A Little More Web Kipple
While I have both tags and categories marked as ‘Ephemera’, my random collection of witterings about various bits of historic ephemera is no-where near as well structured or as well targeted as Ephemeral 80s.
I’m going to be honest, while any site can be for anyone, you probably have to be of a certain age and to have spent time in certain select (but middling) British demographics for it to truly hit home.
Continue reading “Ephemeral 80s”Poking around the Science Museum’s archives, I came across this rather fabulous ‘Dick Turpin’ themed LNER poster for train travel to York.
Just look at how wonderful it is!
Double-decker bus racing from 1982. I absolutely love that it’s sponsored by Acorn Computers a year after they launched the BBC Micro!
Sadly rather late, but here is another entry in the ongoing TopperBlog series. This topper could be found on Malton’s Yorkersgate in the run up to Christmas 2025. t was a pretty thing though, alas, my photographs appear to have blown out the red – I’ll have to try and figure out why.
Here’s something to take the edge off that liminal space between Christmas and New Year; two nicely illustrated articles from Adam Rowe’s always fun 70s Sci-Fi Art.
First we have Trains of the Future…
…and then Trains of the Past.
As we are merely days away from Christmas it seems entirely appropriate to drop some images of a fantastic Santa-themed topper in Malton.
Unlike most of the other toppers from Malton I have posted, this one can be found at the south end of The Shambles, just outside of Cosy Cottage Soap.
TopperBlog returns with a set of Remembrance Toppers and other knitwear. I’m not posting any images from the memorial itself as I’m sure there are far better pictures from the service on Sunday already online.
There’s been a lot of work put into these commemorations and, sadly, I’m not entirely sure I’ve managed to find them all.
‘Lest We Forget’ by the Post Office. The boots and the helmet had really stood up to the effects of the weather.
And here’s another interesting chunk of Archivery via Period Sites in Period Browsers that doesn’t appear to be online anywhere else – A mid 1990s chronology of the BSE outbreak in the UK as published by the MAFF.
Continue reading “BSE, A 90s Chronology of Events”This blog’s slow descent into postbox topper fandom continues – this time with a nice ‘Harvest’ themed topper in Malton.
While I’ve mentioned F. R. Stubbs before, I don’t think I’ve actually posted the Stubbs ghost sign that sits on the corner of Merchantgate and Walmgate.
