Anyone remember HORACE BACHELOR?

Spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M.........

Probably won the pools

Radio Luxembourg was primarily a music station, playing the current single releases, focusing on the charts and the records currently being promoted by the record companies.[2] The advertisers were allowed to buy a chunk of "air time", usually fifteen minutes in duration, or multiples of that.[1] This was in contrast to commercial television in the UK, where advertisers had no influence over programme content, they had to pay for an advertisement to be aired during the programming organised by the television company. Horace Batchelor's programme segment usually featured the Deep River Boys, who were a gospel/barbershop group performing seemingly live, and not records. His advertisements were spoken, the voice purported to be that of the man himself. He invited listeners to write in for details of his "amazing Infra-Draw Method" which he promised was able to predict drawn games which were otherwise unpredictable.

The address was always read out as follows: "Horace Batchelor, Department One, Keynsham (spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M) Keynsham, Bristol". This was because the name of his base, the town of Keynsham (between Bristol and Bath) was not pronounced as spelt (it is cane - sham, not keen - sham).[3]
[edit] Influence on popular culture

Horace Batchelor's Radio Luxembourg programme led to Keynsham being regarded as something of a joke town for British people who used to listen to Radio Luxembourg at the time, and this reputation lingered. It was the reason why the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band named an album Keynsham. Batchelor's voice is also imitated at the start of the Bonzos' song "You Done My Brain In", saying "I have personally won over..."; and his is one of the names listed as spoof band members in The Intro and the Outro, the complex opening track on the second side of the album Gorilla.[4]

To this day, announcers on the radio seldom mention Keynsham, for example if a request or dedication originates there, without spelling out the name.
[edit] A real person?

There was some question in certain quarters (popular press, radio/television documentaries) about the identity of Horace Batchelor and whether he was in fact a real person, as he lived out of the spotlight as a recluse with his Housekeeper (as sole companion) in later life. He was a prolific painter of all manner of subjects. He chose water colour as his main medium of expression. His "studio" was the entertainment room at the side of the detached house. A bow windowed room with**tail bar, sparsely furnished, with steel shutters. The years leading up to his death were mainly spent in one small room equipped with a Chaise lounge and two Televisions. One Colour, the other Monochrome. Both were rented from Granada TV Rental at Knowle in Bristol. His housekeeper would normally undertake the task of communicating with visitors and tradesmen. His son took over the business of Football results prediction at this time.[5] However, he was well-known to his neighbours, and following his death in 1977, The Times published a notice concerning his will on 3 March of that year, showing he left just under £150,000. A former hotel (Longreach) newly converted into apartments in the neighbouring village of Saltford boasts Batchelor as a previous owner.

the memory man?

remember as a ten year old listening to this guy , his voice still stays in my head .unreal the powerof advertising eh. ruddy ten year old remembering ad for football pools . :) clever man was horace.

Someone in the pub last night told me he used to sell sections of a complicated perm on the pools.

I think he simply pooled all the money he got from people, took out a cut for himself and then used the rest to pay for a huge perm which because of the sheer size used to win some dividends every week.
I think you're right in that the subscribers bought a section of the perm and obviously he could then boast of having winners every week.
A good idea.

My ZX Spectrum won us £1500 in the early 80's.

I had to update every single result and it picked the likeliest draws. I gave up after 4 weeks as it was so tedious but my dad kept the same numbers - 6 months later we got 2nd dividend, another 1/2 a point and it would have been half a million.

the memory man?

No! That was Leslie Welsh.

K E Y N S H A M

hahahahahahahaahahahah
:)

Think another reason he had to spell it out was the reception in those days for Radio Luxumberg.Signal used to fade in and out, resulting in much re tuning(on my wireless anyway)

^ Yeah, Radio Luxembourg was not exactly a digital radio was it !
Lots of re-tuning and crackling interference on the old trammy !

(actually lived near Keynsham, use to go there fishing on the weir nearly every Sunday,
and girlfriend's Dad worked in Fry's Chocolate Factory at Keynsham, always had
plenty of free chocolate in the house, instead of a fruit bowl on the table
there was always a bowl of chocolate bars !)