centenary ticket
When I saw this for sale on eBay in late March, I just had to have it but to do that, I had to switch to my decoy account (which I use to buy things from sellers who have blocked me on my main account) to buy it and the next ticket. However, it's only this week that I finally got round to scanning it in.
Bought for £4.83 from bandibacs54, a seller whose listing I attempted to correct, this is a special ticket issued in 1983 by West Yorkshire PTE (Metro) to celebrate a hundred years of public transport in Huddersfield. When this was first issued on 11 January that year, my mum had just turned thirty-four, Phil Collins at number one with You Can't Hurry Love, Aussie group Men At Work were at number 7 with Down Under and at number 15 was the Maisonettes with their homage to 1960s soul Heartbreak Avenue.
However, when this ticket was ACTUALLY issued on 5 June, well, not only was it one day before the 39th anniversary of D-Day but the Police were at number one with Every Breath You Take (and would stay there for four weeks), New Edition (whose name suggested that they were a new edition of the Jackson 5) were at number 4 with Candy Girl while Irene Cara had entered the chart at number 30 with Flashdance...What A Feeling, from the film of the same name.
As well as the Hitler Diaries, something else that was in the news that year was Operation Skyquest, an attempt by Mike Kendrick and Per Lindstrand to fly to the edge of space in a special hot air balloon attached to a space capsule. This was about as successful as me and my mum's friend Tracy attempting to get to London by train six years earlier...we only got as far as Penketh I think.
Like all my tickets, this took fucking ages to scan and edit, although I think scanning was the easy bit or maybe not, looking at the shape of the fucking ticket! Well, I hope you like my efforts.
centenary ticket
When I saw this for sale on eBay in late March, I just had to have it but to do that, I had to switch to my decoy account (which I use to buy things from sellers who have blocked me on my main account) to buy it and the next ticket. However, it's only this week that I finally got round to scanning it in.
Bought for £4.83 from bandibacs54, a seller whose listing I attempted to correct, this is a special ticket issued in 1983 by West Yorkshire PTE (Metro) to celebrate a hundred years of public transport in Huddersfield. When this was first issued on 11 January that year, my mum had just turned thirty-four, Phil Collins at number one with You Can't Hurry Love, Aussie group Men At Work were at number 7 with Down Under and at number 15 was the Maisonettes with their homage to 1960s soul Heartbreak Avenue.
However, when this ticket was ACTUALLY issued on 5 June, well, not only was it one day before the 39th anniversary of D-Day but the Police were at number one with Every Breath You Take (and would stay there for four weeks), New Edition (whose name suggested that they were a new edition of the Jackson 5) were at number 4 with Candy Girl while Irene Cara had entered the chart at number 30 with Flashdance...What A Feeling, from the film of the same name.
As well as the Hitler Diaries, something else that was in the news that year was Operation Skyquest, an attempt by Mike Kendrick and Per Lindstrand to fly to the edge of space in a special hot air balloon attached to a space capsule. This was about as successful as me and my mum's friend Tracy attempting to get to London by train six years earlier...we only got as far as Penketh I think.
Like all my tickets, this took fucking ages to scan and edit, although I think scanning was the easy bit or maybe not, looking at the shape of the fucking ticket! Well, I hope you like my efforts.