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It was "Have a Go". With Mabel at the Table and Harry Hudson at the piano...

Thanks Colgo. I'd quite forgotten the "Mabel at the table" phrase. Wilfred Pickles stood out from the usual folk on the beeb in those days. Receieved pronounciation/correct English was the order of the day then. A broad Yorkshireman with "ee by gum" etc. must have ruffled a few feathers in the BBC's hierarchy !

I've enjoyed reading and following this thread and there has been some excellent contributions, the only thing now is I've formed the opinion the most of you are barking mad. I would not give up my present day lifestyle, living or working conditions to return to what it was like years ago.

Don't worry you lot, they can treat you with pills now, no need to zap you with a thousand volts via the brain.

Hey Bert, Wakey wakey. Ner ner ner ner ner. Name that show. Easy peasy one that.

While I don't miss a lot of it, certainly Sundays with all that stuff on the wireless makes me think of my mums dinner on the go and her baking for hours. Wish I had paid more attention to what she did and the ingredients.

I still think that cow pies from Starbucks (Golden Teapot) New Brighton were the best in the world. One shilling. Bargain!

There's the nub bert. Got to square the circle somehow, yesteryear's innocence coupled with todays conveniences, if only. Certainly couldn't do without the central heating, the tele, the car etc. but would be nice to not see all the nastiness that goes on as well eh? One of the funny ones to me now is seeing my generation getting all their pills out and comparing treatments over a pint. I don't think half of us would've lasted this long without the mod cons.

Aahh---but back then there were more jobs around,i can remember leaving one job on a friday and starting in another the following monday--can't do that today! also---you did'nt need NVQs for this that and the other, you learnt on the job!!
and a job was for life,not like now were your lucky to get any kind of work cos there are 100s after one job!!

More jobs or less people to fill them, women staying at home bringing up children kind of thing, there was certainly more false teeth, all the adults close to me when i was a child had them, full sets, I grew up thinking it was compulsory to have all ones teeth out by the age of 40. I also grew up thinking the only thing that killed females was this incredible disease called Woman's Trouble, shudder the thought of anyone mentioning the real names for these problems.
Bandy mentioned there wasn't the nastiness, as kids I think we were protected from it, like a lot of things we are suppose to protect children from, that's a great sadness, they know to much to quick now.

Was it Hughie Green on "Take Your Pick" with the Yes/No interlude in it?
What was the name of the talents type of show and the well-known
acts that came out of it (was it Hughie Green again in it?)

Micheal Miles, Take your Pick and Opportunity Knocks with Hughie.

The teeth thing was definitely funny, one minute its the piano keyboard, one black, one white, one missing and the next they're all grinning like Shergar. Then they decided they couldn't get on with the top set so left them out in the house and put them in to go out, and that's on top of them working loose when they laughed too much or as they were trying to knock a song out. Eye popping stuff for us kids then.

my granddad never had a tooth in his head! how he managed to eat meat i don't know but he did! i remember my nan had an old set lying around and he put them in!! OMG!he looked awful,he looked like a horse!lol, old skinflint he was he wouldn't of dreamt of buying his own!!!!!!!

Ha ha ! the teeth thing reminds me of my old nan, she used to have 2 pairs of teeth- 1 for eatin an they looked like a row of bus stops!dont know how she managed it but she did ,she ate all kinds pigs feet,tripe,pigs tails, all sorts, sittin there gnawin away on them!
And then her 'goin out teeth' which she kept in tisssue in her handbag! looked like red rum in them! she d say "Ay arold go n get me bag am off out.. !

You lot on this page are hilarious! Best laugh for a long time.

It's your quiz inquisitor, Michael Miles-with Bob Danvers-Walker banging the gong on the "Yes-No" interlude!! Anyone remember that? Was what that? Yes? BOING!!!

It's your quiz inquisitor, Michael Miles-with Bob Danvers-Walker banging the gong on the "Yes-No" interlude!! Anyone remember that? Was what that? Yes? BOING!!!