Ray’s Rants back to the 1960s 1970s 1950s in the UK Great Britain. Entertaining and fun. British music scene, Jimi Hendrix The Rolling Stones. The English pubs and clubs, Watney’s Red Barrel beer, Babycham, Cherry B the night life. The cars, the workplace, television and pirate radio. England. Schools back in the early days. 60s fashion and clothes, flairs and miniskirts. London, Caroline, Luxembourg. Mini cars skirts. Holiday in caravan, Butlin’s
Episodes
Sunday Sep 29, 2019
Driving, then and now.
Sunday Sep 29, 2019
Sunday Sep 29, 2019
Back in the old days, there were far fewer cars on the roads. No traffic jams, no potholes, no one-way streets... How do we cope these days with millions of cars on the roads?
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Sunday Sep 22, 2019
A evening in an early 1970s nightclub.
Sunday Sep 22, 2019
Sunday Sep 22, 2019
I’ll take you to an English night club where we’ll check out the drinks, the fashion and – most importantly – the girls! There’s one very lovely blonde girl who… Er… There were many small nightclubs in towns across the UK in the 1970s. Sadly, they’ve disappeared. What were they like? I’ll tell you in this latest episode.
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Sunday Sep 15, 2019
An evening in a 1960s British pub.
Sunday Sep 15, 2019
Sunday Sep 15, 2019
Come and spend an evening with me in a 1960s English pub. We walk through the door when the pub opens. We meet the barmaids, the locals and regulars drift in, the juke box plays… In this episode, I spend an evening chatting, drinking beer and people watching. This should be interesting as I’ll be chatting in first person, present tense.
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Sunday Sep 08, 2019
The beginning of CB radio in the UK.
Sunday Sep 08, 2019
Sunday Sep 08, 2019
I had what was probably one of the first CB rigs in the country. It was the early 70s and I had an American AM rig. This was when no one else was on 27mHz. The band was quiet, until one evening when a voice emanated from the speaker…
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Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Born in the fifties, living in the 21st century.
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Our familiar policeman cycles past and waves, the postman delivers the second post of the day, a lady pops into a red phone box to make a call… England in the 1950s and 1960s was far removed from the 2000s. The workplace, the schools, fashion, mini-skirts, hippies, pubs, teenagers, music, love… step back in time with me!
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