First Thing You Remember Collecting As A Kid.

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Does head lice count?

 

[BlueTG]

Beatings.

 

[LWashington]

Bloody hell this brings back memories.In the 1950`s we had bubble gum machines and they had one circular bubble gum and an Aircraft Collectors card all for the pricely sum of 1d.
There were 100 cards to the set but I never completed the set.

I remember bubble gum machines from the 1970's , everyone seemed to have a mate who said he knew "the method of getting 2 or 3 items out at once". Which usually consisted of stopping halfway through turning then giggling it a bit until eventually,
Best Case Scenario - He only got one item out anyways.
Worst Case Scenario - He jammed the machine and lost your money.
We had one at the shops just outside our primary school in the 1970's but at lunchtime or after school you couldn't get near it for kids from the comprehansive next door. One year some of them started stealing the younger kids money, so everyone was banned from using it. They even took the extreme measure of a having teachers from the comp standing guard on it during lunchtime. This only went on for about a week though because after been excluded one of the year 10 or 11 kids somehow managed to uproot it from it's place and threw it through the headteachers window. Ah the good old days.

 

[FCBarca]

Matchbox cars

 

[blue b4 the moon]

RACIST ALERT!!!

Haha expected something like this at some stage, it was a strange world in the mid 60's, funnily enough I vividly remember an Asian girl bringing a doll version into school for end of year 'play day'.

Without derailing the thread like last week's Educating Manchester there really wasn't much of an issue with young kids, my junior school was 65% English in the top class and over 75% non-English in reception when I left and all got on pretty well together.

 

[BigBluey]

Anybody old enough to remember 'Mars Attacks' and 'American Civil War' cards you got in a big square packet of pink chewing gum?

Yep Xiphos I remember them well. Still have a full set of Mars attacks from Topps but lost the full collection of American Civil war cards.

If you check on eBay each card goes for anything up to £10 !!

 

[Xiphos]

Yep Xiphos I remember them well. Still have a full set of Mars attacks from Topps but lost the full collection of American Civil war cards.

If you check on eBay each card goes for anything up to £10 !!

I had the full set of both, remember the Cival War ones were quite gory

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Brooke Bond Tea cards. My Dad knew someone who worked there so we got the entire set without drinking fifty quarters of the stuff. Wish I'd kept them - in pristine condition. I remember that the first one in the dogs set was a Bedlington Terrier. And axolotl was in another set. Not many English words that end '.......tl'. Amazing what things the memory can dredge up when I can't remember where, two minutes ago, I put the car keys.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Phillumeny.

 

[Franny 1234]

MARBLES for me.
Especially DOBBERS.
Although it's no surprise I've lost all my marbles now.
C.T.I.D