A brand name that left little to the imagination. Remember my Dad had a pair of Reactolite Rapide glasses and...
Odds and sods
I remember being in Our Price on Oxford Street and seeing a huge poster of a rather Teutonic figure in...
2 min read
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 -...
3 min read
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...
3 min read
In the 1970s, nice kids watched the BBC's children's output while bad kids tuned in to ITV. Remember at my...
2 min read
It was the big event of early 1981 - the US$10m cost inauguration of President Ronald Reagan. He'd beaten Democrat...
2 min read
Once upon a time, long ago, we wrote letters to each other. Why? Because there was no Facebook, Snapchat, Messenger,...
