I certainly don’t remember this at all – in fact this is the first time I have seen such a TV set with a coin operated addition.

Is this for real ?

I am wondering if this was an idea from the USA although the television is showing ‘Andy Pandy’ so maybe not

I have since discovered that this type of TV set was used by people who rented their sets as we did for many years in the early days of Colour.

To me and to many I suppose, the launch of Colour Television does not seem that long ago – in fact on occasions in conversation with younger people I will say ‘that was the first place that I saw a Colour Television’.

I don’t think that they grasp that there was actually a time that we only had ‘Black and White’

I have previously posted an article here about Walt Disney who along with his wife and daughters visited Norton Disney in Lincolnshire way back in 1949 while he was over here overseeing his film ‘Treasure Island’ being made at Denham. He was looking to find evidence of his family roots to the village.

Fast forward to 2025 and very recently Lincolnshire now has a Lancaster Bomber statue at Norton Disney depicting Lincolnshire’s unique connection to the plane and to the Dambuster 617 Squadron which was Lincolnshire based.

Walt Disney of course had used Richard Todd in the title role in ‘The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men’ released in early 1952 and three years later he had played Wing Commander Guy Gibson in ‘The Dam Busters’ – he also live much of his later life in Lincolnshire just a few miles South of Norton Disney.

So it is Richard Todd that connects Walt Disney to the new Lancaster Bomber memorial

ABOVE – What a picture as the only existing Lancaster still flying passes by above the new memorial