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Etsy List: Vintage 1967

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Vintage 1967 Etsy List curated by H is for HomeIt’s my birthday today! 🙂 I share the day with, amongst others, Billy Connolly, Stephen Merchant, Ian Botham and Zeinab Badawi.

I’ve been looking at notable events that took place the year I was born and this Vintage 1967 Etsy List celebrates and commemorates some of them. 1967 saw the summer of love, the unveiling of Concorde, the world’s first cash-point machine installed in London, the World Expo toook place in Montreal during its centenary year and it was the 50th anniversary of Finland’s independence and of the Russian Revolution.

It was also the year that the Beatles released their Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album and The Prisoner hit the small screen. Paddy’s Wigwam in Liverpool was consecrated and the UK even won the Eurovison Song Contest.

It was a vintage year!

Vintage 1967
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Charity Vintage: Jungle Book LP

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vintage Jungle Book LP(ends 21 Apr, 2014 12:15:45 BST)

You always get the question in celebrity Q&As, “What was the first record you ever bought?” Well, I’m not sure if I actually bought it. I would have been a bit too young to go to the record shop on my own, with my own money, but The Jungle Book LP was my first record!

I played it over & over & over again, my clumsy hands probably ruining the needle on my parents’ record player. I knew all the words to all the songs – I probably still do!

This copy of the Jungle Book record being sold by & in support of Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice* is in very good condition – both the record and its sleeve.

What was your first record?

*Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice provides vital care to patients and families living with terminal illness across Birmingham and Sandwell. All monies raised through their online shop will help them to care for more families living with terminal illness.



Tuesday Huesday: Independence Day festivities

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Israel independence commemorative stamp from 1967 showing firework display

 

OK, I confess, I was a nerdy child that collected stamps (I consider Justin to be worse, he was a coin collector and they’re not nearly as colourful & beautiful as this!). They’re still packed away in a box in the loft somewhere.

This is one in a series of postage stamps from 1966, commemorating Yom Ha’atzmaut, the declaration of independence of Israel.

Thanks to Karen Horton for allowing us to use her image.