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I notice that Pifco feature a lot with Argos back then and they were known for making those fancy gadgets that people only used once and got sick of, Those Pifco xmas lights were cheap back then but now there worth around £20 boxed in that condition.

I knew i had a pic of that lamp with three legs that is featured in the 1976 Argos book, this is my bedside lamp and it is not a repro one as i baught this in 1998 for £1 from the YMCA shop in Consett.

I was born in 1976, later on I had the Wendy house amd my nan had the pots and pans with the green lids and flowers. There was also a camera that looked like one my dad had.

Goodness! it took me back to my childhood looking at at of those things!

Thanks for sharing

The one item that really caught me attention was the wendy house. I remember my sister and I getting the tubes and standing up in the bath and blowing down them to make bubbles, but also trying to poke the ceiling with them to make circle indents in the styrene ceiling tiles, which my Mam would scream her head off at us!

Other items look familiar, but I can't say and could see something I definately remember other than the wendy house.

I do still love the Argos catalogue and my DH calls it the 'the laminated book of dreams!' He loved the Argos catalogue as a child and it's still a joy to us to have a look to see what's in it. Our DD hasn't yet caught onto it as yet.