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BBC Children’s Collection Catalogue (1994)

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I found this promotion in Wallace & Gromit – The Wrong Trousers (BBC Video, BBCV 5201).

The inlay advertises the following items:

Videos

  • Fireman Sam in Action (BBCV 5807)
  • Fireman Sam 2 on 1 (BBCV 5787)
  • Oakie Dokie (BBCV 5875)
  • The All New Adventures of Mr Blobby (BBCV 5786)
  • Blobby Vision (BBCV 5397)
  • The Very Best of Singing Kettle (BBCV 5462)
  • William’s Wish Wellingtons (BBCV 5666)
  • Postman Pat 2 on 1 (BBCV 5814)
  • Postman Pat and The Hole In The Road (BBCV 5891)
  • Wallace & Gromit The Wrong Trousers (BBCV 5201)
  • Wallace & Gromit A Close Shave (BBCV 5766)
  • The Animals of Farthing Wood Three Tales (BBCV 5800)
  • Nursery Rhyme Time (BBCV 5381)
  • The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (BBCV 5564)
  • Pingu – Pingu’s Birthday (BBCV 5664)
  • Noddy The Champion (BBCV 5798)
  • Pingu – Pingu’s Big Video (BBCV 5460)
  • The Greatest BBC Children’s Video Ever (BBCV 5653)

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BBC Young Collection & BBC Children’s Video Catalogue (1992)

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I found this promotion in Pingu 3 – Hide and Seek (BBC Video, BBCV 4868).

The inlay advertises the following items:

Audiobooks

  • The Vampire’s Holiday (YBBC1362)
  • Noddy (YBBC1374)
  • Fireman Sam (YBBC1377)
  • The Magic Roundabout (YBBC1328)
  • Funnybones (YBBC1372)
  • Joshua Jones (YBBC1375)
  • Arabel: The Spiral Staircase (YBBC1278)
  • Saddlebottom (YBBC1379)
  • Postman Pat (YBBC1373)
  • The Secret Garden (YBBC1310)
  • Tales of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew (YBBC1353)
  • Tales of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (YBBC1349)
  • Alice in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass (YBBC1354)
  • Just So Stories (YBBC1360)
  • Winnie The Pooh (YBBC1348)
  • Children’s Hour (YBBC1359)
  • Paddington (YBBC1313)
  • Just William 1 (YBBC1356)
  • Just William 2 (YBBC1357)
  • Just William 3 (YBBC1366)
  • Peter Pan (YBBC1351)
  • The Wind in the Willows (YBBC1350)
  • Best Friends/Which Animal Are You? (YBBC1268)

Videos

  • Pingu 3: Hide and Seek (BBCV 4868)
  • Noddy and the Naughty Tail (BBCV 4850)
  • Bucky O’Hare: War of the Warts (BBCV 4852)
  • Joshua Jones: Horseplay (BBCV 4806)
  • The Very Best of Fireman Sam (BBCV 4870)
  • The Very Best of Postman Pat (BBCV 4869)
  • Playdays: Days on the Move (BBCV 4769)
  • Spider (BBCV 4753)
  • Magic Roundabout 4 (BBCV 4829)

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HIT Entertainment Video and Books Catalogue (Autumn 1998)

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I found this inlay promotion in Percy the Park Keeper: The Secret Path (HIT Entertainment, HIT1008).

The inlay advertises the following items:

Videos

  • Bramly Hedge Summer Story VHS
  • Bramly Hedge Autumn Story VHS
  • Bramly Hedge Winter Story VHS
  • Bramly Hedge Spring Story VHS
  • Percy the Park Keeper The Rescue Party VHS
  • Percy the Park Keeper One Snowy Night VHS
  • Percy the Park Keeper The Secret Path VHS
  • Kipper The Visitor and Other Stories VHS
  • Kipper Pig’s Present and Other Stories VHS

Books

  • Bramly Hedge Summer Story Book
  • Bramly Hedge Autumn Story Book
  • Bramly Hedge Winter Story Book
  • Bramly Hedge Spring Story Book
  • Percy the Park Keeper The Rescue Party Book
  • Percy the Park Keeper One Snowy Night Book
  • Percy the Park Keeper The Secret Path Book
  • Kipper Arnold
  • Kipper Honk!
  • Kipper Sandcastle
  • Kipper Splosh!

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WH Smith & Castle Vision Exclusive Video Catalogue

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This is a 32 page catalogue showcasing the various titles available from Castle Vision and high street retailer WHSmith from 1995. The catalogue includes many WHSmith exclusive video releases.

The full list of releases included in the catalogue appear below:

  • Campaigns In History
    • English Civil War (CVI 1555)
    • Waterloo (CVI 1556)
    • Zulu Wars (CVI 1557)
    • Trafalgar (CVI 1625)
    • Balaclava (CVI 1626)
    • Viking Wars (CVI 1688)
    • Culloden (CVI 1689)
    • Bannockburn (CVI 1707)
    • Roman Invasions (CVI 1803)
    • Agincourt (CVI 1805)
    • War of the Roses (CVI 1823)
    • Hastings 1066 (CVI 1827)
    • The Crusades (CVI 1836)
    • Flodden (CVI 1846)
    • Marston Moor (CVI 1853)
    • The Norman Conquest (CVI 1855)
    • Rorke’s Drift (CVI 1864)
    • Sedgemoor 1685 (CVI 1870)
    • Naseby (CVI 1879)
    • The Spanish Armada (CVI 1893)
  • Military Interest
    • The Boer War (CVI 1576)
    • The Battle of the Somme (CVI 1580)
    • Paras The Official Story (CVI 1616)
    • Colditz (CVI 1628)
    • The War Poets (CVI 1676)
    • Marine Commandos The Official Story (CVI 1698)
    • Official Story of the Royal Navy (CVI 1705)
    • American Civil War (CVI 1708)
    • RAF Today (CVI 1809)
    • D-Day – The Official Story (CVI 1818)
    • The Battle For Arnhem (CVI 1828)
    • The Great War (CVI 1842)
    • Life In The Trenches (CVI 1847)
    • Official Story of the British Army (CVI 1852)
    • Gurkhas The Official Story (CVI 1854)
    • D-Day To VE Day (CVI 1865)
    • Great War Remembered (CVI 1882)
    • The Battle of Britain (CVI 1884)
    • VJ Day (CVI 1885)
    • The Spanish Civil War (CVI 1890)
    • The Story of the SAS (CVI 1895)
    • The Falklands War (CVI 1897)
    • Military Tattoos (CVI 1899)
    • Britain At War Box Set (CVI 1904)
    • Burma – The War In The Far East (CVI 1910)
    • The Official History of the RAF (CVI 1911)
    • The Story of World War II (CVI 1913)
    • Gallipoli (CVI 1914)
  • Railway Titles
    • The Railway Age
      • Great Great Western (CVI 1620)
      • Southern The Holiday Line (CVI 1622)
      • Steam From The Capitals (CVI 1622)
      • Great Central Memories (CVI 1623)
      • Railway Stations and Signalling (CVI 1624)
    • The Railway Collections
      • Classic Steam (CVI 1873)
      • Express Steam (CVI 1874)
  • History Makers
    • Admiral Lord Nelson (CVI 1804)
    • Alfred The Great (CVI 1811)
    • Boudicca (CVI 1812)
    • The Suffragettes (CVI 1824)
    • Charles I (CVI 1830)
    • The Peasants’ Revolt (CVI 1835)
    • Oliver Cromwell (CVI 1837)
    • Richard The Lionheart (CVI 1843)
    • General Custer (CVI 1844)
    • Sir Francis Drake (CVI 1845)
    • Livingstone and Stanley (CVI 1848)
    • Lawrence of Arabia (CVI 1856)
    • Sir Walter Raleigh (CVI 1859)
    • Henry VIII (CVI 1862)
    • Julius Caesar (CVI 1887)
    • William Shakespeare (CVI 1898)
  • British History
    • King and Queen (CVI 1617)
    • Gunpowder Plot (CVI 1700)
    • Fire and Fever (CVI 1701)
    • British Prime Ministers of the Twentieth Century (CVI 1702)
    • Kings and Queens 1 (CVI 1704)
    • Kings and Queens 2 (CVI 1810)
    • History of the British Police Force (CVI 18190
    • Wales – A Nationhood (CVI 1860)
    • Hardy’s Wessex (CVI 1868)
    • The Lake Poets (CVI 1869)
    • Medieval Britain (CVI 1880)
    • Anglo-Saxon Britain (CVI 1894)
  • Russian History
    • Eastern Front (CVI 1693)
    • Story of the KGB 2 (CVI 1813)
    • Kirov Ballet (CVI 1825)
    • Bolshoi Ballet (CVI 1826)
    • Story of the KGB 1 (CVI 1833)
    • Russian Revolution Box Set (CVI 1902)
  • Transport
    • Great Liners (CVI 1522)
    • Titanic (CVI 1565)
    • The Story of the Bus (CVI 1656)
    • The Story of the British Tram (CVI 1817)
    • Canals & Canal Boats (CVI 1692)
    • The London Underground (CVI 1832)
    • The Story of the British Lorry (CVI 1863)
    • The Routemaster (CVI 1863)
    • The QE2 (CVI 1878)
    • The Story of the Motorcycle (CVI 1892)
    • The Story of the RT (CVI 1909)
  • Aviation
    • Avro Shackleton (CVI 1655)
    • De Havilland Mosquito (CVI 1674)
    • Avro Vulcan (CVI 1675)
    • Concorde (CVI 1697)
    • Sepecat Jaguar (CVI 1821)
    • The Buccaneer (CVI 1822)
    • The Red Arrows (CVI 1834)
    • Hawker Hunter (CVI 1838)
    • Hawker Siddeley Nimrod (CVI 1839)
    • Hawker Siddeley Harrier (CVI 1840)
    • Bristol Blenheim (CVI 1851)
    • RAF Rescue (CVI 1872)
    • Lockheed Hercules (CVI 1876)
    • Panavia Tornado (CVI 1877)
    • Classic Aircraft of the RAF (CVI 1900)
  • Special Interest
    • Tour of the Universe (CVI 1695)
    • Scott of the Antarctic (CVI 1699)
    • Preparing For Your Driving Test (CVI 1711)
    • Arthur: Myth and Reality (CVI 1802)
    • The Story of the RNLI (CVI 1808)
    • One Small Step (CVI 1807)
    • Speed King (CVI 1857)
    • Ancient Legends (CVI 1858)
    • Ancient Egypt (CVI 1883)
    • Ancient Rome (CVI 1891)
    • Learn to Dance (CVI 1901)
    • 1992 & 1993 English Cricket Seasons (CVI 1903)
    • Pharaohs (CVI 1915)
    • The History of the Nineteenth Century (CVI 1896)
    • Learn French (CVI 1916)

(There is a fault with the below scan where two of the pages are duplicated)

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What Are You Watching Next? – JVC Promotion – UK DVD Committee 2002

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This is a four panel leaflet that was included with select VHS releases in the UK, promoting DVD video to consumers. The leaflet describes the various features of owning a DVD player and advertises the following titles:

  • The Italian Job (1969)
  • Gladiator (2000)
  • James music DVD (I can’t read the title)
  • Ultimate Fights From The Movies
  • Father Ted (1995)
  • Planet of the Apes (2001)
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)

The leaflet also includes a competition to win a JVC home theatre system (competition entry expired October 2002).

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Old Promotional / Sale Stickers Gallery

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I don’t feel I have enough of a collection to make an individual website for this subject, so here goes a blog post to collect them and share them with the world.

I find old sale and promotional stickers compelling, for some strange reason. And with everything I find compelling, I feel it is worth archiving it.

Help me out here as I don’t know the source of some of these ‘stickers’.

Andys Records

Blockbuster

MVC

Ourprice

Sainsburys

Tesco

Woolworths

XS Factory Outlet

Virgin (Megastores)

Unknown

 

Nobuteru Maeda – Nobuteru Maeda & His Blues Friends

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Nobuteru Maeda ‎– Nobuteru Maeda & His Blues Friends [Sony Records ‎– SRCL 2566]

A decent blues-rock album. I don’t know very much when it comes to popular music in Japan, so on my last visit I picked up handfuls of random CD’s out of the bargain bins at various shops. This one was in the pack, and has been a great listen. I like blues rock as it is, and this is a good record demonstrating a Japanese take on it. Although most of the titles here are in English, don’t be fooled as the songs are all in Japanese. The instrumentation is good too, providing a very laid back lounge mood to the album overall. However at points it can feel quite dated, which does bring the rating down for me just slightly.

Various – Channel U Presents: Underground Chapter 2

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Various ‎– Channel U Presents: Underground Chapter 2 [Long Lost Brother Records ‎– LLBUD1]


This release is probably not for my demographic. British, white suburban kid, early 20s. I’m not a big grime head, and for some reason find it difficult to find UK hip-hop that I actually enjoy – so a release that consists of a lot of grime and UK hip-hop will always be a difficult swallow for me. However I can appreciate good production, talent and general passion. Now most of the acts founds here are so underground that they barely registered on anyone’s radar, and gave up after a few releases – however there may be good reason behind that. The first half of this compilation is pretty good going – featuring names that were already or were going to become big names in the UK music scene. However the second half is terrible. Production is usually poor, singing/rap talent is sometimes so bad it’s X-Factor audition cringey and then the music videos are just something else. A lot of these acts do feel very lo-fi, they almost all feel like media student projects. I guess if you dig this type of music you can find something here, but I cannot and find the second half of this release brings it down.

Various – Loud Rocks Advance Sampler

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Various ‎– Loud Rocks Advance Sampler [Loud Records / Columbia ‎– RPROCD 4435]

This album is a pure product of its time. I don’t think such a record could ever really exist at any other point in time in music history. Growing up through this period, and feeling strangely nostalgic for all things from the turn of the millennia I find this record very interesting. Yet although interesting, in the aspect of how it came to be, I do not find it in any way enjoyable. I love hip-hop from this era, the emergence and popularity of hardcore hip-hop. I love metal from this era, nu-metal and funk metal taking the throne of the heavy metal scene. Yet when some record execs at Columbia decided to actually combine the two, I feel that it sounded better in the board meeting than it actually does in the flesh.

It feels like I am listening to a constant loop of early 2000’s action movie trailer soundtracks.

Katy B – Little Red

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Katy B ‎– Little Red [Rinse / Columbia ‎– 88883743952]

I thought terribly inane generic dance-pop had died out by 2014, clearly not. I can’t say much about this album because there isn’t much to say about it aside from the fact that it is boring as hell to listen to. The beats and rhythms go nowhere interesting and rarely fit well with Katy’s vocals. Lyrical content is pretty boring too, songs about falling in love on the dance-floor and such and various other themes that relate to nightclub life. The album tries nothing new, and just uses a tired formula almost a year old. Sounds like the work of a solo project from one of the girls from Girls Aloud or Sugababes – poor output from Rinse.