Camel Hair Coats

Camel Hair Coats from the Eighties

Del boy was famous for his Camel hair coats and this really did provide a serious fashion statement in its day. These coats are classic fashion looks. Camel hair coats are available in many neutral colors. They aren't usually dyed, but are the natural colors of the camels' hair which ranges from light, reddish-brown to black. ...

Back to the Future

Back to the Future ; Remarkable that all those years ago when Back to the Future came on our screens in 1985 that where as the story was all about going backwards 30 years, we now look back to the movie 30 years or more. This was the movie that after going to the cinema ...

UFO series

UFO series

UFO pronounced as a word ("you-foh") is a British television science fiction series created by Gerry "Thunderbirds" Anderson and Sylvia Anderson and produced by Century 21 Productions company. The Andersons had previously made a number of very successful marionette-based children's science fiction series including Stingray, Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet.   With silver space suits and space girls ...

Generation Game

Generation Game

"Life is the name of the game, and i want to play the game with you" Back in the sweet innocent days of the seventies every Saturday night for a few winter months were graced with Bruce Forsythe and his Generation game.   several couples each week normally made up of a family mismatch of mother and son, ...

Marathon / Snickers

Marathon and Snickers

For those that grew up in the UK and Ireland a strange change took place in every kids lunch box in the late eighties and early nineties. The Marathon bar was renamed to Snickers.   Why Snickers? Why would anyone choose a name that rhymed with knickers? Apparently it was named after a horse owned by a ...

White socks

White socks

When it came to a serious fashion statement in the classroom, nothing stood out more than white socks sandwiched between the black trousers and black shoes of the school uniform. Most schools never dreamt of including the colour of the socks as it was a foregone conclusion from the previous centuries that all school boys would ...

Space Dust

Space Dust

Back in the seventies 1975 be be factual, amongst the well known sweets like drumsticks, gobstoppers and rhubarb and custard one pence chews a new amazing sweet or candy was released upon all school kids - Space Dust. This stuff was something quite different as it changed colour while it explodes on your tongue. The ...

Risk Board Game

Risk Board Game

"Every body want to rule the world", was a statement and song by Tears for Fears in the eighties. Risk enables your dreams to come true. With up to six players the purpose is to own every country in every continent.   The continents if fully occupied reward you with armies each go, the harder to occupy ...

Rubbers or erasers

Rubbers or erasers

School rubbers or erasers serverd two purposes at school, to smell and to be used as characters rolling around the desk when bored in a lesson. Oh yes and to erase any wrong pencil marks so that makes 3.   Most of the characters were made by drawing faces on the rubber itself and naming it. Erasers came ...