I guess 54 must have been a very big year for you! At least many of the cars in NZ were similar to those in old GB - for a while anyway! Thanks for looking in Janette.
Wonderful up-load Steve - brings back very early memories of sitting on my Gran's lap in the scullery listening to her 'Radio Rentals' highly polished mahogany 'wireless' belting out all this kind of material. (There was still an empty corner waiting for TV to become affordable). Some great images - I particularly liked the long line of listening booths each with its own record player (headphones..? what headphones..!) - and those cars - I can actually remember seeing some of them on the road..!! (just...:-)))
Ah those early memories! Yep many of those cars were still around into the early 70s and one or two still turn up today. The booths - yes that must have been the height of listening new tech back then - big chunky record players and large head-phones with 78s still dominant.
I think it was one of those humorous depictions of the time where the "helpless" non-mechanically minded lady is exasperated with her car and decides to give it a kick... It has either had its wheel stolen (less likely in 1955) or she is attempting to change the wheel due to puncture and has met with little success in doing so.
@@wordsmith52 I've discovered the photo is by Frank Horvat, the model is his wife Mate Lorenzetti, and it was taken in South Kensington, London in 1955. Perhaps they just had a puncture and he took the opportunity to pose his wife for a humorous photo while he was changing the wheel.
@@postscript67 Hello again after all these years! Yes that sounds very likely. I would have thought that he was quite wealthy to have (or for his wife to have) that car in 1955 and would have thought that the AA or RAC were / being called to sort out the puncture. Still, not everybody reached for the phone in those days, unlike in 2024, so maybe not! All the best!
Great to hear these old tunes. Just one thing though, the Greenwich time signal didn't have an extended last pip until the 1970's.
Yes, my original recording of the pips was accidentally deleted and that one had to do.
Just wonderful - remember it all well even though I left England 1954, songs, cars, etc. etc. Again, just wonderful!
I guess 54 must have been a very big year for you! At least many of the cars in NZ were similar to those in old GB - for a while anyway! Thanks for looking in Janette.
Wonderful up-load Steve - brings back very early memories of sitting on my Gran's lap in the scullery listening to her 'Radio Rentals' highly polished mahogany 'wireless' belting out all this kind of material. (There was still an empty corner waiting for TV to become affordable).
Some great images - I particularly liked the long line of listening booths each with its own record player (headphones..? what headphones..!) - and those cars - I can actually remember seeing some of them on the road..!! (just...:-)))
Ah those early memories! Yep many of those cars were still around into the early 70s and one or two still turn up today. The booths - yes that must have been the height of listening new tech back then - big chunky record players and large head-phones with 78s still dominant.
A hit for the beautiful Joan Regan.
What is the photo at 9.27 with the woman standing on one leg appearing to hold up a Jaguar XK120 all about?
I think it was one of those humorous depictions of the time where the "helpless" non-mechanically minded lady is exasperated with her car and decides to give it a kick... It has either had its wheel stolen (less likely in 1955) or she is attempting to change the wheel due to puncture and has met with little success in doing so.
@@wordsmith52 I've discovered the photo is by Frank Horvat, the model is his wife Mate Lorenzetti, and it was taken in South Kensington, London in 1955. Perhaps they just had a puncture and he took the opportunity to pose his wife for a humorous photo while he was changing the wheel.
@@postscript67 Hello again after all these years! Yes that sounds very likely. I would have thought that he was quite wealthy to have (or for his wife to have) that car in 1955 and would have thought that the AA or RAC were / being called to sort out the puncture. Still, not everybody reached for the phone in those days, unlike in 2024, so maybe not! All the best!
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