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http://tinyurl.com/b6zkw

All the best
--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

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George Booth wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/b6zkw

All the best
--
George in Epping, West Essex (107m asl)
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

I remember Barbara Edwards being on a page of a geography textbook that
first captured my imagination about the weather. Those wing-collar
blouses caused much mirth in a classroom of boys.

But surely king of the hippies was Michael Fish with his trademark
university professor bushy, albeit thinning on top, hair; thick brown
specs and turned down moustache. Sadly the 'tache became a pale shadow
of its former glory in his last few years on the telly - same goes for
the hair I s'pose.

The other wonderful feature was those wonderful magnetic charts that
must have taken hours to put together every forecast. Does anybody know
if any of these charts / magnetic symbols still exist in an archive
somewhere. I'd love to do up a room with these -I'd probably recreate
Janary 17th, 1987, on my lounge wall.

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Scott W wrote:
Does anybody know
if any of these charts / magnetic symbols still exist in an archive
somewhere. I'd love to do up a room with these -I'd probably recreate
Janary 17th, 1987, on my lounge wall.

That's very thoughtful of you, wanting to commemorate my sons 4th
birthday. If I send him round, will he get cake?

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Scott W wrote:

Does anybody know if any of these charts / magnetic symbols still exist in an archive
somewhere. I'd love to do up a room with these -I'd probably recreate Janary 17th, 1987
on my lounge wall.

You would need magnetic walls or do you have jumbo studding in your
house. What about fridge magnets and some wall charts or something like
the map from NASA or wherever?

Sticky backed labels would do though for a permanent eulogy to naff.

Actually if you really want naff, you only have to paint the wall black
and get a photo of some tart huddled up against the wind and rain to
place on it. That would make you look really up to date.

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Don't remember Barbara Edwards, though I do remember that style of
chart from the early 80s. How old was this?

As for time of year, from the combination of temperatures, weather
conditions and wind direction I'd guess either April or October.

Nick

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Sorry, thought it was only one picture, page was slow to load.

The Michael Fish and Jim Bacon pictures from 1981/82 ring a bell
though. I remember Michael Fish always used to be on in periods of good
weather, and Jim Bacon in periods of bad weather. Those pictures would
appear to bear that out... :-)

Nick

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In article .com,
writes:
Don't remember Barbara Edwards, though I do remember that style of
chart from the early 80s. How old was this?

If you look at the text below the photo, you'll see that it says 1974.

As for time of year, from the combination of temperatures, weather
conditions and wind direction I'd guess either April or October.

Sounds about right, though I'd guess that if it was spring it would be
May (or even early June) rather than April.
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