Sunday 1 January 1961
Martin Dove (age 12)
Everyone went out at night.
I watched TV all day.
Wrote to Melvyn.
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My parents would both have been 49, and I presume that they had gone to the Working Men’s Club, which was their favourite place to socialise.
My brother Ray would have been 17, so I guess he was out with his mates.
TV in 1961 was not like today, tiny TV sets, only 2 channels, no colour, and no hand set.
Coronation Street was broadcast live from the studio.
I’ve forgotten who Melvyn was, I think maybe he was a pen pal.
A pen pal was someone you wrote letters too, and then you would wait for them to write back.
There were no text messages then, no internet, and no phones, we didn’t even have a landline.
