Nothing wrong with the word "golly". Nothing intrinsically wrong with a black doll. However, the full word was golliw*g and the doll/character became associated with the last three letters, hence its disappearance.
Huh, now that I didn't know. Every day is a school day, eh?Funnily enough Daddies & HP sauces were invented by the same person, Frederick Gibson Garton, he invented HP sauce first but got into debt with a supplier, which forced him to hand over the name & recipe, he then later invented Daddies sauce.
HP Sauce - Wikipedia
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Why should they? Be proactive in ensuring people know about the grants and the advantages of getting something done, but unless there is a serious risk to others, leave a house owner to do what they choose.
The curse of Christmas card writing - each year, I forget how out of practice I am - as my writing fingers positively ache!
And the controversy about the actor who played his brother being "killed off" and then resurrected a year later on the pretext that the intervening storyline had all been a dream.
A bit before my time, so my main exposure to that is one of the memorable bit characters in Father Ted wearing an I SHOT JR t-shirt.
Neither of which could be described as commonplace though, being singular events.
The duration of the UK's hype around that Dallas episode - and the cheesy commercial profiteering off the back of it ("I shot JR" emblazoned on everything) seems so twee and very outdated, in today's climate of news being broadcast 24/7, of incessant social media and of "hot" topics rapidly fading into obscurity.
Fair enough, though most of the examples in the thread are of common/daily things.
I had to live through it first hand. It went on for so long and it invaded so many parts of '80s life, that it felt like a common, daily thing
I was five or six at the time so I do have recollections of it being literal front-page news.I had to live through it first hand. It went on for so long and it invaded so many parts of '80s life, that it felt like a common, daily thing
I've still got some address book entries with "01" in!London's dialling code when it was "01".
For those of is of a certain age: 01 811 8055
London telephone numbers starting with 3 letters, e.g. WHI 1212 for Scotland Yard, still valid in the 1960s.The prize of a Blankety Blank chequebook and pen.
There's a reason why they're not even on eBay...
London's dialling code when it was "01".
For those of is of a certain age: 01 811 8055
Great minds...!
On a similar vein, I was born & raised in Stone, Staffordshire. The telephone number for Joules Brewery was Stone 1 (one). At last they had priorities right
....or - in the case of certain towns in East Lancashire and West Yorkshire - row after row of brightly-lit Asian-run fast food outlets selling burgers, fried chicken, cheap curries, kebabs, etc. I often wonder how they all survive!
My local exchange was WOOlwich and I sometimes wondered in my teens if you rang people on that exchange to 'chat them up' .......
Because there now is considerable demand for these foods, not only from the Asian communities in those areas, but also from the white european population. Over the last couple of decades, adopted Asian dishes such as chicken tikka masala has been voted into the top ten UK's favourite meals.
I rarely see a takeaway establishment close. In my town any which did are quickly reopened with same or similar.
I grew up in the Hainault exchange area which although within the London 'Strowger' switch group, was the last London exchange to go from manual to automatic, which it did in 1965 when all exchanges went over to AFN, (All Figure Numbering) receiving the (01) 500 code. My mother for some time workrd on the Hainault switchboard and would often complain about callers from elsewhere in London, frustrated that dialling HAI followed by a line number didn't succeed, so they tried CHI for Chigwell, (which was covered by the Hainault exchange) and ended up with a CHIswick subscriber answering. Many of the callers to/from Chigwell were the self-made/entitled lot who just wouldn't listen to what operators told them when making such calls.
The London Borough of Wandsworth still does, or did until recently.
And because people are much more likely to have takeaway food on any given day than they might have been even in my childhood - for all sorts of reasons.
Back in the day most town centres would have at least two or three cinemas, all showing different films (they barred each other from showing the same film). The passing trade was important, hence the display of posters and stills on the front of house. Performances were continuous, so you could buy a ticket at any time, go in in the middle of the film and see it through to the "this is where we came in" point. Films were only on for a week, which was actually six days in many places as Sunday was reserved for old reissues. In smaller towns many cinemas played split weeks with one programme from Monday to Wednesday and another from Thursday to Saturday.
Off Topic question: is that Joule as in the SI unit of energy?On a similar vein, I was born & raised in Stone, Staffordshire. The telephone number for Joules Brewery was Stone 1 (one). At last they had priorities right
