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you have forgot about the joy of watching the snooker before colour came in.

Ah, yes: Quote one commentator "for those of you watching in black and white, the yellow is the ball behind the blue".

Ah! The joy of it all. The luxury of 625 lines and 3 channels.

But what about those lovely summers we had? You know the ones - when the cricket or tennis was on, along would come some French TV station or Russian radio station, and start interfering with the sound and picture. Then you knew good weather had arrived..

Does anyone else remember the arial? I was quite old(16yrs) when we, as a family got our first television but I seem to remember the arial being a stick.We used to move about, all over the place until the picture became relativley visible. Never seemed to be the same two days on the trot.

yeah, i remember that granny, isn't it funny you forget things like that till someone jogs your memory,then all sorts come flooding back, lol.

When I was on the boats our aerial was a coat hanger on a broom stick, bound on with black masking tape, with a rather long length of cable to the box. We had to stick the said antenna out of the torpedo loading hatch and if the picture went wonky had to have a chain of blokes shouting up to the trot sentry to turn the aerial and tell him when to stop. What the heck, it worked and we would've had nowt without it. Good fun and like you said, only two channels to worry about.
That's one of the said boats on my icon by the way.

Coat Hanger Bandy? Luxury! When we were kids, our aerial was a piece of wet string that we had to hold up over our heads for hours at a time.

Wet String ?? Sheer luxury !! When we were kids, we had to stand on top of the roof with wet toilet paper wrapped round our heads as an aerial, pointing to Holme Moss for hours on end !!!

Hey Pinz, what happened when the wind blew? Did you spin around like a weather vane ?

Must say the 'wet string' seems more fun.

you were all lucky,we didnt have electric,used to go to grange road waching telly in the shop window.remember watching man utd playing after munich in the pouring rain,me and about 30 others !!! the thing is though i loved listening to the wireless with me nan and granddad and still do ,life was a lot more simple then.now youve got to look around if you get your mobile out in case some yob tries to have it away.

How old are Nan and Grandad now Cathcart? Once you got leccy, did you plug them in?

They probably got wildly invigorated - for a short time !
Sorry - no offence intended cathcart. Just couldn't resist that comment of granny's ! She has a way with words.

must admit i didnt word it very well,no offence taken,but i also have a way with words,should have said 1958 like most females granny doesnt know her footy !!

Nope, she doesn't Cathcart!! How do you know I'm a female?

ALthough ,I do remember there was an aircrash involving supporters at some point in relation to Man. United and Munich. Would that have been the time?

that is correct,oh,the reason icalled you a female is that all the grannys i know are!