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Come now on a trip back in time, back to remember Britain from days gone by, events, images and memories from the sixties, seventies and eighties!
If you are about my age! indulge in some nostalgia with me below!
This page is to wallow in. It is just for fun, so enjoy!

A phenomenon in the mid 1960's before commercial radio was legalised.
For most listeners commercial radio will have meant Radio Luxembourg until March 28th 1964 when Radio Caroline started broadcasting.
On 15th August 1967 the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act came into force, and the brief era of pirate radio for extinguished.
Radio Sutch broadcast on 1542kHz from 27th May 1964 from the Shivering Sands Fort in the Thames Estuary, eventually becoming Radio City on 299 metres.

In Scotland, the Forth Road Bridge, Tay Road Bridge, and to a lesser extent the Erskine Bridge form major parts of the UK road network.
However they were not always there!

Held at 2 yearly intervals in the 1980's in old industrial areas.
1984 Liverpool
1986 Stoke
1988 Glasgow
1990 Gateshead (shown opposite ->)
1992 South Wales

Liverpool International Garden Festival remembered by David Graham who says he went 78 times using his season ticket.

In 1964 a new TV service in the UK and a new "quality" system.
Used 625 lines and a few years later colour on the PAL system, daytime transmissions noted for the Colour Receiver Installation Film, the Trade Test Transmissions and Service Information slots.

A cult police TV series featuring the Ford "Z"-series cars.

Two popular BBC TV programmes; the first a police detective series starring Stratford Johns and Panorama a current affairs programme still on the go.
Remembered by Joanna Rix

ITV's front man for Sports commentating in the 1970's, something of an institution on Saturday afternoons.
Frank Bough appeared on BBC TV.

Whilst Ted Heath was Tory Party leader, this annual event always featured in the media.
Ted Heath died on 17 July 2005 at Salisbury.

Click image for color version!
Remembered by Dave Hall

BBC series of TV programmes aimed at the pre-school age group.
The Flower Pot Men, Trumpton, Andy Pandy etc
Remember "Weeeeee......d"
Remembered by Roger Anderson

Click here for the famous Cadbury's "Smash" advert!
(564Kb Real Media file)

Over-hyped TV celebrity who fell from favour almost overnight.
(click here for more)

Click here for picture of Muriel Young with Pussy Cat Willum.
Muriel Young died at her North East of England home in 2001
June Partridge reports owning a Membership Certificate as a certified member of the 5 o'clock club with all the signatures of Olly Beak, Muriel Young etc and she wonders if anyone else has one from the 60's?

First actor to star in this cult TV series.
Other Doctors included Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Peter Davison.

Now coming back into fashion but in their heyday popular in many British cities.
Glasgow had a particularly extensive tramway system.
Glasgow's trams lasted from August 1872 until September 2nd 1962 when the last tram ran from Dalmuir to Auchenshuggle.
Click HERE for Llandudno Great Orme tramcar circa 1959

Trolley buses were a form of electric bus used in a few cities up until late 1960's
The Glasgow trolleybus system, was never taken to the hearts of the Glaswegian as much as the Tramcars, lasted from 1949 to 1967.
Some dubbed them "silent death" as they were almost silent as they glided along the roads as compared with noisy buses or trams.
A familiar site was a trolleybus stopped in the middle of the road, with the driver attempting to get the trolley bar back on the overhead electric cable using a long insulated pole!
The last trolleybus in Cardiff was on Route 6 a double decker running from Tiger Bay to Llandaff Fields.
(Thanks to Peter Cross from Cardiff for that fact)
(Sandtoft Transport Centre)

BAC 1-11 aircraft in the livery of British Caledonian Airways.
Remember the jingle....

let's go - British Caledonian!
Click here or on plane for 910Kb Real Media file clip of old TV advert!

The West London Air Terminal situated on Cromwell Road near Gloucester Road tube station was a check-in facility for BEA at Heathrow and lasted from October 1957 until the end of 1973 when it was finally closed as fewer people used it and improved transport links were created to Heathrow itself.
The site is now a supermarket.

Some pictures from transportation around London

Dominating teenage pop culture in the sixties, a legend in their own time!

Notoriety for terrorising holiday resorts on bank Holiday weekends!

Torchy the Battery Boy
Remembered by Sally Roberts

5 Boys chocolate
Twizzle
Remembered by Allan Mill

Margaret Thatcher dominated British politics throughout the 1980's
The Conservatives came to power at the 1979 General Election following a "Winter of Discontent" of industrial unrest and strikes under the Callaghan Labour Government.
Few people were unaffected by the changes in society that the following decade was to bring!

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