Richard1978
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Not quite an ironic lyric, but something involving Sir Cliff Richard which I thought I would share: In 1985 Mike Yarwood did a celebrity "old...

Just received the Sunderland Empire version of the Fame the Musical programme - it will be very interesting to see how different (or same) the copy...

To people in the south, people think that Barnsley is so assertive when it comes to people who come from there, but it's just a stereotype at the end...

I would have thought that even in 1973 never mind 1977 or 1982, there would be very little use for a ½p stamp. I thought that the cost of a first...

I wouldn't have known that myself of course. :)

I would have thought that it would be like using a payphone and putting coins into the machine - or like Nottingham City Transport bus fares (says...

My father came from Doncaster so I have a bit of South Yorkshire in my family as well - he used to say "sen" instead of "self" and all that. A friend...

I thought it was common knowledge back then - comedians used to make jokes about them. :)

The name Hillsborough seems to be synonymous with the football disaster, both from a football and sporting perspective - it's as if the name only...

Well, it does mention it where it says "Posts".

I would assume that a lot of them had the same or similar names to white people - this can help them when it comes to getting on in life. More to...

I would prefer to wait and get stamps from a shop instead of getting them from a machine that does not give change.

The early stereo copies of the Please Please Me LP are worth a lot, as demand for stereo was low in 1963, & the early ones had a different label...

Thanks I hadn't been keeping count!

I very rarely used them, but I assume that it was a lot more useful to buy them when the Post Office was closed and not having to wait for them to...

I was half expecting the swear filter to kick in when I wrote "Fanny" for some reason! I blame Julian Clary for its campness, although I assume that...

I heard the stamp machines in phone boxes weren't popular because they were hard to waterproof & often the stamps ended up gummed together. Also...

There seems to be a lot of younger Alfie's around, so Alfred hasn't totally vanished. Even 20 years ago if was hard to find anyone under 50 called...

As I said before, it's interesting that female names date more than male names do - watching the first series of A House Through Time, the male...

I think there was, but I cannot remember what it was called.

Further to the 1967 crisp packet from last year, I saw in the news that a washed up Coca Cola can from 1988 was found on a beach near Edinburgh (the...

I don't think that they really collected the Beatles to be honest - I did ask my late father once and he said just that. They could have sold out too...

I have a feeling that the records from the 1960s that my parents had probably ended up in local charity shops when I moved from the family home a few...

They don't really do theatres as far as I know, but I do know of some websites that list them. What I would like is to see what all the theatres...

My Dad still has a lot of vinyl from the 1960s, though he sold some of the singles along the way, which he has regretted as some are now quite rare.

I have just sent a cheque to the Sunderland Empire for a copy of the programme of Fame the Musical (the cast have been up there this week) - I...

Whatever happened to stamp vending machines, indeed? Quite a few post boxes (mostly the ones outside Post Offices) had them on the side of the box. I...