Do you remember ?

[Techno]

They were 40 or 50p when I first bought some

14p when I first bought them. 

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

Gosh! my first metal minis were Hinton Hunt ACW zouaves in kepi. I think they were 11d (4.5p),

[O Dinas Powys]

Sweet cigarettes ......Bet those don't exist anymore.

Not with the pink end, but they're still available: Candy Sticks these days IIRC 

Cheers!

Meirion

[Ithoriel]

I remember chocolate cigarettes too, wrapped in edible paper.

[Heedless Horseman]

Bought 'The Flashing Blade' on DVD 3 yrs ago.    Sadly, after the music, the accents and acting meant   
Damn it! That theme from 'Robinson Crusoe'! Mindworm!
Vaguely remember the French jet fighter thing...remember 'Squadron' on Brit TV? (Cringe!)...or 'Who Dare's Wins' also cringe...but for the time    !
Tudor Crisps. Winston Cigs at 50p a pack. JPS intenational in a shiny pack and McKewan's Scotch at 32p a 1/2.
Video juke boxes...endlessly reinforced  memories from the '80's!
Earlier...
Yammering at Ma to take me to 'Traditiion' in London to get early 1/300 tanks...or to a shop in Edinburgh for Minifigs naps. Weekly buys of Airfix kits in bags or the absolute Heaven of the floor to ceiling kits in the Whitley Bay model shop nr Ryles corner...some still in the garage!
GHQ 1/285 made in Rothbury factory? Went there but don't think the guy knew what we were on about so got Ma to take me back back to Blenheim St. Model Shop, Horrible child that I was...and still am...just she stopped buying!    
Now...the pleasure at fining a small general store where the proprietor actually knows what he's got and what it does!   
   

[Ithoriel]

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...or to a shop in Edinburgh for Minifigs naps.
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Mr Alexander's "Toytub" in Raeburn Place maybe? I shopped, and even worked there occasionally when he needed an extra pair of hands, in the 70s and early 80s. Wonder if we met!

[FierceKitty]

Now...the pleasure at fining a small general store where the proprietor actually knows what he's got and what it does!   
   

You fine him for these admirable qualities?!

[NTM]

Bought 'The Flashing Blade' on DVD 3 yrs ago.    Sadly, after the music, the accents and acting meant   

   

One of the Saturday morning kids shows redubbed the flashing blade it was hilarious iirc.

[Westmarcher]

My first ever kit was also Eagle's Graf Spee, and I remember thinking how much better it looked than Airfix kits which I had seen.

I agree. The Eagle kits were lovely models. 1/1200 scale apparently. Such a pity they're no longer available. Found this link for those who wish to wallow in some Eagle ship nostalgia:-

http://www.shipmodels.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/eagle.htm

I also see Eagle did HMS Cossack. I think this might have been my second ever ship model - but it was the larger scale(?)* Airfix version(!) The link indicates that Eagle production stopped in 1964 which explains why all of my subsequent ships (KMS Scharnhorst, HMS Hood, HMS Warspite and HMS Campbelltown) with the exception of USS North Carolina (Revell?), were Airfix ones. They used to drive my mum mad (dust collectors!).

* but the link shows a pic of an Eagle/Airfix 'hybrid' - confused.

[Orcs]

14p when I first bought them. 

Cheers - Phil

Wasn't that 14 groats ??

[Techno]

No.....Pebbles......(Or were they shells..It's too long ago to remember.)
Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

No 6ft stones with a hole in them.......

IanS

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Not in Copper Or Triganic Pu*?

*The Triganic Pu is a unit of galactic currency with an exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu. This is simple enough but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change.

[Leman]

Sounds like it belongs to the Ningy Nangy Noo.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

HHG2TG!