Popular Nostalgia

Popular Nostalgia from the 1960s. Memories of events and items from popular culture recorded in words and pictures on the internet. Share, remember and get wonderfully sentimental…

Before Kes started hanging around on Craig David’s arm in Bo Selecta, he was actually a film star in his own right, in the self titled film of 1969 called “Kes”. This film was great Northern hardship stuff, based on the book “A Kestrel for a Knave” and tracks the life of a little boy […]

Yo-yos have always been around, though for some reason they become faddy every now and again. In my school, during the early 90s, the yo-yo fad came back hard. All of a sudden, everywhere you looked was someone “walking the dog” or doing a “cats cradle” or some other yo-yo move. There was always a […]

I wasn’t there but I watched the film in history lessons like the rest of my peers. Down with salt taxes. Mahatma Ghandi’s philosophy made it much easier for the rest of the world to distinguish the good guys from the bad. Ghandi knew that if the Indian people were beyond reproach, international sympathy would […]

The Saturday afternoon classic with a wonder-dog who could save a man trapped in a mine by barking signals to her owner. The original idea for Lassie was based on the true story of a collie who saved a drowning sailor from HMS Formidable. Eric Knight used this as the basis for his character, Lassie, […]

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.”