The 100th anniversary of the birth of her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

[George 1978]

I wouldn't even dare mention on a public forum like this about my late father's fashion because he didn't have anything that was fashionable!...

[George 1978]

My signature comes from a punk song - well, I suppose it was regarded as punk at the time...

[George 1978]

My parents had a huge collection of around 100 singles mostly from the 1960s, although ironically, none at all from the Beatles - one would have thought that they would have had one or two of them considering the era they collected them coincided with when they were in the charts....

[George 1978]

As Zabadak mentioned above, the mentioning of backwards messages in songs reminded me of the B-side of Napoleon XIV's They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Ha, and the fact that it is just the A-side played backwards if you know what I mean, and the mirrored writing on the label as well. Both look and...

[George 1978]

Brian Clough was very popular where I lived in the 1980s, but then again, he did manage our local club....

[George 1978]

I think that the interest in Royalty is the fact that in 100 years' time, historians will research the late Queen (editions of The Times and all that), and pupils will learn about her from their History lessons which is important - it is a representation of a "there and then" aspect of life....

[George 1978]

The thing with the Tudor-Pole era episodes was how the female contestants looked and dressed on the show! It looked more exciting than someone from the O'Brien era....

[George 1978]

I found the Ed Tudor-Pole episodes more interesting when I saw them on Challenge.

[George 1978]

It's mostly research rather than memory, but I do personally remember these things back in the day as well. I don't know whether this is nostalgia or what, but I wouldn't mind a few hours of the test card on ITV in the midnight to 6.00 am slot just like the 1970s and 1980s rather than have all this...

[George 1978]

The Carole Hersee test card was certainly seen as recently as the early 2000s with the updated "BBC" and "2" logo on it; possibly during the early hours of Christmas morning one year when I switched over from the end of Midnight Mass on BBC 1 over to BBC 2 when they had finished...

[George 1978]

Mine was like that as well - thank goodness for broadband!...

[George 1978]

Received my Eurovision Song Contest CD in the post today at 12.49 pm BST - has anyone received theirs if they had ordered one this year? I thought that it wouldn't be delivered until early June as it had mentioned on eBay - I have placed it on the shelf between the 2025 Eurovision CD and the That's...

[George 1978]

I went online just a couple of days after my 21st birthday - it was a bit like a present. Did anyone use Dialstart.net as their email provider back in the late 1990s? They seemed to become madasafish.com until they closed in around 2016. I had seen website addresses on TV programmes and adverts from...

[George 1978]

It doesn't really count, but I was one of a few pupils from my school who were "extras" in a "far-away-in-the-background" playground scene for a BBC drama which was filmed on a Tuesday afternoon June 1991 - even our Headteacher was so interested in this, and as a result, he also...

[George 1978]

I met Leslie Crowther in 1987 when he came to open a new shop up (and me ad my father "came on down" to see him), and I also met Richard Bacon from Blue Peter, just before that scandal.

I am an autograph collector and I often give an illusion that I have met a lot of famous people...

[George 1978]

Not many people have sent birthday greetings to themselves; back on Guy Fawkes Night in 1990, Mr Bean in The Return Of was one of them with a blank birthday card that he had in his inner-jacket pocket when he was waiting to pretend to enjoy a raw steak tartare meal in a restaurant before being a bit...

[George 1978]

They do both seem to be passing phases of their own respective eras, although as you say, there are a lot of differences....

[George 1978]

Managed to get to the Orkneys, but then again, I have never flown by plane.

[George 1978]

The same time as school days - as a school refuser, I tried to get up just before midday, or mid-morning at least on school days as well because I hated the place....

[George 1978]

I have always thought that "Yuppie" was the "chav" of the late 1980s - no I wasn't one of them, but I was aware of them on TV and sometimes walking down the street. I blame series like EastEnders for glamorising them, hence I never watch. House brick-sized mobile phones, anyone?...