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Cup of Tea Tales

Cup of Tea Tales

41 episodes

A collection of tales and anecdotes about growing up in the north of England during the 1950s and 60s that tell of a time of change. The warmth and joy of suburban family life, sibling rivalry, and schooling demonstrate the universal challenges of childhood told in a humorous and compelling read. The arrival of youth culture, technology, social challenges, and growing independence impacted families and society, and many experiences have disappeared and been replaced, but much remains the same.

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Cup of Tea Tales - Let The Music Play in the 1960s.

Published: April 18, 2024, 5:50 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 33 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales- Tricycles, Scooters, Bikes and Bogeys. Becoming Mobile.

Published: April 10, 2024, 1:40 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 7 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales - Sweet Delights we enjoyed, but many have been lost over the years.

Published: April 3, 2024, 1:26 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 24 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales - Childhood Illnesses in the 1950s and 1960s

Published: March 27, 2024, 5:25 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 3 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales - Simple Pleasures

Published: March 19, 2024, 3 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 33 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales - Preparing lunch at Grandma's House

Published: March 12, 2024, 7:57 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 18 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales - The Joys of an Open Fire

Published: March 4, 2024, 8:17 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 45 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales - Yorkshire Pudding and Cards at my Grandmoa's House in the 1950s.

Published: Feb. 26, 2024, 5:56 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 51 seconds

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'Cup of Tea Tales' Christmas in Leeds in the 1950s and 60s Part 2

Published: Dec. 20, 2023, 1:25 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 20 seconds

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'Cup of Tea Tales' - Christmas in Leeds 1950s-60s Part 1

Published: Dec. 13, 2023, 2:26 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 40 seconds

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'Cup of Tea Tales' Winter and Christmas Parties at Harehills County Primary School in the 1960s. Balaclavas, Scarves, Gloves Drying on the Radiators.

Published: Dec. 6, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 54 seconds

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'Cup of Tea Tales' - Woodhouse Feast, Roundhay Park Fair and Other Delights.

Published: Nov. 29, 2023, 3:47 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 54 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Roundhay Park, Leeds A Glorious Gem of a Place! Part of My History.

Published: Nov. 22, 2023, 3:48 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 36 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales- Wild Extravagant Youth. Your Mother Warned You about Boys Like Us.

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 5:11 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 36 seconds

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'Cup of Tea Tales' How to Impress (or not) at Lidgett Park, St Edmund's and assorted Youth Clubs in the 1960s.

Published: Nov. 8, 2023, 5:39 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales November Fog and Smog. The Curse of Late Autumn and a Blight for Travellers.

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, 1:56 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 54 seconds

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David's Bookshelf Issue 11

Published: Oct. 20, 2023, 5:48 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Adolescence, the Lack of Preparedness and the Desire to Meet Girls. Youth Clubs in the 1960s.

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 5:40 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes

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Cup of Tea Tales The Ones that Got Away! Gone Fishing, Hook, Line and Sinker!

Published: Oct. 11, 2023, 3:33 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Cow and Calf, Ilkley Moors and My Older Brother. My Introduction to Danger.

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 2:32 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Crack of Leather on Willow, Zulu attack, Pole Vaulting and we are all in for the High Jump.

Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 2:30 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 39 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Experiences of the 1960s. A Personal View of the Changing Times.

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 3:07 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Early Years of Schooling.

Published: Sept. 13, 2023, 2:18 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 55 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales - Childhood Games in the 1960s

Published: Sept. 5, 2023, 7:18 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 48 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Changing World of Work. From My Grandparents to Today.

Published: Aug. 30, 2023, 1:39 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales - Puberty Blues

Published: Aug. 16, 2023, 2:19 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales - Dedicated Followers of Fashion

Published: Aug. 9, 2023, 3:25 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes

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'Cup of Tea Tales' Meeting Places! 69-70 The Turning of the Decade.

Published: Aug. 2, 2023, 3:34 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 20 seconds

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Settling into High School. The Fun Parts: Workshops and Playing Pirates in PE.

Published: July 25, 2023, 7:33 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 19 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Going Co-Ed and The Conway Field Trip.

Published: July 18, 2023, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 6 seconds

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A School Field Trip to Cromer. Illicit Fags, Booze, and the Finger Incident.

Published: July 11, 2023, 3:57 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds

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'Cup of Tea Tales' - School Trips

Published: July 4, 2023, 6:01 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 9 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales - The Music of Childhood That Stays With Us Forever!

Published: June 28, 2023, 7 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 15 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Scarborough, the Resort of the North

Published: June 20, 2023, 2:32 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 57 seconds

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David's Bookshelf Issue 10

Published: June 16, 2023, 2:20 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Its That Time of the Year. Oh! I Do Like To Be Beside

Published: June 14, 2023, 1:35 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Drugs, Sex and Rock and Roll. The changing face of Youth Culture from the 1950s to 1970s and How it Affected a Local Leeds Boy.

Published: June 7, 2023, 1:39 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 33 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales A Stroke of Luck. My Holiday Job at Wallace Arnolds (WASS), Hunslet Road, Budget Rent a Car, Smokey and the Spaghetti Dinner - the Gift that Kept Giving!

Published: May 30, 2023, 6:28 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds

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'Cup of Tea Tales' One of My first Jobs, Wraggs Motor Cycles, Leeds.

Published: May 23, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 20 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Learning to Read, Stainbeck Prep, Harehills C. P. School and Roundhay School. Listen With Mother, Radio Assemblies, Oakwood Library, Secret Seven, Famous Five, The Lion the Witch

Published: May 16, 2023, 7:46 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 34 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales My First Job as a DJ. High Ho Silver Lining Always Got Them on Their Feet. Summer Nights and the Icy Kiss of Winter Frost. Discos at North Leeds Cricket Club 1971-73!

Published: May 9, 2023, 6:50 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 29 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Pheasants, Rabbits, and Cows Tongues, in the Butchers. Real food, Picked by Your Own Hands. Harvesting the Wild World and the Mushroom Embarrassment! Strawberry Farms and Some Memo

Published: May 2, 2023, 6:17 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 47 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Other Music Venues and Concerts in Leeds in the 1970s. Leeds University, The Town Hall, The Queens Hall, Fforde Grene, Allerton Grange School, and Youth Club, and One or Two Famou

Published: April 25, 2023, 2:26 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 54 seconds

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Davids Bookshelf Issue 9

Published: April 23, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 22 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Leeds Poly, Thomas Danby College Rock Culture, Pipers, Chablis, King Crimson, Yes, Wild Nights at Petes Cellar in the Late 1960s and Early 70s.

Published: April 18, 2023, 6:54 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Places to Go in the 1970s. Leeds Nightlife, Pubs, Cinderella Rockerfellas, the Hoffbrauhaus, Intime and Leeds Colleges.

Published: April 11, 2023, 6:56 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 14 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales My Only Visit to Batley Variety Club. Freddie Starr Oh, What a Night!

Published: April 4, 2023, 7:25 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds

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Davids Bookshelf Issue 8

Published: April 1, 2023, 2:18 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 44 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Further Home Improvements. Bringing the Home into the Modern Era, but Losing Something on the Way.

Published: March 28, 2023, 7:24 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 50 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales They Did What? Home Improvements Bringing a Pre-War Semi-Detached House into the 1960s and 70s! Coin slot TVs, Fitted Carpets, Central Heating. How Thoroughly Modern!

Published: March 21, 2023, 12:53 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 56 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Gone Wild! Playing! Childhood Antics and Freedom that Todays Children Would Envy.

Published: March 14, 2023, 4:30 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales School Dinners Treacle Sponge, Manchester Tart, Spotted Dick, Jam Roly-Poly the Origins of our Hardening Arteries!

Published: March 6, 2023, 11:22 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 1 second

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Cup of Tea Tales- Stainbeck Preparatory School, Harehills County Primary School, Dip Pens, Inkwells, Pea Shooters, Learning to Write. Happy Times!

Published: Feb. 28, 2023, 7:24 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds

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Davids Bookshelf Issue 7

Published: Feb. 26, 2023, 7:43 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 32 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales First School Stainbeck Preparatory School Stainbeck Lane near Chapel Allerton. Growing up in Leeds in the 1950s-60s.

Published: Feb. 22, 2023, 5:22 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 35 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales A trip to the Pictures The Dominion , The Clock Cinema, and Many Others. Always a Great Experience.

Published: Feb. 15, 2023, 12:47 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 11 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Further Stories of Grandmas House in Chapel Allerton. My Grandad, the Parlour, Scrubbing Round the Houses, and How She Kept my Brothers and Me Busy.

Published: Feb. 7, 2023, 7 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 7 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Ch,Ch,Ch,Changes, Heating, Bath Time, Laundry and the Coming of Mod Cons in the late 1950s! My Grandmas in Chapel Allerton.

Published: Feb. 1, 2023, 12:20 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales A Lifetime of Eating Out Bryans, Nashs, Harry Ramsdens, The Acorn, the Flying Pizza, and Indian Restaurants.

Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 7:39 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 29 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Sex! In Search of the Birds and Bees in the 1960s. Going out to Youth Clubs and the Start of Growing Up. A Work Still in Progress!

Published: Jan. 17, 2023, 7:59 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 20 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales If Music be the Food of Love, Play On! Crystal Radio to Cassettes, Walkmans to CDs, and MP3s to Streaming. The Growth of Record Collections and then their Ultimate Death.

Published: Jan. 10, 2023, 6:29 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 41 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Mail Always Got Through! The Postal Service in Winter. Student Christmas Postal Work at Harehills and Sorting at the Queens Hall, Leeds.

Published: Jan. 3, 2023, 6:35 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 16 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Now Thats What I Call Winter! The 1960s Gipton Wood Crescent, Gipton Wood, and Hill Sixty, Roundhay Park Leeds.

Published: Dec. 28, 2022, 5:15 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 2 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Christmas in Gipton Wood Crescent, Leeds. The Changing Times of Christmas. Part 2

Published: Dec. 20, 2022, 2:38 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 53 seconds

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Davids Bookshelf Issue 6

Published: Dec. 17, 2022, 7 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Times of Wonder! Christmas in Lawrence Avenue and Gipton Wood Crescent Leeds 1950s-60s Part 1.

Published: Dec. 13, 2022, 7:25 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 27 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Build-Up to Christmas. Winter and Christmas Parties at Harehills County Primary School in the 1960s.

Published: Dec. 6, 2022, 7:47 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 31 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Hippy Attempt on the Summit of Mount Snowdon. What Foolish Things We Did as Students!

Published: Nov. 22, 2022, 5:37 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 43 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Ashworths Sweet-Shop, Harehills. Sweets, Victory V Lozenges, Sweet Cigarettes and Other Delights We Have Lost Over The Years.

Published: Nov. 15, 2022, 7:32 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 42 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales A Levels, the Final Year at High School, Planning to Leave Home, Getting into College and Growing Older if Not Wiser.

Published: Nov. 8, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 5 seconds

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Davids Bookshelf Issue 5

Published: Nov. 7, 2022, 3:46 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds

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Cup Of Tea Tales- Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Bonfire Night Shenanigans! Not Fun for Everyone!

Published: Nov. 1, 2022, 7:18 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales We were so Bad! Music, Hormones, Teacher Baiting, and the 1970s. The Serious End of High School, the Lower and Upper Sixth Forms, Going Co-Ed, a Shock for the Teachers, but Heaven

Published: Oct. 25, 2022, 6:06 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 30 seconds

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Davids Bookshelf Issue 4

Published: Oct. 22, 2022, 7:17 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales What Foolish Things We Do in Our Youth! Fancy Dress Jester Debacle, the Robin Caper, the Quink Ink Fiasco and the Shocking Experience!

Published: Oct. 18, 2022, 6:32 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 41 seconds

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Davids Bookshelf Issue 3

Published: Oct. 16, 2022, 6:51 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 30 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales I Dreaded Going! Oh, How Cold! Swimming Lessons at Harehills County Primary and Roundhay School.

Published: Oct. 11, 2022, 6:57 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 5 seconds

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Davids Bookshelf Issue 2

Published: Oct. 2, 2022, 5:34 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Davids Bookshelf Issue One

Published: Sept. 24, 2022, 5:49 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 22 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales A Lifetime of Global Successes, Disasters and Wonders! Space the Final Frontier.

Published: Sept. 20, 2022, 6:40 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 19 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Hetchell Woods (Bardsey) and Crags A Special Piece of Gods Own Country or County! One of my Favourite Places to Visit.

Published: Sept. 13, 2022, 7:23 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 1 second

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Cup of Tea Tales The Wonderful Yorkshire Dales. Trollers Gill, a Place with a Mysterious Legend and the Hell Hole where I Diced with Death.

Published: Sept. 6, 2022, 7:03 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 33 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Labs and all Manner of Magic, Misery and Mayhem. What Must have been the Worst job for a New Teacher, Chemistry with Boys with only one Aim, to Make Your Life Hell!

Published: Aug. 30, 2022, 7:01 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 49 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Judgment Day- Moving to High School, Leaving Harehills County Primary and Starting Roundhay School.

Published: Aug. 23, 2022, 8:04 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 44 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Roundhay Park Lake Adventures Boating, Piracy and a Near Drowning in one of the Countrys Most Beautiful Parks.

Published: Aug. 16, 2022, 6:40 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 42 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Trouble at School! Hes just a very naughty boy! Harehills County Primary, Stainbeck Preparatory, Roundhay School, and the Astoria Nightmare.

Published: Aug. 9, 2022, 6:34 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Thatll Learn Yer! Strike a Light, Oakwood Clock, Bond Bugs, The Cellar, Rocket Fuel and The Paint That Never Dried.

Published: Aug. 2, 2022, 5:51 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 48 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales- Nearly the Death of Me. Being Run Over by an MG Midget. How Did I Survive? Leeds Hospitals in the 1960s and 1970s.

Published: July 26, 2022, 3:49 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 42 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales- Your Mother Warned You about Boys Like Us! Parties, Parties, Parties! Wild Extravagant Youth, When the World Was Young, Or So It Seemed.

Published: July 20, 2022, 2:27 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Five-a-side Soccer, The Judean, Spalding and Trauma! We Were Robbed! Twice!

Published: July 12, 2022, 7:17 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 26 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Youth Club Circuit, Band Practice, The Who Moment and Orienteering Adventures on Ilkley Moor. A Teenage Life in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s.

Published: July 5, 2022, 7 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 25 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Modernising Houses, Crazes, Comics, Space Hoppers, Roller Skates. The Mad World of the late 1950s and1960s, but a Great Time to Grow Up.

Published: June 28, 2022, 6:50 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 6 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Turbulent Years of Adolescence. Attempts at Finding a Girlfriend. What Did You Do With One When You Got One? What foolish things!

Published: June 21, 2022, 6:26 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 37 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Amusement Arcades, Funfairs, and Circuses. All the Fun of The Seaside.

Published: June 14, 2022, 5:48 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 6 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales All the Fun of the Fair, Roundhay Park Memories, Fairs in the Park and Woodhouse Feast.

Published: June 7, 2022, 6:47 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Let the Music Play Live. Hot Snot Disco, Snooker, Discos and Concerts. (Leeds Poly, Thomas Danby College 1960s-70s)

Published: May 31, 2022, 7:52 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Making a Band. The Attitude! The Look! The Confidence! Just One Thing Missing!

Published: May 24, 2022, 6:43 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 31 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Let the music play! How music became a part of my life. The 1960s and 1970s.

Published: May 17, 2022, 6:55 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 12 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Being a Teenager in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s. Coffee Bars, Juke Boxes and Pinball Machines.

Published: April 26, 2022, 6:27 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 14 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Religion in the life of a boy in the 1950s and 1960s. Ladywood Methodist Church, Oakwood and St. Wilfrids Harehills. Choirs and Youth Clubs until he was led astray!

Published: April 19, 2022, 7:43 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 6 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Playground Adventures in the 1950s and 60s An Accident Waiting to Happen, or a Great Place to Challenge Yourself!

Published: April 12, 2022, 6:30 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 48 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales It Seems So Old Fashioned Now! School Life in the 1960s.

Published: April 5, 2022, 6:33 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 35 seconds

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Cup Of Tea Tales All the Fun of Primary Schooling Triers Badges, Six of the Best, Recorders, Choir, Craft, Art and Country Dancing Harehills C.P. School in the 1960s.

Published: March 29, 2022, 7:12 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 58 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales- My Adventures Learning to Drive, Taking the Driving Test and Working for WRAGGS Motorcycles. 1971 Leeds.

Published: March 22, 2022, 7:43 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 22 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Cars, Learning to Drive, Drivotrainer and My Mothers Driving Adventures.

Published: March 15, 2022, 6:47 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 14 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Eleven Plus at Harehills County Primary School. Post War Family Life, and the Importance of Secondary Education.

Published: March 8, 2022, 6:35 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 16 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales A Trip to the Seaside on the East Coast in the 1950s and 60.

Published: March 1, 2022, 7:09 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 18 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Learning to Work. First Jobs in Leeds, 1960s. Weeding, Newspapers and the First Cigarette!<strong></strong>

Published: Feb. 22, 2022, 5:48 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 33 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Arrival of Cars, Day Trips and the Opening up of the Yorkshire Countryside.

Published: Feb. 15, 2022, 5:43 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 33 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Another Opening up of the memory Childhood Shopping, Sweets and the Advent of Television! Life in the 1950s and 1960s.

Published: Feb. 8, 2022, 6:55 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 37 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales A Trip to the Cinema The Dominion, The Clock Cinema, The Shaftesbury and Others. 1950s and 1960s Leeds.

Published: Feb. 1, 2022, 8:08 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 24 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Winter Chill Before Central Heating. The Frozen Piano and Pipes Saga.

Published: Jan. 25, 2022, 5:53 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 3 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Adventures in Gipton Wood Crescent, Leeds. Rag-and-Bone Men, Knife Grinders and Peg Selling Gypsies.

Published: Jan. 18, 2022, 6:04 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 4 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales A Mixed Bag! School Excursions, Sport, Short Back and Sides and Other Primary School Memories Harehills C.P. School Adventures.

Published: Jan. 11, 2022, 6:02 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 2 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Harehills County Primary School in the Early 1960s. Milk, School Dinners, Marbles, Gym and the School Song!

Published: Jan. 4, 2022, 7:41 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 42 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Adventures With My Grandmother: Sunken Ships, Buried Treasure, Crooked Spires and Locked In Kenilworth Castle!

Published: Dec. 28, 2021, 6:21 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 21 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales My Grandmas House in Chapel Allerton. Cutting the Lawn with Scissors, Breaking coal Lumps, and the Boxing Day Party.

Published: Dec. 21, 2021, 6:10 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 52 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Family Christmas in Lawrence Avenue and Gipton Wood Crescent, Leeds 1950s-60s.

Published: Dec. 14, 2021, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 57 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Balaclavas, Scarves, Gloves Drying on the Radiators. Winter and Christmas Parties at Harehills County Primary School in the 1960s.

Published: Dec. 7, 2021, 6:10 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 40 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Bagatelle, Trains, Meccano, Bayko, Cards and an Assortment of Other Family Games of the 1950s and 60s.

Published: Nov. 30, 2021, 6:44 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales A Trip to the Dentist in Leeds and Papua New Guinea. Not for the Squeamish!

Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 6:18 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 52 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Testing My Mothers Resilience! The Scrapes and Near Scrapes from Playing in the Garden, Street and the Local Area of Gipton.

Published: Nov. 16, 2021, 5:41 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 31 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales My Grandmothers House Two-Up, Two-Down. Guzunders, Ranges, Coal Men, Cellars and Outside Privies! Seems so Old Fashioned Now.

Published: Nov. 9, 2021, 6:42 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 36 seconds

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Cup of Tea TalesRemember, Remember the 5th of November! Mischief Night and Bonfire Night in Leeds, 1950s-1960s.

Published: Nov. 2, 2021, 6:09 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 33 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales All the Fun of the Fair! Woodhouse Feast, Roundhay Park Fair and Other Childhood Delights.

Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 6:18 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Freedom! Playing in the Little Woods and Gipton Wood. Wild Childhood Antics that Todays Children Would Envy.

Published: Oct. 19, 2021, 2:59 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 38 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Playground Games at School in the 1960s. We Had Little, But We Were So Lucky!

Published: Oct. 12, 2021, 6:36 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Oh! I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside! Adventures at Sewerby, Bridlington, Robin Hoods Bay and Flamborough Head. Knitted Trunks, Sand Blasted and Scoured, Sunburn and the Flying S

Published: Oct. 5, 2021, 7:12 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Country Dancing, Nursery Rhymes, Singing Lessons, Assemblies. The Music of Childhood That Stays With Us Forever!

Published: Sept. 28, 2021, 6:18 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 51 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Change! Some Things That Have Disappeared and Some that Have Come and Gone Since the 1950s.

Published: Sept. 21, 2021, 8:04 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 53 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Changing Face of Being A Yorkshire Man or Woman.

Published: Sept. 14, 2021, 6:42 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Things That I loved About Growing up in Leeds and Yorkshire.

Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 4:38 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 31 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales- The New Wave and What Came Afterwards. Musical Adventures in the 1970s. My Bedsitter Images Mice, Fleas and My Wet Stereo.

Published: Aug. 31, 2021, 5:51 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 3 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Music of a Generation 1960s and 70s. Revolution, the Rise and Fall of Album Music and What Followed After.

Published: Aug. 24, 2021, 9:21 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 19 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Bright New Future, Slightly Tarnished? Taking Chances!

Published: Aug. 17, 2021, 7:27 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 50 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Leeds Friendships, The People and Years that Made Us What We Are!

Published: Aug. 10, 2021, 6:39 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 54 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Ageing Badly, Hair Problems and the Dead Hamster.

Published: Aug. 3, 2021, 6:55 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 55 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Evacuations, Fires, Disasters, and Airplane and Airport Incidents. Growing up in Leeds and Realising I was Mortal.

Published: July 27, 2021, 7:54 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 1 second

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Cup of Tea Tales Play, Some Silly Things We Did as Children and as Adults.

Published: July 20, 2021, 6:23 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 23 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Generation Gap What Baby Boomers Enjoyed? Education for All, Free Love, Open University, Social Change and Growing Affluence.

Published: July 13, 2021, 6:59 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 16 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Growing Up in the Harehills Area of Leeds with Brothers Cricket Local Rules, Tomato Sauce-Gate and the Bedroom Door Handle Incident.

Published: July 6, 2021, 6:54 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 30 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Creative Writing From Stainbeck Preparatory, Harehills County Primary and Roundhay School, to a Lifetime of Creativity.

Published: June 29, 2021, 6:32 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 37 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Family Finances, Eating Out, Takeaways, Fish and Chips, Burgers, Bryans, Nashs and Harry Ramsdens.

Published: June 22, 2021, 6:52 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 45 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Changing Face of Kitchens, Meals and Shopping in Leeds from the 1950s.

Published: June 15, 2021, 6:55 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 55 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Games We Played in the 1970s: Snooker, Billiards, Bar Billiards and Darts. Pubs and Venues in Leeds, and The Crucible Theatre.

Published: June 8, 2021, 6:16 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 44 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Coincidences Luck or Ill-Luck Leeds, Sheffield and Wakefield.

Published: June 1, 2021, 6:17 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 50 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Collecting I- Spy, Stamps, Airfix Models, Records, Cds, Books and Green Shield Stamps.

Published: May 25, 2021, 6:03 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 57 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Building a Guitar from a Kit A Telecaster Style Guitar.

Published: May 21, 2021, 6:52 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales The Last Bus Home. Using Public Transport to Get Around Leeds in the 1960s and 1970s.

Published: May 18, 2021, 6:15 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 24 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Some Lesser Music Venues and Concerts in Leeds in the 1970s, and Some of the Acts Leeds Polytechnic, Thomas Danby College, Fforde Grene, Allerton Grange School and Youth Club.

Published: May 11, 2021, 7:12 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 33 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Continuing the Process of Modernising our House in Gipton Wood Crescent in the 1950s and 1960s.

Published: May 4, 2021, 9:24 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 15 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Wandering in Wharfedale and then Back Again! How Lucky to Have a Backyard Like That!

Published: April 27, 2021, 5:29 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 21 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Loafing Around in the 1960s and 70s. The Art that I Have Lost Over Time.

Published: April 20, 2021, 7:46 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 24 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales A Bit of Biffo! Playground fights, Cock of the School and Some Scary, Boy Things that Happened at Roundhay School and Lidgett Lane Youth Club!

Published: April 13, 2021, 6:30 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 27 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Real food, Picked by Your Own Hands. Harvesting the Wild World and the Mushroom Embarrassment! Some Memories of Leeds.

Published: April 6, 2021, 6:50 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 8 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Passing the Test was only part of the saga of driving in Leeds from 1971 onwards. Getting further afield to the Fox and Hounds, Bramhope and a few hiccups along the way.

Published: March 30, 2021, 7:22 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 59 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Science and Technology. The Changing Face of Life and Playing. Computers and Games, Ping Pong and Space Invaders to PlayStation 5.

Published: March 23, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 20 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Unnatural or Natural Fears? Fortune? Coincidence? Some of the Strange Things that Happened!

Published: March 16, 2021, 7:21 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 34 seconds

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'Cup of Tea Tales' - Home Brewing and Wine Making! The Hobby that Delivers the Morning After!

Published: March 8, 2021, 8:18 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 51 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Running the World and Never Stopping! Roundhay, Wakefield, Papua New Guinea and Australia.

Published: March 2, 2021, 3:39 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 39 seconds

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Cup of Tea Tales Golf Spoiling a Good Walk. Temple Newsham, Middleton, Roundhay, Barnsley and Garforth Golf Courses. Plus Some Exotic Golf in the Highlands and Coast of Papua New Guinea.

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 4:13 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 2 seconds

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