Popular Nostalgia

Popular Nostalgia specific to the UK & (or) Ireland. These are either events which took place in the UK or Ireland, or those remembered by people who were in the UK or Ireland at the time…

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.

He-Man was another of my favourite cartoon TV shows when I was growing up. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, as a TV show really had it all. A main character with muscles and a big sword. Check. An enemy with a skull for a head (Skeletor). Check. At the end of the show, [...]

The Sega Megadrive was the first games console that I first properly got given – I had used the Atari, but that had been my older brother’s console. It was known as the SEGA Genesis in America, I believe, and my parents somehow managed to get a Japanese version that played both Japanese and European [...]

SuperTed (just realised it is all one word, not two!) was one of my favourite cartoons on TV as a youngest growing up in the 1980s. I don’t really remember why, but I do remember the slightly effeminate character Spotty (I think his full name was the Spotty man, but Super Ted just used to [...]

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.

This track,and this movie, bring to mind the lazy hazy feelings of summer time for many people – and we get to enjoy the light hearted banter of Cliff Richard and the Shadows in the video clip above. Share your memories of Cliff and the Shadows “Summer Holiday” using the comments box below. We’re all [...]

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 [...]

Thundercats has near legendary status in my mind, as it was perhaps my favourite TV show growing up, and certainly the best cartoon. I remember getting a lion-o jumper for my birthday one year and wearing it probably every day for a month. I also remember those two kids on flying surf-boards, who, when you [...]

Growing up in the North of England, it was great to read a book aimed at children from that part of the World. Kingdom by the Sea, by Robert Westall, is one such book that I remember fondly from my childhood. Written all about a boy who’s house is hit by a bomb in WWII, [...]