When I was a boy in the 1960s television sets were rather basic and only received two channels BBC and ITV and the signal was received via a large ‘H’ shaped metal aerial, usually bolted on to the chimney. Just turning them on was quite a long process because instead of today’s micro chips, televisions had an antiquated system of valves, wires and resisters and these took some time to ‘warm up’.
In the picture my sister Lindsay can’t understand why the 1959 X-BOX won’t connect.
Posted in Age of Innocence, Childhood, Growing up in the 1950s, History, United Kingdom
Tagged BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Sinclair ZX81, Television Sets
In 1964 the United States passed its official verdict on the Kennedy assassination when ‘The President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy’, known unofficially as ‘The Warren Commission’, produced an eight hundred and eighty-eight page report that concluded that the gunman Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the killing of John F Kennedy.
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