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Tag: television

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 10, 2026

1967 issue of same colour

Categories: Family history, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1967, Blue, Bonaly, childhood, colour, colour was not affordable, coloured chalks, colours live in me as feelings, creativity, Giotto blue, imagine being a colour and a feeling, Mr Benn, Peter John Gordon, sapere aude, television, these colours, those colours, True Blue Society of Gardeners
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 19, 2026

MAD BUYER

117 London Road Edinburgh [sketch from a Trove photograph taken in the early 1980s]

Categories: Progress hardly broke its stride, Scotland, Time passesTags: advert, advertisement, advertising, commercialisation, Edinburgh, MAD BUYER, shop windows, shops, sketches, television, Trove, tv
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 11, 2026

A bit of retail . . .

A selection of shop fronts from the Trove archive:

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: Edinburgh, Glasgow, GRAFTONS, Local time passed into history, Radio, retail, retail therapy, shop windows, shops, sixty minute cleaners, sixty years since, television, Trove, Typewriters
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 8, 2026

Rent an HMV

West Lothian Courier, 1 May 1964.

Categories: Time passesTags: advertisement, television, tv
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