These long, toothy hair accessories made your skimpy little ponytail look long ‘n’ layered. Very popular in the early to mid-80s and still available in £1 shops.
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Cresta
The coolest ad campaign of the Seventies.
The Bear (also called Cresta) that inspired The Fonz (no, really).
The drink that stripped paint.
Rimsky-Korsakov!!
Cresta was produced in...
Butlin’s
Billy Butlin spotted two things in the 1930s . . .
First, that holidaymakers were routinely turfed out of their boarding houses and not allowed...
Don’t Spill The Beans
Don't Spill The Beans was popular during the late 60s and came from a games company called Schaper. The game was all about filling...
Microwave Ovens
Looking back, It is almost impossible to convey the wonder and awe these devices inspired when they were first introduced. Cooking food on paper...
Yahtzee
The first version of Yahtzee was invented by a moneyed Canadian couple in 1956 aboard their yacht, of all places.
Among the couple's boating coterie,...
