Things that time forgot.

[mangerton]

Hornby Dublo 3-rail of course

I asked Santa for an electric railway for Christmas 1958. He thought I was a bit young, and brought me a Meccano set instead. The following year he brought me the first Hornby 2-rail. (Golden Fleece, 60030)

[jean]

ten bob notes.

Nine-bob notes

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I am pleased to see that Gibb's still survives/ exists on the web:

http://www.gibbsbookshop.co.uk/osc/eshop/

but only as a book or antiquarian book specialist.

So - not producing toothpaste any more?

(Incidentally, Meccano is still going strong:

http://www.meccano.com/

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Floppy 7" 45rpm discs that came in the post (Readers Digest samplers?)

And quite regularly with Private Eye (I still have a couple ... somewhere ...)

[LeMartinPecheur]

I asked Santa for an electric railway for Christmas 1958. He thought I was a bit young, and brought me a Meccano set instead. The following year he brought me the first Hornby 2-rail. (Golden Fleece, 60030)

I got my trains c1959 and it was 3-rail Duchess of Montrose (46232 was she?), the Stanier 8F 2-8-0 and the ex-LNER (N2?) 0-6-2T. And while in Germany a Marklin railbus was added, but it never looked quite right at 3.5mm scale even allowing for its sheer foreignness.

Of course, the great advantage of 3-rail over 2-rail was that you could build figures of 8 without shorting the controller. Not that I ever had enough curves () and bridges to do so...

[clive heath]

There was a floppy EP in a glossy Cambridge magazine, possibly "Granta" circa 1960/2, which had some sketches by a Jonathan Miller; George 3rd ordering ( mad) General Wolfe to bite his other Generals ( " bare arms"!) and Bertrand Russell attempting to visit G.E.Moore in his study: "Come in!", "I waited a while to test the validity of this proposition". Private Eye had something similarly floppy at Christmas about the same time as did Felix, the Imperial College student weekly for which I (among many others) was recorded by "Yogi" Bishop.

[subcontrabass]

(Incidentally, Meccano is still going strong:
http://www.meccano.com/

We had Trix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trix_%...uction_sets%29

[Aubade]

And poems by John Clare read by RH to fill vacant minutes.
(Come to that - vacant minutes!)

[Serial_Apologist]

There was a floppy EP in a glossy Cambridge magazine, possibly "Granta" circa 1960/2, which had some sketches by a Jonathan Miller; George 3rd ordering ( mad) General Wolfe to bite his other Generals ( " bare arms"!) and Bertrand Russell attempting to visit G.E.Moore in his study: "Come in!", "I waited a while to test the validity of this proposition". Private Eye had something similarly floppy at Christmas about the same time as did Felix, the Imperial College student weekly for which I (among many others) was recorded by "Yogi" Bishop.

There were birthday cards one could buy with 45 single tracks etched onto the front. That was how I got my copy of "Magic Moments". The sound quality was as good as a "proper" disc - the problem being that in order to play it, you needed to cut the card at each end to fit it onto the record player. Mine ended up getting torn.

[vinteuil]

There was a floppy EP in a glossy Cambridge magazine, possibly "Granta" circa 1960/2, which had some sketches by a Jonathan Miller .... Bertrand Russell attempting to visit G.E.Moore in his study: "Come in!", "I waited a while to test the validity of this proposition". p.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSifxC_L9F0

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There were birthday cards one could buy with 45 single tracks etched onto the front. That was how I got my copy of "Magic Moments". The sound quality was as good as a "proper" disc - the problem being that in order to play it, you needed to cut the card at each end to fit it onto the record player. Mine ended up getting torn.

Oh - that rings a bell. Way, way back (I was about four or five) I had a 7"-sized recording on a cardboard (? is that possible? It wasn't plastic, because it had playable grooves) square. You could play the disc like an ordinary record, but it stayed within the square - I remember watching the novelty of the corners spinning round. It had a Disney-type story on it ("Bambi" or "Snow White").

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh - that rings a bell. Way, way back (I was about four or five) I had a 7"-sized recording on a cardboard (? is that possible? It wasn't plastic, because it had playable grooves) square. You could play the disc like an ordinary record, but it stayed within the square - I remember watching the novelty of the corners spinning round. It had a Disney-type story on it ("Bambi" or "Snow White").

That's the sort of thing, ferney. The grooves were on the shiny side, so it was like a record's surface, but embossed onto the picture on the card. Probably a very cheap way to produce a record!

[P. G. Tipps]

Pro-European Conservative Party
Anti-European Labour Party
Liberal Democrat By-Election Landslides
SNP-Free House of Commons
Mr & Mrs Ed Miliband's Two Kitchens.
Mr Bertie Bassett
The Ovalteenies

[ahinton]

Mr & Mrs Ed Miliband's Two Kitchens

Mr John Prescott's two Jags
Mr & Mrs Cameron's accidental(?) abandonment of their daughter in a pub

[P. G. Tipps]

Oh yes,those were the days !

Gibbs was my favourite record shop ... wonderful.

Rare Records also had a little outlet in Wilmslow.