Popular Nostalgia

lovely liquorice pipes sweets that are now available online and in store in all good sweet shops. sweet greetings from shildon This post was submitted by Sweet.

Tamagotchis came around in the mid-90′s as the alternative to actually owning a pet, for children it was very exciting period and these were all the rage in a time when digital was relatively unknown. They weren’t popular for long, like most things in the 90′s they were swept along on a wave of new [...]

Sometime in the late 1960s the Cadbury chocolate company was advertising a new line which they called Aztec. Their TV campaign used the historically correct fact that chocolate, in some form was known to the aztecs of ancient mexico. I remember a setting of temple-pyramids and actors dressed in ornate feather costumes dancing and singing [...]

RETURN OF THE CATS A 1980s favourite is set to become this year’s Christmas ‘must-have’ as retailer demand outstrips supply of the new Thundercats action figures and vehicles. The retro cartoon – with celebrity fans including Jonathan Ross, Chris Moyles and Paulo Nutini – has been updated and recently released on British TV screens. The [...]

This programme made me SO happy even though I grew up in the eighties! Trumpton (1967) is a stop-motion children’s television show from the producers of Camberwick Green first shown on the BBC in the 1960s. The third and final series in the sequence was Chigley. Trumpton was narrated by Brian Cant. The animation was [...]

THE most AMAZING children’s programme. Following info care of Wikipedia. The Herbs was a television series for young children made for the BBC by Graham Clutterbuck’s FilmFair company. It was written by Michael Bond (creator of Paddington Bear), directed by Ivor Wood using 3D stop motion model animation and first transmitted from 12 February 1968 [...]

Aaah its 6.30 its the late 90′s its channel 2….its time for Heartbreak High. dont remember much other than Drazick was a Badass and they played a lot of pool. This post was submitted by Adam Walker.

Anyone remember bread in a stripy red,yellow,orange and black packet? Every time my mum wheeled the trolley past it in the supermarket I used to sing “I’m a Tiger” by Lulu. This post was submitted by Barb.

I love point horror/ point horror unleashed and point horror nightmare hall. I’ve always loved them but it’s so difficult getting hold of them now. I have a small collection but would love to own every point horror book ever made. I may be 32 years old now but these books bring back memories from [...]

Being young in the 70s meant finishing school and going straight out after a bite to eat and going on the nearby football pitch to play footy until dark and beyond. It also meant going into the woods close to the fields and playing at commandos running around with sticks for make believe guns, we [...]

Do you remember the Luminous Spooks, a set of ‘glow-in-the-dark’ ghostly figures given away with Quaker Sugar Puffs breakfast cereal in the UK in 1965? There were eight of them to collect and they could be mounted in a ‘Super 3-D Haunted Manor’ (as a comic advert put it) constructed from the cereal packet. The [...]

Look at these old fashioned sweets online. Nipits were around after the war. Now their is an old classic. The choice of sweets is great and some great memories to be had. From kola cubes to buttered brazils. This post was submitted by Glen Neilson.