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30 January 2018

Some More 1980s Highs - Gritty Neighbours, Sir Alec Jeffreys, The Trap Door And More...

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We've got the lovely Anita Dobson - Angie from EastEnd ers , Rear of the Year 1987, no less - to welcome you back to your pick of wh...
26 January 2018

Great Cubes Of Our Time - Rubik's And The Pye Tube Cube...

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Fabulous 1983 ad from Readers' Digest . The Pye Tube Cube was released in late 1982. This dinky clock radio, cassette, TV combo quick...
19 January 2018

Bob By Merry Pottinger. Or Could It Be Lauren?

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Many thanks to Lauren who e-mailed me, enclosing the picture above. You requested and I found Bob the French bulldog as featured on Gil...
17 January 2018

1981 - A Hoover Called Henry...

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1981 was an eventful year - the ri ots , the Rub ik's , the Royal W edding , the New Ro mantics , the recession, Only Fools And...
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Some 1980s Highs... Shoulder Pads In The Broom Cupboard...

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Yuppies, new technology, shell suits, power dressing, riots, hamster scoffing... it was all happening in the 1980s... Great response to...
15 January 2018

What Years Are Mid-1980s? A Dim Wit's Guide...

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What would Lou Beale have said? 'Youngsters nowadays, they know nuffink! Weren't like this in my day...' - or something like ...
10 January 2018

From The Oops Upside Your Head Rowing Dance To The Fall Of The Berlin Wall... What's Your Favourite 1980s Thing?

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Did you Go For It on a BMX? The 1980s had it all, of course. My goodness, when you think back... A was for the Adventure Game and, er, ...
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20 December 2017

Satellite, The Hooters, 1987.

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For me, th is is the best song about corrupt televangelists of America. It came out in England not long before Christmas 1987, and as we d...
19 December 2017

Gilbert's Fridge: Calling For Bob...

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Regular readers of this epic '80's work (bless you, both!) will know that I am a lover of that very 1980s celebrity Gilbert the a...
21 August 2017

Music From Twin Peaks, Season 1... Produced in 1989, Not 1990

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A scene from the 1989 Twin Peaks video - featuring Dale Cooper, the Little Man From Another Place and Laura Palmer in the Black Lodge. T...
25 December 2016

Have Yourself A 1980s Christmas...

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Albert Square, Walford, Christmas in the 1980s... Lou: "'Ere, Arfur, get this photo took and let's 'ave some nuts. The...
04 August 2016

Neighbours: The Portrait Of Mrs Mangel... Who Did It?

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                              Feast your eyes on the above - the divine portrait of Mrs Nell Mangel, painted by Mrs Helen Daniels in 1987....
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02 August 2016

Vivean Gray - The English Actress Who Gave Us Australia's Mrs Mangel...

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Mrs Mangel puts on a severe face as she prepares for another day at Lassiters.   English-born actress Vivean Gray, who died recently, was...
16 June 2016

The '80s Sooty Show - Soo, A Personal Stereo, And Auntie Brenda...

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The Sooty Show entered a new era in the 1980s, with a change of format. Matthew Corbett introduced a new setting - a lovely house called...
26 May 2016

Enquiry: No, Robert Cailliau Did Not Co-Invent The World Wide Web

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The original invention document for the World Wide Web, March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee. He had already produced what turned out to be a pre...
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