Sure, with modern technology even the most technophobic teacher can knock up a perfectly attractive handout in moments, and print out hundreds...
Credit cards used to evoke an exotically luxuriant lifestyle. What orgies of epicurean excess, for example, carried on behind the doubtlessly imposing...
Building firms don’t tend to make memorable adverts, but Barratt’s long-lived 1970s campaign, in which a helicopter zoomed over the majestic expanses...
Of course, the picture’s better on Betamax – so claimed home hi-fi nutters in the mid-1980s unwilling to admit the entertainment system...
The British public house used to be an establishment of two halves. Turn right as you went in (or was it left?),...
In the race to engulf greensward at irresponsible speeds which was the 1970s New Town scheme, it was hard for a fledgling...
Funny how advertising can alter the associations of a song forever. The Stylistics’ You Make Me Feel Brand New, a keening tract...
You remember the one. It featured a load of hungry builders in the back of a van, singing the immortal lines, to...
From that day on, we worked at such a rate, By six each night we'd built a housing estate!
A well-drilled team of young men and women performing an intricately choreographed burlesque version of Tropical Heatwave while three middle aged couples...
Nowadays even the Daily Star has a resident wineologist , but until relatively recently the majority of British folk existed in a...
Satellite telly in Britain has been around since 1978, however Sky Channel broadcasting Australian Rules football and looped episodes of The Untouchables...
By the end of the '80s, the old 'ask the nice scientist man in the white coat about what low-fat toilet washing-up...
What to press in event of an unanswered call in those phoneboxes that you now only see in very exclusive neighbourhoods, or...
When Bernard Cribbins, the voice of Buzby – a straggly, phone pole-dwelling cartoon canary in personalised vest – phoned his mum to...
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