Fifty Yeras Ago Part Twenty Seven

 

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Fifty Years Ago Part Twenty Six

 Published every Friday except last week when it was sucked into a parallel universe and started a major galactic disaster, ooops!

A quick Google search informed me that the distance between where I grew up and the town we went to in Cornwall is in fact 212 miles. Still quite a way, but a lot less than my 7 years old exagerated '808' miles. I remember the dog, it was a small brown terrier type dog and was there again the following year. We went to Cornwall a lot in the 70s and early 80s as my grandparents had retired there.

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Fifty Years Ago Part Twenty Five

 It wouldn't surprise me if Chris still had that 6 Million Dollar Man and Captain Kirk figure. He hung on to his Star Wars figure collection for years and made some stop motion animations with them in the 80s. Now, as well as working in TV, he builds custom made light saber hilts.

 

You can check out Chris's light sabers here:  https://sabersense.square.site/

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Fifty Years Ago Part Twenty Four

 That bike didn't last long... If I remember correctly it was stolen... oh well.

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Fifty Years Ago Part Twenty Three

 

When I first saw this page I thought the drawing was of the yellow submarine.. my drawing skills have improved a bit in the last fifty years.

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Fifty Years Ago Part Twenty Two

Don't remember some of this stuff at all. I'm sure we just had Coke in the pub while the parents had beer. Loved the Muppets as a kid and had their first album on vinyl which had a great gatefold cover and got played to death for several years.

 

NEXT WEEK- Part Twenty Three

 

 

Fifty Years Ago Part Twenty One

That was a patio and pathway that stretched the length of the garden to the corner where the compost heap was. We used to have bonfires every few months in that corner. My Dad would get an old cardboard box and draw a door and windows on one side so we could pretend it was a house on fire and break out the toy fire engine. My teacher missed a few spelling errors there... perhaps her brain was full of 'soment'!

 

NEXT WEEK- Part Twenty Two!