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Yes, it was! I remember most of those names, but not Birds of Paradise. Wasn't there one called Rapture? And a man's cologne called Rugger, or am I imagining that?

My dad used to buy this for me in the 1960s (Pretty Peach solid perfume). It was more of a cream than a solid. Solid perfume is having a bit of a comeback, I think. L'Occitane are doing one or two.

We ought to gather all these memories into a book!

I went into Thornton's in Reading yesterday, and it reminded me how upmarket their chocolates used to seem, especially the Continental Assortment. And the Easter eggs with your name piped on them.

It was magical how Instant Whip became semi-solid as you whisked it. Angel Delight was fluffier. I bet the main ingredient was sugar!

Boots used to sell chillblain tabelts. I think they contained vitamin B5, and they made you feel very hot. They stopped selling them ages ago. Perhaps they were unsafe?

What a sad story.

One morning my mother dried a pair of my ankle socks under the grill. They were just a bit damp, but of course no tumble dryer!

Bunty, with the cut-out wardrobe on the back every week.

I can remember making milk shakes with Delrosa rosehip syrup.

Yes, that's it!

Liberty bodices. It's a hazy memory, but I'm sure the bodice was in addition to a vest. They had rubber buttons...

And we also remember the words of hymns!

First and second post, yes. And around Christmas they used to happen at odd times of day, more than twice? There was a horrible thick pink medicine, but I don't know what it was.

One year I had one of these, but it was blue. The slides were Huckleberry Hound.

Also one of these, at around the same time. The Postal Orders and other bits of paper were especially interesting!

One of my favourites was a toy telephone exchange. Can't remember the year, maybe early '60s?

Thank you!

No, don't worry, you haven't! I think I've seen clips from it at various times; certainly Bette Davis doing "I've Written a Letter to Daddy."

This picture was on Twitter today: Town centre, looking down Albert Street. The building on the right with the rounded frontage was always interesting becasue of its shape, and the decorative top part. I can't remember if it was a carpet shop in the late 1960s, which is when my memories start...