http://yorkstories.co.uk/the-age-of-the-badge-1983/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://yorkstories.co.uk/the-age-of-the-badge-1983/#comment-762615 Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:44:39 +0000 #comment-762615 I produced some of these badges, and some of the handwriting on the front of that list, including the numbering – no. 5, is my own, so it must have been earlier, no later than 1981 I believe.

]]> http://yorkstories.co.uk/the-age-of-the-badge-1983/#comment-639 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:34:12 +0000 #comment-639 Glad you’ve found these! Good to hear that they mean something to others too. One or two definitely needed preserving digitally before the old faded print becomes totally unreadable.

]]> http://yorkstories.co.uk/the-age-of-the-badge-1983/#comment-638 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:18:22 +0000 #comment-638 Brilliant! I’m so pleased that you are preserving this living history. I remember the bookshop well – I think it must have opened in about 1977. As well as the radical stuff, it was a good place for poetry and an unpredictable choice of second hand books, which gave me the opportunity to feel that I was subsidising the right-on politics from time to time.

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