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21st Century Dodos: A Collection of Endangered Objects (and Other Stuff) Page 16


  Nuns

  Telephone Boxes

  Rag and Bone Men

  Cars

  Slam Door Trains

  Milk Bottle Deliveries

  Fizzy Pop Deliveries

  Christmas Boxes

  On the High Street

  Petrol Pump Attendants

  Green Shield Stamps

  High Street Names

  Woolworths

  Midland Bank

  C&A

  Our Price

  Athena

  Television Rental Shops

  Fish and Chips Wrapped in Newspaper

  Keeping CDs Behind the Counter

  Half-day Closing

  Record Tokens

  At School

  Blackboards

  Blackboard Rubbers

  Antiseptic in the Playground

  Calculator Watches

  Satchels

  Ice Cream Bricks

  Corporal Punishment

  Bulldog

  Schools’ Programmes Countdown Clock

  On Television and Radio

  Answers on a Postcard

  Buzby

  Humphrey

  Grandstand

  World of Sport

  Massive Viewing Figures

  Closedown

  Advertising Slogans

  B-sides

  Interludes

  Green Cross Code Man

  Television Stations

  The Watershed

  Analogue Television

  Teletext

  In the Cinema

  National Anthem

  Commissionaires

  Usherettes

  Newsreels

  Smoking Sections

  Intermissions

  Waiting Ages for American Films to Come out

  Local Cinema Adverts

  Saturday Morning Cinema

  Projectionists

  B Movies

  In the Newsagent

  10p Mix-up Bag

  Look-in

  Sweet Tobacco

  Mandy

  Marathon

  Opal Fruits

  Playhour

  Texan Bars

  Bunty

  Cheeky Weekly

  Candy Cigarettes

  Nestles

  Nougat

  Look and Learn

  Smarties Tubes

  Smash Hits

  Spangles

  Liquorice Pipes

  Maverick Bar

  All the Other Stuff

  Post Office Tower Restaurant

  Telegrams

  Carbon Copy Paper

  Concorde

  Passing Back to the Goalie

  Football Rattles

  Typewriters

  Penfriends

  Tennent’s Lager Can Girls

  Countries that No Longer Exist

  English Counties that No Longer Exist

  Telegrams from the Queen

  Lighthouse-keepers

  Pipe Smoking

  Chest Expanders

  Handwritten Letters

  Football Pools

  Spot the Ball

  Imperial Measurements

  Net Cord Judges

  Car Chokes

  Two Spaces after a Full Stop

  The Word ‘Wireless’

  Coins and Notes

  The End?

  Further Reading

  Thanks

  About the Author

  Other Books by Steve Stack

  Copyright

  About the Publisher