Bygone sounds

[LoneyBones]

Our cyclone warning sirens on the radio. Not allowed to use them any more, they frighten the tourists.   

[Mark1973]

I know i'm a bit of a youngster for this thread but i remember the noise of the engine of an RT or Routemaster sitting at the bus stop.

[Geoff-E]

The tune they played before the football results on the radio.

They still use that tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gtl85_8jmI

[joboy]

This is an update of an earlier post regarding Brass Bands.
These old Regal Zonophone records are brilliant and should be in the library of anyone who likes this music;
http://www.regalzonophone.com/
Tell me what you think of it.
Joe

[Viktoria]

Thankyou, 
I have just enjoyed a good while listening to that .The carols especially took me back, to the days when The Salvation Army used to come round on Christmas Eve and played and sang carols.T hey accepted donations and made sure many homeless and vagrant people would have a hot Christmas dinner and shelter for Christmas at least.
They did ,and still do splendid work among the homeless.Sadly it is probably too dangerous to go through the dark  streets collecting money these days. Sign of the times.!
Thanks again. Viktoria.
                 

[Countryquine]

The peaceful tick ... tock of the clock on the mantelpiece in the kitchen at mum's house.

... and the smell of baked potatoes in the ash pits of her Aga.

and the Westminster chime of my Granny's clock - time seemed to stand still in her front room, and it was almost as if I stepped back to pre-war days.   

[confused73]

  I remember Listen with mother, and the Dolly Suite. that introduced it, can recal listening with my mother,and it was still going when I started teaching in the late 60s.

[Paul Caswell]

Oohh!! If we're allowed to mention TV programs then:

Fireball XL5, Anything can happen in the next half hour, Thunderbirds are Go!, Andy Pandy and Teddy, The Clangers, Bill and Ben the flowerpot men, Hectors House, Joe 90.

Phew ...

and hiding behind the sofa when the Cybermen were on ...

[rancegal]

  The Rag and Bone man 'Raegbone! Anyoleraegbone!'.

   Jim Bugby with his barrel organ.

   The 'All Clear' siren. That was the signal for us kids to make for the fire station at top speed to watch the engine go out. We had a 'retained' (ie part-time) fire service. Almost all of the firemen worked in the shoe factories where the noise of the machinery meant the siren could not be heard, so any man outside would shout back into the factory. The fireman would instantly leave his machine and either run or cycle to the fire station. If you happened to be nearby, men would be coming from all directions, flinging down their cycles as they raced into the building. The engine could get out within five minutes of the siren sounding, and the firemen would be pulling on their overalls, boots and coats as they raced along the street, often followed by a flock of boys on bikes. One man would stay behind to take the cycles inside and  make sure all was secure.