bilsdale aerial burnt out

[ukracer]

Have you watched terrestrial TV recently? hardly missing out...

It also depends on location as to how many channels you can get through free view......what's that all about.

 

[ukracer]

The internet etc. is hardly 'new tech', it's trivial to connect a smart tv to a router - i'm sure the 'blitz spirit' is still alive and well, neighbours will help neighbours, the village pub could at a pinch change the channel from sky sports occasionally...
Could be a good sales opportunity for Sky too - and there's always the 'wireless'.
Yes, it may be an inconvenience for some, it's hardly plunged a million or so people back into the dark ages though.

ETA - They could always brave a trip to the local shop for a newspaper too... I'm sure that most of the demographic you're referring to will be able to remember the black days of the 70's with regular power cuts, there was no public internet back then and no whining about lack of TV, life goes on.

"News" paper. That's an oxymoron now.

 

[ukracer]

Hmmm.

You've not had much exposure to the older generation have you?

My mum struggles with her TV, the simplest one I could find, when it needs retuning as they've shifted a channel somewhere. Never mind when she accidently presses a button she didn't know about and it goes into some other screen. She will turn if off for fear of doing something and breaking it. Reading a newspaper is hard work - cataracts . . . something recently put all non-essential medical activity to the back of the queue - I've forgotten what world wide thing that was . . .

She hasn't stepped in a pub for 40 yrs . . . infact, stepping the length of the hall is a bit of a task. For the last 18mths she's been under an advisory to not go anywhere anyway for fear of something going around . . . wonder what that was . . . as she has no computer, no smart phone (just getting her to use a conventional mobile phone is a next to impossible task - even the land line one causes issues most weeks. I have to take her shopping order over the phone and order on-line.

I've tried many times to get up set up with all the above - but for a lady who could melt manual typewriters with speed, take pitman shorthand dictation at warp factor 9, do company accounts, force local authorities to get their act in gear by going way above their pay grade, even to the WHO, the modern world is a button press too far with arthritic fingers, gammy knees, hips, wrists,elbows, etc

A viable alternative is a Firestick fed by a mobile phone. Assuming they do have a decent 4g signal.

 

[roofman]

There may well be a million people in the transmitter coverage area, not all of them will be affected, as I said, internet, Sky etc.- most will already be using these sources to supplement or replace terrestrial broadcasts anyway. It's slightly ironic that the people least likely to be 'connected' to an always-on information source are the ones you claim will 'suffer' without it.
BTW, you have no idea of my age, let's just say I can remember the power cuts in the 70's very well - and i'm far from being a 'townie' too.

Aye but can you remember the winter of 63

 

[Ubique]

Aye but can you remember the winter of 63

I remember being told about it!

Told the southern softies were whining about having a good Yorkshire winter to contend with...

 

[roofman]

I remember being told about it!

Told the southern softies were whining about having a good Yorkshire winter to contend with...

I was a very young child but can still remember my useless father not fixing my bedroom window saying "put another coat on" so my mother put my bed in the cellar as it was warmer

 

[brightspark]

I was a very young child but can still remember my useless father not fixing my bedroom window saying "put another coat on" so my mother put my bed in the cellar as it was warmer

luxury we had it tough

 

[Ubique]

...so my mother put my bed in the cellar as it was warmer

There's a lot of truth in that - I've been down some deep mines in S. Africa, it takes the workers days to acclimatise to the heat at various levels before they go to the next one down.

To clarify, my Father considered anyone below the 53rd parallel North to be a 'southern softie', my Grandfather, who was made of sterner stuff, said the same of the 54th parallel North....

 

[Keith 66]

My parents have both passed away now. They lived near morecambe bay about 3 1/2 miles from the nearest supermarket. They were not computer savvy at all & the modern digital world was largely alien to them, they were lucky & did not have dementia.
Add that into the mix & modern menu driven tech becomes unusable for many many people. The simplest tech becomes utterly unintelligable & this is something that unless you have seen it many younger people simply cannot understand.
There are millions of people in this situation. We all get old if we are lucky but for many they are becoming increasingly disenfranchised.

 

[500e]

Aye but can you remember the winter of 63

Walking on top of hedges around us, was repairing TV then, sent out in van told do the ones you can get to don't come back till you finish them all, 2 of us carrying the old Mullard valve box, tools & whatever we thought may sort the TV the longest walk was 3 miles from van to farm

 

[badabec]

Aye but can you remember the winter of 63

I can remember the two terrible winters in the early seventies.

 

[badabec]

Mike and Bernie

 

[jimbo84]

Blew it up(down) today.

Bilsdale mast crashes to ground in controlled demolition following August fire | ITV News

Telecommunications company Arqiva said they demolished the 1960s structure after finding the August fire rendered it beyond repair. | ITV News Tyne Tees

www.itv.com

 

[badabec]

Did the forum give a quote to do that? Have they accepted our quote for the munitions ship?

 

[the snooper]

Demolished

 

[500e]

@badabec
Munitions ship gone quiet.
Think we have been shafted by CEO & finance director, "was it ever thus".
Heard from a friend of a friends brothers wife they were seen boarding a private jet which posted flight plan at Grose Weight, 2 lady pilots & 2 passengers in Hawaiian shirts