Merthyr Imp
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I'm curious as to what train you were waiting for at 4.30am.
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18 minutes ago, NewBasfordlad said:
Fly2 #741.
Strange if Harvey is a surname why was I christened as Colin Harvey surname in 1946?
Well, you can't have been named after the Everton footballer Colin Harvey as he was only two years old at the time.
This all reminds me of the 'William' stories by Richmal Crompton where one of his older brother's friends is called Jameson Jameson, and we are told that 'his parents had perpetrated on him the supreme practical joke of giving him his surname for a Christian name'.
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Well, at least they don't say 'If you've been impacted by this programme...'
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About a week later it was the Playhouse again for an adaptation of 'Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde', but I can remember practically nothing of it, nor were there any notable names in the cast.
At least the adverts made a difference from those at the Theatre Royal:
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Saturday Club. That's going back a bit.
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Early 1982 and I ventured to the Playhouse for a change, and for the first time not as part of a school trip.
This was a Somerset Maugham play about which I remember next to nothing except that it starred Phyllis Calvert.
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Isn't Pyongyang now called table tennis?
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My complaint about Skegness was always that it was such a long walk to get to the sea.
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Last in 1981 was an Agatha Christie adaptation. Not with Poirot or Miss Marple, this one, but Superintendent Battle, played by the star, Gordon Jackson. Those of us of a certain age will recognise the name Patricia Driscoll in the cast.
Can't remember anything about the production though!
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And still in 1981, an Alan Ayckbourn comedy, but one that hasn't stuck in my mind.
Not the most notable of TV stars in it.
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Can't say I've ever noticed any difference between the BBC's news coverage of any subject and that of ITV.
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Yes - built in 1949.
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You mean this sort?
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The above picture can be dated to June 1989 as the locomotives shown were part of an exhibition at the station held on 4th June that year. Photo may be that very day.
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Still taken to heart by politicians today.
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On 02/03/2017 at 5:08 PM, Merthyr Imp said:
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Long after the days of British Rail the double arrow symbol is still in current use as a sign to indicate the presence of a railway station, it also appears on all standard tickets and on the National Rail Enquiries website:
Just seen the double arrow symbol on the new Britain Runs on Rail advert on TV. Still going strong after 50 years.
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The following week in November 1981 saw the National Theatre in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', including Paul Eddington then at the height of his TV fame. A play with a lot of shouting in it as I remember, and not really my sort of thing.
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He sounds well-bred anyway.
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45 minutes ago, woody said:
Often smile to myself at announcements in my local diy when the customer desk puts out a "colleague request". If they are colleagues why can't they use the name of the person needed?
Perhaps they don't need a particular person?
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I thought Imps were great - but I would say that, wouldn't I?
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November 1981 and an almost one-man show at the Theatre Royal with Roy Hudd with songs, routines, monologues and stories from the music hall.
This was very good (assuming you like the old music hall stuff) and I particularly remember 'The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God'. Rita Morris gave him a break with a few songs, including a rendition of 'Oh, Mr. Porter' giving the words double meanings which you would never dreamed they possessed - which is apparently how Marie Lloyd used to perform it.
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In the years before that - pre-war and earlier - there were probably more than two. People used to read newspapers in the pre-TV age, and even more so pre-radio. I can remember when both the Evening Post and the Evening News were on sale in Nottingham, plus the Guardian Journal in the mornings.
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13 minutes ago, radfordred said:
Nottingham Football Post couldn't believe how quick after the match it was on sale on the streets,
Used to be about a quarter past five as I remember. Not bad going to be reading an account of the match you'd just seen half an hour after it finished. And of course, it was anxiously awaited as a means of finding out the results of other matches - up to date league tables too - unless you were one of the few who took a portable transistor radio about with you.
Those days are gone - and next could be the traditional printed football programme, especially at lower levels of the game, with things moving towards on-line or digital versions so that people would download them to their tablets (or whatever they're called) or fancy mobile phones and read them that way instead.
The times we live in!
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Still in 1981 and another thriller. I can't remember anything about it apart from seeing Richard Todd.
Speak Nottinghamese
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Surely it should be 'bat yer tabs'.