Charity Shop Bargains

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name='tvden']VHS purchased at this mornings two bootsales

on the beat n. wisdom

the wrong arm of the law

the thirty nine steps robert donat

steptoe men of letters

the piano

the seven steptoerai

the wombles

8 eps of space 1999

newspaper freebie the ipcress file and brief encounter

oh you are awful dick emery

then Churchill said to me frankie howard

clockwise john cleese

thunderbirds vol 1 the secret service with stanley unwin



as to the cost under a fiver !!!!!!

The rare shows I obtain are often not available on VHS or DVD, thats what makes them rare if you get my meaning like!

[David Brent]

name='tvden']VHS purchased at this mornings two bootsales

on the beat n. wisdom

the wrong arm of the law

the thirty nine steps robert donat

steptoe men of letters

the piano

the seven steptoerai

the wombles

8 eps of space 1999

newspaper freebie the ipcress file and brief encounter

oh you are awful dick emery

then Churchill said to me frankie howard

clockwise john cleese

thunderbirds vol 1 the secret service with stanley unwin



as to the cost under a fiver !!!!!!

Good shopping.

Now all you need is a video casette player.



Dave.

[marker]

name='David Brent']Good shopping.

Now all you need is a video casette player.



Dave.

no prob I have two old Panasonic top loaders

[Lord Brett]

name='image45']The rare shows I obtain are often not available on VHS or DVD, thats what makes them rare if you get my meaning like!

I agree, which is why I was so pleased to turn up A Hill in Korea last week.



I still glow with pride when I think of the 15 or more rare and unusual Spaghetti Westerns I found at one particular charity shop when my work took me to various towns in West Yorkshire.

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<work took me to various towns in West Yorkshire.>



Are west yorkshire charity shops the best for spaghetti Westerns?

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name='image45']The rare shows I obtain are often not available on VHS or DVD, thats what makes them rare if you get my meaning like!

Well I have only just started building a collection so I am not to fussy at the moment no doubt later on I will become much more discriminate but there are some very early vhs still floating arround at bootsales and charity shops

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name='tvden']Well I have only just started building a collection so I am not to fussy at the moment no doubt later on I will become much more discriminate

<much more discriminate> you sound like me everyday, your journey to the Dark side of the 'Charity Shop collector will soon be complete'





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[Lord Brett]

name='image45']<work took me to various towns in West Yorkshire.>



Are west yorkshire charity shops the best for spaghetti Westerns?

I suspect this was something of a one-off, although they kept telling me in the shop that I'd cleaned them out, only for some new titles to appear the following week.



The best town for charity shops in gerenal, in my experience is Bingley, near Bradford. I don't tend to go there often now, so I'm happy to let others know.



My main experience of charity shopping has been in the Leeds/West Yorkshire area, where every shop seems to have at least one copy of Colin Dexter's book Morse's Greatest Mystery. This seems to be a local phenomenon, as I rarely see the book if I'm visiting another part of the country.

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name='Lord Brett']I suspect this was something of a one-off, although they kept telling me in the shop that I'd cleaned them out, only for some new titles to appear the following week.



The best town for charity shops in gerenal, in my experience is Bingley, near Bradford. I don't tend to go there often now, so I'm happy to let others know.



My main experience of charity shopping has been in the Leeds/West Yorkshire area, where every shop seems to have at least one copy of Colin Dexter's book Morse's Greatest Mystery. This seems to be a local phenomenon, as I rarely see the book if I'm visiting another part of the country.

Yes in the early 1990's if I wanted anything I would got to 'Leeds/West Yorkshire' and as a rule 9 times out of 10 it would be there!!!

[ChristineCB]

name='image45']...journey to the Dark side of the 'Charity Shop collector will soon be complete'...

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Curse you, R!!

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name='ChristineCB']ANOTHER post where a Disclaimer should be clearly made:



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Curse you, R!!

Anything for you my dear !

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not quite a charity shop, but as I had to go to Clacton this morning to pick up some televisions I called in at two bootsales on the way total haul was 7 vhs titles

Great Expectations

Carry on at your convenience

Carry on loving

Hancock one tape with the radio ham the economy drive

Hamlet cigar adds

Clockwork orange

Carry on nurse/ cabby









total cost £1.70

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You need to buy your own shop

name='tvden']not quite a charity shop, but as I had to go to Clacton this morning to pick up some televisions I called in at two bootsales on the way total haul was 7 vhs titles

Great Expectations

Carry on at your convenience

Carry on loving

Hancock one tape with the radio ham the economy drive

Hamlet cigar adds

Clockwork orange

Carry on nurse/ cabby









total cost £1.70

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name='image45']You need to buy your own shop

yes prob dont tempt me !!!! but I was really excited by the hamlet video it was just so cheap there are not many people buying vids at bootsales now so bargains to be had

[clitheroekid]

Hamlet cigar ads???

[Lord Brett]

Good god, I've picked up a lot of stuff lately!



The highlights are Percy and Anthony Asquith's The Final Test, on VHS, new for 50p each from a paper shop, plus a three-hour compilation video of party political broadcasts for 30p from a charity shop! It's actually really interesting and goes back to 1947.



Then today I got a double VHS of Wodehouse Playhouse from a book fair, and found a recording I forgot I had of Channel 4's 1967 edition of TV Heaven . It's absolutely brilliant (would the current C4 bother with anything so hard to compile, but with such obvious value?), and includes the Armchair theatre production A Magnum for Schneider, the pilot for Callan.



Life is good indeed!

[batman]

name='Lord Brett'] Armchair theatre production A Magnum for Schneider, the pilot for Callan.



Life is good indeed!

A Magnum for Schneider is superb. It's interesting to compare to the movie version a few years later. So different but equally compelling, and they both contain inferior non-Valentine incarnations of Meres. Peter Bowles (miscast) in Magnum ... and Peter Egan (very Hogg-like) in Callan-The Movie.



I trawl charity shops and boot sales etc mainly for stuff for m'boy but have picked up some good 'uns recently too. The BBC Douglas Wilmer Holmes video new and sealed from a charity shop for £1 and a couple of ITV compilations with stuff like The Buccaneers/William Tell/Sir Lancelot etc for 25p each.



Bats.

[Lord Brett]

name='batman']A Magnum for Schneider is superb. It's interesting to compare to the movie version a few years later. So different but equally compelling, and they both contain inferior non-Valentine incarnations of Meres. Peter Bowles (miscast) in Magnum ... and Peter Egan (very Hogg-like) in Callan-The Movie.



I trawl charity shops and boot sales etc mainly for stuff for m'boy but have picked up some good 'uns recently too. The BBC Douglas Wilmer Holmes video new and sealed from a charity shop for £1 and a couple of ITV compilations with stuff like The Buccaneers/William Tell/Sir Lancelot etc for 25p each.



Bats.

The novelisation of Magnum for Schieder is also very good (it was rereleased under the titles Red File for Callan, and then Callan when the film came out). James Mitchell wrote several other Callan novels, including a final one, Bonfire Night just a couple of years ago, which you can probably still get on Amazon.



Interestingly, Callan was predated by a series of excellent spy novels Mitchell wrote under the pen-name James Munro, featuring the character John Craig. The last of these, The Innocent Bystanders, was a virtual re-write of Magnum for Schneider, and was filmed in 1972 as Innocent Bystanders. Stanley Baker played Craig (if I read the books now, it is Sir Stan I imagine), and I believe it was his last appearence in a British-made movie.



Those ITC compilations were great - I've still got a few of them from when they first came out.

[Tony Pendrey]

Quite a few of the charity shops in my town are actually turning donated VHS tapes away. As more and more folk replace tapes with DVDs the amount of stuff to be had for pennies at boot fairs is astounding.



5p - 10p a tape is not unusual now.



The most sickening thing I have seen is boxes of tapes hoyed into the crusher at the local tip.



Having said that, I am about to move again and my missus has made it quite clear that I won't be boxing up me tapes for the journey.

[batman]

name='Lord Brett']The novelisation of Magnum for Schieder is also very good (it was rereleased under the titles Red File for Callan, and then Callan when the film came out). James Mitchell wrote several other Callan novels, including a final one, Bonfire Night just a couple of years ago, which you can probably still get on Amazon.



Interestingly, Callan was predated by a series of excellent spy novels Mitchell wrote under the pen-name James Munro, featuring the character John Craig. The last of these, The Innocent Bystanders, was a virtual re-write of Magnum for Schneider, and was filmed in 1972 as Innocent Bystanders. Stanley Baker played Craig (if I read the books now, it is Sir Stan I imagine), and I believe it was his last appearence in a British-made movie.



Those ITC compilations were great - I've still got a few of them from when they first came out.

I have the book and have read it a couple of times, it's very good. I have never read Innocent Bystanders or seen the film, but I would love to. (Hint hint).



Bats.



ps-just ordered the book of Innocent Bystanders from Amazon for £1.