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Anyone remember this advert?
Shackletons High Seat Chairs, they're lovely
1980s Yorkshire TV
Has anyone got one?
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[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7bGzlth_6sSha[/url]
Shackletons are still on the go, as indeed is that lady. She is 110 and lives in a care home near Keighley.
Regional TV ads are a wonderful example of kitsch. My favourite?
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5FukEiWFeU[/url]
It's a jingle you'll never forget. More's the pity.
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The Granada "message" one reminds me of when I was on holiday in Florida in 1990. We'd turned the telly on and were waiting for the programme to move off one of the "every five minute" ads sessions, when, all of a sudden there was a siren wailing from the box. I fully expected them to announce that Russia had launched nuclear missiles and we were in the last four minutes of life. It transpired that it was actually a warning that there was going to be a storm............
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Such a great shame that proper regional TV is no more. The logos and music of the individual ITV channels used to scare the shit out of me as a child...
For some reason that I was too young to understand at the time, my 'local' TV station when I lived in Grimsby in the 1970s was Tyne Tees, not Yorkshire. What was that all about? Some sort of Radio Rentals related thing, I think...
I don't know about Tyne Tees but prior to 1974 this region was served by Anglia Television. In this year the Independent Broadcasting Authority reallocated Belmont transmitter to Yorkshire Television after the Bilsdale mast (in North Yorkshire) was switched to Tyne Tees. At that time both YTV and TTTV were actually owned by the same holding company, Trident Television. This could explain a possible chance of watching Tyne Tees. Alternatively some areas were connected by piped tv (a forerunner to cable). Instead of pictures being recieved by aerial, pictures were sent via underground cable; this system was used in areas of poor reception or in tower blocks, so as to avoid multiple aerials becoming an eyesore. In Grimsby the multi-storeys on the Marsh used this system, supplied by Radio Rentals. However the pictures sent to homes were relayed from a central mast so the local ITV station recieved would be Anglia/YTV (depending on the year). |
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Anyone remember this advert?
Shackletons High Seat Chairs, they're lovely
1980s Yorkshire TV
Has anyone got one?
for some strange reason, the minibus of Town fans I used to travel with had our own unique chant. cant remember how it started but it went to the tune of "we urine on yor fish yes we do, yesd we do" MY NIECE BOUGHT THIS YOU KNOW, SHACKLETONS, SHACKLETONS. If you ever heard a bunch of looneys singing this walking into a pub at away games it was us. |
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I do remember the Anglia TV weather man was called Michael Hunt, an ex RAF type. I can only ever remember on one occasion did the announcersay "and now over to Mike Hunt for the weather"
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[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7bGzlth_6sSha[/url]
Shackletons are still on the go, as indeed is that lady. She is 110 and lives in a care home near Keighley.
Do Grannies still knit, I wonder? My Mum is in her 70's and she wouldn't dream of such a thing? http://www.youtube.com/results.....s&oq=Shackletons |
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I do remember the Anglia TV weather man was called Michael Hunt, an ex RAF type. I can only ever remember on one occasion did the announcersay "and now over to Mike Hunt for the weather"
There was a weather bulletin once on some regional ITV station that attracted some notoriety. This was in the days when the weather had no fancy graphics and magnetic weather symbols were stuck on a board. One day the letter 'F' had fell off the word FOG. The presenter apologised for the fact there was no F in fog. |
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Alternatively some areas were connected by piped tv (a forerunner to cable). Instead of pictures being recieved by aerial, pictures were sent via underground cable; this system was used in areas of poor reception or in tower blocks, so as to avoid multiple aerials becoming an eyesore.
In Grimsby the multi-storeys on the Marsh used this system, supplied by Radio Rentals. However the pictures sent to homes were relayed from a central mast so the local ITV station recieved would be Anglia/YTV (depending on the year).
Yes, that's what we had. To change channels, instead of doing it on the TV (this was before remote controls were invented), you had to turn this switch on the wall to one of 3 settings. I'm 95% sure it was Tyne-Tees though, not Anglia and the set was from Radio Rentals. We're talking 1977 or so, and I was only a toddler. |
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Yes, that's what we had. To change channels, instead of doing it on the TV (this was before remote controls were invented), you had to turn this switch on the wall to one of 3 settings. I'm 95% sure it was Tyne-Tees though, not Anglia and the set was from Radio Rentals.
We're talking 1977 or so, and I was only a toddler.
Just as a history note: In the early days of commercial tv, the various ITV companies had to work hard to get the population to switch to them. Therefore many ITV companies established TV rental chains - obviously Granada (North of England) and Rediffusion (London weekdays) created chains named after themselves. The largest chain, Telefusion, worked in reverse - they got an ITV licence and created Yorkshire Television. Rediffusion was owned (indirectly) by British Relay, the first piped TV service. Radio Rentals, as the name suggests, goes back to the 1930's and rented out radio sets. RR eventually fell into the ownership of Thorn who merged with EMI who in turn owned Thames Television. In the mid 1990's RR merged with Granada Rentals to form BoxClever, which was eventually sold to its' management team. I'm a wow at parties y'know  |
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for some strange reason, the minibus of Town fans I used to travel with had our own unique chant. cant remember how it started but it went to the tune of "we urine on yor fish yes we do, yesd we do"
MY NIECE BOUGHT THIS YOU KNOW, SHACKLETONS, SHACKLETONS. If you ever heard a bunch of looneys singing this walking into a pub at away games it was us.
That was Kev and Al Fuller, Feet and the lads. I remember us all singing it on the way to Rotherham in the early 80s: "First we sent for the brochure, Shackleton's, Shackleton's." "It's so easy to get in and out of, Shackleton's, Shackleton's..." We also used to do, "Jocky Wilson Says..." quite a bit. Happy days. I usually see Kev and Al when we play in the North West. I think they both live that way on now. |
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That was Kev and Al Fuller, Feet and the lads. I remember us all singing it on the way to Rotherham in the early 80s:
"First we sent for the brochure, Shackleton's, Shackleton's."
"It's so easy to get in and out of, Shackleton's, Shackleton's..."
We also used to do, "Jocky Wilson Says..." quite a bit.
Happy days. I usually see Kev and Al when we play in the North West. I think they both live that way on now.
You have a P.M. Kev lives in Town still. He travels to ALL away games on the (in)famous white mini-bus. |
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You have a P.M.
Kev lives in Town still. He travels to ALL away games on the (in)famous white mini-bus.
Thanks for the PM. Nice to be able to put a face to the name, mate. Small world, eh? Altogether now: "Arthritis can be fun, Shackleton's, Shackleton's..." The kids today just don't have the songs any more.  |
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