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Category: Monday Memories
This category is about reminiscing, mostly from the 50s, 60s, 70s and occasionally later. Subjects will be random and likely to be about anything from tennis to music, confectionary to holidays and clothes to television programmes.
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Cheap and Cheerful Caravan Holiday I was seven years old in 1970, as we entered a new decade. I remember being excited whenever holidays were mentioned in our house, because going away was such a rare occurrence for our family during my childhood. When we did go on holiday we never ventured far – it…
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Rewind: Sixty Three Years of the Cassette Tape The humble cassette tape consisted of yards of magnetic-coated brown film, 0.15inch wide, held on two spools and encased in plastic. This marvellous invention ensured I’ll never forget one particular memory of being a teenager in the 1970s. Every Sunday teatime, ears glued to BBC Radio one,…