| dayglowill | 02 Sep 2011 8:37 a.m. PST |
1 British Birds 1954
2 Wild Flowers 1955
3 Out into Space 1956
4 Bird Portraits 1957
5 British Wild Life 1958
6 Wild Flowers series 2 1959
7 Freshwater Fish 1960
8 African Wild Life 1961
9 Tropical Birds 1961
10 Asian Wild Life 1962
11 British Butterflies 1963
12 Wildlife in Danger 1963
13 Wild Flowers series 3 1964
14 Butterflies of the World 1964
15 Wild Birds in Britain 1965
16 Transport through the Ages 1966
17 Trees in Britain 1966
18 Flags and Emblems of the World 1967
19 British Costume 1968
20 History of the Motor Car 1968
21 Famous People 1969
22 The Saga of Ships 1970
23 The Race into Space 1971
24 Prehistoric Animals 1971
25 History of Aviation 1972
26 Adventurers and Explorers 1973
27 The Sea Our Other World 1974
28 Inventors and Inventions 1975
29 Wonders of Wildlife 1976
30 Play Better Soccer 1977
31 Police File 1978
32 Vanishing Wildlife 1979
33 Olympic Greats 1980
34 Woodland Wildlife 1981
35 Elizabeth I – Elizabeth II 1982
36 Small Wonders 1983
37 Features of the World 1984
38 No Opinion
39 I only drink coffee Definitely 23 for me. |
 20thmaine  | 02 Sep 2011 8:44 a.m. PST |
22, 23, and 24 Nearly completed them ! |
| Historicalgamer | 02 Sep 2011 8:49 a.m. PST |
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| Connard Sage | 02 Sep 2011 8:53 a.m. PST |
8, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21. I've had a Proustian moment going through those, and I'm missing my mum :( |
 Silurian | 02 Sep 2011 8:53 a.m. PST |
Oh boy, haven't thought about these for years! I loved collecting them as a kid.
My favourites were probably:
24 Prehistoric animals
27 The Sea our Other World |
| x42brown | 02 Sep 2011 9:00 a.m. PST |
The number of these started but not finished does not bare thinking about. x42 |
| CooperSteveOnTheLaptop | 02 Sep 2011 9:09 a.m. PST |
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| richarDISNEY | 02 Sep 2011 9:12 a.m. PST |
#76.
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| Maddaz111 | 02 Sep 2011 9:12 a.m. PST |
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| 20thmaine | 02 Sep 2011 9:42 a.m. PST |
The number of these started but not finished does not bare thinking about. Our problem was that at the time only my mum really drank much tea (I was an orange squash man or, on occassion, a swift half of Ribena). |
| dayglowill | 02 Sep 2011 10:23 a.m. PST |
Mum and Dad always bought Co-op 99 tea so I had to rely on my Mamgu and other relatives. |
| Connard Sage | 02 Sep 2011 10:25 a.m. PST |
Co-op 99 tea Because you got the stamps :) |
| Richard Humm | 02 Sep 2011 11:42 a.m. PST |
Didn't 25 have art by Roy Cross, the king of Airfix box tops? I think I collected numbers 20 to 26, which probably gives my age away… |
| John D Salt | 02 Sep 2011 11:46 a.m. PST |
I understand that ony a wallchart was issued for "The Language of Tea" (1988), which must be my favourite collection. My total accumulation of cards for this collection was one, which had "Would you like a cup of tea?" written in Russian below the red flag of the USSR. This I stuck to my VAX monitor at my place of work; I then worked in Department 53 of Hunting Engineering Limited (purveyors of fine cluster munitions to the gentry). As a tea-lover and Russian speaker, I regarded such decoration as wholly appropriate. One day my mate Jim Barr asked to borrow my monitor -- he was running a really long GPSS/H simulation on his, and I was working on one of the Teamwork workstations, so I said "OK". While Jim was at my desk, a Very Senior Manager made one of his fairly rare visits to the office, and, in passing, pointed at the red flag and said "That's an interesting choice of decoration, Jim". Jim was furious with me. I just thought it was lucky the Very Senior Manager -- who among other things ran part of the Chevaline project -- didn't see the one-pint ironstone CND mug I was drinking my tea from. Wargaming content: I had purchased the mug from the CND stall outside, oooh, Salute, I think it was. The CND people must surely have been fascinated to learn that their famous logo had also served as the tactical insignia for 3rd Panzer Division. All the best, John. |
| (Nameo Falso) | 02 Sep 2011 12:24 p.m. PST |
I have 16 and 17, somewhere. My favourite is actually a Players cigarette album, RAF aircraft circa 1938/39. |
| Gnu2000 | 02 Sep 2011 12:43 p.m. PST |
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| Andrew May1 | 02 Sep 2011 3:59 p.m. PST |
Oh my! I had such an intense flashback after reading this thread. I remember the excitement of opening the tea packet and getting the card. It was such a rich sensory experience: the rustling sound of the card, and feeling the transition from the smooth cardboard of the box to the light rough snowlike texture of the tea leaves, to the glossy processed finish ofthe card itself. Then hearing the sound of the tea leaves as you pull out the card. It's like noisy dry sand . And then the smell of the ink and the tea leaves. So evocative! |
Chocolate  | 02 Sep 2011 4:29 p.m. PST |
24 Prehistoric Animals 1971
The only one I collected and completed |
