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In 1966 these Zoo-it-Yourself set of plastic animals were released onto the teeth of ever toddler. They were a hit! Bright and colourful, cheery and adaptable we had loads of fun and what's more they were so indestructable that they remain in your toy box forever (well until you decide to throw them out). The Animals ...
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 ...
Resin Casting was a bit of a blast from the past for me. One cold seventies afternoon in the winter, dad came home with a resin casting set. It looked great as you could cast anything you could lay your hands on. Cast moths, cast coins, cast hair, cast nails, cast anything and everything. Suddenly ...
Remember Kenner's Easy-Show Movie Projector? Back in the 60s and 70s, before video recorders and home video was unavailable, the only way you could watch cartoons in your schools broom cupboard on end of term day was with toys like Kenner's Easy-Show Movie Projector, which used film loops so there was no film threading involved! This was ...
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 ...
This Disney LP from the early 70's may bring some childhood memories to you all for Tubby The Tuba had a tough tale to tell! The story told via the 2 sides of the LP is about Tubby, a tuba in an orchestra who is fed up with playing the same two notes all the time ...
Back in the days when theme tunes were never the same, as due to copyrights the closest you got to the original soundtrack was a cover version by "CY Payne & His Orchestra" But after myriads of listening in the end you could never remember which version was the original and thus apart from the kids ...
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 ...
The Joe 90 1968 Annual was one I remember well. From the creator of Thunderbirds, Gerry Anderson's penultimate puppet show of the 1960s, following Captain Scarlet (1968) and preceding the little-known The Secret Service (1969), Joe 90 was born. The Overview: In 2112 professor Ian McClaine has invented the BIG RAT (Brain Impulse Galvanoscope, Record and Transfer), ...
