Who remembers scraps?

Mine was full of ponies, racehorses & footballers. We used to get our dads to ask the pub landlords if they had any spare racing calendars ( I don't know if it was just the "Horse" name pubs who had these).

What are scraps in this context? Obviously I've heard of scrap books but you usually cut things out of magazines for those, often with a particular theme (like a pop star for example). Or you might put postcards and various other mementos in them.

Oh those sheets of scraps! I especially liked the cherubs, in various sizes all sitting eyes heavenwards, in their fluffy clouds! I just loved them, a 50/60s Scottish childhood here too, Mustafafag. Spent hours poring over them and loved all the swapping too. Thanks Katek for bringing back some happy childhood memories!

We had scrap books way back in the 50s - before the days of footballers and pop stars (😉) and my favourites were angels and cherubs. As another poster said above, you could buy them by the sheet from Woolworths or a newsagents too I suppose, though I can't really remember. We used to keep them between the pages of books for swapping. I'm not sure what the appeal was but I think we were all between the age of 8 and 10ish when the 'craze' was at its height and then it just sort of petered out.

Never heard of these scraps, but I did make a scrap book of various themes. I won a prize at junior school for one about the Queen’s trip to Nigeria. My mum bought or bogged extra magazines for more pictures for me.
Scraps with fish and chips- not for me thanks.

Lo ed them especially the cherubs on the cloud. You trued to collect all the different sizes! 🤣

I do. I was about to say "yes , but I can't remember what I did with them " when the opening post reminded me that we put them in the pages of books.

The sheets of scraps are still available as far as I know. I have several varied sheets bought for collage during the last few years. I done recall where they were bought but they say ‘Made in England’ and PO BOX 12 BSE IP32 6NQ

I loved scraps, but I think they were a late 50s craze, not 60s. They were sheets of shiny pictures with little tabs separating them. The Raphael cherubs were popular and I remember other figures, bunches of flowers, ladies in crinolines etc. I was at school in east Scotland and bought them in Woollies - they didn’t cost much.A lot of the pictures were Victorian rather like the Victorian style Xmas cards you still see sometimes. I think many of the grans on here are just too young!!

Lovely memories of keeping scraps. I’m definitely going to to do this with my granddaughter . 👍

Scrapbooks came back into fashion a few years ago but I was never that bothered. My autistic son, who is in his thirties and living independently, likes to keep scrapbooks with his special postcards, pictures he's coloured in, railway tickets etc.

My late husband and myself had no end of trouble with scrape paper at the turn of the century.
My late oldest cousin had written a lot about my mother’s clan all on scrap paper because he was too old to understand computers.
So my son suggested that we could transform what he had written onto electric format ready for a website.
We had no end of trouble as the computer couldn’t decipher a lot of the pages so it took AGES to go through it all.

Never heard of scraps you are all referring to. What date were you scrapping? Did I miss something, or was it over before I started school?

This inspires me to show my grandchildren how to make a scrapbook, when they are old enough!

Redblueandgreen

Was getting hungry then thinking about the ones we got from the chippy.

Me too!!!

BlueBelle

Well like a few others I ve never heard of scraps (only the chip variety at the chip shop) and never swapped
It’s is an area thing ?
I had a scrap book with bits cut out of magazine or cards but never heard of swapping

Me too, never heard of "Scraps" - as a child it was that delicious greasy treat after ballet class for 1 old pence in a newspaper cone.

I saw some for sale recently in a Scottish national trust gift shop

Fond memories of scraps. (Not to be confused with scrapbooks). The thickest book you could find with a single scrap between each page all arranged in order of type. Push up any you wanted to swap. Our village post office sold them in boxes, spent many a happy time sifting through them

irismarle
Definitely 60's. I was at primary school 63 -68 and they were all the rage in the mid-60's

At senior school. 1960-62 we used to stick cuttings of our favourite actors on the inside of our desk lids! Robert Horton, Ed Byrne (‘cookie from 77 Sunset Strip) and Elvis!

I was the fortunate girl who lived in the UK, but had a grandmother living in Denmark, so a lot of my scraps were quite unlike a anything you could buy in Britain.

I drove very hard bargains for the Danish scraps I had more than one of.

Ilovecheese

I remember having a scrap book but not buying special scraps to go in it. Just cut up birthday cards or pictures from my mother's magazines

I had both! I loved collecting ‘scraps’ and had quite a good collection when I was young. But I had a ‘normal’ scrapbook too
Even now, in my 70s, I still keep scrap books of holidays spent with my husband and children years ago, and later with grandchildren, and I find them comforting to look back on. My late husband and I spent lots of days in France too, and I kept a diary, with photos, of those odd days too.
I used to write a holiday diary which I then typed out when home, and I interspersed the narrative with photos. I found it helpful to use postcards instead of photos, unless I wanted people in them. The professional photos were so much better than mine. My husband and I spent many odd days in France as well. Living in Dover, it was so easy to hop on a ferry then. Not so easy now!
Scrapping is brilliant!

AuntieE

I was the fortunate girl who lived in the UK, but had a grandmother living in Denmark, so a lot of my scraps were quite unlike a anything you could buy in Britain.

I drove very hard bargains for the Danish scraps I had more than one of.

I was brought up in Denmark when collecting glans billeder shiny pictures was the in thing for years. We did stick the ones we did not want to swap in to a scrap book in order of themes. The ones we wanted to swap were kept in a box ready for swapping. I carried mine around everywhere. I still have my scrapbooks and my husband’s but he collected cigarette cards, planes, royal themed pictures and they were mostly newspaper and magazine cuttings. Lovely hobby. You could also get paper Dollie’s and we use to draw them a huge wardrobe with accessories and then dress them in different outfits depending where they were going. Such fun.this was definitely in the 50s as I am born in 44.

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I’ve still got mine ! I transferred them to an album several years ago. Mostly collected and swapped in about 1955-1960z!

Hi All. To me scraps are leftover food from the table. These would go into a great big tub on the back porch for the hogs and feeding them was called slopping the hogs.

There’s also scraps of material which we made quilts out of. Coming from Alabama everything is used not one single thing was going to waste. Feed sacks for the other animals came in pretty material called sacks and those were washed and cut into pieces for quilts and or dresses for us to wear. I remember my mother had the very first pedal singer sewing machine and all of our clothes were made on this machine along with the rest of the family who always showed up to borrow . Life on 300 acres of farmland and Alabama was extremely interesting😊