Down memory lane

June and School Friend and then progressed to Jackie. Thanks to Jackie my bedroom didn't really need wallpaper as David Cassidy covered every available inch.

Ah yes I loved the Jackie mag. It had the answers to everything a young teen needed to know!

Oh the memories.
Bunty and Judy first then progressed to Jackie.
My ds had Twinkle but she then started to have bunty and Judy which was fine by me because I still got to read them.
My db had the beano and another boys comic which I can’t remember the name of. I think it had the start of a football story on the front which continued inside.
My dm had The People’s Friend. I read all of them as we all swapped around when we had each finished our own.
I would just flick through my dms as I found it boring compared to Jackie. I wasn’t into recipes or knitting patterns but sometimes the short stories were ok.
My db and the boy next door would then read each other’s. He had the dandy so I got to read that as well.
What an eclectic mix lol. It was all about sharing in those days.

None of those for me. I was horse mad and helping at a riding school at weekends, so it was all the riding magazines etc etc., and am old enough to remember my first great trip to I think it was white city in those days. The british team were Pat Smythe, Col Llewellyn, Harvey Smith and cant remember the other name. Used to save up to go to the great shows and my best memory was the puissance, which I loved. On this occasion I had managed to get a seat absolutely opposite the highest jump. The final was between one of the italian Dinzeo brothers who was in the italian army and rode in uniform, who was on a huge horse, aptly named The Rock, about 18 hands and the other was only just a horse, and it was Tommy Wade on Dundrum in emerald green for Ireland. Dont know how he managed to do the horse equivalent of the fosbury flop but he wriggled over the top and won. So my reading was more Black Beauty and as many pony club magazines as I could get

Sparky for me, my Friday treat at 5d, along with a packet of Smokey bacon crisps also 5d! I got Mandy from the very first issue and my cousin got June & Schoolfriend, so we swapped. I remember a story in Mandy about a girl who became a great tennis player, a tineslip story about Valda, who was an ice skater. And a story about a girl who looked after her sisters and brothers and could make marvellous meals for them out of practically nothing. (I learned a lot from her!) Funny that even after 50+ years, I can still remember the stories and picture the characters.

knspol

The Lorna was ‘Lorna Drake, who attended the Thelma Mayne Dance School. Miss Mayne had a bad leg, and could no longer dance.

The previous ballet story was ‘The Dancing Life Of Moira Kent’.

No wonder all us little girls wanted to do ballet.

(Sadly, I never did, the world lost another Darcy Bussell)

The Bunty for me. I loved the dress up dolls on the back. The Four Marys was my favourite story. Then The Jacky with Cathy and Claire and the pin ups. Yes to David Cassidy. After that it was Cosmopolitan.

That should have read that after 60+ years, I can still remember the stories. I knocked a decade off my age there!

Had them all ( mostly) at varying stages. Loved the characters from, Lord Snooty, Desperate Dan, Pansy Potter. The Four Mary’s.
Cathy and Claire and learning about perceived real life, in Jackie.

madeleine45

None of those for me. I was horse mad and helping at a riding school at weekends, so it was all the riding magazines etc etc., and am old enough to remember my first great trip to I think it was white city in those days. The british team were Pat Smythe, Col Llewellyn, Harvey Smith and cant remember the other name. Used to save up to go to the great shows and my best memory was the puissance, which I loved. On this occasion I had managed to get a seat absolutely opposite the highest jump. The final was between one of the italian Dinzeo brothers who was in the italian army and rode in uniform, who was on a huge horse, aptly named The Rock, about 18 hands and the other was only just a horse, and it was Tommy Wade on Dundrum in emerald green for Ireland. Dont know how he managed to do the horse equivalent of the fosbury flop but he wriggled over the top and won. So my reading was more Black Beauty and as many pony club magazines as I could get

It used to be on the tv back then. I’ll always remember a horse called Vibart who used to do a sort of buck after his fences ( or did he do it over his fences?). When it is on tv I still get a thrill watching the puissance!

I occasionally read titles such as Princess, Mandy, and Diana, but my true favourites were Bunty & Judy: my sister & I used to get one each, then I would cut out the Bunty dolls from the back page - I kept them all (along with the bigger ones which came as a booklet, with several pages of clothes) in a big shoe box, which I only got rid of about two house moves ago.
I then progressed to Fab 208 and Jackie, but after my - very strict - mum read some of Cathy & Claire's advice I was forbidden to buy it; so after that I had to read it in secret. I still remember the article 'What to do if your mum won't let you wear make-up'; one piece of advice was to buy a jar of Vaseline, which you could use as lip gloss, to shape your eyebrows, & slick on your eyelashes to make them look thicker & darker: I think I overdid that last one, as my lashes stuck together!
Finally I moved on to Honey and then Cosmopolitan, neither of which was ever left anywhere that my mum might spot them.

Madeline are you thinking of David Broome? I too loved the show jumping. I've watched them all.

My magazines were Girl and School friend. Also The Children's Newspaper.

Aldom

Madeline are you thinking of David Broome? I too loved the show jumping. I've watched them all.

My magazines were Girl and School friend. Also The Children's Newspaper.

David Broome.

He opened an extremely successful equestrian centre in Monmouthshire after retiring from competition.

Even after all these years I can still see in my mind a picture of a model wearing a particularly lovely lipstick in Petticoat. No idea why that one picture stuck in my mind so vividly. I’ve collected quite a few old annuals over the years. I wish children these days could find such pleasure from getting one of those books for Christmas along with a few bars of chocolate!

Every Christmas when we were young girls my sister got the Girls' Crystal annual and me the School Friend. Looked forward to those so much! Does anybody remember the Bobby Twins? It was an annual too, I think either American or Canadian. Very special memories.

Not Bobby Twins! It was the Bobbsey Twins annual.

Think it was Bobsey Twins, not Bobby Twins, but yes, I remember them!

Yes, I have a few of the Bobbsey Twins novels. Didn’t they live in Cherry Lane? Or am I getting confused with another family? I always thought it sounded such a lovely address!

I had Chicks Own, Rainbow, Girl, and finally Young Elizabethan which was considered grown up!! I had no siblings but shared with friends . I read lots of books, but Black Beauty stands out as a favourite. I still slightly 'well up' when remembering poor Ginger!

I had the Young Elizabethan. They paid you if they accepted submitted poems. I got 10/6 for a poem, and 5/- for a book review!

I was never allowed comics, but secretly hankered after School Friend.

Does anyone else remember Treasure? It was a kind of simpler version of Look &Learn. I remember Tufty the rabbit featured in a cartoon strip. I’ve never found anyone else who remembers it.

Just googled Tufty, who was apparently a squirrel, not a rabbit. I think he spearheaded a road safety campaign, didn’t he?

Dandy and Beano, then Bunty (loved the Four Marys), then Jackie, then Cosmopolitan. The history of me from childhood to young womanhood told in publications!

Calendargirl

knspol

The Lorna was ‘Lorna Drake, who attended the Thelma Mayne Dance School. Miss Mayne had a bad leg, and could no longer dance.

The previous ballet story was ‘The Dancing Life Of Moira Kent’.

No wonder all us little girls wanted to do ballet.

(Sadly, I never did, the world lost another Darcy Bussell)

Thank you for solving that!
BTW don't think my bunions would fit into ballet shoes and as for wearing a tutu!!!

I've still got a few copies of Jackie but only the ones that have short stories I've written in them! They're not from way back - more from the 90s.