Daily Mail dated Saturday November 21st 1992
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The fire at Windsor Castle broke out at about 11:30am on the 20th November, which happened to be the Queen’s 45th Wedding Anniversary.
It burned for 9 hours damaging or destroying 100 rooms and doing an estimated £40,000,000 worth of damage. Apparently the Queen didn’t have Home or Contents insurance so most of the money for restoration had to be raised from the entry charges to various Royal properties (i.e. from the Public). Oh yes, the Queen did bung £2,000,000 into the pot.
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European financial crisis? Wouldn’t happen these days.
The ERM (European Exchange Rate Mechanism) was a system introduced in March 1979 to reduce exchange rate variability and achieve monetary stability in Europe, in preparation for the single currency (the euro), which took place on 1 January 1999.
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An amazing looking aircraft, but, in the words of an old work colleague who flew in it a few times, ‘the noisiest and most uncomfortable plane I have ever been in’.
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An ATM is literally giving away money and there is 'a large, though orderly, queue'. It could only happen in Britain!
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Yet another area of modern life that has passed me by but someone out there might find this advert interesting, amusing or nostalgic.
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If she had hung on another 7 years she would have been entitled to a minimum wage of £3.60 an hour, but she wouldn’t then be entitled to the bungalow – so it’s a case of swings and roundabouts.
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How about 20 years’ hard labour for anyone who phones you up and offers to sort out your miss-sold Payment Protection Insurance? Or 10 years on the treadmill for cyclists that ride on the pavement? Or the rack for that white van driver that’s so close to your bumper that his screen wipers clean your back window?
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It was the Betamax vs VHS video systems story all over again. In the end both DCC and Sony MiniDisc disappeared without trace because everyone went for CDs.
I’m not sure though what the refugee from a straight-to-video sci-fi movie on the right has to do with the story.
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This is a Sunday night’s offering. Only 12 channels but still the same rubbish we now get spread across 100 channels. I like the way that the typesetter was so uninterested in the listing that when he ran out of space in the bottom right hand corner he just truncated the 1 o’clock programme title to ‘All-‘. I wonder what it was – ‘All-in wrestling’, ‘All-nude darts’, ‘All-night repeats of Last of the Summer Wine’?
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Whatever became of Ben Miller, not to mention his one-time comedy partner Alexander Armstrong?
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I can't work out if this is an advert for the RAC or for a car phone.
The ET Car Phone… ET… get it? “ET phone home” said in an extraterrestrial sort of voice. Please yourself. Anyway, whatever became of car phones?
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