Rapid Retro: Clearasil

My parents called them teenager spots. I had spots, so I gave Clearasil a go. Frustratingly, my outbreak began when I was thirteen years old, a time when impressing the girls and looking attractive was top priority. Back in the 80s, if you were unlucky enough to have spots, the go to product was Clearasil. […]

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The end for the Phone Book and Yellow Pages

British Telecom engineers in vans dashing around installing new telephone lines and phones. It was usual to see them getting out of their yellow vans and propping up their ladders against telephone poles to connect telephones lines to homes. This is my memory from the mid-seventies through to the early eighties. Prior to getting our […]

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