Colour Strike Colour Strike The Colour Strike was an industrial action by technicians at all ITV companies from 13 November 1970 to 8 February 1971 (although some shows made during this period in black and white were having their first transmission as late as December 1971) who, due to a pay dispute with their management, refused to work with colour television equipment. At that time ITV had recently switched to colour transmissions, requiring the individual companies to invest heavily in new equipment. Early colour television studio cameras consisted of four tubes to relay the picture: three were receptive to colour (red, green
Sidney Grapes Twins, Keith Skipper and the Singing Postman. Sidney Grapes Sidney Samuel Grapes (6 June 1887 – 28 April 1958) was a British comedian, the owner of a bicycle shop and later a garage in Potter Heigham, a village in northeast Norfolk. In the years before the Second World War, he acquired a reputation as an amateur Norfolk dialect comedian, performing at social functions in many parts of the county and on the radio. However, he is most famous for "The Boy John Letters". The letters appeared in the "Eastern Daily Press", the regional newspaper, at irregular intervals. Grapes would simply