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"Learn to Swim. Don't become extinct" A public information poster from...
This 1972 poster was on my doctor's waiting room wall as well as the Scarfolk infant school noticeboard next to a poster about the dangers of gonorrhoea and nose picking.The 'Learn to Swim' campaign...
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"Let's Sing The Unspeakable Together" (1970)
This is a page from a 1200 page book aimed at 4 to 6 year olds called "Let's Sing The Unspeakable Together." The aim of the book was to familiarise young children with the town of Scarfolk, and some of...
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Sing-A-Long I.R.A Telephone Bomb Threats (BBC cassette,1976)
Here in early 1970s Scarfolk, children's TV was on right before the evening news, so fun and games were constantly juxtaposed with 'the troubles' in Northern Ireland and bombings in the UK.Somehow it...
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"Medium-sized illness" State healthcare in early 1970s Scarfolk
The state healthcare system - the SHS (Scarfolk Health Service) - fiercely encourages people not to be sick.In 1974 there is a total budget of 29 pounds 102 pence per person. The SHS is very reluctant...
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Collector's limited edition collectable Andrex special edition postcard
There is an energy crisis in Scarfolk. At the moment only essential, beneficial operations, such as the Phanphlastictory plastics factory and the Iceyeye chemical plant are running.Because of this all...
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Council memo from a Scarfolk Council councillor representing Scarfolk Council
Last night, Scarfolk Council and Barbara the omphalophobic office hand puppet gathered in session to count how many times visitors have rummaged in the Scarfolk archives. Yesterday was a record day:...
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Scarfolk Ice-Cream range, 1979
In Scarfolk the ice-cream van man comes between 3 & 4am. You can hear him blaring the haunting Swedish Rhapsody numbers station* from over a mile away.The ice-cream van man wears a clown mask to...
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BBC's "We Watch You Watching Us"
This 6 hour programme was made by BBC Scarfolk and only broadcast locally.Shown on Sunday evenings, it was made by the same production company that made BBC's Song of Praise, Prayer for the Day and...
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The Children of Scarfolk Primary School - "In the Playground with the Music...
Back in 1975 the children of Scarfolk primary school released their own 45rpm record to commemorate their music teacher Mrs Payne who disappeared in 1972, but whose body was found encased inside one of...
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The 'Inoc-uous' vaccination machine
Scarfolk primary school installed one of these Inoc-uous devices in the basement in 1974. The entire school's pupils queued up for their daily jabs while singing hymns.The inventors of the Inoc-uous...
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Scarfolk tourism poster 1972
Despite the letter spacing typo on the poster, Scarfolk's 1972 tourism campaign was as successful as the mayor had hoped. Seven tourists visited that summer. Oddly, they were all called Timothy, wore...
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Sex. Sex. Sex. 1978
Nobody forgets school sex education lessons. Here's a page from a 1978 biology textbook taught in Scarfolk schools. Our biology teacher was called Mr. Poppets. In 1975 he and his wife were involved in...
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Water Electrification, 1974
This public information message was posted on walls around Scarfolk and published as a full-page ad in the local weekly newspaper, The Scarfolk Crier.Very soon after water electrification began many...
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Fuzzy-Felt Dystopia, 1976
A young girl was found wandering the streets of Scarfolk in 1976. She claimed that she had escaped from a secret school hidden beneath the town hospital. She was sent to Scarfolk Hills mental facility...
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Field recording: "The Tim Seven" / Birds. Summer 1972
A few posts back we broached the subject of 'The Tim Seven.' "Seven tourists visited that summer. Oddly, they were all called Timothy, wore identical clothes and appeared to communicate with each...
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"Is your mummy who she says she is?"
On the subject of strange visitors to Scarfolk, in October, 1974, there was a spate of cases involving parents being supplanted by eerie impostors. The frauds looked uncannily like their real...
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"100,000 hits in one month!" Press release from Scarfolk Council office of...
Break open the Babycham and Advocaat! Scarfolk Council had 100,000 page hits in just one month!And mid-month there was peak activity with a mind-feaguing 29,000 page hits in twenty-four hours!Our gift...
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Collector's limited edition collectable Sudocrem special edition postcard
The mayor is once again delighted to share with you a postcard from his 1970s pharmaceutical and toiletries collection. This one's a vintage classic and has made many collectors green with envy.Back in...
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"Spontaneous! Human Combustion" Annual 1970
**Warning: Contains images of death (& unfashionable footwear)**The mayor wishes that such a warning had been issued on publications in the 1970s. Maybe millions of children wouldn't have been...
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"Wake Up!" road safety public information poster
Naturally, road safety is as important in Scarfolk as it is anywhere else.There was a car accident on Scarfolk Moors in November, 1975. A driver veered off the road after being distracted by a dark,...
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