19-04-2020, 03:55 PM
Can remember running home from school at about the age of twelve or thirteen, because a new tv had been delivered, this would be about 1953 or 1954. Only one channel which closed I think about 11 o'clock with the national anthem, and if I was occasionally allowed to stay up for switch off a great delight was to see how long you could see the dot for in the middle of the screen. Later we were told a new channel was on it's way and they would stop the programme half way through so you could brew a quick cuppa, never how could they do that, the wonders of this new technology. Tiny screen with later a water filled magnifier, how modern could we get.