Apparently Uncle Mac (Dennis McCulloch) retired in 1950, either my memory goes back further than I thought or there was more than one Uncle Mac. I think there must have been more than one as Google tells me Children's Hour was on 7 days a week from 1922 until 1964.
I'm too young to have listened to Children's Hour, or Children's Favourites (and remember it) but I'm half pleased and half horrified that I remember quite a lot of those songs (I am a mole and I live in a hole!!) I'm wondering if my parents had records with some of them on.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
When I was small my parents had a record player that played 78s (and maybe another speed, can't remember), a reel-to-reel tape player and a portable radio that they had to buy a license for. No TV until I was about 4 and apparently it terrified me the first time they put it on. The first thing I clearly remember watching was something about the (then) new decimal coinage so it would have been early 1971, just before my brother was born, when I was 4-and-a-half. Happy days eh?
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
@LG_ I walk across a bridge just like that most days. I often see young children playing 'Pooh sticks' with their parents, takes me right back to my childhood, I was brought up with Winnie the Pooh books and used to read them to my children and then grandchildren.
I grew up with Pooh too - so many phrases we still use, though it was my Dad who used them most so not so frequent now. I still look out for Trespassers W signs if I'm on a woodland walk. And we play Poohsticks at every opportunity.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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