Tag: history
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Tuesday this week, 17th March was a special day for some as it marked the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of a young scallywag called Dennis the Menace. Beside the obvious trouble making antics why is this important to…
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We move to the flatlands of East Anglia for today’s #FanzineoftheDay with issue 81 of Those Were the Days or TWTD.co.uk as the cover displays along with the date, March 2006 an the price £1.50…a curators dream. Bit miffed at…
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This week’s #FloodlightFriday comes from Brentford’s Beesotted issue 39 in 1996. Simple but effective today; A picture of the “long established” Springfield Park’s boundary wall with the floodlights rising majestically above, all in black and white obviously. The caption inserted…
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It’s all about fandom nowadays, fandom this, fandom that but what does that word mean? It’s has only really come into common use in the past 20 years. As a noun it’s definition is “the state or condition of being…
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Today’s #FOTD is issue 5 of long running Leeds fanzine The Hanging Sheep and comes with an ulterior motive. First though, let’s have a look through the excellent contents of this 40p belter from April 1989. The cover has the…
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In honour of their cup win earlier today, Todays’ #FOTD is The Vale Park Beano issue 4 from 1998. Beano was a late entrant to the fanzine landscape, and trying to replace the massive void left when Seth Bottomley disappeared…
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This week’s #FloodlightFriday comes to you from issue 15 of Charlton fanzine The Valiants Viewpoint from September 1989 with a superb cover photo sharing the sad news that the now deserted Valley has had it’s floodlights removed after just 28…
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This edition of “Editor” is a bit different as I’ve not actually been in touch with the editor, it’s just fallen in my lap so to speak. I recently bought a copy of issue 50 of superlative Cambridge United fanzine…
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Following on from yesterday’s “Fanzines sort of named after a film” we travel to September 1994 to look at Issue 8 of Walsall’s Blazing Saddlers for today’s #FanzineoftheDay (If anyone has a copy of Glentoran fanzine A Nightmare on Dee…
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As St Totteringham’s day is upon us again I thought I’d travel back to happier times at White Hart Lane but that is never as simple as you’d think. With that title perhaps I didn’t really need to explain that…
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