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Old 17-05-2008, 09:09 AM
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can you think of some items in the shops from years ago that you never ever see now


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Records, cassettes and 8-tracks.
"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"
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Marathon bars - transmuted into Snickers

Spartan Chocolates (dark chocolates with hard centres)

Tudor Crisps

Video 2000 - could have been a winner if it came out earlier

PYE electrical items (subsumed by Philips them dropped)

ITT electical items

Ecko electrical items

Dennis Wheatley and Edgar Wallace novels - some activity in small reprint houses but dead as a dodo on the open market

Dick Emery Old Granny False Teeth - but could still be seem in the joke shop in Whitby years after DE's death and went very yellow and decayed until were removed in the early 90s

Du Maurier & Olivier cigarettes
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Dynatron HiFi and TV equipment

Ferrograph tap recorders - still have mine and still getting static shots off it
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Dennis Wheatley and Edgar Wallace novels - some activity in small reprint houses but dead as a dodo on the open market
Oh, Dennis Wheatley... taught me how to astral travel! (The Ka of Gifford Hillary.)
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Force, or does it still exist?
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None of the major supermarkets appear to sell Force .... but we buy it from a health food shop in nearby North Walsham.
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Terry's Devon Milk Chocolate bars

Churchman's Cigarettes
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Novels by the most prolific writer of all time - John Creasey

Not much evidence of James Hadley Chase on the book shelves either. Used to have bikini clad beauties on the covers
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Fry's Jersey Cream

Terry's Chocolate Burnt Almonds

Terry's Walnut Milk Chocolate
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Clarnico Mixed Fruit Drops

Pascall Weekly Assortment

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The Rainbow
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