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Remember Sherbet Fountains? In all the years i had Sherbet Fountains, i don't think i ever once managed to use the liquorice straw as a straw. Every Friday as a treat from our nan, we were given crisps, a penguin and a Sherbet Fountains. What a treat. Basically it is sherbet powder in a yellow paper cylinder ...
Fuzzy felts were family fun right from the 1950's. With 40 squares and 30 circles in a variety of 4 colours yellow green red and blue, several basic shapes like flowers and tractors a boy and a girl, you could make millions of different pictures - as long as they included a tractor, a boy, ...
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down! Boy were they ugly little blighters! One of the benefits of having children is that you can unashamedly play with kids' toys once again. My daughter's have a fine collection of vintage Weebles (the old Airfix ones with the scary hollow faces) which has given me a perfect opportunity ...
Back in the late 70s early 80s there was a gold digging revolution. Anyone who lived near a iron age monument or the beach had one thing on their shopping list...a Metal Detector. It was all about massive dreams and hope and the never knowing what might be around the corner scenario that made it so ...
Every school desk or pencil case wasn't complete without the colourful array of the Pencil Tops. Some were rubber efficient others were smellies, some were munch bunch and others just disgusting. Most of my pencil tops or also known as toppers were of the vegetable kind. I seem to think they were also known as the ...
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 ...
Die-Cast Racing Tracks were a dream for us boys. There were so many additions to the basic set. Tracks joined together with small slides that linked the track and add-ons included banked corners and loop the loops plus a start finish line counter for the photo finish. If gravity wasn't strong enough there were even battery ...
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 ...
