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  • heckington_reds
    heckington_reds Posts: 727
    killerandflash said:
    My parents didn't get a colour TV until 1978 and even then the b&W TV was kept as a second set for several years so I would have been watching in b&w well into the 80s
    Colour tv was in the lounge, so on a Sunday night I would get into my mum and dad's bed and watch hart to hart on b and w 
    How I miss me mum and dad xxx 
  • Blucher
    Blucher Posts: 4,135
    My first sight ever of colour TV was the classic 1973 FA Cup Final of Sunderland v Leeds, when a multitude of us jammed into my dad’s mate’s front room. It seemed quite astounding.

    After severe lobbying, we eventually hired a coloured telly just before the start of the1974 World Cup.

  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,149
    i had the old black and white telly in my bedroom , early eighties , coat hanger as an aerial 
    Moonlighting on , Cybil Shepherd , 5 knuckle shuffle , great days as I became an expert in that art , something I haven’t given up to this day 👊🏻💦
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    And there isn’t a colour broadcast of Charlton beating Millwall....
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,633
    edited November 2019
    1StevieG said:
    And there isn’t a colour broadcast of Charlton beating Millwall....
    The club shop sold a video of the 2-0 win at the rusty toolbox, in colour, the quality of the picture wasn’t great, in fact it was very snowy.
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,188
    Also 50 years this weekend that the Sun newspaper launched as a tabloid (it had been a worthy broadsheet before Murdoch bought it).
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    happyvalley said:
    It's amazing how many people used to rent a set. I suppose the prices were relatively high back then. Also they were were more prone to breaking down & as you rented one the company would repair it for free or replace it.
    Just checked and new set would have been equivalent of £3,000 and monthly rental was around £150.
    Very unreliable and frequently breaking down so buying was risky. But if you rented from Radio Rentals they turned up with a replacement, normally a newer model and took the broken one away that you never saw again 
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,783
    AFKABartram said:
    charltonnick said:
    Just checked we won 14-6 , 1973  :)
    That set must have had shocking resolution for you to miss two French penalties Nick :-)
    Could’ve been a converted try AFKA. Back then a try was only worth 4 points. (Unless you happen to remember this particular result, in which case I bow to your superior knowledge!) :smile:
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,456

    The Ibrox Stadium crush on 2 January 1971 was one of the worst peacetime disasters in Scotland. It left 66 people dead and more than 140 injured.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/B0cJMZS3B1/Fiveboys
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    clive said:

    The Ibrox Stadium crush on 2 January 1971 was one of the worst peacetime disasters in Scotland. It left 66 people dead and more than 140 injured.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/B0cJMZS3B1/Fiveboys
    and the 'auld firm' are playing right now at Ibrox
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  • bazjonster
    bazjonster Posts: 2,875
    clive said:

    The Ibrox Stadium crush on 2 January 1971 was one of the worst peacetime disasters in Scotland. It left 66 people dead and more than 140 injured.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/B0cJMZS3B1/Fiveboys
    Disclosure, Series 3: Stairway 13: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000qvk5 via @bbciplayer

    Watched this the the other night. Recommend it, very poignant. 

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