Safe, cosy, suburban, whimsical… words to desribe a great many British 70s sitcoms. Rising Damp doesn’t fall in any of these categories. Rising Damp was set in the bedsitland of a bleak Northern city and centred around miserly Landlord Rigsby…
Radio – Looking Back
During the 1980s, I was a keen collector of radio station airchecks. I would collect ANYTHING and tape everything. Lack of space would later force me to scrap some of the recordings, though some of the best have been dusted…
70s Timeline
Noteable Events From The 70s Note: If you are using Timeline for serious research, please double check with other sources as accuracy cannot be guaranteed 4-Jan-70 Violence flares in Northern Ireland 8-Jan-70 4000 estimated to have died due…
The Trimphone
Brrrrrpppp, Brrrrpppp…..Brrrppp,Brrrppp……. OK, so it loses a bit in translation, but that’s what the trimphone sounded like. Before the privatisation of the British telephone system, the GPO as it was then known would only allow subscribers to rent telephones from…
The 1980s: A Decade Still Among Us
Take a Chill Pill, the ’80s are here to stay Why does there continue to be a fascination with the 1980s? Just recently, Delta Airlines created an in-flight safety video based on the stubborn decade. Everywhere we turn, we see…