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wiggy
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WHEN IS A DOOR NOT A DOOR?? WHEN RODNEY BEWES JAMS IT OPEN FOR SOME MOISTENED OLD BINT WITH A TEA TROLLEY,THAT'S WHEN!!
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wiggy
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THAT YOUNG LAD THAT BORROWED HIS PIPE SMOKING DADS CAR.....WELL IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN DAD..HONEST!!!
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wiggy
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FAGIN AND DODGER STEALING CARS...'WHAT ABOUT THIS ONE THEN?'.....'NO NO DODGER..IT'S TOO NEW!!''
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Chrism
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| Another classic Public Information Film from the 1970s, 'Lonely Water' featuring Donald Pleasance's voice as the be-robed "spirit of dark and lonely water" leading children to their watery deaths. "Sensible children. I have no power over them...I'll be back, back, back, back...." Spooky! |
the branch is weak...the boys a fool..........sensible children..i have no control over them....uuuuurgh its all mucky! |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xmSV6aq0g
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Chrism
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| Si wrote: |
| Another classic Public Information Film from the 1970s, 'Lonely Water' featuring Donald Pleasance's voice as the be-robed "spirit of dark and lonely water" leading children to their watery deaths. "Sensible children. I have no power over them...I'll be back, back, back, back...." Spooky! |
Loads of PIF's here http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/
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Si
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Thanks for the link, Chris. Brilliant! Nice to see Sir Jim, too.
The "unwary" boy who falls in when the branch snaps looks like Peter Firth (born Eccleshill) who, as a child, was in The Flaxton Boys and The Doubledeckers. I'd forgotten quite how scary that PIF was. A great performance from Donald Pleasance and really well directed. Note how the spooky figure appears in the distance.
The litter film (bottle on the beach) still makes me cringe!
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| Trojan wrote: |
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| cantors furniture sale...starts monday!!!! |
or Palmers maybe wiggy? |
Northern Upholstery adverts, with the grey haired bloke in the blazer?
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His name was Tom, I wonder who he was?
I wonder when they're having another sale?  |
That would be Tom Adams, star of Spy Trap and various other series since the sixties.
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raveydavey
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September 1st 1976: Water crisis deepens. The first of 11,500 standpipes are connected in Yorkshire as local reservoirs reach their lowest levels in years....
That's something that you thankfully don't see anymore!
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chameleon
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September 1st 1976: Water crisis deepens. The first of 11,500 standpipes are connected in Yorkshire as local reservoirs reach their lowest levels in years....
That's something that you thankfully don't see anymore! |
And on from that, remember when YW were shipping in water to Eccup by the tanker load?
Took the children to Thrusscross and walked across the bridge over the little village stream..... Unlikely to see that again.
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chameleon
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And, dare I say, no wobbles, overflowing log-files, lack of a shilling in the leccy meter or anything else that causes SL to die over the weekend since we moved our home to, erm, Manchester (give or take an initial hic-cup anyway).
Fingers crossed
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Brunel
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Williams & Glynn's................Bank!!!
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BLAKEY
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Took the children to Thrusscross and walked across the bridge over the little village stream..... Unlikely to see that again. |
That was in Summer 1995, and thinking about it still sends a shiver through me - I'll explain briefly.
In 1961 I took the very first load of workmen from Leeds Labour Exchange in Bridge Street, to begin the project of flooding West End Village and the valley to create Thruscross reservoir. The contractors for the enormous undertaking were Holland, Hannen and Cubitts of London.
At that time West End Village was still open, just,and one of our school contracts involved driving a small coach over that very bridge, and through a ford nearby - a somewhat sad thing in view of what was about to happen to the area. Within days of the village closing forever I took a picture of my little coach on that very bridge, and when in 1995 the unthinkable happened and it was exposed once more I went to take a "then and now" picture - it was really uncanny for me.
Many people were milling around on a lovely fine day and I also made a short video of the visit - in two very sinister halves !! Venturing near the little stream and close to the bridge I did take what I though was every precaution to make sure that the grassy ground was firm enough, which it seemed to be. Oh dear - a couple more steps and one leg began to sink in hidden mud - I placed the other foot nearby to get out and that went in too. Every panic stricken step I took both legs were disppearing fast in the quagmire and I was soon up to the knees in it. People chuckled at first, understandably, but I now realised that I was in dire trouble and called urgently for help. Eventually a few very brave folks risked their own safety and dragged me out - rheir clothing was ruined as was mine, and one of my wellingtons was pulled off and remains at the bottom of the deep to this day.
I eventually calmed down and managed to go further through the village in real safety and finish the video film before squelching my way back to the car - trousers still full of thick mud and to destroy - as luck would have it I had a pile of newspaers in the car boot and managed to line the interior sufficiently to keep it clean as I struggled home.
This is the nearest I've ever been to "the end" and shook me up badly. I hadn't knowingly been foolish and it just goed to show doesn't it ?? A final very sobering thought - that very morning I'd been at the solicitor's in Leeds making major and very vital revisions to my Will, and of course that hadn't been drawn up and would not have been in force if I'd "copped it." 
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Chrism
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Wow... ... pretty scary stuff mud. Any chance you could upload the video to youtube?
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BLAKEY
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| Wow... ... pretty scary stuff mud. Any chance you could upload the video to youtube? |
I would gladly do so if only I knew how - if you can kindly tell me the "modus operandi" I'll have a go. I think from memory (will have to dig it out from all the arrears here) it lasts perhaps for twenty minutes or so.
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LS1
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| Wow... ... pretty scary stuff mud. Any chance you could upload the video to youtube? |
I would gladly do so if only I knew how - if you can kindly tell me the "modus operandi" I'll have a go. I think from memory (will have to dig it out from all the arrears here) it lasts perhaps for twenty minutes or so.
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ha ha, dig it out!!
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Chrism
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| Wow... ... pretty scary stuff mud. Any chance you could upload the video to youtube? |
I would gladly do so if only I knew how - if you can kindly tell me the "modus operandi" I'll have a go. I think from memory (will have to dig it out from all the arrears here) it lasts perhaps for twenty minutes or so.
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You can upload videos/DVD's of 10 minutes in length to youtube. It would be easier if you had it on DVD. There loads of places to get it converted nowadays. As for splitting it when converted you have me at a loss there. I suppose there are programmes in cyberworld that can do this, but I know not where. Maybe Digger will know, I'm sure he's got vids on youtube with parts 1, 2, etc etc etc. Maybe he could point you in the right direction.
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BLAKEY
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You can upload videos/DVD's of 10 minutes in length to youtube. It would be easier if you had it on DVD. There loads of places to get it converted nowadays. As for splitting it when converted you have me at a loss there. I suppose there are programmes in cyberworld that can do this, but I know not where. Maybe Digger will know, I'm sure he's got vids on youtube with parts 1, 2, etc etc etc. Maybe he could point you in the right direction.
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Thanks for those pointers - actually the one thing I can do easily here is to put the video on a DVD - no problem. So we'll see what develops now - I will put it on youtube if I can, although it is a very amateurish effort but a rare phenomenon worth recording for posterity.
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chameleon
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You can upload videos/DVD's of 10 minutes in length to youtube. It would be easier if you had it on DVD. There loads of places to get it converted nowadays. As for splitting it when converted you have me at a loss there. I suppose there are programmes in cyberworld that can do this, but I know not where. Maybe Digger will know, I'm sure he's got vids on youtube with parts 1, 2, etc etc etc. Maybe he could point you in the right direction.
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Thanks for those pointers - actually the one thing I can do easily here is to put the video on a DVD - no problem. So we'll see what develops now - I will put it on youtube if I can, although it is a very amateurish effort but a rare phenomenon worth recording for posterity.
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Blakey, I'm sure a lot of people would want to see that if you can do it and you've nudged a memory here too, I had borrowed a VC for that trip - somewhere in the archive (loft!) the tape must still exist. Must search too.
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raveydavey
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September 1st 1976: Water crisis deepens. The first of 11,500 standpipes are connected in Yorkshire as local reservoirs reach their lowest levels in years....
That's something that you thankfully don't see anymore! |
And on from that, remember when YW were shipping in water to Eccup by the tanker load?
Took the children to Thrusscross and walked across the bridge over the little village stream..... Unlikely to see that again. |
As Blakey says, the summer of 1995.
A friend was a tanker driver at the time and having no other pressing demands on his time, he near enough lived in his cab that summer doing the triangular route from Kielder down the A1, then across and up the A61 to Eccup and then back to Kielder more times than he can remember.
He made a fortune that year!
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BLAKEY
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Blakey, I'm sure a lot of people would want to see that if you can do it and you've nudged a memory here too, I had borrowed a VC for that trip - somewhere in the archive (loft!) the tape must still exist. Must search too. |
I will do my best, and your film will of course be equally interesting and poignant. At least those buried in the church yard at West End were treated respectfully, and were exhumed and re-interred in a new burial ground a few hundred yards from the Stonehouse inn.
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| SO I SAID...AND THEN SHE SAID.......OOOOH! MY PURSE.....WATCH OUT...THERES A THIEF ABOUT!!! AND THOSE POSTERS IN THE MARKET CLAIMING 'PICKPOCKETS OPERATE IN THIS AREA' |
do you know i keep saying "ooooh ma purse",ive said it for years,remembered it from the tv info ad.
are these old public info films available any where on the net?
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Chrism
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| cnosni wrote: |
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| SO I SAID...AND THEN SHE SAID.......OOOOH! MY PURSE.....WATCH OUT...THERES A THIEF ABOUT!!! AND THOSE POSTERS IN THE MARKET CLAIMING 'PICKPOCKETS OPERATE IN THIS AREA' |
do you know i keep saying "ooooh ma purse",ive said it for years,remembered it from the tv info ad.
are these old public info films available any where on the net? |
Loads of PIF's here http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/
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Chrism
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You can upload videos/DVD's of 10 minutes in length to youtube. It would be easier if you had it on DVD. There loads of places to get it converted nowadays. As for splitting it when converted you have me at a loss there. I suppose there are programmes in cyberworld that can do this, but I know not where. Maybe Digger will know, I'm sure he's got vids on youtube with parts 1, 2, etc etc etc. Maybe he could point you in the right direction.
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Thanks for those pointers - actually the one thing I can do easily here is to put the video on a DVD - no problem. So we'll see what develops now - I will put it on youtube if I can, although it is a very amateurish effort but a rare phenomenon worth recording for posterity.
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Blakey, I'm sure a lot of people would want to see that if you can do it and you've nudged a memory here too, I had borrowed a VC for that trip - somewhere in the archive (loft!) the tape must still exist. Must search too. |
Get searching. 
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wiggy
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| Si wrote: |
Thanks for the link, Chris. Brilliant! Nice to see Sir Jim, too.
The "unwary" boy who falls in when the branch snaps looks like Peter Firth (born Eccleshill) who, as a child, was in The Flaxton Boys and The Doubledeckers. I'd forgotten quite how scary that PIF was. A great performance from Donald Pleasance and really well directed. Note how the spooky figure appears in the distance.
The litter film (bottle on the beach) still makes me cringe! |
great link there mate...i also saw the one about mixing cross plys with radials on there too.
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