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[Misc] Argos Catalogue - end of an era



knocky1

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Jan 20, 2010
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Littlewoods was the one I “read” in the early ‘70’s

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Luckily Y-fronts were pretty cheap to replace.

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knocky1

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Jan 20, 2010
13,110
Indeed! Those pages would not have remained unthumbed.

When in Riyadh the only female left uncensored in the British papers was the Scottish Widow insurance ad.
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Now I find myself admiring the young fillies in the Stanmah stair lift ads.

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cheshunt seagull

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Jul 5, 2003
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It is a shame to see it go but not surprising. I work at the British Library and we have a collection of trade catalogues. They are really good sources of information on what products were available at a certain time and what they cost. It is much harder to archive online shopping platforms than printed books.
 


Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
72,361
Surprised it lasted this long tbh. Prob outstayed it's usefulness by a decade or more. Absurdly wasteful use of resources, albeit something of a printing masterclass
 




Bry Nylon

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Jul 21, 2003
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Playing snooker
Now I find myself admiring the young fillies in the Stanmah stair lift ads.

My elderly neighbour has just had Stannah stir lift installed. Apparently it’s driving her up the wall.
 
















Paulie Gualtieri

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May 8, 2018
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As a kid the game was to pick one thing you can have from every page.


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