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Water beakers made the water taste horrible!. There were always just one or two special gold beakers that every kid squabbled over and the rest were stuck with metallic blue or red. In those days 8 sat at a square table and the chairs were so small, (I guess that's because we were that small) two ...
Anyone else remember having school milk? I remember in nursery and thereafter for some years having these very small bottles of milk every morning at school. They could of been no more than a third of a pint. Good kids were milk monitors - what was it like to be one? No idea! Some kid had a ...
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 ...
In 1955 a new game was released. I vagualy remember it at school as a semi education game. The play and learn at the same time was certainly the reason my teacher in the infants allowed us to play this once our work was done. The whole thing was very reminiscent of the film starring ...
Dinky No.982 Bedford Pullmore Car Transporter from the 1950s Now this earnt a lot of respect from other cars with injuries and yet on its own was plain useless! mine was very chipped because it was rummaged so much in my toy box and never barely used. Even now as a 60 year old Dinky collectible its lucky ...
Now who remembers the Dinky Bedford Refuse Truck? It was clunky and almost indestructible - on that basis it lasted longer than almost any other car in my banger collection - unfortunately i didnt respect cars in those days - everyone was entered for constant destruction derbys - though this was by far the hardest! This Dinky ...
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 ...
Back in the 1950's at a toy fair, Scalextric has become synonymous with slot car racing the world over and is well established as a famous British institution amongst children and adults alike. As can be seen - it wasn't long before any themed car could get a look in - in this case 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 ...
