A brand name that left little to the imagination. Remember my Dad had a pair of Reactolite Rapide glasses and...
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I remember being in Our Price on Oxford Street and seeing a huge poster of a rather Teutonic figure in...
July 1981 was a month to remember... Two years into the first Margaret Thatcher government and we were thoroughly mired...
Being young and unemployed in the early 1980s cropped up as a theme in plenty of TV drama at the...
We read it - but did we understand it? We'd all taken to the streets and rioted in 1981 -...
The 1950s cast a long shadow over the 1970s. Glam rock bands wore a version of Teddy Boy regalia. Both...
Aaaaah yes, back in the 80s you went to Camden market in London and it hadn't been completely taken over...
In the 1970s, nice kids watched the BBC's children's output while bad kids tuned in to ITV. Remember at my...
It was the big event of early 1981 - the US$10m cost inauguration of President Ronald Reagan. He'd beaten Democrat...
Once upon a time, long ago, we wrote letters to each other. Why? Because there was no Facebook, Snapchat, Messenger,...