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Pimlico Playground Death Trap of the 1970s

Pimlico Playground Death Trap of the 1970s

In the 1970s, playgrounds looked a lot like this one in Pimlico, London. The picture ...
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Alberto Granado RIP: Che Guevara Got The T-Shirts, You Got Old

Alberto Granado RIP: Che Guevara Got The T-Shirts, You Got Old

IT was Che Guevara’s biographers and marketeers good fortune that the revolutionary died before he ...
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Midge Hadley: The Pregnant Barbie Doll Who Posed For Playtoy

Midge Hadley: The Pregnant Barbie Doll Who Posed For Playtoy

Midge Hadley was the pregnant Barbie who hit the shelves in 1963. She hooked up ...
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London Olympics 1948: Photos Of The First Austerity Games

London Olympics 1948: Photos Of The First Austerity Games

LONDON Olympics 1948: These Games were the second to be staged in London. In 1908, ...
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Decimalisation: 40 Years Ago Britain Did Away With Pounds, Shillings And Pence

Decimalisation: 40 Years Ago Britain Did Away With Pounds, Shillings And Pence

FORTY years ago 87-year-old Alice Robinson closed the doors of her general store for the ...
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Royal Weddings In Photos: A Pictorial History Of British Royals Marrying

Royal Weddings In Photos: A Pictorial History Of British Royals Marrying

ROYAL Wedding in Photos: Kate Middleton and Prince William are to marry. It’ll be great. ...
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Vintage Ads: Go Gay Hair

Vintage Ads: Go Gay Hair

GO GAY was "The first holding pray with shine right in it". Brought to you ...
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Topsy And Tim Meet the Police: A Child’s Book At Spoof Time

Topsy And Tim Meet the Police: A Child’s Book At Spoof Time

THE arrival of a new Ladybird book is always a cause of rejoicing, particularly if ...
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Paris In World War 2: Photos Of The Nazi Joie De Vivre

Paris In World War 2: Photos Of The Nazi Joie De Vivre

WHEN Paris fell to the Germans in world war two, what was life like in ...
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Peter Rabbit – Tank Killer: When Sven Hassel Met Beatrix Potter

Peter Rabbit – Tank Killer: When Sven Hassel Met Beatrix Potter

IT was the literary partnership of the century. Two best-selling writers from very different genres ...
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The Bay City Rollers And Ann Margaret’s Saturday Night Special: The Greatest Audience Video

The Bay City Rollers And Ann Margaret’s Saturday Night Special: The Greatest Audience Video

You know the feeling. With a heavy heart, you slump down in front of the television ...
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Get ‘Em Off! The Nostalgia-Proof British Sex Comedy

Get ‘Em Off! The Nostalgia-Proof British Sex Comedy

WE British are scorned by the world for our attitude to sex. Unsophisticated, unromantic, unimaginative, ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    Punk Princess: ‘Devastatingly Sexy’ Portraits of Debbie Harry 1977 to 1988

    Punk Princess: ‘Devastatingly Sexy’ Portraits of Debbie Harry 1977 to 1988

    Gorgeous photographs of Blondie's lead singer by Brian Arts ...
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    At Home with the Rolling Stones in 1965

    At Home with the Rolling Stones in 1965

    At the cusp of mega-fame photographs of the Rolling Stones in their respective homes by Danish photographer Bent Rej. ...
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    The True Story of The Holocaust Train Rescued From The Heart of Darkness – Friday, April 13th, 1945

    The True Story of The Holocaust Train Rescued From The Heart of Darkness – Friday, April 13th, 1945

    ‘I cannot believe, today, that the world almost ignored those people and what was happening. How could we have all stood by and have let that happen? They do not owe us anything. We owe them, for what we allowed to happen to them.’ – Carrol Walsh, Liberator ...
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    27 Snapshots of Manchester In The 1960s

    27 Snapshots of Manchester In The 1960s

    37 Snapshots of Manchester In The 1970s   Via: MMU
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    1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls

    1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls

    "Advice my father gave me: never take liquor into the bedroom. Don’t stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect" - Kurt Vonnegut ...
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    Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America

    Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America

    During the Depression people used cotton flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes, curtains, diapers, awnings and other household items. ...
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    The Lost Art of Cassette Design: 1980s

    The Lost Art of Cassette Design: 1980s

    Steve Vistaunet's photgraphs of cassette spine designs take us back to pressing 'play' and 'record' on to make compilation mixes.     Spotters: Kadrey, Lefty Limbo, BoingBoing    
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    Northern Ireland Troubles 1971: Belfast In 50 Photos

    Northern Ireland Troubles 1971: Belfast In 50 Photos

    In 1971, the Troubles in Belfast and the rest of Northern Ireland were in full cry.     TIMELINE 10 January 1971 - Members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) carried out an early form of 'punishment attack' by tarring and feathering four men who were accused of criminal activities in ...
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    Julie Newmar In Playboy, Photos And On Growing Old

    Julie Newmar In Playboy, Photos And On Growing Old

    Julie Newmar was Catgirl. On April 27, 2013, we went to see Julie take questions at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo at McCormick Place, in Chicago. Julie was the first Catwoman to TV's Batman. Her fabulous portrayal of the comic book temptress in the 1960s Batman has been praised ...
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