Found Objects

Reminded me of this - from Richard Meltzer-penned 'gig guide'

Absolutely fascinating current affairs programme from 1972 looking at advice columnists - Dr Stephen Black talks to Marjorie Proops of the Daily Mirror, Evelyn Home of Woman, Claire Rayner of Petticoat and Jane Firbank of Forum, who between them "deal with

Have not posted on here for some time, simply because I have had nothing of much interest to to put here.

Does any phrase bring to mind the atmosphere, the aroma, of the British 1970s better than "sex maniac"?

Not actually "music" though - more like sermons and speeches via Mercier Catholic Record Club Irish Christian club LP series in 1960/70s I wonder if they really thought that in the face of declining interest from the young and the with-it, all God needed…

Sad children's discarded dolls, teddys, gnomes etc. at Perry Barr Crematorium.

Colour supplement piece glued into a scrapbook circa 1979 - the author is possibly Keith Waterhouse.

Test Transmission all things Keith Seatman and more: Ghost Signs: I have been randomly taking photos of Ghost signs for some years now, Ghost signs are historic, faded and outdated tatty advertising images ...

Paladin - second only to Picador as a publisher's name to set the arty-intellectual bibliophile's heart a flutter...

A sketchbook page.

An advert in Sounds, April 1983 "Outside London, 24 hours a day, except during the season's major cricket matches, when it's available at the end of play" Even without the summertime disruption caused by cricket, this doesn't seem the most compelling of o…

The library at the academic institute where I work part-time recently had a massive chuck-out.

Finally managed to get a very old copy of Struwwelpeter (shock-headed" Peter) this is a very dark and strange collection of childrens stories.

[post formerly at the old Found Objects but reconstituted in honor of Britain's greatest footballer, Sir Bobby Charlton, RIP- and a great comb-over owner] One thing I've noticed on my visits back to England over the last few years--you will never see a co…

What passes for a chilly morning in Southern California (I've grown soft).

Back in 2019 I posted a number of pages/ads from the 1962 publication Wireless world back then I had every intention of putting more pages from Wireless World on here, but somehow I got sidetracked.

You used to see this chap's books a lot in the 1970s - Edward de Bono Pioneer of what would be later called "thinking outside the box" but what he dubbed "lateral thinking".

No doubt everyone is familiar with this Zardozzy cover.

In 1981 the British Film Producer Harold Baim made 3 documentry films about British Cities (Birmingham, Aberdeen and Portsmouth) all narrated by the actor Telly (Kojak) Savalas.

A delightful clip of a young June Tabor performing the trad. arr ditty "While Gamekeepers Lie Sleeping" - a song about poaching.

At 16.05 minutes into Ken Russell's decidedly eccentric documentary In Search of the English Folk Song, local minstrel Bob Appleyard sings about a giant oil refinery on the Solent.

Quatermass 2 was filmed in Hemel Hempstead as it was being built (effectively a new town, populated with London overflow, glommed onto the side of an existing, much smaller and more charming town - which thereafter became known as Old Hemel).