JamesFrance
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Post by JamesFrance on Jun 16, 2021 12:13:27 GMT
I am probably the only forum member who remembers seeing the Doodlebugs flying past during the war, often chased by Spitfires. I also used to lie awake waiting for the siren to send me downstairs to sleep in an Anderson shelter.
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Post by kmac on Jun 16, 2021 12:21:51 GMT
I am probably the only forum member who remembers seeing the Doodlebugs flying past during the war, often chased by Spitfires. I also used to lie awake waiting for the siren to send me downstairs to sleep in an Anderson shelter. Remember these well! I can also remember listening to the PM, on the radio, telling us that we were at war with Germany.
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Post by kmac on Jun 16, 2021 12:29:42 GMT
And while we are on memories, who remembers when the Government Broker walked to the Stock Exchange in his top hat every Thursday morning to announce that the Bank Rate remains unchanged at 2.5%. He did this every week for around 50 to 60 years.
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Post by corto on Jun 16, 2021 13:22:17 GMT
And while we are on memories, who remembers when the Government Broker walked to the Stock Exchange in his top hat every Thursday morning to announce that the Bank Rate remains unchanged at 2.5%. He did this every week for around 50 to 60 years. Was it the same hat, every time? I would hope so. Tradition
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Post by adrianc on Jun 16, 2021 15:28:31 GMT
True. But I do remember horse driven rag'n'bone men, and coal being delivered by horse too. In London. The world has changed somewhat. Still happens in Yorkshire
Until you have seen, power blackouts, inflation at above 15% and interest rates at 6%, sugar shortages and severe limits on how much money you could take out of the country you have not lived.
It makes us older people terrified of inflation coming back.
Luckily, we joined the Common market ;-)
I remember various (bin/bread/newspaper) strikes in the 70s, and mum always having candles handy for the blackouts... My mother in law was Swedish, came to the UK at the end of the 50s (holiday romance with an Englishman)... and when we cleared their house, there were old passports with the currency control information in, as well as her fortnightly registration at the police station as a "resident alien". She was a tri-lingual secretary for a publisher in Stockholm... and confused for Swiss ( "German - same fing innit") here, and "shame she never learnt English proper" because she retained an accent.
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JamesFrance
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Post by JamesFrance on Jun 16, 2021 15:52:24 GMT
I bought an old motorsailer in Malta in 1969 after deciding to take a break from work and live a little. We chose Malta as it was in the Sterling area so we were able to take money there as I think you were only allowed £50 to buy foreign currency then.
As for inflation, I see that wages have risen by 8% this year and prices are increasing quite rapidly also.
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Post by adrianc on Jun 16, 2021 15:58:40 GMT
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Post by easynow on Jun 16, 2021 18:35:01 GMT
Inflation has arrived, or in my industry at least.
As of 1st July, timber will have increased 75% since January 2020, just as a pointer, even investment companies are hopping on to this now and buying harvesting rights on forestry.
Steel, timber, all building materials in fact, have seen massive rises since the beginning of last year, due to demand brought on by covid, and not Brexit as some may suggest.
I remember the last time this happened..... the next thing will be the house builders showing massive losses, stocks tumbling in value, 2008/9, etc etc....
Hope i'm wrong, time will tell.
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Post by travolta on Jun 16, 2021 19:37:35 GMT
I am probably the only forum member who remembers seeing the Doodlebugs flying past during the war, often chased by Spitfires. I also used to lie awake waiting for the siren to send me downstairs to sleep in an Anderson shelter. Strange (I was born in 1950). I have total recall of the war. Probably because of my parents memories and tales. As a child, I woke up frequently crying , experiencing the London Docks burning and sheltering at the end of our garden (1950s council house ) expecting the bombs to demolish it . Yes. If you say it , it will eventually happen.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Jun 16, 2021 19:42:02 GMT
I am probably the only forum member who remembers seeing the Doodlebugs flying past during the war, often chased by Spitfires. I also used to lie awake waiting for the siren to send me downstairs to sleep in an Anderson shelter. Strange (I was born in 1950). I have total recall of the war. Probably because of my parents memories and tales. As a child, I woke up, frequently,crying , experiencing the London Docks burning and sheltering at the end of our garden (1950s council house ) expecting the bombs to demolish it . Yes. If you say it , it will eventually happen. I just grew up as a child in the 50s being terrified of the apparently inevitable nuclear war to come!
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Post by travolta on Jun 16, 2021 19:44:33 GMT
That never really took root in my mind. But the bombing of London was always present. Spent alot of time playing on bomb sites .
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Post by registerme on Jun 16, 2021 20:17:52 GMT
That never really took root in my mind. I remember reading a book called Golgotha. I've just googled it and it was published in 1980, which would have made me 9 or 10. I took a line out of it - "better dead than Red". My mother was extremely unimpressed .
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Post by bracknellboy on Jun 16, 2021 21:09:32 GMT
True. But I do remember horse driven rag'n'bone men, and coal being delivered by horse too. In London. The world has changed somewhat. Still happens in Yorkshire
Until you have seen, power blackouts, inflation at above 15% and interest rates at 6%, sugar shortages and severe limits on how much money you could take out of the country you have not lived.
It makes us older people terrified of inflation coming back.
Luckily, we joined the Common market ;-)
I'm not sure I like to think of myself as being a member of 'older people', but I know from other proclamations I am in very similar age bracket. I remember power blackouts and 3 day week. I remember having the ceiling in the lounge catching light due to a paraffin lamp hanging too close and the heat dissipater having somehow being left off (this was during power shortages/blackout). I /think/ I remember us pulling up floorboards in our bedroom immediately above in order to ensure we could put it out/douse the heat from above. tjhis bit may of course be a false memory. And actually we should remember inflation at higher levels than 15% - I just checked and it looks like it hit 25%. I remember toilet roll shortages, I think I remember sugar shortages (can't remember why that was the case though). Still, nothing like the present to have created a more unstable and unpredictable situation just for the hell of it.
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Post by bracknellboy on Jun 16, 2021 21:16:20 GMT
Strange (I was born in 1950). I have total recall of the war. Probably because of my parents memories and tales. As a child, I woke up, frequently,crying , experiencing the London Docks burning and sheltering at the end of our garden (1950s council house ) expecting the bombs to demolish it . Yes. If you say it , it will eventually happen. I just grew up as a child in the 50s being terrified of the apparently inevitable nuclear war to come! While I was a decade later, but until the fall of the Berlin wall, this was a very genuine and consuming concern of mine. Probably less so than someone from the 50s, but then I was always far more interested in world affairs and geo politics as a young kid than is remotely healthy. I still have a memory from secondary school when Russia invaded Afghanistan, and my class in a lesson specifically asked me - not the teacher - whether this meant that America would end up at war with Russia, and the Uk get pulled in, and WWIII was going to happen. I recall giving a vaguely sensible response, explaining the role and limits of Nato as a mutual defense force, and that regardless it was unlikely that the US would want direct conflict with the USSR. Sad git.
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Post by agent69 on Jun 16, 2021 21:23:19 GMT
I'm not sure I like to think of myself as being a member of 'older people', but I know from other proclamations I am in very similar age bracket. I remember power blackouts and 3 day week. I remember having the ceiling in the lounge catching light due to a paraffin lamp hanging too close and the heat dissipater having somehow being left off (this was during power shortages/blackout). I /think/ I remember us pulling up floorboards in our bedroom immediately above in order to ensure we could put it out/douse the heat from above. tjhis bit may of course be a false memory. And actually we should remember inflation at higher levels than 15% - I just checked and it looks like it hit 25%. I remember toilet roll shortages, I think I remember sugar shortages (can't remember why that was the case though). Still, nothing like the present to have created a more unstable and unpredictable situation just for the hell of it. I was a teenager during the 1974 sugar shortage, and one of my tasks when working weekends in the local supermarket was to re-stock the sugar shelf if we had a delivery. I don't remember it being that serious, but it does rate No 4 in the top 10 of forgotten national crises
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