“DO YOU REMEMBER?” – a talk by Peter Savage
Who was Prime Minister between Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath? What music did Lonnie Donegan play? Who was Freddie Laker? What happened on 15th February 1971?
How much did you first house cost? Do you know the words of “You’re a Pink Toothbrush”?
These were just some of the questions Peter Savage asked during his fascinating talk, “Do You Remember?”. Aimed at an audience of a certain generation, this trip down Memory Lane certainly hit the mark at Cross Corners, when we were asked to remember brands of cigarettes and the advertisements promoting their sale to pregnant women.
We were reminded there was a time when asbestos was touted as the wonder building material and when husbands were encouraged to buy their wives vacuum cleaners for Christmas!
We remembered Frankie Vaughan and Pat Boone, Peter Brough and Archie Andrews, and for all the wrong reasons, Harold Shipman and Rolf Harris.
Happy Days – and all these events happened within living memory. How times can change in a single lifetime.
Readers may be pleased to know that Peter is donating his fee, plus a retiring collection to his favourite charity, “Hearing Dogs for Deaf People”. We wish him well.
And if you’re still wondering, the answers are Sir Alec Douglas-Home, skiffle, the founder of the budget airline, Laker Airways and Decimalisation Day.