Polish matchbox labels from the 1960’s

My Grandparent’s moved their family to East Kilbride when my Grandfather got a job in the new town. They stayed there after retirement and I have happy memories of visiting them throughout the 1980s. Since becoming interested in architecture and design of the 50s and 60s the town has again caught my attention and more than ever I think it’s a very special place.

Thank you Anne at I like for letting us know that this month is East Kilbride’s 60th birthday.

Amateur Radio QSL card from Riga, USSR.

• BBC News - Russia marks 50 years of Sputnik
• Ward-O-Matic’s Space Alphabet

Work by Abram Games fetches high prices these days, so it was nice surprise to find this affordable booklet in a second hand shop over the weekend. Roof Over Britain tells the official story of Britain’s Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942. It was published in 1943 while Corporal Games worked for the Public Relations Department of the War Office. Games is perhaps know best for the Festival of Britain emblem in 1951.

• Abram Games - Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means

Atlas Continental Candle Lamps

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Pano-Vue Slide of Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus at Primeval World, Disneyland

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Penguin book covers

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‘The Junior True Book of Cloth’ first published 1960, reprinted 1969. By Esther Nighbert illustrations by Chauncey Maltman

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