We were all hoping for good things for singer Sheena Easton, who hailed from north of the border, and first came to our attention on Esther ...

"Baby look at me and tell me what you see..." We see Doris on the cover of an October 1982 Look-In magazine, which contained an ...

Thanks to all those who write in. It keeps me company, and I'm truly grateful. Lovely recent e-mail from Sita: We have a very attractive...

1989 living room from Argos catalogue. Blue pastel walls and black, black, black! Black was hugely popular in the mid-to-late 1980s, even T...

January 1988, and Sue and Ali Osman (Sandy Ratcliff and Nedjet Salih) are the stars of the cover of Woman's Own . The tragic fictional ...

Remember Roly Watts, the poodle who scampered around the Queen Vic, upstairs, downstairs, in and out of the ructions between Den and Angie i...

1980s EastEnders could be wonderful - the picture above reflects some of the show's triumphs. But it could also be patronising propagand...

Shirley Cheriton as Debbie Wilkins. Was Debbie one of those swaggering, ostentatiously rich yuppie people? An interesting e-mail from "...

Riots rocked inner cities across the country - etching names like Brixton and Toxteth on all our minds... ... and, wildly contrasting, Princ...

The Rubik's Cube - UK kids' favourite toy of 1981. A UK survey on the interests and attitudes of parents and children, carried out f...

July 29, 1981, saw Lady Diana Spencer marry HRH Prince Charles, and what a day it was. The wedding was a glorious spectacle of pomp and cere...

We'd never even heard of Lady Diana Spencer at the start of 1980. But by the end of that year she was the focus of intense public and me...