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Category: Ephemera

The Doctor Shops for a Minicomputer…

The Doctor Shops for a Minicomputer…

And here’s a rather nice pair of Doctor Who-themed adverts for the Prime Computer range of minicomputers. There are so fairly obvious hints that Tom Baker and Lalla Ward are phoning it in but the shoutout to their current – but brief – marriage is rather nice.

Author ChrisCPosted on 11 August 202528 July 2025Categories EphemeraTags Computer Adverts, Doctor Who, Geekery, Lalla Ward, Microcomputers, Tech, Tom Baker

A VJ Day Topper in Malton

A VJ Day Topper in Malton

In spite of what I said previously, this blog’s descent into postbox topper groupie-ism appears to continue.

This time Malton sees a simple – yet effective – topper to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day on the 15th of August.

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Author ChrisCPosted on 10 August 202510 August 2025Categories Ephemera, MaltonTags Ephemera, Malton, Photography, Postbox Topper, VJ Day, Yarn-Bombed

It’s more than a little warm…

It’s more than a little warm…
Whitby, The Yorkshire Resort on the Fringe of the Moors Poster
Poster, British Railways (North Eastern Region), Whitby, The Yorkshire Resort on the Fringe of the Moors, 1956. Science Museum Group CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

…why am I sat in front of a wall of screens?

Author ChrisCPosted on 30 June 202527 May 2026Categories EphemeraTags Beach, Railway Posters, Railways, Warm, Whitby

P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Pancake Day!

P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Pancake Day!

Author ChrisCPosted on 4 March 20254 March 2025Categories EphemeraTags 90s, P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Pancake Day, YouTube

Halloween Horrors: The Mr Blobby Collection

As it’s halloween then it’s probably time to point out the greatest collection of evil around – The Mr Blobby Collection. It’s an entire site dedicated to the Great Satan himself – Mr Blobby!

Evil.
Evil. In tourism form!
Evil. In food form!

Author ChrisCPosted on 31 October 20245 April 2024Categories EphemeraTags BBC, Horror

Gamera vs. Zigra, 1971

Image shamelessly stolen from the 70s Scifi Art tumblr…

The rather lovely (and incredibly kitschy!) poster for 1971’s Gamera vs. Zigra.

Author ChrisCPosted on 11 March 2024Categories Art, EphemeraTags 70s, 70s Scifi Art, Ephemera, Film

A.I. Channel Hopping

Oddly hypnotic…

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Author ChrisCPosted on 31 January 202427 January 2024Categories EphemeraTags A.I., YouTube

An Early Red Dwarf Trailer

And so I ended up on the VHistory blog where, hidden in one of the sites earlier posts, I came across an early trailer for the first series of Red Dwarf.

Oh bloody hell!
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Author ChrisCPosted on 24 January 202424 January 2024Categories Ephemera, RetroTVTags Ephemera, Old TV, Red Dwarf, YouTube

Sometimes a Dyke is…

Whist poking around on the BBC Genome website trying to find out the original airdate for Band of Brothers I wandered across this rather surprising warning…

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Author ChrisCPosted on 20 November 202320 November 2023Categories EphemeraTags BBC

FOLK as ROUGH as IRON Filings – Omnibus (1971)

And the BBC Archive has coughed up a lovely spot of old industrial folk music from the early 1970s. It’s certainly worth a listen and it’d be nice if the entirety of that edition of Omnibus somehow managed to make it to iPlayer…

Author ChrisCPosted on 15 November 202315 November 2023Categories Ephemera, RetroTVTags 70s, BBC, History, Music, Video, YouTube

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