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  1. W-D Forties

    WORST Record Albums EVER

    I actually have a small collection of Hammond albums. Solid Gold Hammond by Harry Stoneham is a actually rather good. Alas, the same cannot be said for my 'Ena Baga plays the happy hammond' collection.
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    Old houses with bomb shelters

    Having spoken to many people who went through the Blitz in Liverpool, most told me they didn't have an Anderson (many living in back to backs with no garden). They spent the raids under the stairs. Slightly off topic, but I'm always tickled by the ex-nuclear bunkers that are now open to the...
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    Beauty secrets of famous ladies

    Was there an older version of this film? This looks quite recent and the one I'm thinking of I saw about 30 years ago! I'd really like to see this one though, it looks really good - what's it called lolly_?
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    New Series "The Hour"

    I found the women a little too relaxed looking, the main leads make up was quite naturalistic for the time. Also, no-one found it unusual that she got the producers job. I could be quite wrong here, but a woman in that role in that era would have warranted some comment, no?
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    Beauty secrets of famous ladies

    I remember (or mis-remember!) a film I saw when I was very young about Mae West where a drag artist was showing a young Mae how to contour her face and apply her make-up. I can't for the life of me remember what the film was now but it was responsible for most of what I went out looking like in...
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    What are you wearing today??

    Is that you being Richard O'Brien by any chance Edward?
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    THE NIGHT WATCH - Another great drama from BBC

    I saw this too Paddy and I have to say I was dissapointed. I haven't read the book and I'm sure that's better, but I found I didn't really care about the characters. It looked nothing like London either. Mind you, the clothes were to die for!
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    Dallas

    I Looooved Dallas, in fact it was reshown here a while ago and it was still great. The younger cast members of the new version all look very *generic*, very good looking, but not very individual. Or is it me just getting older?
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    Does vintage clothing attract a rude/violent response?

    At my son's school some of the parents have openly laughed at my husband for his sense of dress and handlebar moustache. Serves him right for not dressing like an obese toddler on a daily basis like the other dads I guess. I get very weird looks, but so far so-one has had the bottle to say...
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    What does a Vintage Baby Girl & Nursery need?

    I bought an old nursing chair (wooden, very low, with curved arms to support yours whilst feeding/holding the baby), and refurbished it. It cost me £10 and about £20 to do up but it's lovely. I used it a lot for night feeds and it was extremely comfortable. Best of all, not my kids are bigger...
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    Medical Practicioners of Old

    In the UK pregnant women were prescribed Guiness or stout for iron. A friend of ours who has worked in hospitals, inc mental hospitals, told me recently that they used to do the same in mental wards on the full moon to calm the patients! Why can't I get booze on prescription, surley I must...
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    House histories?

    I have just done some further digging and found out that none of the bodies were moved! Aparantly if it's not going to be built on they don't, they just move the headstones. I think the park may be officially still concecrated ground. Aparantly there are over 80,000 bodies under there. No...
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    House histories?

    The post war flat I grew up in didn't have a particulaly interesting history, but the park next to it did. It used to be the Liverpool Necropolis, and was only changed into a park in about 1912. The flats were kind of on their own as the area was blitzed during the war and my little block was...
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    House histories?

    Slightly off topic, but my husbands dad had a BB gun which he used to make a right nusance of himself alll over town. One night, he was leaning out of his bedroom window shooting at the house next door. Unfortunately for him, the bloke who lived there saw him and shouted that he was going to...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Secret In Their Eyes. An excellent Argentinian film, reccommended!
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    Nordic functionalism

    Crittall Windows.......brrrrrr! I grew up in a post war tenement block with those windows - and no central heating. In the winter it was so bl**dy freezing they used to ice up on the inside! And they were incredibly noisy and draughty too. I still love the look of them though, they are very...
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    House histories?

    My current house is a late 1920's two-up-two-down that has been built on Frankinstein style over the years and is now a 4 bed. Nothing special. My old house in London was in what was a street of early Victorian 4 story terraces. Then during the war the area was blitzed badly and the street is...
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    Show Us Your Purchases!

    I don't know about you, but I find a lot of modern 'vintage' styled dresses are far too short - and I'm only 5ft2"!
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    Radical life change needed!

    Can I make a suggestion angeljenny? DON'T DIET! Start counting those calories and you will end up miserable and obsessed. Start eating lots of fruit and veg, don't worry about anything else, if you are eating tons of fruit and veg you will naturally end up eating less cr*p. Ditch those diet...
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    Show us what you've made!

    That's a lovely outfit BoPeep, I love the fabric the colours are gorgeous! I wish I had the figure for a short top like that, you look so cute in it!

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