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Henry's Cat 19 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
When the TV broke down, Henry's Cat gave it a thump... The TV set immediately started working, and the Prime Minister came on giving a speech. This seemed worse than not having it working, so Henry's...
Brookside - Groundbreaking Soap - Real Houses, Soap Bubbles And Lots More! 17 Aug 2013 | 04:19 am
The Collins family faced the trauma of Paul's redundancy and a downwardly mobile route to Brookside Close; Jimmy Corkhill was up to no good; Barry Grant wanted dosh and fell into bad ways; Pat, Sandra...
House Music And Garage Music... Separate, Not The Same... 7 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am
Joanne has written: Were the dance music genres of the 1980s, House and Garage the same thing? I remember as a kid them being referred to separately, but I recently read of something called "Garage H...
1981 - Mr Rubik - The Barron Knights 2 Aug 2013 | 11:06 am
The Barron Knights gave us the album Twisting The Knights Away in 1981, and reflected the year's main craze on the cover and in one of the tracks - the Rubik's Cube! The Cube blasted out from behin...
"Language, Timothy!" "Sorry, Father!" - The Adventures Of Timothy Lumsden 29 Jul 2013 | 03:48 am
Sorry! - the novel. Ronnie Corbett as hapless librarian Timothy Lumsden is the cover star. Timothy desperately wanted to leave home, and sought "full board without scotch eggs". Towards the end of 19...
E-Mails: Henry's Cat, 1980s Tabloids, And Sportswear... 23 Jul 2013 | 10:05 pm
Dinky has written to say he/she is fed up: Why no Henry's Cat here? It was a brilliant '80s cartoon, first broadcast in 1982, and from the fabulous Bob Godfrey and Stan Haywood stable. I like this si...
BANG! How The 1980s Began... Tabloid Snippets From The First Two Years... 21 Jul 2013 | 07:33 am
1980 - Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please... The anthem of that summer. LOVE IT!!!! Listen to it whilst you're reading through this article - it'll help bring that early 1980s vibe flood...
1980s Fashions... Suitable Trends For Today? 15 Jul 2013 | 05:14 am
1986 - posing overdrive for women... Looking around, I see many 1980s-influenced fashions around me. The leggings. The deelyboppers. The blonde hair streaks. The gelled or moussed look. '80s sportsw....
More 1980s Sports Wear For Men - The Way Things Changed - 1981 And 1989.... 24 Jun 2013 | 05:05 pm
UGH! 1981! Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear... "Sporty mix 'n' match separates in a comfortable jersey-knit with 'tennis' motif". Never fear. As the 1980s continued, sportswear would never look the same agai...
Memories of 1983 - Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise... 20 Jun 2013 | 03:28 am
I've been thinking a lot about 1983 lately. I have my reasons! But a good one I can share with you is the fact that the summer of 1983 was much nicer than this one! And tangled up with the memories of...
