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I was given a ticket to see Gert & Daisy. They were in Woolies on Lister Gate trying to drum up business for their show at the Theatre Royal. They didn't seem very nice people but, I accepted the ticket and went to their show. Probably early(ish)1960s. Way, way past their best. They were rubbish and hardly raised a titter all through the show

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Not on Talking Pictures, but on one of the other old TV channels........   The other day I was watching an old episode of Last of the Summer Wine, from around 1977-78. It was always billed a

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Watching Expresso Bongo""1959,, Some great familiar names and faces,,Laurence Harvey brilliant as a london Jew boy,,trying to promote acts,,including Cliff Richard,,Harvey does a brilliant jive,,

Re: Talking Pictures. I usually look at the tv Guide for the week ahead and set interesting stuff to record.  Mostly I look for old 'pop' films from the early 60's.  Things like 'Play It Cool' starring Billy Fury.  They are so bad they are good.

One I'm on the look out for is 'It's Trad Dad', which I saw on the cinema.  If I recall it was a similar sort of story to 'Don't Knock The Rock' in the fifties and 'The Young Ones'.. where the basic plot is some authority figure trying to suppress the 'kids' music.. but the kids 'win out in the end and usually say 'Gee..Let's Do The Show Right Here..'   :)

 

I also usually have a look at films I was taken to see as a kid.. often things which feature Peggy Mount shouting a lot... such as 'Sailor Beware'.  Dreadful stuff.

 

Am also on the look out for 'No Room at the Inn', which was on telly quite a lot in the 60s. It starred Freda Jackson, who went to High Pavement during its co-ed phase, and later became a familiar face in the movies.notably a lot of Hammer films.. and also on TV.  Detail and Filmography here:  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0413528/?ref_=ttls_li_st_3

 

I also like to find low budget sci fi films.. also usually terrible.

 

They still keep showing .'The Flying Scot'.  About a train robbery.  I saw that on the pics at the time.. very 'B' movie territory and hilarious.  Of course there was a Flying Scotsman. (LNER) and a 'Royal Scot' (LMS), but no Flying Scot.

It seems they thought they could disguise that little 'faux pas' by using a shot of a different engine every time they cut to an exterior view of the train. Continuity.?  ....Whassat?

 

 

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I remember Freda Jackson who lived (or perhaps visited) on the Whitemoor Estate at the time on Bracknell Crescent or Didcot Drive area. I saw her once or twice as she walked past our house on Nuthall Road going to the bus stop at Western Boulevard end. At that time her smoking in the 'street' and walking out in trousers, (Slacks) were then considered somewhat of a vulgarity. I remember my mother and grandmother's comments to her dress and smoking quite clearly.

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I can see the curtains twitching from here....  :laugh:

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41 minutes ago, oldphil said:

"she's no better than she ought to be"

 

My Grandma used to say that, never did know what it meant...

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3 hours ago, Gem said:

Loved my Grandma's expression 'fur coat and no knickers'

 

Now that one I do understand!  ;)

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I think they're called 'Gold Diggers' nowadays Gem. There used to be lots of 'actresses' like that in the 50's & 60's !

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Ha, ha ! Experience I reckon Gem.

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36 minutes ago, denshaw said:

My parents used to say, red hat no drawers. Was there something about women who wore red hats?

Prostitutes during WW2 used to wear a red hat, so those that needed to know, could spot them. 

 

Some years ago I belonged to the Red Hat Society, and told the women the saying in the UK, they thought it hilarious.

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4 hours ago, Gem said:

Makes you wonder how they knew that fur coat wearers didn't wear knickers ?

 

I think the point was that the fur came through their lack of underwear...  ;)

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2 hours ago, katyjay said:

They really were 'laying down' their life!

 

Puts a different slant on the saying 'come the revolution you'll be up against the wall'

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Public eye not so good tonight,,,Nottingham connection though,,,landlady Barbara New,,from Southwell,, 

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He dont smoke,,or drink,,or go out with women,, and works in a factory on a lathe all day,, oh dear what a life hey,,

 

Thats a bloke Markers following,,wonder if it livens up? 

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Yes it livened up,,good episode,,

Localish interest,,Norman Bird from Coalville,,i used to lodge there 1964,,at big Maude's Whitwick road,,

Brief appearance by Mary Millington,,remember her? 

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I remember that episode. Norman Bird slightly over-did the part of the creepy, weird man...complete with Hitler moustache.

 

Mary Millington was in a lot of those soft-porn films of the 60s-70s (so I've been told).

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