'All our (my) Yesterdays'

[Yorkie]

Anyone interested in radio serials might like to take a look on my web pages:

http://www.vintageradioworld.co.uk/radio_serials.htm

and

http://www.vintageradioworld.co.uk/new_page_9.htm

The 'nostalgia' quiz might be interesting too.
Sorry for the advertising!
-Tony

What a splendid website Tony - it must have taken you every waking hour to compile it, and of course, to maintain it. I've visited peviously a year or two ago to purchase your splenid e-book - Restoring Vintage Valve Radios, but I hadn't appreciated just how extensive your website is, and the amount of very useful info it contains, such as battery scans. Looking at the radio serials, I'd left the scariest one of my list - Valentine Dial - The Man in Black'. It used to scare me rigid when I was a child - we used to sit in the flickering glow of the coal fire with no light on, which made his menacing voice seem even more scary. The stuff of nightmares!

I've added your link to my favourites, lest I misplace it!

David

[Retired]

Hi,

Great thread David and I totally agree with you regarding Tony's excellent website; it must have taken Tony considerable time; effort and research to put the site together; as a bonus Tony has also added free downloads on this forum.

The radio show I remember most is Uncle Mac (Derek McCulloch). Wilfred pickles was also very popular. Old mother Riley also springs to mind.

Kind regards, Col.

[Aerodyne]

David, I'm with you on 'The man in Black'. I remember sitting up night after night in bed, scared to go to sleep in case a phantom black dog came for me, courtesy of Mr. Dyall.
Col, my Dad once took part in 'Have a Go' when he was a member of the local ARP, I believe. Oddly, Wilfred Pickles and Dad had a passing physical resemblance to each other. Children's Hour was usually good value. I remember 'Romany' and his nature rambles and of course Toytown.
The website does now contain a large amount of material but I've been building and revising it since 1999, and I suppose it has just grown. I only put on it things that interest me, which is why FJ Camm, Wells Coates, Aerodyne radios and Art Deco all find a place somewhere in the multiple folds of this 100-plus page website. There is a lot of work involved, especially for a dinosaur like me who struggles with web design. Some of the latest web programs - for example, the one this forum is built with - baffle me completely. How anyone can build a site 'on air' rather than on a home computer-based program such as Dreamweaver or Front Page, utterly baffles me. I can't even download the thing!
Thanks for the thumbs-up, though, despite the outmoded HTML.
-Tony

[Joe]

It's all your fault, Tony: it was your web-site that got me hooked in as it was the first informative one that I hit upon.

I'd like to add my thanks for the enjoyment it's led onto.

Cheers
- Joe

[Aerodyne]

Well, thanks for the thumbs-up, Joe and Trevor.
Joe, I'm broad-shouldered enough to take the blame for setting you on the road to ruin.
Trevor, 2 questions wrong out of that lot is good going for anyone IMO. You obviously spend - or spent - too much time listening to radio! (Like me)
When you think about it, radio in those days was far more than just music and sport. This is a point I make on my 'Luxembourg' pages. Many people younger than me won't have realised that in its true heyday, Radio Luxembourg was a competitor for the BBC's Light programme and had a massive listening audience. By the 1960s recorded pop music had become the staple and the magic of Luxembourg began to wane.
Just think, though... we can listen to radio receivers that broadcast Chamberlain's 'Peace in our time' followed by the stirring speeches of Winston and the music of Glenn Miller's AEF orchestra. Radios that heard for the the first time the voice of Vera Lynn and the young Sinatra and Crosby. Momentous times in our history. All those years have passed, and they still sound good, those voices, that music and those radios.
-Tony