Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 1 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 11:00am Moderator, : Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5061 It was a regular occurrence that stars appearing at the Hippodrome / Coventry Theatre would attend a service at Holy Trinity Church
As a chorister in those days, I met and collected autographs from, inter alia, Jimmy Clitheroe, The Kaye Sisters, Morecambe & Wise, Harry Secombe |
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PhiliPamInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 2 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 11:22am Moderator, : Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:3817 I loved listening to Jimmy Clitheroe on wireless. Another favorite of mine was Mr. Pastry, who came to visit us whilst in hospital one year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 3 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 11:25am : Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2632 I was in the audience with a coach party from the Howitzer Club! I think he was appearing as Aladdin? Every time he came on stage we were supposed to shout: "Baa, baa, galoo, galoo". I haven't the faintest idea why?
The club also gave each one of us a huge bag of sweets, far more than anyone could eat, presumably to keep us quiet. It didn't work! ![]() |
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TonyS Coventry All posts by this member | 4 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 12:06pm : Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1238 On 29th Dec 2011 11:22am, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
... Another favorite of mine was Mr. Pastry...
... and mine too! - great photo! ![]() |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 5 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 12:21pm : Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2632 It was called "The Clitheroe Kid" and was broadcast on the Light Programme on Sunday afternoons.
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heritage Bedworth All posts by this member | 6 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 3:21pm : Joined Sep 2011 Total posts:345 Jimmy Clitheroe was the oldest schoolboy in the country and he played gooseberry for years with his elder sister Susan and her boyfriend Alfie Hall.
Believe it or not Judith Chalmers was Susan in the first series, later played by Diana Day with Danny Ross as Alfie.
The Clitheroe Kid did come from Clitheroe in Lancashire, he played the naughty schoolboy for a total of 17 series on the BBC Light programme.
Peter Sinclair played his Scottish grandad, Patricia Burke and Renee Houston, his mother.
The scripts were generally written by the producer James Casey and Frank Roscoe.
After a brief version on television, the Clitheroe Kid ended in 1972 following the death of Jimmy Clitheroe.
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K Somewhere All posts by this member | 7 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 4:17pm : Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:510 Can't say I really warmed to him, really. But "Round the Horne", "The Navy Lark", "ITMA", "Archie Andrews"... Those were the days, eh? I always listened to Round the Horne and later The Navy Lark when I came home from school for lunch. Didn't want to go back after that!!! |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 8 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 4:29pm : Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:2337 Did 'Worker's Playtime' ever visit Coventry? Who compared that, was it Wilfred Pickles?
(it's ok, I'm just drifting back to Coventry for you folks!) |
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K Somewhere All posts by this member | 9 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 4:43pm : Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:510 I would guess so... I remember "Music While You Work" being played when I was at GEC - but I don't remember it being played anywhere else that I worked. I think the compere of Workers' Playtime was Bob Monkhouse.
Wilfred Pickles compered "Have A Go". |
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TonyS Coventry All posts by this member | 10 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 4:49pm : Joined Jan 2011 Total posts:1238 Not sure, but I would have thought with Coventry's manufacturing base it would have hosted the programme at some stage.
Was this the show that Peter Goodwright found fame on? |
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K Somewhere All posts by this member | 11 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 4:51pm : Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:510 I'm pretty sure they did - it would have been odd, if not, given the importance of it!
And - Charlie Chester, Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Frankie Howerd, Anne Shelton, Betty Driver, Eve Boswell, Dorothy Squires, Julie Andrews, Morecambe and Wise, Peter Cavanagh, Janet Brown, Bob Monkhouse, Peter Goodwright, Percy Edwards, Ken Dodd, Ken Platt, Elsie and Doris Waters etc... |
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K Somewhere All posts by this member | 12 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 6:11pm : Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:510 Just thinking about Round the Horne (It's coming... it's coming to a town near you... it's getting closer... it's nearly here! D**n! it's gone again... ![]() ![]() |
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Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member Thread starter | 13 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 6:28pm Moderator, : Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5061 On 29th Dec 2011 5:55pm, JohnB said:
Were you a member of the Black Hand Gang then? On 29th Dec 2011 12:21pm, dutchman said:
Ha ha I remember that. Used to listen to it on my way to Sunday School
On 29th Dec 2011 12:06pm, TonyS said:
What was the radio program that featured Jimmy Clitheroe? It was called "The Clitheroe Kid" and was broadcast on the Light Programme on Sunday afternoons.
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JohnB Wokingham, Berkshire All posts by this member | 14 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 7:09pm : Joined Aug 2011 Total posts:42 Ha ha - no, Corley Church Sunday School!
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Adrian UK All posts by this member | 15 of 262 Thu 29th Dec 2011 7:10pm : Joined Sep 2011 Total posts:176 On 29th Dec 2011 4:17pm, KeithLeslie said:
Can't say I really warmed to him, really. But "Round the Horne", "The Navy Lark", "ITMA", "Archie Andrews"... Those were the days, eh? I always listened to Round the Horne and later The Navy Lark when I came home from school for lunch. Didn't want to go back after that!!!
So what year did you leave school Keith? You say you listened to them during your lunch break, yet I can only remember these programmes being broadcast on a Sunday. Around The Horne was first broadcast in the 60s as far as I'm aware... I may be wrong (I usually am). ![]() |
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