{"id":84,"date":"2020-11-03T20:57:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T20:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2020-11-11T19:17:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:17:59","slug":"other-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/?page_id=84","title":{"rendered":"1940’s Other entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s perhaps worth reminding ourselves what entertainment was available at this time<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC radio was king, broadcasting the Light Programme, the Third Programme and the Home Service (which eventually became Radio 2, 3 and 4).  TV didn\u2019t start broadcasting reliably until 1948, and there was only one black and white channel, with perhaps one twentieth of the picture quality we now have.  However, there were only 15,000 households in the whole country with a TV set, so Grenoside might therefore have had one or two<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were only a few hours of programmes per day, ending at 11pm.  Programmes also stopped between 6pm and 7pm, to allow children to be put to bed, the so-called \u201cToddlers\u2019 Truce\u201d.  ITV started in 1955; BBC 2 in 1964; colour TV in 1969, and Sky in 1989<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Early TV family<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How about local cinema? Ecclesfield had the Cinema House, on the Common, near where Morrisons is now.\u00a0\u00a0It closed in 1959.\u00a0\u00a0Chapeltown had the Palace, on Station Road.\u00a0\u00a0It closed in 1963.\u00a0\u00a0And High Green had the Picture House, on Thomson Hill, which closed in 1957.\u00a0\u00a0Karen Ann Loxley\u2019s grandmother sometimes played the piano there to accompany the silent films!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grenoside did not have a cinema, although a local dentist, Mr Billie Thorne, showed films in the Church Hall!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\"1947
1947 Chapeltown Palace, Station Road<\/div><\/div><\/a>\"1947
1947 Ecclesfield Cinema House, The Common<\/div><\/div><\/a>\"1947
1947 High Green Picture Palace, Thomson Hill<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s perhaps worth reminding ourselves what entertainment was available at this time BBC radio was king, broadcasting the Light Programme, the Third Programme and the Home Service (which eventually became Radio 2, 3 and 4).  TV didn\u2019t start broadcasting reliably until 1948, and there was only one black and white channel, with perhaps one twentieth of the picture quality we now have.  However, there were only 15,000 households in the whole country with a TV set, so Grenoside might therefore have had one or two There were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":173,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/359"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}