Here’s the car sticker that you were given when visiting Penscynor Wildlife Park.
Nearly every car in Swansea had one in their window.
You’d see loads about in car windows in the late 80’s early 90’s all faded by the sun, and crinkling off the glass…….memories of summer days out with the family.I love the design on it, must have had been designed in the early 70’s.
It is sad Penscynor Wildlife Park had to close in 1998.
I have a memory of walking to the park site over a railway line with long sunbleached grass growing over it, the ground had dried up from the heat. I must have had been 3 or 4 years old.
It was a boiling hot day, was it a dream ? was there a railway line to cross? The image is a dusty one, like the wild west….
A baby chimp pulled my hair when I got too close to to the cage.
Either that or it slapped me across the face.
I’ll have to ask my mother. I remember crying.I have just asked my mother about the chimp incident. Apparently I went to kiss it, and it licked my face. I started screaming!
There was a ‘Ffalabalam’ presenter there too…he might have been holding the chimp…
I’ve always loved this design. For a small company, it was a great piece of artwork. I lived a few miles away from Penscynor and visited regularly.
We didn’t have a car but every time we went, I bought one of these stickers. I had a big line of them from the top to the bottom of my bedroom window.
c86:
Crystal Tipps & Alistair: Double Dog, c. 1970s
Nostalgic flashback to the UK TV series
via Corduroy Cat
Searching for something totally different but vaguely related on Google Images I came across this tree house which I’m sure I had as a kid, or at least played with at someone else’s house. You pushed the top down, it was really cool!
We like the simple idea behind Molly Rausch’s paintings. She takes postage stamps and extends the scenes around them by painting in her own detail and surroundings. In some cases this merely produces extra space, in others it adds a whole new dimension or meaning. All the paintings are created around the original stamps, so are very small.
See more on her site, here.
