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Ford motor cars: a family favourite

DO you have a preferred brand of car? Mine was Ford (you’ll see why I say was and not is as you read through this post). My first Ford was a red 4-door Escort 1.3 (registration OLM 266W). My dad bought it in 1987 and used it for his short journey to work at the […]

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Pears Soap: a moment of embarrassment

IN THIS RETRO POST, Grace Pye recalls the embarrassing moment she climbed out the bath to get her Pears… “It was 1989, I was 19 years old. I’d not long left college and was working as a trainee hairdresser at Top Barnet. My Saturday shift had finished and I was walking home when my friend […]

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