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I'm Backing Britain
I'm Backing Britain
  Sterling Times ,_"the virtual scrapbook of British nostalgia", is here in celebration of "Uncool Britannia". It's the site where etiquette is still more important than political correctness. SterlingTimes focuses upon some of the eccentricities of British culture. It's about old and vintage radio, television, music and literature. It's about Englishness and patriotism.   

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Dad's Army Blue Peter

The Sooty Show

All Creatures Great and Small Magic Roundabout
EXTERMINATE!Shame if you have no Java, clock should appear here! BAGPUSS
PLAY SCHOOL Fawlty Towers
JACKANORY Blott on the Landscape
BBC ShopClick on photos around here to play BBC video BBC Shop
Update 4 September 2010*
 
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Television Nostalgia Television & Radio
Ovaltineys' Nostalgia Ovaltineys
Nostalgia Overflow Nostalgia Overflow
Genealogy Genealogy
  
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Very British! ~ Memorable Images
Dad's Army: Arthur Lowe's Real War
Hello Children Everywhere: Classic Children's Records
British Radio and Television Theme Tunes
The Paintings of George Morland
My Family Album of Veteran and Vintage Cars
Sterling ~ Pictures A - Z of Englishness
Links Books
Favourite Software Radio
Vintage Music Magazines
Television Pirate Radio
Best of British Magazine
Television and Radio Nostalgia
Flobbadobba SterlingTimes Television Pages
Bill And Ben - Flobbadobba Fun! [Amazon UK] _ Watch with Mother video [Amazon UK] _ Muffin the Mule . _ Tingha & Tucker . _ Torchy the Battery Boy _ BBC Shop at Amazon UK .
Watch with Mother

Tingha & Tucker, the two little bears.

Radio Normandy (1926- 1939)

1930 Sponsored radio in English

History of British Broadcasting Regulation

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Pirate Site Sterling Times Pirate Radio List
SterlingTimes Pirate Site
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Ovaltineys Section
 We are the Ovaltineys, little girls and boys,
Make your requests, we'll not refuse you,
We are here just to amuse you,
Would you like a song or story?
Will you share our joys?
At games and sports we're more than keen,
No merrier children can be seen,
Because we all drink Ovaltine
We're happy girls and boys.
  We are the Ovaltineys - Little Girls and Boys 
  Ovaltineys' Page 
 Please visit my _Ovaltineys' Page_ with links to the following: Happy days are here again, We are the Ovaltineys, Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye. _ Official Rule Book of The League of Ovaltineys _ Ovaltineys' sheet music _ Good News for Ovaltineys. _ Ovaltineys' Long Play (LP) Record. _ "We are the Ovaltineys" - CD or cassette available for purchase from "This England". 
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Nostalgia Overflow Section 
Little Black Sambo My favourite book as a child was_ The Story of Little Black Sambo - now with pictures. What a charming story. Other Helen Bannerman books. My son Oliver, when he was three, had a singing toothbrush - see it and hear it here._ SterlingTimes Top 100 
  Gotcha! - The Falkland Islands Victory.  Images of Empire.
Story of Bill & Ben's Market Stall.
Epaminondas and his auntie.
Sparky's Magic Piano 
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  The Story of Little Kettlehead; An Awful Warning to Bad Babas. _ The Little People of British Advertising . 
  The Great British Experience  Save Our Golliwogs! _ La Fontaine fable Le Coche et La Mouche The Stagecoach and the Fly. _ About _ Haut de Cagnes _- an Englishman's love for this Medieval village of Cagnes-Sur-Mer in the South of France. _ Yesterday's Shopping - prices in £-s-d. 
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 Dick and Dora with Nip and Fluff from the_ Happy Venture Readers ._ Hello Children Everywhere: Classic Children's Records - with Radio London DJ Ed "Stewpot" Stewart and Derek McCulloch (Uncle Mac)._ Bowler Hatted Heroes _from Sir Winston Churchill to Mr Benn._ Rebranding and Cultural Destruction . Junior Choice 
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About Me
 Muffin the Mule I am 54 years old and live with my wife Heather and our fifteen year old son Oliver. I'm pictured (left) visiting Father Christmas in Lewis's department store in Birmingham (1960).

Stephen Lewis: Webmaster for SterlingTimes

 
Genealogy Section
  Isaac Lewis 1849 - 1927 emigrated from Neustadt _ in Lithuania in 1870. He arrived poor in South Africa, initially working as a pedlar. In 1871, he set off with his partner, Sammy Marks, to what was to become the Kimberley diamond mine. He traded in scarce goods and then in diamonds. Lewis and Marks moved from success to success becoming largely responsible for the industrialisation of the Transvaal.  ISAAC LEWIS 
  Go to Stephen Lewis' Genealogy Page . _ He owned _ Bedgebury Park  in Kent and _ Leeuwenhof in Capetown.
 
Nostalgia Links
  • Wolf Cubs "The Grand Howl"
  • Toys. John Bull printing oufit, Mamod
  • Pounds Sterling
  • Post Office Tower 
  • Nipper and His Master's Voice
  • The Bulldog Breed
  • Spitfire
  • Decline and fall of the middle class
  • The Beano Comic, The Magnet
  • Arthur Lowe, Captain Mainwaring
  • The British Empire
  • Big Ben
  • The Eagle Comic with Dan Dare
  • Votz Zo Funny
  • The Roast Beef of Old England
  • Sir Winston Churchill
  • Fry's, Cadbury's and Blue Bird
  • The figure of Britannia
  • Foxhunting
  • Black and White Minstrel Show
  • Jennings and Derbishire
  • The Lion and the Unicorn
  • Nursery Rhymes
  • The BBC "Sounds then... 
  • Ovaltineys, Sambo, Muffin
  • Sir Edward Elgar. Edward Elgar
  • Saint George and the Dragon
  • Bowler Hat Heroes
  • Guy Fawkes' Night and fireworks
  • British Flags
  • Common Market or Bust?
  • George Morland
  • I'm Backing Britain
  • Fish and Chips
  • John Peel
  • The English Language
  • Police
  • Seaside and Piers
  • Meriden and the Cardinal Points
  • Tradional Counties of Great Britain
  • Land's End to John O'Groats
  • Beatrix Potter
  • Shakespeare and Stratford
  • Cricket
  • Openair Museums
  • The Queen
  • I'm a British Bulldog - not a 
  • The Englishman
  • Enoch Powell
  • The Little People of Advertising
  • Your Country Needs You
  • British Patriotic Tunes
  • "Free Trips for NigNogs"
  • British Calendar
  • The Concorde
  • Great British Achievements
  • British Horses
  • Great British Artists
  • British Telephones
  • British Bridges
  • The British Stiff Upper Lip
  • The Royal Mail
  • Rebranding and Cultural
  • Classic Children's Tales
  • National Flowers of Britain
  • British Shoes and Boots
  • Ten Miles from SterlingTimes HQ
  • The Anglosphere
  • British Dogs
  • School Boys and School Girls
  • Britain Protected
  • Chrich Tramway Museum I
  • Chrich Tramway Museum II

 

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