Popular Nostalgia

Hi, I am Rob, an administrator of Popular-Nostalgia.com. I helped to set up this site, and have been given the task of running some of the day-to-day stuff that goes on. Most of the posts written by me are from my own recollections and memories, though some are those which get emailed to me from time to time! If you have any questions or comments, please leave them on the "Help" page and one of us will answer them as soon as we can. I am in my mid twenties and grew up in the North of England, though am currently living in Australia. If you want to find out more, have a look at some of my posts!

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 are 65 [...]

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, but [...]

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 once [...]

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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