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Collecting match box labels was another hobby in the seventies. I Don't know why, but I had a phase as a kid of a bizarre need to collect match boxes. Most kids would be keener on what you could do with the matches - not me. It seems that the fact that there were so ...
This blog wouldn't be complete without the good old Whoopee Cushion. The joke was funny once and once only. Ten out of ten for novelty factor. Whoopee Cushions Poo-Poo Cushions or even Raspberry Cushions were a practical joke toy that has withstood the test of time and still raises a chuckle today (for the first few ...
Liptons Supermarkets seemed to rise and fall overnight. During the Gateway, Spar, Somerfields and Safeways growth in towns and villages Liptons Supermarket came and then went. Yet it has a good backbone as it was created at the end of the 19th century by Sir Thomas Lipton in Glasgow, Scotland. His enterprise soon flourished and ...
Model animals for farms, zoos or circuses were always a part of childhood for me. Most toy shops had model sheep, cows, crocodiles or was it an aligator, giraffes, elephants, monkeys, pelicans and so on. Everyone needed a lion as he was king and nobody wanted the pigs and there was always one model that ...
How wierd were Pez dispensers? Kind of collectible and yet a little novelty that wore off after a few dispenses. Dispense, dispense, dispense, then what? History of Pez PEZ apparently was first marketed as a compressed peppermint candy in Vienna, Austria. The candy was invented in 1927 in Vienna by a confectioner named Eduard Haas III. Haas invented ...
It appears in my town that old "Sweet Shops" are making a returnHaving spent a weekend at the branding museum in London. England still has some excellent packaging on the old sweets that used to pave each shopping area. Surprisingly the sweet jars seem to be making a swift comeback with two in my local ...
We have decided to put together the ultimate list. We know we can't get everything right first time, so we are asking you to also add to the list if you think we missed something. Just to explain definitions: Pop Culture - shortened form of "Popular culture" is the culture — patterns of human activity and the ...
So how many of you have ever played Subbuteo? From early 1940's a love of soccer or football if you're English, has dominated generations from boyhood to manhood. When it was just in it's early stages it was never known as Subbuteo, instead it was just referred to as "the Hobby". Back then for legal ...
From the Early 1940s this toy has been making its way down more stairs than an office worker working on the 50th floor! Today just juggle the original slinky back and forth in your hands or buy 2 and race them down stairs How did it all start? Well in 1943, a guy called Richard James, who was ...
Radio Times wall art as seen in Grays, Essex Radio Times is an UK weekly television and radio programme listings magazine, owned by the BBC Over the years the covers have made all sorts of collections. Starting in 28 September 1923 the BBC have continued to produce this Television guide on a weekly basis. The week including Christmas and the next week are published as one double-sized ...
