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ClicketyClick Sun 14-Dec-25 14:43:32

I've just seen and bought this in a supermarket so now remembering old times with a nice cuppa and a mince pie. All mine were thrown out by mum when I left home and she didn't admit it for years. Does anyone still have theirs?

sharon103 Sun 14-Dec-25 14:46:48

I used to have Jackie when I lived at home and Bunty. Delivered every week.
Enjoy your trip down memory lane.

fancyflowers Sun 14-Dec-25 15:58:28

I never had Jackie, but I loved my Bunty comics. I still remember the four Maries, and I have a vague recollection of an orphan girl, and she had a television in her bedroom. I was very jealous of that!

JamesandJon33 Sun 14-Dec-25 16:02:48

I had Girl and School Friend. I remember Lettuce Leefe and the historical back page ….Elizabeth Fry was one .

Greyduster Sun 14-Dec-25 16:41:49

School Friend for me - Dilly Dreem and co! My mother wouldn’t let me have Eagle comic so I borrowed it from the boy next door!

MollyNew Sun 14-Dec-25 19:46:55

I wish I still had my copies of Jackie. It was compulsory reading for me and my friends. We used to love Cathy and Claire, the make up tips and the posters for our bedroom walls.

pably15 Sun 14-Dec-25 19:54:15

mine go further back, Dandy ,Beano, Topper, school friend...I must be ancient

GrandmaRosie Sun 14-Dec-25 20:10:13

Loved Bunty and cutting out the Bunties and their outfits from the back page! Also was an avid Jackie reader a bit later - there’s a Facebook page for Jackie readers, which is often a good trip down memory lane
How does the time go so fast?

Calendargirl Sun 14-Dec-25 20:20:39

I have all my Bunty annuals in the loft, yellowed, tatty, but oh, just to turn the pages and I am transported back 65+ years.

Also have all my ‘Petticoat’ magazines, which superseded ‘Bunty’ when I grew up a bit.

Also tatty, faded, but very nostalgic.

Sssd Sun 14-Dec-25 20:22:32

I love Aunty's and Misty comics. I never got Jackie, it was always too grown up for me.

Sssd Sun 14-Dec-25 20:23:11

Buntys not blinking Aunty's

Allira Sun 14-Dec-25 20:25:26

pably15

mine go further back, Dandy ,Beano, Topper, school friend...I must be ancient

Me too!

School Friend and Girls' Crystal.

Northernsoulnanna Sun 14-Dec-25 20:36:24

I loved jackie i did see this in tescos a month ago, looked just lije itvused too.i hadnt got my reading glasses and i think the price was £9.99 so i put it back.
Maybe i might have bought it but i bought a very large Jackie hardback book from amazon a few years ago.
Snippets from lots ofvthe jackie magazine.
Loved reading it, especially Cathy and Claire.
Still have the book.

Northernsoulnanna Sun 14-Dec-25 20:37:42

Sorry about mispellings.
Fingers on phone working quicker than my brain grin

JMcB Mon 15-Dec-25 01:22:27

I loved Bunty, especially the cut out dolls. Then progressed to Jackie, Pink, Fab 208.

posset Mon 15-Dec-25 16:36:35

Girl for me - Miss Froth and Miss Tantrum - hilarious!

sodapop Mon 15-Dec-25 16:46:11

School friend and Girl's Crystal for me too Allira always waiting to see them pop through the letterbox.

GoodAfternoonTea Mon 15-Dec-25 16:47:57

Does anyone remember Judy?

Thisismyname1953 Mon 15-Dec-25 16:53:06

I had the beano and then the Bunty. When jackie came out I was about 12 and I got it every week until I was about 17 .

Aely Mon 15-Dec-25 17:03:32

My sister and I got Enid Blyton's Sunny stories, then Dany and Beano, then Girl and School Friend and occasionally scrounged eagle from a friend but I don't think I have any now. There is, I believe, a copy of Boy's Own tucked away somewhere - but that was my dad's.

WhiteSwan63 Mon 15-Dec-25 17:12:29

I loved my Jackie mags and had posters from them on my wall mostly of David Cassidy. When my mum made my two younger sisters and I tidy our shared room I would make them do it while I read my Jackies. I had the annuals too. I wish I’d kept them. The memories x

Calendargirl Mon 15-Dec-25 17:12:35

GoodAfternoonTea

Does anyone remember Judy?

Yes, I had Bunty and my sister had Judy.

They were classed as ‘sister’ papers, not sibling sisters, of course, but from the same publishers and a very similar format.

Severnside Mon 15-Dec-25 17:23:41

I have one fron 1975 with David Essex on the front and centrefold! It cost 5p! I took a photo of it but don’t know how to send it to Gransnet. Help please.

knspol Mon 15-Dec-25 17:25:18

fancyflowers

I never had Jackie, but I loved my Bunty comics. I still remember the four Maries, and I have a vague recollection of an orphan girl, and she had a television in her bedroom. I was very jealous of that!

Was it Bunty that had a series about a ballet dancer, maybe called Lorna???

Grandma600 Mon 15-Dec-25 17:49:13

Yes, I remember Judy, my all-time favourite! I used to get Jackie sometimes, but think it was a bit too grown up for me a lot of the time grin