Wigan Album

Fred God Bless you!!!! Radio Lux my all time favourite radio station, listening late at night to all the pop songs, the Beatles I think, Gerry and the Pacemakers!!! Wow wonderful!! Cheers!!

Do you remember the "Spangle Man"? Handily packed, delicious to eat, the spangle is my favourite sweet.Offer your friends whenever you meet, the spangle is my favourite sweet.

this was long before the beatles and gerry and the pacemakers lizzie but listening to the adventures of dan dare every night before our father put me and my brother to bed before he went to work on the nightshift down the pit was magic

Evening TV from 7.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.! Remember it well, but it makes you wonder. According to my current programme guide I have access to 78 Freeview channels, 90% of which are garbage in entertainment terms.

Hi Royston yes I had guessed that it was a fair bit earlier than the Beatles etc.. Eventually Radio Lux did play all pop music of the 50s, my fave was "Catch a Falling Star". Bing Crosby??? Cheers!!

Liz down under. Think "Catch a Falling Star" was Perry Como.

Thanks DerekB I knew it was one of the old crooners!! I could play it with one finger on my Dads piano, thought I was very clever, cheers!!

Looking at the press cutting I see the section just marked Schools. That would be when we went into the school hall for Music and Movement(my melting ice-cream was a sight to behold) and Singing Together when we joined in with the radio to belt out stirring songs such as "The British Grenadiers" and other non-pc songs. Happy days. Does anyone else remember these sessions in the mid 1950's?

Grannieannie.. May I say first that I love your username...
The music and movement, we used to have something like that at our primary school with instruments and singing and that would have been in the mid 50s in the school hall. They had some kind of PA system hooked up to the radio I think. Bells rang when you mentioned it was in the school hall. Christmas cheers!!!