Annuals and comics

We used to read Swift, Robin, Girl and Eagle and used to join in their activities at the seaside on holiday - we went to Exmouth every year because my GM lived there and there was always an enclosure on the sand for them. I always remember the lady saying: "Come along all the little Robins!" - does anyone else remember these seaside activites from the comics?

As to comics now.....I bought a couple for my GC and then realised that they were basically full of adverts for TV programmes and merchandise. What a shame - we used to love our comics and look forward to them arriving through the door.

My absolute favourite albums were Girls Crystal, Schoolfriend and the Bobbsie Twins. Me and my sisters would just 'hang out' for Christmas knowing that those books would appear. Ah, lovely memories.....

When I was a young girl had Bunty, Judy, but when I became a teenager I moved on to Petticoat, does anyone remember that, as well as all the teenage interest, ie pop stars, makup and hair they sold a dress pattern and showed how to adapt it to make a different dresses. As I was into sewing would get material from the market and make a new dress most Saturdays for the disco at night. Can you image a teenage magazine now having a sewing section.

I used to have the Jackie magazine inmy early teens I thought it was so cool and my bedroom had posters all over the place - my sister bought me the Jackie CDs last year we had a great time dancing over all the old songs

Davinator, I had completely forgotten Petticoat, which looking back I used to love, and Mum tried out several of the sewing patterns for me, with great success. As you say, who would try this nowadays?
I started out with Sunny Stories, grew up a bit into School Friend and Girl's Crystal and then on to Girl, my absolute favourite. Mum used to work part-time, so I was a poor little latchkey child (didn't think anything of it, did me no harm!) and Mum would leave me a Girl comic and a Milky Way when she worked on Thursdays. My brother and I both read Beano and Dandy (as did my own children), and the boy next door passed over his Eagle comics to me.
Loved Jackie for years, and finally moved on to She magazine when I was 17.
Reading all those stories about horse-riding girls at boarding school was so exciting and such a welcome escape from the new town where I grew up.

The young Elizabethan, I seem to remember?

Dandy,Beano and lots of swops.Only one bought regularly was 'Girls Crystal'.
My son had 'Shiver and Shake' about ghosts etc.It only ran for about a year.Has anyone heard of it. I believe he still has them all (in his late 40s).Maybe they are collectors items by now

Remember Fab208 - the magazine that was attached to Radio Luxembourg? It had lovely pin-up pictures of all the pop groups and singers! They were plastered all over my bedroom walls.

I started off with Jack and jill . I loved it. I made a whirrly gig from parts that came with it and my mother only threw that away a couple of years ago ( I wish she had told me first) . I had the annual in 1962 (I think) and loved it to bits - and would love it again.

Then I moved on to Look and Learn which I collected the whole "Look and Learn Index of Knowledge" and the box ..... and I still have it. Intact and slightly foxed.

I also had the Judy.

Then I moved onto Lady Penelope. I had a pendant with thatwhich opened and has a mirror inside for spying purposes as I recall the magazine saying. I still have that too.

In between I had Bunty and Diana for a short w hile but my mother didnt like Bunty and so I had Judy.

I also recall having a "Mirablelle" but it was a shade old for me and I got Jackie afterwards instead.