The 1960s were very much
an age of change - a rapid movement from the austerity of the 1940s and 1950s to
the pop movement of the 1960s with a change in attitudes embracing a youth
culture in clothes, music and technology.
All the way from Hong Kong the advent
of technology made a positive impact on the quality of life on our early
morning paper runs too.
We could now work to music!
In the late 1960s there
was an explosion of cheap mini radios that came on to the market.
For many of
us of a certain age it was a must have purchase.
So, instead of solitary
contemplative walks we could now enjoy the dubious charms of Tony
Blackburn on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show.
I remember on one
occasion down at Morningside, Fiona Blades and me teasing an old postie who we were friendly with.
I'd got a tiny, minuscule plastic toy radio out of a Lucky Bag - although
the technology was fast moving, it hadn't quite reached that stage - the size of a large postage stamp - however passed it off to him as being the real thing, whilst we had the mini
radio switched on whilst hidden in my paper bag.
He held it towards to his ear and declared
it 'A marvellous thing!'
