Sunday, 21 December 2025

Z-Cars, Bottle tops and Höfner

Wandering round Oakham Museum in Rutland I spotted these old games.

Z-Cars was a great TV show. Don't think I had the game but I had the annual.

Did you?


They also had milk bottle tops! Remember those!


Out and about last night there I spotted a gorgeous electric guitar, another area I'd collect if I was rich.

A Höfner Colorama from 1961.


This is what it would it would look like in daylight! (Seen online in another shop).

Wow!

6 comments:

  1. Z-Cars was a program that never made it to the US to my knowledge, but it sure look cool, from some clips I've seen. SFZ

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  2. Oh, I remember School milk! Decades before the Milk Snatcher put an end to profigacy such as ensuring growing children had state provided nutrition!

    I worked out how to remove my bottle caps uncrushed and used them as tiny foil frisbees -spinning them with a flick between my index and middle fingers.

    Of course Fun Police teachers took a dim view of anyone actually enjoying themselves at school....

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    1. Ha ha! The Fun Police! That made me chuckle. We had Prefects too just to ensure sufficient misery for all!

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  3. I'm a child of the sixties. Milk at school, Z cars, Batman. We had the Totopoly game. We even chose horses when watching the horse races on TV at the weekend

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    1. Happy days Khusru! I'm with you there!

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