Why don't they ask us?

I remember 'Surprise Peas' which had to be reconstituted and tasted very sweet.

I also remember as a child that vegetables such as cauliflower often had lots of flies on them.

i don't mind when they are not factually correct on the TV because it brings back a memory long forgotten, and I quite enjoy that !

'They' will never ask us because they don't care that they are giving offence. thatbags will probably berate me for being bitter and twisted but in spite of our grey spending power and potential political power, we are still the invisible generation. My gripe about the derisory 30 minutes given to 'over 50s' fashion at the start of London fashion week still stands. The fashion students can't possibly have asked anyone over 50 how they'd like to dress since most of the stuff was so unflattering I just gaped in astonishment at their designs! ?

Thank you everyone for expressing how I often feel when watching pre 60s TV series. The assumption that all women in the fifties were "just housewives" is particularly annoying! All my contempories had jobs or full time careers! A couple of years ago there was a TV series on secondary schools in the fifties. The school I attended in the forties was so much more go ahead - it even emphasised that all women could have some sort of career and didn't need a man to support them!

all the "back in time" series have been sterotypical - based I think on middle-class Londoners, certainly some of the things mentioned in some never seemed to reach south wales

My DGC are fans of the Horrible Histories by Terry Deary. As a result they are very good on the chronology of British history.

I loved Foyles War and would happily watch repeats on afternoon TV! I have always liked Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks whom I remember from a children's TV serial when my DSs were young. How could I ever forget a name like that?

Children do get taught history Candelle, but not in the chronological order we were. Victorians might be followed by Tudors or Egyptians. It's no wonder they can't work out what fits where.

I agree Foyle's War really seemed to get the setting and language right. Loved it!

Our TV had a 12" screen which was smaller than the laptop I'm using now. There were at least 15 people and a boxer dog round it for the Coronation, peering at the screen. My uncle's TV had a 14" screen and was in a cabinet with doors - very posh. Did you have an X aerial or an H aerial?

We used to say 'Have you got . . . ' and 'I haven't got . . . ', and the response was 'No I haven't', using the word 'have'. Now it's all 'No I don't' and you hardly ever hear the word 'have' in this context. I notice this so often.

We had a telly for the Coronation. Don't remember it being small but it must have been . I remember clearly being put to bed for dancing in front of the wretched thing. I must have been 3 and just soaking up the occasion.

I used to like Foyles War, and thought they got the feeling of those times very well. But there was always a strong story line to carry it along, so maybe you don't notice the odd anachronism.
Wartime Farm was good too.

My eldest set of grandchildren (12 and 9) were fascinated by the Giles Conran series 'Back in Time for Dinner'. I asked them if they wanted to watch the one set in the 1950's and they were glued to the television. Although, yes it was a little stereotyped, I think it caught the vibe of the times, well.

My grandchildren asked to watch the 1960's programme and later asked for yet another and would have watch the whole lot - not at the same time, I add. Just shows that children are interested - well my mob, anyway, in history and the past.

One of my grandchildren had problems differentiating between when Queen Elizabeth lived and when the Second World War took place. To her, they were almost one and the same - children do not seem to be taught history - at least not as we knew it. Or perhaps she's just dim (she's not)!!

Oh dear - sorry to have caused such confusion. Of course we said "half a crown" - it's just that people these days don't believe that we did.

"Back in Time for Dinner" was a classic example. They had a family re-enacting stuff, but the family themselves were so 21st century. The women didn't have the background or the common sense that a woman living at the time would have. Not even the 80s - remember it took them 2 1/2 hours to cook a Sunday lunch using just the microwave. And the way they were trying to cook chips in a pan - I wanted to throw the telly out the window!

In a recent episode of Grantchester, the contents of a dead man's wallet was described as "a couple of quid and a first class stamp". Grantchester is set in the early-to-mid fifties, a good 15 years before the introduction of first- and second-class post. Very careless.

Oh yes welshwife the joy of passing time helping roll up the wool from a skein. I preferred the rolling end to the holding end.

They do it and get away with it because they think we're all thick.Maybe I am,but I can still pick out the ignorance or bordering on arrogance of the writer to assume we will accept it.(which of course we do) They can't do a period drama now,P Cness comes into it.Thats me finished,off it goes,

I didn't know anyone who had a whole house furnished in one style. I suppose our house would have been described as late 30s style - veneered oak or walnut - and most of the house was still furnished that way in the 90s when my parents died although we had a few more modern additions with the bookcase and my mother swapped the heavy oak table for a gate legged one. The furniture was prewar so good quality andit was regularly polished - loved that smell on polishing day when I came in from school! If I had known they were going to do so many period dramas I would have tried selling it to the TV props companies.
I remember my mother and aunts unpicking adult jumpers and re knitting them for children - they used the sleeve wool for the back as it got less wear. My mother made her wool into skeins and washed it first to get the crinkles out before re knitting it. Of course they could do this as most of the garments were hand knitted to start with. I hated being the one to hold the skeins while they were wound into balls.

I always said half a crown or
2s 6d or 2/6 , what did you call it Jackie ?
I know what you mean about `Back in time for dinner` though . I stopped watching after the first one .

I was 19 before woodstock/hippie/isle f twilight happened. 1969.

Lulydully, I so agree.mod/rockers 1964 , mods 1965, and moustaches and hippy stuff was 68 onwards.

Sorry JackyB, I see now that I read it wrong.

When they show the 60s it annoys me, somewhat, as they seem to roll the whole of the decade into head bands, mini skirts and moustaches.

Mods and rockers did not coincide with Woodstock. You only need to look at chronological photos of the Beatles from Hamburg, through mod styling to psychedelia in 1969.
The music, art and fashion just rolled and changed as the decade progressed.
Also the differences across the country were vast. Everywhere was not like London. I suppose this counts for most decades as 10 years is a long time.

That Giles Conran programme was full of stereotypes and anachronisms.
I do find it jars watching plays set in the past and I agree with Jacky. Ask us perhaps.

I remember a waitress in a 50s play putting putting the food on the table and saying to the customer "There you go". I don't remember that phrase then - it was always "There you are".

"They" probably don't ask us because "they" assume that, as we are all over the age of 60, we are completely gaga and can't even remember our own names.