Long shot! Magazine story from ` Jackie` years ago! Hardly culture but...

I can not help but did look up archive Jackie magazines , they sell for between £79 and £450 on crazyaboutmagazines.com , should have kept mine.

Every week I looked forward to getting my copy of Jackie. I thought I was so sophisticated!!

Sorry, I don't remember the story.

Was that the one where she met a young man in the park and pretended to him that she was royalty saying things like I have big red carriages that stop whenever I wave my hand ie a bus?

And he joined in with stuff of his own.

But the punch line was he really was a prince and had to leave her sitting in the park?

I loved Jackie.

Eglantine 21, I`m not sure about the bus bit but all I remember was a rather long-winded musing on her life interspersed with lines from that ****poem! There was something about `in all of my mullein windows the westerly sun sets red` to finish the poem. I expect I shall just have to continue to be infuriated by a story badly remembered from so long ago!

Apart from this website you could try the Fans of Jackie Magazine on Facebook. There will be actual Jackie fans there to help you!

You’d put me to shame I can’t remember what I went to the fridge for and you are remembering all this!!!

Thanks Chestnut, didn`t think of facebook. Will give it a try.

I loved Jackie, I don`t think my parents approved though, all those boyfriends and kissing! The illustrations always seemed so sophisticated, longed to look like that.

Can’t help I’m afraid, but I too loved Jackie.

Happy memories!
Oh how I regret - memories of standing around a ritual bonfire at the bottom of the garden, aged 17, where I burnt my entire 4 year collection of Jackie Magazine in one go...

....where I burnt my entire 4 year collection of Jackie Magazine in one go...
And now they're worth about £100 each. Oh if only we knew then what we know now!

Oh Chestnut surely they’re only worth that if they’re in mint condition?

I was a Petticoat reader. As I mentioned on another thread, my collection is in the loft. Sadly, rather tatty now, cannot imagine worth much more than the 1/- (one shilling) each they cost some 50 odd years ago. But good luck to anyone with Jackie’s if they are worth a good price with a collector.

Calendargirl - check out the prices here! I don't think many are in mint condition.
www.crazyaboutmagazines.com/ourshop/cat_140932-JACKIE-Magazine-Back-Issues.html

Was it Meadowsweet by William Allingham?
engpoetry.com/william-allingham/meadowsweet/

I had a collection of Jackies that stood about 12" high. I don't think they could ever have become valuable, they were to well thumbed !

One leg of my bed broke of in the night and I put the pile in it's place. Stayed like that for a few days until mum and dad bought me a new bed.

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Wow! Love it, along with “words” so that I could get the lyrics to all the pop songs and practice and sing along.
So many years ago ....

Chestnut, did you know that or did you google the words?
Hope it’s the right one.

One thing I do know about Jackie is that a very young Jacqueline Wilson (of Tracy Beaker fame) started her career at Jackie The other thing is that it made my younger sister obsessed about spots and boys.

Chestnut

Have just googled your magazine site. Sadly, Petticoat mags do not even come up!

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I have a collection of old Jackie magazines along with loads of old womens magazines from the 1920s to the 1960s so much for my husband, telling me they were rubbish and needed to go into the recycling, I have started knitting a lot of the 1940s and 50s patterns and the recipes can be hilarious

Also there was the Bunty, my favourite!

Loved Bunty and "The Four Marys"

Don't remember that story I'm afraid. But I did love the Jackie. I used to cover my school books with pictures from it. I can still remember my picture of Justin Hayward. Happy days.

My sister used to get Jackie mag & I used to have Blue Jeans mag. Does anyone remember that one? As younger girls my 2 sisters has Judy & Tammy & I had Bunty. Mum used to pick up all the mags on a Saturday morning when she did her weekly shop & none of us girls were allowed our mags until my mum had read all of them first! ?