If I had the space I might collect vintage record players and music centres.
I was sorely tempted to get one of these second hand ones costing on average 15 Euros.
There was also this much more expensive Braun.
Would you buy one?
Remember when toys talked when we were kids?
Hard to believe that most of the speaking was by tiny vinyl records hidden away somewhere in the toy. They were powered by rubber bands!
Here's an old Action Man Field Radio that spoke. I had one as a kid and remember. I found this one at a boot sale.
This was a neat birthday gift from the Missus this Christmas just gone.
Right up my cobwebbed alley, it's a 1965 Americom cinefilm reel and record of the Curse of Frankenstein, an early Hammer horror from 1957.
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Despite inclement weather we braved the boot sale and whizzed round the charities in Wetherby this morning.
This bat-like dragon intrigued me. No makers mark. Any ideas?
Always an eye out for Interesting LPs fairy tales must be one of the earliest coloured vinyl I've seen. It was green. Have you any coloured vinyl?
I used to collect horror records, so seeing Mia Farrow is always a thrill. The lead in Rosemary's Baby, she's an all-time fave. Still, sat with Andre and kids was too non-horror for me to worry my wallet.
The Moonbase Missus and me have just got back from an overnight stay in our new fave town, Barton Upon Humber in North Lincolnshire. An hour away from Moonbase down the M62, its old and pretty enough to keep us both happy and enough charity shops and cafes to make a sound Saturday morning.
We also went to a Friday night gig, the main reason for going, to see one Nick Harper at the Ropery Hall.
Nick Harper is the son of folk rock legend Roy Harper, as in Hats off to .... by Led Zep. It can't have been easy forging a musical career in such a legendary shadow but Nick, who we only discovered last month, is enough of a songsmith and above all a guitar virtuoso to completely hold his own and being now 58 has done for decades.
Mind-blowingly original in both voice and guitar you can catch up with Nick Harper here. He's playing Birkenhead tonight!
Mr. Harper was ably supported by a fabulous warm-up act, Patrick Duff. Another fabulous singer-songwriter and guitarist, the small Barton crowd were definately blown away with his seasoned talent and incredible set of lungs! As a teenager he was the frontman of indie band Strangelove, compatriots of Britpop founders Suede and hailed as the next big thing before rock 'n' roll took its toll. You can read about Patrick's life here. We bought his biography for a friend.
After a decent kip overnight we hit Barton's church museum and shops this morning, fuelled by coffee and a Lincolnshire sausage butty.
St Peter's Church is a medieval structure now run as a museum by English Heritage. Full of preserved skeletons of dead residents, ample diseased bones, split skulls and burial artefacts from its hundreds of graves, its one of the most dug-up and researched places from the Middle Ages anywhere. Well worth a visit especially if you're a member of English Heritage, its a grounding pile with its many dark spaces like this, the bell tower.
The charity shops were reassuringly full of the living residents of Barton and proved bountiful too. Well at least I thought so. See what you think in the snap below.
The K-Tel 40 Supergreats double album, £1, is in near mint condition, a gift for a mate; the JLA novel collection I'd never seen before and in very good shape for £1 each too; the Dr. Who VHS tapes were a punt to be honest - being from the early 1990's they're not old enough for my own VHS collection but maybe of interest to a buyer on Ebay. £1 each, the double set £3.
There were lots more Dr. Who VHS tapes - should I have got them all? - and a huge collection of hardback books called the History of Dr. Who, each book sealed in plastic and unopened and probably a part-work. At £3 each they were too rich for my purse. What do you think?
I also snaffled this Dragon magazine from the hey-day of Kung Fu.
With the great Jimmy Wang Yu on the cover and also the centrefold, I so remember these mags and had them all as a youngster. I still have a quite a few now boxed up with my Inside Kung Fu pile in the attic. Did you have magazines like this as a kid?
Like books, LP covers are a fab store of vintage toys and props. There are hundreds on the net. We've covered a few before on MC over the years and here's a few covers more. Enjoy.
I love this Pink and Perky car. Is that a toy or a prop?
This robot looks familiar. What is it?
As a teenager I was nuts about monsters.
Films and comics were my main course and the grislier the better, so when the BBC Radiophonics Workshop issued its first Sound Effects of Death and Horror in 1977 I was thrilled to add grisly sounds to my menu!
I was 16 when the record came out, my secondary school days nearly over but my love of monsters as strong as ever. The LP cover was a absolute cracker, as gory as anything past like those gruesome Witches Tales comics covers. To be honest I'm amazed the BBC had the courage to release it at all!
There's so much going on on the cover art, something for everyone! Back then it was always the circular wasp woman in the round window that mesmerised me, a bit like those hypnotic port-holes on the Led Zep III LP cover.
