Fax Machines
Long ago, before the internet was even really invented, or at least before it was available to people without bottle end glasses, there was no such thing as email. If people wanted to deliver a message on the spot, however, they did have an option. They could send a fax. To do this, you needed [...]
Teletext
Its time for a very British TV focussed post here in Popular Nostalgia – its Teletext! We all remember reading Teletext for news, sport reports and even, once Fastext (oh what an advancement in technology that was – like the internet, only with four “choices”!) was invented, quizzes, like Bamboozle. If the internet is the [...]
Toxic Crusaders (Cartoon)
The Toxic Crusaders was a short cartoon that I remember airing on UK TV during my childhood – I can just remember thinking “oh great, another cartoon” while the show started, then the theme tune featured the line “we’re hideously deformed” (or similar) and I was hooked. The toxic crusaders tried to ride the tidal [...]
M.A.S.K
I remember the cartoon M.A.S.K as one of my childhood favourites – I used to love everything about this cartoon, particularly the fact that they fought crime, all the time. I even got a M.A.S.K paper plate and cup set for my fifth birthday party (postponed because I had chicken pox I believe) so I [...]
Strawberries and Cream
No, I’m not talking about the fruit and dairy products that posh people eat at Wimbledon. I’m talking about the Strawberries and Cream sweeties that you used to buy from the local sweet shop and which would go slightly soggy and stick to your pocket while you swung on your chair in double maths. A [...]
Kop Kops
I was first introduced to Kop Kops by my friend who bought a quarter of Kop Kops one morning. At first, I thought they were cough sweets but there was enough sugar in there to keep the ten year old me perfectly happy and these things fast became a firm favourite of mine. They still [...]
Bryan Adams (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
Remember those school disco mid 90s days when we would spin around unrhytmically to this track while squeezing our partners bum before heading home at 10pm full of the joys of spring? We all do, don’t worry. This track, which Bryan Adams held at the top of world charts for around 100 years before, during [...]
Cheers
Cheers, the US hit television series, began in the early 1980s and ran right through for more than a decade. Then we endured around 18 years of repeats of the 200+ shows around the world! However, Cheers has probably the most nostalgia-incurring themetune in existence, and, being based around a bar “where everybody knows your [...]
Albert the Fifth Musketeer
I remember Albert fondly as one of those cartoons in the mid 1990s that were Okay to watch even though I was probably a little bit too old to still be watching cartoons: it had the occassional big word and grown-up reference in it! Albert was a small man, but was crucial to the Napoleonic [...]
Count Duckula
Count Duckula was another cartoon that I grew up watching in the late 1980s and early 1990s – enjoy the episode above – I hadn’t remembered the intro was quite so long! This was one of my favourites, probably because it was pretty dark and macabre. Count Duckula was made for four series and there [...]
The Really Wild Show
Hands up who remembers the Really Wild show that used to be on BBC TV during (I think) the early 90s and possibly the late 80s too. This show features Michaela Strachan, who was the first woman most young boys fancied, and Terry Nutkins, who certainly was not her male counterpart in the fanciability respect, [...]
Tunnock\’s Teacakes
Tunnock\’s Teacakes have been around for goodness knows how long but both the TV adverts for them and actually eating one remind me strongly of childhood packed lunches and, as I ordinarily ate school dinner, school trips. Slightly melted Tunnock\’s Teacakes would be consumed readily on the bus to Beamish, where we went at least [...]
Pooters – UK Primary Schools – 1960s to Present Day
When I, and all my elder brothers were at primary school in various places in the UK, we learned the important skill of how to use a “pooter.”
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