The smiling couple at the back are my late folks. I've no idea where they've been or going to or the date, but I assume it's the late Sixtie's, early Seventies.
Anyone recognize the bag or the lettering? Looks like a British Airways plane to me.
Anyone know what this grim mystery cinema lobby card is from I saw on eBay?
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As we are caravanning I've no access to toys so other things are filling my mind ... Such as Beef Paste this morning for breakfast!
I saw it in Farmfoods and thought yes! I remember, I used to love beef paste butties as a kid. My Mum made them with thick white bread and butter, altho' it may have been marg - Stork?
Did you eat beef spread butties readers?
Beef paste or spread is basically potted beef of old sold in little handy pocket-sized glass jars. As a kid the biggest brand was Shippams. There was always a thin layer of hardened fat on top. That stuffs delicious!
They did chicken paste as well, which was equally fabtasticle.
My late Grandad, old Jack the postie, liked his beef dripping. Now I don't remember it exactly but I imagine a combination of beef and fat is essentially the same as beef paste or spread. Can anyone confirm this?
Even more nostalgic and the nub of a few jokes is the next spread on my Farmfoods shopping list, Sardine and Tomato paste!
C'mon Mum, slap it on!
I so remember this ciggy lighter we had at home in the Sixties. A pirate's flintlock on a wooden stand.
Yep, cigarettes were second only to the telly back then! Ash trays and fancy lighters everywhere!
Was that your experience?
The Missus and me were discussing whether a paperboy would deliver a Saturday newspaper to our caravan.
We concluded that they don't exist anymore. Paperboys. At least here in Yorkshire. They're all playing Minecraft.
I was never a Paperboy or an Altar boy or any kind of boy as a kid but back in the Sixties lots of my fellow nippers were paperboys, zooming round the early morning streets on Choppers with a Satchel full of folded papers.
I don't think they were paid much. Do you?
We're you a paperboy readers?
Did you you do any other work as a kid for pocket money? Stable hand? Wash cars?
I got Look In like this in the early Seventies, every week, my name scrAwled on the top corner and the house number, Woods 24! Always a great thrill when my Look In comic landed on the mat.
As a reader of American comics back then I'd stare at the back page where calls for GRIT deliverers were advertised along with a whole bonanza of gifts they could earn.
I had no idea what GRIT was. I thought maybe it was just that, grit, with kids lugging round sacks of it on their bikes, gritting the streets!
I realised it was some sort of newspaper but what I'm not sure. You?
I could only gawp at those amazing gifts they could earn.id never seen so much cool stuff on one page! Things like typewriters, baseball sets, bullworkers, radios and TVs. Can you imagine, your own TV in your bedroom in the Sixties!
Did you have one as a kid readers? A TV in your room?
Did you deliver GRIT as a young 'un in America?
I love how this effect has been created using red plastic for Cyclops' eye blast. So cool!
What do you think?
