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Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 28th September 2022, 3:09 PM

1919...........

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I won't say I told you so but...

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 22nd February 2019, 8:48 AM

Zambuk is another ubiquitous cure-all I recall being lovingly administered on numerous occasions throughout my childhood.

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Quote: beaky @ 22nd February 2019, 10:15 AM

It's a liqueur, isn't it?

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Quote: Billy Bunter @ 22nd February 2019, 3:00 PM

No. Does no-one else remember it? https://lakecountrymuseum.com/zam-buk-a-healing-antiseptic-ointment/

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Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 22nd February 2019, 3:48 PM

No

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This lad's memory is incredible!

And I know we both are of that period, but I can honestly say that, unlike you, I don't remember it from my childhood. It was for me, Dettol or the pink Germolene in a flat round cream tin, which annoyingly and frustratingly you cannot buy anymore. Yet, I understand that pink Germolene is still available in some European countries? Why not here!!!

Quote: Chappers @ 28th September 2022, 8:34 PM

What is it? The small text is unclear.

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It says, and I thought my eyes were bad!..................

"EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS PASSED BY THE CENSOR"

1966........................

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 28th September 2022, 11:18 PM

This lad's memory is incredible!

And I know we both are of that period, but I can honestly say that, unlike you, I don't remember it from my childhood.

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I have an idea for a follow-up to the film Yesterday. I wake up and find that I am the only person in the world that remembers Zam-Buk. Miscellaneous adventures and general hilarity ensue.

With Gladys Emmanuel applying it to your tender parts., as you stand there with your trousers round your ankles.

2001.............

In the early days I had a folding Motorola phone. It was small and fitted in your pocket and was just right.
The battery lasted a week and was all a phone should be.
I see the prices today of well over £1000 and monthly rental nearly the same as my first mortgage.
It seems calling and recieving calls is just a minor part.

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 22nd September 2022, 12:08 PM

1963........................ 2/11 - Just under 15p - haven't prices gone up!

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Quote: Chappers @ 23rd September 2022, 5:05 PM

They were never quite as good as Airfix.

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Quote: WasMrApollo @ 23rd September 2022, 9:20 PM

Yes.Airfix from Woolworths every Saturday morning.That was my pocket money spent.

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Here you go lads - from a 1969 comic I came across yesterday, when researching something else.

Did you sell these in your camera shop days Herc?

Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 2nd October 2022, 10:19 AM

Did you sell these in your camera shop days Herc?

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No, that's mid 60s, but repaired a lot of them though!! Good camera, made to last and easy to service.

1932................

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 29th September 2022, 3:01 PM

1966........................

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Interesting. These same shaped half sized whiskey bottles crop up in an awful lot of films of the 60s I like to watch, not necessarily that label. There's one with a black diamond motif on it that must have been popular at the time because it's in a lot of espionage type movies with someone like Richard Burton or James Mason pouring into nice cut glass tumblers for breakfast, as they did then.

Very interesting, as the bottle was the last thing I thought would have sparked interest. ?

Don't know the brand you are speaking of with a black diamond shape. The only one similar to that I can think of would be Glenfiddich (?)

As I'm a bit older than you Alf, I limit myself to films no later than 1960, but will keep an eye out for this brand. Would that be in films such Bond or other spy films?