascinated. Yes my parents were with radio rentals. No colour tv for me until around 1980! I think the colour licence was more money!!
June 6, 20179 yr 5 minutes ago, Richard P said: Yes my parents were with radio rentals. No colour tv for me until around 1980! I think the colour licence was more money!! You're right, colour licence was more money. My dad's mate worked at Radio Rentals in Beckenham High St. Think they had a moody deal going on.
June 6, 20179 yr 4 hours ago, Osgood is Good said: Radio Rental, the shop used to be on the High St, remember my dear old Mum, going in and making the payments, I think every week in the early 1970's. Got our first colour telly in 1972. Remember when we first got colour, staring at the BBC test card logo in colour, being just fascinated. Reminds me of all those nights where I would get home often after an away match and lots of alcohol, put the TV on make a cup of tea and .................... Wake at god knows what time to that picture of the TV buzzing that peculiar note, my head aching and my tea cold. Off to bed for me it was.
June 6, 20179 yr 30 minutes ago, Strider6003 said: Reminds me of all those nights where I would get home often after an away match and lots of alcohol, put the TV on make a cup of tea and .................... Wake at god knows what time to that picture of the TV buzzing that peculiar note, my head aching and my tea cold. Off to bed for me it was. I did that once after coming back from a beano in Margate slept upright in an armchair for 8 hours. Never forgotten how hard it was getting my shoes off
June 6, 20179 yr 24 minutes ago, Carshalton Blue said: Me and my mates would stand behind the pole in the middle. As a 12-15 year old that way if the pushing or crushing got to much you could just step in the walkway by the west side.
June 6, 20179 yr I used to stand right at the top just in front of the police stand, often after the pushing and surging someone would fall and I would help them back to their feet. A great spot for the singing and atmosphere.
June 6, 20179 yr p5 hours ago, bluehaze said: Granada we rented from. I actually remember that Granada advert. Sad git, I accept!
June 6, 20179 yr On 6/4/2017 at 16:50, Osgood is Good said: Great defender, and a brilliant man marker Met him a couple of times when he worked in Edgware.....Top fella!
June 6, 20179 yr 7 hours ago, erskblue said: We,like many others rented our tv back in the 1970s. Think it was from Visionhire? We got a brand new bought tv and video recorder in 1984. Both bought with some of my old man shipyard redundancy money. Thought we were kings. Remember we rented a decent sized colour TV in 1980, for £12 per month. Brought a Beta ( doh! ) Video in 82/83 for £285!.
June 6, 20179 yr Our first video recorder was also a Betamax system. Remember that The Unforgettable Fire video by U2 in 1984 cost £19.99. That was a fortune. Think the Chelsea top for 1983/84 cost £12.99
June 7, 20179 yr 17 hours ago, Osgood is Good said: Radio Rental, the shop used to be on the High St, remember my dear old Mum, going in and making the payments, I think every week in the early 1970's. Got our first colour telly in 1972. Remember when we first got colour, staring at the BBC test card logo in colour, being just fascinated. the test card picture use to remind me of being off sick from school, no daytime TV in those days. I would be waiting for lunchtime and, pipkins,rainbow,Mr Benn or Mary mungo and Midge, when tele text arrived it was another world, first colour cup final was Fulham v west ham, I was 5, and although my family all Chelsea, I picked hammers as my team as well as Chelsea after that final, my old man not impressed, grew out of it thankfully, hate the pikies now!!!
June 7, 20179 yr 1 hour ago, chi blue said: the test card picture use to remind me of being off sick from school, no daytime TV in those days. I would be waiting for lunchtime and, pipkins,rainbow,Mr Benn or Mary mungo and Midge, when tele text arrived it was another world, first colour cup final was Fulham v west ham, I was 5, and although my family all Chelsea, I picked hammers as my team as well as Chelsea after that final, my old man not impressed, grew out of it thankfully, hate the pikies now!!! Camberwick Green was my show as a kid the joy I had when my hero Windy Miller was on. Edited June 7, 20179 yr by bluehaze
June 7, 20179 yr Remember with the old TVs that when there were problems with sound and/or picture that a good thump on the side would fix them. If an engineer was called out, one of the first things they did was to give the telly a good thump. If I remember correctly when ceefax was rolled out in the seventies an aunt and uncle of mine bought a box so they could receive ceefax. What a great idea ceefax (and also teletext and oracle) was for finding out information before the internet. Page 300 for sport. Years ago I replaced my old CRT TV with a flat screen TV. I took the old telly to the local tip. I live in a flat and hurt my back lugging the old telly down the stairs. I'd forgotten how heavy the old telly was.
June 7, 20179 yr 2 hours ago, Strider6003 said: Is that where the club shop used to be? These were the ivy clad offices for Chelsea FC in the main entrance, until Bates had them knocked down
June 7, 20179 yr I remember getting my membership around the side and seeing Ken Bates, though didn't think the building looked like that.
June 7, 20179 yr 10 hours ago, bluehaze said: Camberwick Green was my show as a kid the joy I had when my hero Windy Miller was on. Brilliant, trumpton, chigley!! Some of the stuff us old gits bring up on this site, what the young uns must think of us?
June 7, 20179 yr 2 hours ago, Osgood is Good said: It would be interesting to know who owns the number plate above "CFC 11"
June 7, 20179 yr What is so stupid is I now have access to fukcing hundreds of channels and still find myself muttering away about bugger all being on ....mind you I spend all day on here reading these great threads so ha ha .... Bolloxs to TV long live CFC
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