Nostalgia
Nostalgia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36148788
Can anyone remember these stores?
The hot weather last week reminded me of being younger when bus drivers would compulsively drive around with the doors open.Something which has now thankfully died out with door open alarms/brake interlocks on most modern buses.
Even when there wasn't such a health & safety culture, how it was every allowed is beyond me! It's clearly so dangerous! Looking through flickr, Hartlepool drivers seemed to be the worst offenders, particularly pre-stagecoach.
(18 May 2016, 11:56 am)James101 The hot weather last week reminded me of being younger when bus drivers would compulsively drive around with the doors open.Something which has now thankfully died out with door open alarms/brake interlocks on most modern buses.
Even when there wasn't such a health & safety culture, how it was every allowed is beyond me! It's clearly so dangerous! Looking through flickr, Hartlepool drivers seemed to be the worst offenders, particularly pre-stagecoach.
(18 May 2016, 11:56 am)James101 The hot weather last week reminded me of being younger when bus drivers would compulsively drive around with the doors open.Something which has now thankfully died out with door open alarms/brake interlocks on most modern buses.
Even when there wasn't such a health & safety culture, how it was every allowed is beyond me! It's clearly so dangerous! Looking through flickr, Hartlepool drivers seemed to be the worst offenders, particularly pre-stagecoach.
I wasn't sure which thread to stick this in, but plumped for this one in the end.
Saw a car with ribbons, bows and on its roof, loudspeakers just now - passing on political messages about what we should do on June 23rd.
Haven't seen one of those for years!
A mate sent me extended highlights of the Newcastle v Sheff Wed game from the 93/94 season. No idea why.
Apart from Newcastle having to wear their blue away kit at SJP, due to colour clashes with Sheff Weds home AND away kits, there was a player who I had forgotten all about.
Not Malcolm Allen or Alex Mathie. It was Nicos Papavasilou.
He set up Andy Cole at Old Trafford, played a handful of games and then vanished as quick as he arrived.
Dinky little left winger, with a curly pair of curtains and a tonne of Brycreem poured on top.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nort...d-11861893
25 years since the Tyneside Riots.
Some of the other stories and images featured on the front pages are just as interesting.
(09 Sep 2016, 5:05 am)Andreos1 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nort...d-11861893Reading the Chronicle lookback brought that all back, something I generally forgot about over that 25 years.
25 years since the Tyneside Riots.
Some of the other stories and images featured on the front pages are just as interesting.
(09 Sep 2016, 5:05 am)Andreos1 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/nort...d-11861893Reading the Chronicle lookback brought that all back, something I generally forgot about over that 25 years.
25 years since the Tyneside Riots.
Some of the other stories and images featured on the front pages are just as interesting.
(09 Sep 2016, 7:55 am)MrFozz Reading the Chronicle lookback brought that all back, something I generally forgot about over that 25 years.
Thinking about it, I can remember being told that taxi and bus drivers were scared of coming through places like Murton and Seaham on the nights it was kicking off.
What is Meadowwell like these days, didn't the local council start to regenerate the area after the riots
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(09 Sep 2016, 7:55 am)MrFozz Reading the Chronicle lookback brought that all back, something I generally forgot about over that 25 years.
Thinking about it, I can remember being told that taxi and bus drivers were scared of coming through places like Murton and Seaham on the nights it was kicking off.
What is Meadowwell like these days, didn't the local council start to regenerate the area after the riots
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(18 May 2016, 11:56 am)James101 The hot weather last week reminded me of being younger when bus drivers would compulsively drive around with the doors open.Something which has now thankfully died out with door open alarms/brake interlocks on most modern buses.
Even when there wasn't such a health & safety culture, how it was every allowed is beyond me! It's clearly so dangerous! Looking through flickr, Hartlepool drivers seemed to be the worst offenders, particularly pre-stagecoach.
(18 May 2016, 11:56 am)James101 The hot weather last week reminded me of being younger when bus drivers would compulsively drive around with the doors open.Something which has now thankfully died out with door open alarms/brake interlocks on most modern buses.
Even when there wasn't such a health & safety culture, how it was every allowed is beyond me! It's clearly so dangerous! Looking through flickr, Hartlepool drivers seemed to be the worst offenders, particularly pre-stagecoach.
(09 Oct 2016, 3:37 pm)Michael Week today and the Crystal Maze is back for a 1 off special for "Stand up to Cancer" on Channel 4.
Talk about bring back memories!
Shame it's not Richard O'Brien who's hosting it! =(
(09 Oct 2016, 3:37 pm)Michael Week today and the Crystal Maze is back for a 1 off special for "Stand up to Cancer" on Channel 4.
Talk about bring back memories!
Shame it's not Richard O'Brien who's hosting it! =(
(19 Oct 2016, 2:20 pm)Andreos1 https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/to....lxzL3zBYZ
Nice little write up about the original series.
(19 Oct 2016, 2:20 pm)Andreos1 https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/to....lxzL3zBYZ
Nice little write up about the original series.
(19 Oct 2016, 2:24 pm)Michael That's a good write up... i always laugh when i see that women slipping on the log in to the water in the Aztec zone haha
(19 Oct 2016, 2:24 pm)Michael That's a good write up... i always laugh when i see that women slipping on the log in to the water in the Aztec zone haha
(19 Oct 2016, 2:33 pm)Andreos1 I often watched the series when it first came out on Channel 4 and I know my eldest watches the repeats on Challenge now.
However, I remember seeing the trailers for the first series and it looked amazing. Not sure how or why, but I didn't think the series ever lived up to that trailer.
It had been all the talk the day the initial series started and it was the day after - with mixed reviews.
When Ed Tudor Pole became the host, I gave up completely after a handful of episodes. He was no RO'B!
(19 Oct 2016, 2:33 pm)Andreos1 I often watched the series when it first came out on Channel 4 and I know my eldest watches the repeats on Challenge now.
However, I remember seeing the trailers for the first series and it looked amazing. Not sure how or why, but I didn't think the series ever lived up to that trailer.
It had been all the talk the day the initial series started and it was the day after - with mixed reviews.
When Ed Tudor Pole became the host, I gave up completely after a handful of episodes. He was no RO'B!
(19 Oct 2016, 2:20 pm)Andreos1 https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/to....lxzL3zBYZ
Nice little write up about the original series.
(19 Oct 2016, 2:20 pm)Andreos1 https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/to....lxzL3zBYZ
Nice little write up about the original series.
(19 Oct 2016, 2:57 pm)S813 FVK I think what made the show so good was because of the energy that it had although that did die off once Ed Tudor-Pole became host although I still did enjoy watching it.
The program was only created because Fort Boyard (Channel 5 later produced 4 series running from 1998 to 2001 and Challenge making their own series in 2003) was still undergoing refurbishment when they wanted to film the pilot (hence the similarities between the two) so to create a whole new show with the framework already there in such a short space of time and then go to make a success of it is just fantastic.
A shame we don't get shows like that these days. Nowhere near as exciting.
(19 Oct 2016, 2:57 pm)S813 FVK I think what made the show so good was because of the energy that it had although that did die off once Ed Tudor-Pole became host although I still did enjoy watching it.
The program was only created because Fort Boyard (Channel 5 later produced 4 series running from 1998 to 2001 and Challenge making their own series in 2003) was still undergoing refurbishment when they wanted to film the pilot (hence the similarities between the two) so to create a whole new show with the framework already there in such a short space of time and then go to make a success of it is just fantastic.
A shame we don't get shows like that these days. Nowhere near as exciting.
(19 Oct 2016, 2:57 pm)S813 FVK I think what made the show so good was because of the energy that it had although that did die off once Ed Tudor-Pole became host although I still did enjoy watching it.
The program was only created because Fort Boyard (Channel 5 later produced 4 series running from 1998 to 2001 and Challenge making their own series in 2003) was still undergoing refurbishment when they wanted to film the pilot (hence the similarities between the two) so to create a whole new show with the framework already there in such a short space of time and then go to make a success of it is just fantastic.
A shame we don't get shows like that these days. Nowhere near as exciting.
(19 Oct 2016, 2:57 pm)S813 FVK I think what made the show so good was because of the energy that it had although that did die off once Ed Tudor-Pole became host although I still did enjoy watching it.
The program was only created because Fort Boyard (Channel 5 later produced 4 series running from 1998 to 2001 and Challenge making their own series in 2003) was still undergoing refurbishment when they wanted to film the pilot (hence the similarities between the two) so to create a whole new show with the framework already there in such a short space of time and then go to make a success of it is just fantastic.
A shame we don't get shows like that these days. Nowhere near as exciting.
(19 Oct 2016, 2:57 pm)S813 FVK I think what made the show so good was because of the energy that it had although that did die off once Ed Tudor-Pole became host although I still did enjoy watching it.There was also a similar sort of show to the Crystal Maze on CITV which was called Jungle Run which was basically just a children's version of the Crystal Maze.
The program was only created because Fort Boyard (Channel 5 later produced 4 series running from 1998 to 2001 and Challenge making their own series in 2003) was still undergoing refurbishment when they wanted to film the pilot (hence the similarities between the two) so to create a whole new show with the framework already there in such a short space of time and then go to make a success of it is just fantastic.
A shame we don't get shows like that these days. Nowhere near as exciting.
(19 Oct 2016, 2:57 pm)S813 FVK I think what made the show so good was because of the energy that it had although that did die off once Ed Tudor-Pole became host although I still did enjoy watching it.There was also a similar sort of show to the Crystal Maze on CITV which was called Jungle Run which was basically just a children's version of the Crystal Maze.
The program was only created because Fort Boyard (Channel 5 later produced 4 series running from 1998 to 2001 and Challenge making their own series in 2003) was still undergoing refurbishment when they wanted to film the pilot (hence the similarities between the two) so to create a whole new show with the framework already there in such a short space of time and then go to make a success of it is just fantastic.
A shame we don't get shows like that these days. Nowhere near as exciting.
The 90's Crystal Maze intro is still one of my favorite intro's of all time though....
Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TWYOENB8og
Zone/Dome music is also quite good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBPR3LZNLTc
Or if you're a proper 90's kid then this show was also the best, with Pat Sharp and the twins hosting! - Fun house - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2dWHRYJFGE
