Census working overtime.

[hirez]

1971 - Holt Farm, The Cotswolds. Cooker - mongo cream AGA with some dodgy-looking liquid fuel retrofit. Computers - none. Pa may have had a mechanical adding machine. Charlton Abbotts manor had yet to catch fire. Telly - B&W thing that I am not allowed to touch. Nor are we allowed to hold with that terrible Commercial Television. Still, outside

Comments

[bogwitch64]

You've come a long way, baby.

[liz_lowlife]

You only had a TV of the colour variety in time for the Jubilee?
We had one for as long as I can remember there ever being a TV in the house!
I do recall my best mate having a black and white one when I was a kid though.

[quercus]

I've still never owned a TV.

Our first colour one as a kid was a Phillips G8 chassis. Like most people's, this was a cheapie bought S/H ex-rental (You crazy Eengleesh, you buy your houses, but you rent your TVs). Like most geeks, I learned to fix TVs by fiddling with a G8. As (which I admit, did take Google) it was a G22K550, which I think means 1974, then it was probably '76-'77 when we got it.

Obviously JH-R's new TV will be a G8, once he sees this little Dexion beauty. Take that Gilliam!

[quercus]

Cookers.

You're just better at this than the rest of us.

[hirez]

It's the thing I remember first when I think about Holt Farm, and when I thought about it there was some kind of a story attached to each one because, well, food.

I've also got a horrible feeling that the nice people from Serviscope tried to teach me how to fix a G-series chassis.

[mr_tom]