Mail order Catalogues

[Twocky61]

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Talking of mail order catalogues there was a joke about Littlewoods:

A woman answers the door to find a guy on the doorstep.

"Hello Madam I'm from Littlewoods"

"What? Have I won?"

"No your son has been arrested for shoplifting"

[Twocky61]

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Another thing I've noticed/forgrotten was that you could buy shotguns on the Kays catalogue!!
oh and a younger Vikki Michelle and a teenaged Nick kamen are models in an early eighties copy I have

OMG

Really? What about the firearms license? Did you have to send them a Xerox of the license before they would sell you one?

[George 1978]

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I actually thought that Littlewoods would have gone under when their High Street shops closed - I assume that it was a different division of the company.

[Twocky61]

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Nowadays mail order catalogues are few & far between as most shops have catalogues on line

[80sChav]

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I just loved reading catalogues flicking thru it for hrs looking at all the lovely pics.
So many amazing toys.
Be it kays or any catalogue i could not wait to read them.

Me too Darren mate ...... and not just Mail Order ones but Argos and index (Littlewoods) etc!!

when I think how many of those I got rid of - they sure was Cultural to collect as Collectables back in the day!!!

80sChav

[George 1978]

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My mother was an agent for the John England catalogue - she used to say how she would get commission on purchases because she was an agent. We had a customer who lived a couple of streets away who used to buy all her furniture from that catalogue.

I remember those brown or black plastic wallets that contained payment cards and books and things.

Victor Lewis-Smith mentioned John England in his Daily Mirror Saturday columns in the late 1990s.

And I once misheard John Inman's name as John England. True.

[xpelair-taurus]

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Anyone have any pages with electric fans? Thank you.

[darren]

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I just loved reading catalogues flicking thru it for hrs looking at all the lovely pics.
So many amazing toys.
Be it kays or any catalogue i could not wait to read them.

[DSCOMAN]

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is this the 'sticky mail order catalogues' page?....i'll get me coat

[80sChav]

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What great memories it evokes reading the replies about the various Catalogue's!!

Sadly it will never ever be the same - looking on the internet as it was in Tennage Years/early 20s in the 1980s/1990s!

Who else can recall looking in the Catalogue's and looking at the new Footy Shirts ?!!?, halcyon day's indeed! It was almost (in a way) like it was before Sunday Shopping was allowed I feel/think.

80sChav

[stud1al]

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Surely I'm not alone in always wanting to be the first to read the new Kays,Littlewood,etc catalogue when it was delivered in the 70's??
straight to the toy section (always dissapointed with the summer edition).
being a retrohead,I often wondered If anyone still had any old copies of these,but the search proved fruitless till the advent of EBay.
although some of these can cost an arm and a leg now,you can pick up the odd scanned versions on Cd.I got a couple of these recently..good memories...CB radios,huge VCR's,Video 2000!! early home PC's and of course toys galore.
though now, at my age its just as much fun looking at the appalling fashions and homewear we use to have. we must have furnished our entire house via Kays!!!

The Seventies..truly the decade taste forgot!

Fashion back then wasn't so bad,70.
I would rather 70s fashion than that baggy pants worn backwards fashion (When was that? The 80s or 90s?) and the long shorts or short longs you see people wearing.

[sixtyten]

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It didn't (at least the way we know it)
He was refering to this..
http://www.instantshift.com/2010/03/...g-in-nutshell/

[LivedOnMars]

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1979, really? I didn't even know that the internet existed then!

[ayrshireman]

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Most people don't realise that we British invented online shopping (in 1979).

[LivedOnMars]

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Fab thread, now I know where everyone bought my Christmas presents - I had the Girls World, little cash register, jewellery making set, paddling pool and wendy house. Toys were so simple back then, seems like we had less but appreciated it more. I remember getting really excited waiting months for Christmas just to get the Grease album. I remember my Dad wearing those big clumpy shoes, with his flares and big hair with massive sideburns. I loved my Mum's catalogues; I used to spend hours making pretend orders...online shopping isn't so exciting in comparison is it?