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Back in 1961 before the Green Cross Code man was a squirrel named Tufty. Created by the UK National Road Safety Committee to raise awareness of pedestrian road safety in the UK for children on there way to school. Tufty was part of a series of puppet animation public information films. Tufty the Fluffytail squirrel was ...
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 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 ...
Z Cars was a British television Police drama series in Lancashire. In January 1962 the BBC produced the first series and ran for 16 years until September, 1978. For many at the time, the title music was as memorable as anything else. It was the type of tune you could whistle or hum to quite happily ...
"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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Treasure Ahoy! This rare little game from Arrows Games was made in the early seventies and aimed at 2 to 4 players. We loved playing it and with better marketing this could of been a mainstream game like Waddingtons Buccaneer. The contents consist of a board depicting a tropical island and you are a Pirate on ...
Now here is a blast from the past board game - The Wembley board game This board game was a great addition to my collection after finding one at a jumble sale as a kid. The idea of the game is to manage a team to through various rounds of the FA cup and to win ...
In the sixties and early seventies there wasn't the choice of prints and paintings available on the mass scale you find today in the high street. This meant the average house had quite a limited choice unless they were into fine art and commissioning a local artist to paint there pets. Therefore as well as the ...
