Memories of Childhood

Mentioned this elsewhere but does anyone remember the music arm of Labour in the 1980's-concerts and rallies against Thatcher and her cronies. It was called RED WEDGE and publicised a lot by the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. Billy Bragg and I think Paul Weller(The Jam) was part of it. I remember they showed a piece of footage showing Ken being lifted up to a stage to thunderous applause from the crowd. Music was actually a powerful tool back then and many concerts were used to raise money and raise awareness of the homeless, the unemployed etc.

(27-02-2019 11:37 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Dad used to go to RAF Cosford, I only went once. He has been to the Alexander Stadium many times and it will be redeveloped for the Commonwealth Games in 20222. The Coca-Cola meetings were really good because it was normally after a big event like the Olympics or Commonwealth or World where the champions, medalists etc would be able to say thank you to the public(envariably having raised money to send them to those places) I saw many British, Allcomers and other records broken but never a world record as far as I can remember.

Think we went one time and I think Steve Ovett missed a world record by a very small amount.

Still trying to find some programmes to photograph-will post when I've done it. They used to be sponsored by Debenhams, Talbot Cars and an insurance company. My Dad has been all over the world and seen many of the world's best records broken including Bob Beamon's world long jump record in Mexico 1968 which stood for decades.

I'm sure that was the only athletics record ever set at altitude I believe

Well in 1968 Pietro Mennea set the world 200m record 19.72 so that would have counted as well.

(27-02-2019 19:55 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Still trying to find some programmes to photograph-will post when I've done it. They used to be sponsored by Debenhams, Talbot Cars and an insurance company. My Dad has been all over the world and seen many of the world's best records broken including Bob Beamon's world long jump record in Mexico 1968 which stood for decades.

Wow,that must've been amazing for your dad GM.
I remember staying up late with my brother to watch live coverage of the long jump final at the 1991 world championships held in Tokyo.
Mike Powell jumped 8.95m to beat Carl Lewis and break Bob Beamon's long standing record.

Yup it was I'll tell you about it sometime mate. I stayed up late to see it too.

Remember buying a computer magazine called 16/48 which was held on a mounted cassette tape and you played it via your tape recorder and loaded it into your machine. If you were clever you could load it then stop the tape, and then list it and copy bits of code to try and use in your own programs.

which was the first Spectrum/C64 game anybody ever completed?

I had Spectrum and was into sports games and war games. Remember constantly getting gold on Daley Thompson's Decathlon where you got five events on each side of the tape you used to have to load into the machine. Compared to today's games machines loading took ages, was very noisy and quite hit or miss as to whether it would actually load.