Down memory lane

Bunty was my favourite

GoodAfternoonTea

Does anyone remember Judy?

Yes l do.
It was a rival to the Bunty.
But l dont think it sold
nearly as many copies

I got Mandy from the first issue too Moth62 and I remember Valda, didn't she have to bathe in a flame of eternal youth from time to time as she was really very old? I was quite taken by that story
I also had Bunty and Judy I must have spent a lot of my pocket money on them. I remember the excitement waiting for the sound of the letterbox rattling as they dropped on the mat, happy days

Sunny Stories, and then School Friend and Girls’ Crystal. The boy next door passed on his copies of Film Fun to me.

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

The puissance is going to be on BBC red button Thursday 9pm-10.15...[just read it on facebook...]

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.

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!!!

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!

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

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

Not Bobby Twins! It was the Bobbsey Twins annual.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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)