Annuals and comics

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.

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.

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

The young Elizabethan, I seem to remember?

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.

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

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.

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.....

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.

I had 'Princess' as a child and 'Petticoat' as a teenager.

Golden Gran I have just found an interesting website www.lookandlearn.com/childrens-newspaper/history.php which gives the history of The Childrens Newspaper. It was started in 1919 by Arthur Mee who also edited a book from my childhood "One Thousand Beautiful Things". Mee had died in 1943 and it was modernised over the years. Look and Learn from the same publishers, began in 1962 and The Childrens Newspaper closed in 1965. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to learn something new!

Definitely 'Boab', Ariadne. And your F-L was right. The SP always was an essentially innocent publication. Not sure why my father was dead against it. A preference for the Observer probably. And DC Thomson has always been a fairly reactionary outfit.

Annobel - my two smallest grandchildren will come out with "Crivens", "jings" and "help ma Bob." (Or is it "Boab""?) DH has made sure they know their roots!

(My DF-L used to say, of "The Sunday Post", "Say what you will, there's nae filth in it, lassie.")

My grandparents subscribed to the Children's Newspaper for me. I liked the crossword puzzle. There were many adverts for fancy stamps 'on approval'. My poor parents were horrified when packages of stamps started to arrive in the post because I had sent for them! They felt obliged to pay for them, but explained in no uncertain terms what 'on approval' meant!

I had Look and Learn then went on to Jackie. When I was in the Brownies I had that mag, too - even had things published, a little story about my budgie and a poem about winter

Mum used to get me Children's Newspaper. I seem to remember I would only bother with the front page, so she stopped getting it and let me carry on reading my brothers' comics.

She did try with me....and I think I was very trying.

I remember the Children's newspaper, I used to love it. How many years did that go on for?

I've always been a great reader and can remember reading Girl and the Childrens Newspaper. Anyone else who used to read that? Later on I read Film Fun and my first pin up was Jeremy Spenser!

I remember the Sunday Post in Dundee when I lived there. It was the one that had those little unbelievable stories in a middle page.
They used to pay people to use their names and write all this fiction - like the one about my husband who had his marrow explode in the pantry because he over fertilised it.....he didn't even have a garden at the time....
I think they were often believed!

Annobel the Sunday Post was available in Sassenach land. My mother was an avid reader of it and my Welsh dad was a great fan of the Broons.

Nannyliz I do remember Cathy and Clare.

Just remembered - it was called Look and Learn !

Robin and then Girl. When I went to boarding school we weren't allowed comics but I was allowed to have a weekly which was all about nature and the world in general - can't remember its name as it was, then, boring but I had it in the absence of anything else and at least I got something in the post every week . pamagaI was a Busy Bee too - I once had a 'fete' in my Dad's garage with my friend Margaret Clark and raised £5. We gave £2 and 10 shillings to the PDSA and my Mum insisted we gave the other half to the Mother's Union for some inexplicable reason . I've still got the thank-you letter from the PDSA. Did anyone else collect the Robertson's jam G....ys? I think I only managed to get one brooch, it took so long for us to get through the jam!

I didn`t have Bunty, but I remember playing with the cardboard dolls with paper clothes until I was 14, approaching 15. Nowadays they have boyfriends and some are having babies by that age, or was I young for my age? This was in the 1950s.

Bunty had the cut-out doll with clothes on the back page. I used to love that! I think Bunty came out on a Tuesday and School Friend on a Wednesday?