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diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.03.19 - 7:03 a.m. | #
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As a child of the 80s, I have a similar collection of badges somewhere at my parents' house - I think many of them were from the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988. I really must dig them out some time.
martin | 13.03.19 - 7:17 a.m. | #
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3. I could have sworn that the slogan was "Plant another in '74" and that I can remember as a child thinking that it was poor slogan because it didn't rhyme properly. However I now see that I was wrong and it's strange how your memory plays tricks on you.
Regards
zin92 | 13.03.19 - 7:18 a.m. | #
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9. I have that Astro Smurf badge too. Luckily we had a National petrol station only a couple of streets away so it wasn't a hardship for my dad to go there.
13. I also have that Busby badge as well. My brother and I were big badge collectors when we were kids so we signed up for pretty much any club that was free to join and sent you a badge.
Barry | 13.03.19 - 7:27 a.m. | #
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Blimey, this brings back lots of memories for DG's dad.
DGD | 13.03.19 - 7:28 a.m. | #
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In the 1950's if you went to a children's Saturday morning picture show at a cinema which was part of the ABC chain you got an ABC badge. It was luminous so when the lights went down you saw lots of glowing green badges.
John | 13.03.19 - 7:33 a.m. | #
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As an almost exact contemporary, I can't believe you didn't have a Blue Peter badge. I can't remember what I got mine for, writing in and saying how pleased I was with the Clanger my mother made out of a sock, I think. I also got a signed photo of Val, John and Peter, Petra, Patch and Jason.
Sarah | Homepage | 13.03.19 - 7:35 a.m. | #
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9. National's the one place on Earth
You get service with a Smurf
G_r | 13.03.19 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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5 - it reopened as an operational garage during the rebuilding of Norwood from 25th April 1981, then Streatham from 27th October 1984, last day of operation was 6th February 1987, the site was sold and is now occupied by a Sainsbury's.
Badges don't seem to be a thing anymore - something to do with sending stuff with sharp points to children and/or damaging clothing 'badge sag' - or perhaps the promotional 'T' shirt/mug was deemed more effective.
Still Anon | 13.03.19 - 7:49 a.m. | #
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5 The Transport Museum started life as a tram depot. Did it become a bus depot before it became a museum?
1. Anyone wanting to visit Big Chief I Spy at the address of the "Wigwam on the Water" on Upper Thames Street would be a little disappointed at what they find - it's an undistinguished office block near Southwark Bridge
Timbo | 13.03.19 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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I agree with Sarah - Blue Peter is sadly absent. Also Cycling Proficiency.
kev | 13.03.19 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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No Tufty Club paraphernalia?
Offshore | 13.03.19 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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These are fifteen of my badges.
They are not my only fifteen badges.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.03.19 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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5. The collection was actually split. The London stuff going to Syon Park and most of the railway stock like Mallard going to the extended York museum. There was always a big queue to get on the footplate. After all it was a record breaker...
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My favourite was the single decker Ipswich trolleybus that you were allowed to "drive" in the back yard on the special open days when there were free films and lots of stalls from groups hoping to preserve many of the steam engines still rusting back then in the scrapyard at Barry.
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ap | 13.03.19 - 9:24 a.m. | #
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As intimated a Tufty club badge is the only badge that still bestows an air of authority on its wearer. I still wear mine with a certain swagger i cannot muster otherwise.
Milo | 13.03.19 - 9:50 a.m. | #
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Growing up in the 1950's, I had and still have, two Robertson's Jam GollyWogs. Of course back then there was no out cry about racism, and racial stereotyping.
YDU | 13.03.19 - 10:01 a.m. | #
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Not a badge, though I'm sure there were some, but my mum still uses a pair of Hands Off Humphrey mugs that were probably from another petrol station during the milk campaign. I remember the slogan, Watch out, there's a Humphrey about!
We had other Humphrey paraphernalia, such as the red and white striped drinking straws, and stickers but only the mugs have survived.
I'd love another feature about the other badges you have.
Cornish Cockney | 13.03.19 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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(3) When I was growing up in the 80s, Watch had moved with the times and I remember fixing a green plastic tub on a pole in the garden to collect rain for pollution sampling; I think it was just a daily record of the pH, which you sent in periodically. How dated does “acid rain” sound now!
Thanks for sharing - I’d completely forgotten about this.
Henry | 13.03.19 - 11:02 a.m. | #
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13. I hate Buzby. I always have done.
Scott | Homepage | 13.03.19 - 11:38 a.m. | #
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5 - according to London Transport Bus Garages by John Aldridge, Clapham was a tram depot, then completely rebuilt as part of the tram replacement scheme, taking an allocation of RTLs in two stages in October 1950 and January 1951.
Clapham closed in November 1958 as one of the cuts following the bus strike. It was used as a museum from March 1961 until April 1973, after this it was owned and used by British Rail for storage until reacquired by London Transport in 1977.
Still Anon | 13.03.19 - 12:22 p.m. | #
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5) I'm pretty sure I have the very same badge, from a visit there in 1967, at age ten. My 12 years older cousin, fresh from passing her driving test, took me there in her Mini.
RogerW | 13.03.19 - 1:39 p.m. | #
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3) ..."hope they're still alive in '75"
13) Bring back Buzby - there's not nearly enough actual speaking on phones anymore, except for in quiet public places and confined modes of transport, where it's really annoying. So maybe not.
NickW | 13.03.19 - 2:12 p.m. | #
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13) I came to hate Buzby! No, not the animated TV creature (voiced I think by Bernard Cribbins) but the human sized one!
As a low-ranking employee of PO Telecomms in early 1980 one could earn easy money by volunteering to man the PO float that was a common sight at many a small town festival, or at Exchange Open Days. Giving out the flags and bags of promotional literature plus zillions of badges was okay, but someone had to dress up in the Buzby costume..and walk miles in the flea-ridden itchy nylon thing, complete with red tights.. and 'one-size-fits-all' rubber feet! Prodded by hundreds of kids, thank goodness this pre-dated the current selfie obsession.
Frank F | 13.03.19 - 3:27 p.m. | #
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But Sarah, is your Blue Peter badge one of the blue competition winners badges? I got one of those in 1972, plus a very nice letter on BBC headed paper telling me that I was a runner up in one of their drawing competitions. One of the very few childhood mementos that has survived all these years. Really wish I had held onto all those Look and Learn magazines and Ladybird books..
jmc | 13.03.19 - 5:35 p.m. | #
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Six of the above, between us. Plus some others. I really must pull them all together, out of their respective hiding places.
Blue Witch | 13.03.19 - 6:04 p.m. | #
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1. I seem to remember thr I-spy code was not too difficult to crack: I think Big Chief’s sign-off exhortation was “ odhu ntinggo”
Keith | 13.03.19 - 6:13 p.m. | #
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12. I remember 'Save It' stickers being stuck next to all the light switches at my primary school.
Hadders | 13.03.19 - 8:38 p.m. | #
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5) Fond memories of this. I was a loco-spotter from a young age, then somebody pointed out to me that you could also spot buses, which you could do every time you went out rather than making time to go to a railway station or trackside.
During the next few years, I visited every LT bus garage, including the Country Area, many of them multiple times. Mostly using Red/Green Rover tickets. A great way for a child to find independence and to acquire a great knowledge of London topography, and of the workings of an industry.
It was sad to see the Clapham museum close, but at least the London Transport exhibits were preserved, cherished and saved for display to future generations of Londoners and visitors.
Gripper | 13.03.19 - 11:05 p.m. | #
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