TWITTER 
Soccer cards came in all forms over the years but as we are looking and a more nostalgic point of view then I'm afraid we won't be discussing Pannini stickers and Match Attax today. That's another days blog. Today we are talking older Topp's cards and Football A&BC Gum cards - they were the ones that ...
Back in 1980 cutting edge technology included the cool C-80 Casio Calculator Watch. Funnily enough retro watches are making a dramatic comeback, so before you start laughing on how awful these watches looked, take another look down the high street as these are selling fast! Most of the reproduction retro watches range from £50 - £100. It ...
Did any one else collect Brooke Bond Tea Cards or something similar? I still have a huge amount stashed away and was a proud collector as a kid. Additionally I collected cards that came with crisps and candy sweets too. If it looked like a card I collected it. Even lollipop ice-creams started releasing cards to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Palitoy Parker Striker Football Game now that was a great little game in the seventies. It was slightly different to table soccer and subbuteo as a push of the head enabled the leg to kick the ball mechanism gave it an extra edge. Though snapped legs and heads were always likely by the end of ...
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 ...
Remember the Goodies? One of the strangest thing about the Goodies is its lack of repeats. For some reason the episodes never seem to get repeated - any one know why? Initially the episodes for the Goodies were co-written by all three Goodies (Tim, Graeme and Bill). Later, the episodes were co-written by Graeme Garden and Bill ...
The Corgi #809 Dick Dastardly Racing car was released to school kids in the 70s during the time Wacky Races and Catch the Pigeon were at there height of popularity and making a buck for Hannah and Barbera. This car wasn't quite the real thing as it wasn't a car found in Wacky Races with the ...
