Down memory lane

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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???

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.

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.

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

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.

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 .

Does anyone remember Judy?

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

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

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

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

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.

pably15

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

Me too!

School Friend and Girls' Crystal.

Buntys not blinking Aunty's

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

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.

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?

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

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.