Memories of Childhood

I think I posted a picture of mine in the Images thread, but it wasn't complete. Soccer Stars 77/78 is the earliest. Here is a big pic of it
https://www.babeshows.co.uk/showthread.p...pid2275613

Here is the other one from just a bit later 1986.
https://www.babeshows.co.uk/showthread.p...pid2275624

I noticed that Kathy Cook neé Smallwood is 57 today. Now many years ago that lovely lady was my very first pin-up, to me she was one of the most loveliest girls I'd ever seen. I used to go to Crystal Palace to see her in the British athletics meetings; we were lucky to get so many tickets thanks to my Dad. She was also our best sprinter at 100 and 200m and a great relay girl too. Happy Birthday Kathy, you bought pleasure to millions and to one eager fan!

what I remember she was very tall and leggy she probably had the longest legs for a British athlete at the time

Yup here she is. My lovely Kathy.

Coin and stamps from the Silver Jubilee in 1977.

Still got them somewhere...

Got the stamps in an album that belonged to my Uncle upstairs don't think I ever had the coin. That was the year of my school journey to Swanage, Dorset as outlined somewhere on here already. I was 11 yrs old then.

I am sure we have a coin in our family but not the stamps. i know I do have Harry Potter ones sealed away and have never touched them.

I know some 12" singles from the eighties are probably valuable I think criteria is that it has be complete and never played I think so what would be thev likeliest valuable 80's record in your collection?

Years ago I found an 1896 Victorian coin in some change and I think I still have that somewhere. As a kid I collected stamps and a few first day covers. Got loads of singles but I would say if you had the rarer picture discs or the special edition coloured vinyl stuff that would be worth something today to collectors. I cannot imagine not playing a record when you were young, I mean as soon as you got it you wanted to play it, sometimes over and over again. I've got an original 12" version of End of the Innocence by Don Henley complete in a box with a large poster that came with it. Might be worth something to a collector. I only got a new portable record player three Christmases ago and still like to play vinyl stuff.

Speaking of 1977 as above earlier I remembered I have a 1977 Silver Jubilee mug that was given to us kids for the street party we had. In those days we all knew each other and there were quite a few kids in the street and surrounding area. On the day of the party one woman(who was a teacher at the local school) had has running around the corner to collect chairs which would be set up in the road - this had been blocked off at both ends with permission from the Council and kerbs were painted white which I will get to later. A very long set of trestle tables were set up along the road and each house that bothered to do something, as some didn't, brought out cakes and other treats. Mum and I baked a sponge cake(I was a pretty good baker when young) and put that out on the table. Come the afternoon however the heavens opened and people were getting wet, but the parents held up a large taupaulin over the table and us to prevent a total washout. Later the sun came out and we got down to some serious eating!

Later that evening someone had arranged to set up a mobile disco in a neighbour's porch and we had a disco, literally dancing in the street - remember those painted kerbs I mentioned, well that was so people could see what they were doing and not trip over although the street lamps were on. It was great and that was the first and last time this street ever had a party like that; a time when neighbours knews each other, would help you out if needs be and say good morning every time you saw them. Those days are long gone, no-one knows anyone anymore, they keep themselves to themselves unless it is immediate neighbours(we knew 3 in the entire road and that will soon be reduced to one!) on either side of you. Community spirit is zero, we're supposed to be a Neighbourhood Watch area yet three houses have been burgled inside two years and the chap that ran the thing moved years ago. Ah yes, those WERE the days.