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Peter Preston
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1950/60s UK Manual Telephone Exchange
Experience the atmosphere in a typical 1960s manual telephone exchange. In those days, some areas had operators who answered you when you picked up your ‘phone and connected your call. Some of these areas were quite small. My local exchange in those days was in a converted semi-detached house and employed about thirteen operators - usually girls during the day and males overnight. Other manual exchanges covered a much bigger area: Northampton would be an example. Where a large, automatic exchange covered the area, they would also usually have a manual suite (operators) in the building and subscribers (for that was how customers were referred to in those days) could dial 100 for an operator-connected trunk (long-distance) call, most of which couldn’t be dialled direct - or 192 (free!!) for information about a number in another part of the country. The girls were monitored by hawk-eyed ‘supervisors’ who ensured they didn’t make personal calls or chat up any male caller they might fancy - and if they needed the loo they had to put up their hands and ask a supervisor for a ‘casual!’
Ah, how things have changed! Walk into an automatic exchange in the 1950s/60s and the noise was amazing! This was generated by the electro-mechanical switches - called selectors - which moved up and down to establish a call. In these days of electronic switching, you would be greeted with complete silence! ….
Ah, how things have changed! Walk into an automatic exchange in the 1950s/60s and the noise was amazing! This was generated by the electro-mechanical switches - called selectors - which moved up and down to establish a call. In these days of electronic switching, you would be greeted with complete silence! ….
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Derby 1954
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1954 saw a number of events staged in Derby to celebrate the 800th anniversary of its charter which bestowed on it the right to hold a market. This was a highly-valued privilege at the time and many of today’s communities owe their very existence to it. People travelled many miles to buy and sell, often opting to settle permanently near the areas where markets were held. This short film also fe...
Have a Go Cullompton 1961
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Have-a-Go was an immensely popular British radio show which ran from 1946 - 1967 and was hosted by ex-wartime newscaster Wilfred Pickles with his wife Mabel. The show was recorded out and about the UK and participants were asked questions with monetary prizes from 2/6 (half-a-crown) to a guinea! Total prize money was £1/18/6!! Some locally grown or manufactured items were also occasionally offe...
Twenty Questions
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Twenty Questions. BBC Radio game show from the 40s & 50s chaired by the irascible Gilbert Harding and featuring panelists Joy Adamson, Anona Winn, Jack Train and Kenneth Horne - not forgetting the sepulchral ‘mystery voice’ of Norman Hackforth . This edition was broadcast from Brighton. The date of the recording is uncertain.
John Snagge's London - John Wesley's Home
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John Snagge’s London. John Wesley’s London Home Broadcast during the 1970s in the series John Snagge’s London, John Snagge takes a look inside the home of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. The house is located in City Road, London and is open to the public Monday to Saturday from 10.00am to 4.00pm. Close to the City of London, Wesley's Chapel and home were built by John Wesley in 1778 to s...
Serenade in the Night - Peter Yorke (Audio recording)
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Peter Yorke & his Orchestra - Serenade in the Night Broadcast on Sunday 5th July 1964 at 10.00pm, this programme - of just over an hour’s duration - also features The Dennis Wilson Trio, Belle Gonzales and is presented by Gary Miller.
Winifred Atwell
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John Snagge's London - The London Transport Collection
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Lunchbox
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Harry Brown Trio
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Recorded in 1982, this is a short video clip of The Harry Brown Trio guesting on Pebble Mill at One. The quality isn’t brilliant but it is the only visual record of the Trio that I have come across. If anyone else out there has audio or video clips of Harry, I am sure there are many on UA-cam who would appreciate seeing/hearing this popular Nottingham jazz pianist again
Border Heritage
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A compilation of scenic material shot in the Border Television region during the 1990s and backed with an absolutely brilliant music track by the ubiquitous General Lafayette.
The Syd Lawrence Bandshow
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Love Will Keep Us Together - BACKING TRACK
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A backing track for Love Will Keep Us Together. Make yourself sound really professional!
The Fabulous Singlettes
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The Road to Kitty Hawk (Audio recording)
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The Road to Kitty Hawk (Audio recording)
Harry Brown - Jazz (audio) recording from a party gig
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Harry Brown - Jazz (audio) recording from a party gig
A Tribute to Mr. Acker Bilk 1929-2014
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G3ZPR erecting a Comet hf vertical antenna
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John Snagge's London - The Black Museum (Audio recording)
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John Snagge's London - The Black Museum (Audio recording)
Jyll Ball - What a Difference a Day Makes (Audio recording)
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Jyll Ball - What a Difference a Day Makes (Audio recording)
Watched Sid as a rehersal band from the very start, band consisted of members of the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra and the Granada Show Band. They rehersed a new number each week building up a book. Later they moved to another hotel to reherse, forget the name.
And today we have loose women and this morning ….. not sure thats progress.
must be a fault on the line
Kevin was my uncle!! Its lovely to see this footage of family Thankyou for this❤
What a lovely piece of nostalgia to turn up on my utube. I remember this so well in the early 60s, I was about 10 years old.
Jerry plays a rare Hammond organ
Those presenters speaking properly, how nice compared to some you hear these days. And seven pence for a stamp!!
THIS IS REAL ENTERTAINMENT!!! They are funny as hell and twice as talented!!!
Do I Love You - - - - really outstanding.
Wondering what happened to them..
where did you get this recording?
What is the name of the arrangement at 28:00? Just before Chatanooga Chu Chu
I love the arrangement of Cherokee they play at the top so much!
The worst thing to happen to Derby was in became a city
I always felt Derby was too big to be a town, too small to be a city.
Anyone have Brighton exchange video our boards were very high
I was sixteen and was trained and worked at Brighton exchange. The start of me growing up with lovely friends working alongside me.
I love the amount of mechanical noises of the dial!
Wow,that took me back to a 1950s Stockport!
Sarah Gilbert. That singer has a fantastic sound, plus she sounds jazzy. Contrary to the other crooner who sounds like coming from a classic background. He sounds too oily for me, too much drama. Why did she sing only one song?
Proud of Derby then now it a right dump people in that video would be turning in their graves if they saw it today what a shame England got like this!!!!!!!!
It’s not difficult to see where it’s gone so wrong, just take a look at the population of the city then & something springs to mind
Totally agree with you
Springs to mind 3rd World .
Unbelievable.Beter isn' pocibel.
I lived in Derby during the 1940s and remember the trolleybuses and steam trains at Friargate Station. It was a friendly and happy town with many beautiful buildings. When I came back years later I was horrified to see how things had deteriorated in the town BUT thank goodness Darley Park was unchanged and Markeaton Park was looking good too. They must be guarded against so called "improvements".
Keep it up.big bands .are the best 😂
Did this series interview people in the street? Did it have an episode with a RAF pilot driving to work and looking at what he did? Flt lt Christopher Pyne was the pilot? Thanks Andrew
More please!!
Great sound in that venue!
Loved seeing Ashford in the Water at minute 25 👍🏻
Por favor como se titula la segunda composición?
Was that the only surviving footage of Lunch Box?
Bravissimo.❤❤
Johnny Gray's enthusiasm is infectiious!
Lisastansfield..ese día..va ser...espectacular.....el..encuentros........serás.muy..feliz..junto..ami...mi..lisa....amor..real.....cariño..🙆😄🇨🇱❤️❤️
Lovely bit of film - it's great that this sort of history is shared - Nostalgia is not a trap.
yes very good. but cannot get into the situation like say basie, cannot visualise say mean new york streets.theres something very mundane about the british. yes thats right includes me up to 30 yrs ago..the skills though are equal to those in US. Does anyone else feel same. Mean Salford or Chelteham streets seem to lack something.Spose thats why we found Scientology to be perfect for us till due to them it failed or is it they failed.If this session was billed as a US band I reckon I would be in a better mood, very sad.Might also be because we had US training which was lighyt years better than Uk university junk. Before you start pikin holes take a good look at selves or ask us to do it for ya
When Britain was great, what's happened
Multiculturalism.
Diversity became our strength, apparently... 🙄
The good old days, bring them back.
Wooaoooo!!..what a big Band!!.....Beautiful !!
I used to listen to this in bed when I was a child - I'm now in my mid-70s. All I can say is, how did we put up with such pedestrian, not very enteratining or funny nonsense. I know that people had just been through a world war (I missed it by four years) and needed something comforting, but really? this? I listened for 5 minutes, then couldn't bear it any more...
I've heard that this is the only episode to be recorded, would be such a shame if it is true, losing out on such a nice programme.
Damn. We used to be a proud city/nation. Now look at us.
Thank you so much for this!
Having been born and brought up in Derby I weep at the sorry state that the City has descended to since living memory. Today it is a filthy scruffy mess and the people of Derby along with it. Oh how we could go back to the town as it was then.
What else do you expect under this Government.
@@nigelfarley814 His Royal Tonyness started the rot allowing unfettered immigration. I left Derby 2 years ago and have not been back once.
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne Trouble is that us Brits like to travel the world and live where we like. There are around 3 million Brits in France, 2 million in Spain, half a million in both Italy and Portugal. If we look wider there are countless in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Probably 100 million worldwide. Yet we complain when a few thousand come here. Regrettably the country is changing and not necessarily for the better.
@@nigelfarley814 Incredible mathematics. More British people abroad than live in the UK. Utterly hilarious.
@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne BUT TRUE!
Roast dinners, Mum in the kitchen, us kids in and out, Dad pulling vegetables and long, long sunny days!
Good exercise
I don,t known them but they are very good. 22:10
Makes me sad. Miss. My. Parents. So much
Used to have to watch this with my nan every day it was on about 1957-58 until I started school. I remember being so bored having to watch it but once I started school I wished I was back home watching it with my nan, a buttered roll and a cup of tea.
Thank u of course brings back good memories..those presenter voices so British darling
Good ECS music