DaveH Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 WELL DONE DAVE - A MEGA CONTRIBUTION. Thanks suzy, - I try my best. I thought the word "mega" referred to 1.000.000, so with only 10,000 posts I am not quite there yet, only 1% of the way there in fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest suzy Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Thanks suzy, - I try my best. I thought the word "mega" referred to 1.000.000, so with only 10,000 posts I am not quite there yet, only 1% of the way there in fact. You will manage it - once you have got the first 10K under your belt, the rest should be easy!! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 You will manage it - once you have got the first 10K under your belt, the rest should be easy!! I feel as though I am flagging a bit already after my first 10,000. It's like running a marathon, - you hit "the wall" and the last bit is the hardest, - not the first bit. However, for a majority of our members just making that very first post seems to be the biggest, hardest step. I wish more of them would, then perhaps we could get a few more regular posters contributing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 You'll hit a "sweet spot" between 13,000 -16,000 but fully agree about asking newcomers to the Site to make a post or two, at 20,000+ I'm devoid of ideas and new posts/questons (however easy they may seem) bring inspiration. I feel as though I am flagging a bit already after my first 10,000. It's like running a marathon, - you hit "the wall" and the last bit is the hardest, - not the first bit. However, for a majority of our members just making that very first post seems to be the biggest, hardest step. I wish more of them would, then perhaps we could get a few more regular posters contributing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wayneybabes Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Congraulations Dave, but.................... Norfolk School, Arbourthorne, Manor Top Subway, Gleadless, Norton Aerodrome, Old Sweets and Norfolk Park threads dont count lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilldweller Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Congraulations Dave, but.................... Norfolk School, Arbourthorne, Manor Top Subway, Gleadless, Norton Aerodrome, Old Sweets and Norfolk Park threads dont count 'So he's back down to 5 posts then ? HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 'So he's back down to 5 posts then ? HD I think this is my 12th post in this topic (10,000+ for DaveH), which I didn't start, so more than 5 posts even if you don't count the ones in topics that I did start, - the ones named by wayneybabes. Anyway HD, you are fast approaching 1000 posts which must put you in the top 20 posters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Congraulations Dave, but.................... Norfolk School, Arbourthorne, Manor Top Subway, Gleadless, Norton Aerodrome, Old Sweets and Norfolk Park threads dont count Don't you start, Due to an innocent comment I made yesterday about the Sheffield gale 1962 Richard and Stuart want me to write the definitve, authoritive book on it. I suppose you will be wanting to write a book about "The History of Norfolk School, 1936 - 1997" (Which will also be my specialist chosen subject on Mastermind) followed by a book on all the other topics you list. Oh sorry, NortonFacts has already written an excellent book on Norton Aerodrome. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Don't you start, Due to an innocent comment I made yesterday about the Sheffield gale 1962 Richard and Stuart want me to write the definitve, authoritive book on it. I suppose you will be wanting to write a book about "The History of Norfolk School, 1936 - 1997" (Which will also be my specialist chosen subject on Mastermind) followed by a book on all the other topics you list. Oh sorry, NortonFacts has already written an excellent book on Norton Aerodrome. Will I get a free copy of the book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Will I get a free copy of the book Do you want it signed by the author as well? <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 I'll take a copy of both books, signed please and I'll make a contribution to the charity of your choice. Nothing like encouraging the expert in the field. Start with the first bit (even if that's the end or the contents list), after that it'll just be several years of pure hell - enjoy ! I look forward to helping with proof-reading and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 I'll take a copy of both books, One of the books is about a gale that happened a month before you were born and the other is about a school you never attended. Are you sure you don't want to wait until a secondhand signed copy turns up on eBay at bids of just a few pence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted January 30, 2012 Author Share Posted January 30, 2012 The Gale is a matter of history (and therefore of interest); just happens to be a month before I was born. The School book, I'll proof-read as a matter of course, just to make sure it makes any kind of sense to an outsider. We'll have a long enough wait for the product, never mind aout the clearance copies. One of the books is about a gale that happened a month before you were born and the other is about a school you never attended. Are you sure you don't want to wait until a secondhand signed copy turns up on eBay at bids of just a few pence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilldweller Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Anyway HD, you are fast approaching 1000 posts which must put you in the top 20 posters. If I ever appear in any top twenty it will not be because of my singing voice, unless the coastguard want a basso profundo yodel as a stand-in for Flamborough Head fog horn. HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 If I ever appear in any top twenty it will not be because of my singing voice, unless the coastguard want a basso profundo yodel as a stand-in for Flamborough Head fog horn. HD This listing has you currently at number 15 in the charts Top20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilldweller Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 This listing has you currently at number 15 in the charts Top20 This post brought back memories of cycling around Derbyshire with a tinny transistor radio strapped to my handlebars, listening to Alan Freeman on the Light Programme. If my memory serves me right, the top twenty was played on Sunday afternoons. I can still remember the tune that introduced the programme. HD Postscript Just Googled it and apparently it was only the top ten until 1972. With hits of that era only lasting about 3 minutes each they must have padded it out a lot. It was called Pick of the Pops. HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterside Echo Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Up until Pick of the Pops we had to make do with Radio Luxemburg, a great radio station then. The only drawback was that they never played hits all the way through, and in summer you had to continually re-tune the dial due to atmospherics, not a easy thing to do on a push bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 This listing has you currently at number 15 in the charts Top20 I am currently at number 2 in the charts I suppose that makes me a bit like Cliff Richard as Cliff is the only artist to have represented us in the Eurovision song contest 2 times and on both occasions he came 2nd. However I can't really class myself as one of The Young Ones any more At number one in the charts is Big Richard After all the posts he has made about his size in the past I can hardly call him Little Richard, but many of his posts are essentially as meaningful and cryptic as A-Wop-Bop-A-Loo-Bop-A-Wop-Bam-Boom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 This post brought back memories of cycling around Derbyshire with a tinny transistor radio strapped to my handlebars, listening to Alan Freeman on the Light Programme. If my memory serves me right, the top twenty was played on Sunday afternoons. I can still remember the tune that introduced the programme. HD Strange how we both did similar things. I used to cycle into Derbyshire when I was a teenage lad, often with a special box on the back in place of the saddlebag carrying 2 of our next door neighbours homing pigeons. I took them out as far as I was going and then released them for him. Needless to say they were always home long before me. On these cycling exploits I also used to carry a transistor radio and, with it strapped to the handlebars, listen to the same programmes. You have also reminded me of something else, These days everybody seems to call a radio a "radio" I often still get called old fashioned for calling a radio a "wireless" " OK, lets put the wireless on, it's time for that Jimmy Saville programme" However, when the small (small enough to fit in your pocket), battery operated, portable radios came out in the 1960's they were always referred to as "transistor" "I'm just going to listen to the Top 10 on my transistor" Well, they were transistorised radios and probably contained half a dozen or so transistors to replace half a dozen or so valves, - but we used the word to mean the actual radio. However, with the youth of today, any device that plays music, whatever it is, is often loosly refered to as a "stereo". Very few of them actually know what stereo is or what it means and would not be aware as to weather the sound they were listening to was indeed stereo, or mono. At least I knew what a transistor was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Postscript Just Googled it and apparently it was only the top ten until 1972. With hits of that era only lasting about 3 minutes each they must have padded it out a lot. It was called Pick of the Pops. HD In Britain the charts themselves go back to 1952. The BBC did not have it's own chart at that time and chose to use the Record Mirror chart. This chart was a Top 10 from its start in 1952 but became a Top 20 in October 1955, so there has been a Top 20 for a long time. However, due to programme lengths and "needle time" (the amount of time per hour that the BBC were allowed to broadcast copyright music) they did a Top 10 show for the next 20 years. The BBC did however, on TV programmes Top of the Pops, cover the Top 20 by missing certain songs out and not playing ones that were on their way down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Up until Pick of the Pops we had to make do with Radio Luxemburg, a great radio station then. The only drawback was that they never played hits all the way through, and in summer you had to continually re-tune the dial due to atmospherics, not a easy thing to do on a push bike. Didn't Luxemburg only broadcast in English after 7pm every night but in French before that time? Being a medium wave station at that distance from us it would be a very weak signal during the day, almost unreceivable on many radios, but receivable in the evening due to reflections off the ionosphere Heavyside layer. That would automatically bring with it problems of whistling atmospherics, fading in and out and co-channel interference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 If my memory serves me right, the top twenty was played on Sunday afternoons. I can still remember the tune that introduced the programme. HD Sunday was always a good day on the light programme, later to become BBC Radio2 Can't remember the order of the programmes, or the years they were on, if some of these were replacements for others but there was. Wakey WaaaaaaKEY The Billy Cotton Band Show Forces Family Favourites (a.k.a. Two Way Family Favourites) The Clitheroe Kid (or sometimes, The Ken Dodd Show) Pick of the Pops However, this was some time ago and it was Sunday so there was also a number of religious programmes as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilldweller Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Sunday was always a good day on the light programme, later to become BBC Radio2 Can't remember the order of the programmes, or the years they were on, if some of these were replacements for others but there was. Wakey WaaaaaaKEY The Billy Cotton Band Show Forces Family Favourites (a.k.a. Two Way Family Favourites) The Clitheroe Kid (or sometimes, The Ken Dodd Show) Pick of the Pops However, this was some time ago and it was Sunday so there was also a number of religious programmes as well. "Hey you down there, you with the glasses" At one point, somewhere in there, was Peter Brough with Archie Andrews ( a radio ventriloquist act-----think about it) which later transferred to TV. There was also "Life with the Lyons" as well. I think "Journey into Space" was broadcast on Sunday evenings but I cannot be sure. And of course my father's favourite "Sing Something Simple" with Jack Emblow. All received in glorious low fidelity on our pre-war Marconiphone radio. HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilldweller Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Didn't Luxemburg only broadcast in English after 7pm every night but in French before that time? Being a medium wave station at that distance from us it would be a very weak signal during the day, almost unreceivable on many radios, but receivable in the evening due to reflections off the ionosphere Heavyside layer. That would automatically bring with it problems of whistling atmospherics, fading in and out and co-channel interference. The biggest interference to my enjoyment of Radio Luxemburg was Horace Batchelor of Keynsham, Bristol spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M; with his famous Infra Draw Method of predicting the pools. He seemed to get more air time then the music. HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 At one point, somewhere in there, was Peter Brough with Archie Andrews ( a radio ventriloquist act-----think about it) which later transferred to TV. HD I once watched a TV series about television enertainment and it did a bit on ventriloquists. It actually said that, - "Radio ventriloquists were very popular, but their popularity quickly diminished when television came along" To me that's just a way of saying "They were rubbish" as radio had hidden the fact that you could see their mouth move. We used to like ventriloquist acts on TV though, Archie Andrews (I think the programme was "Educating Archie") then there was Lenny the Lion, Lord Charles, Titch and Quackers..... You don't get very many ventriloquists these days, - perhaps they really were rubbish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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