Where would the 1960s be without Batman and his sidekick Robin? There can be few heros to whom we owe so much yet the upright and pure-thinking TV Batman has a little-known darker and much less pleasant side.
The Batman character was created by artist Bob Kane while the stories, written by Bill Finger, were penned in a comic book published by DC Comics on the brink of the Second World War in 1939. The world at that time was very different to the cosy world of the 1960s TV series and the traits of the character reflect this.
The Mini is, without doubt, the classic car of the 1960s and a single post could hardly do it justice so this post deals with the Mini as it was introduced and as an icon of the 60s.
Although similar, kinky boots are very different from the tame go-go boots introduced in an earlier post! 
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What’s not generally known is that the Mini Skirt – that icon of 60s fashion – struggled even to make it into the 1960s decade at all!
Where would music be without the incredible and much lamented Jimi Hendrix? But the sounds keep on coming! This formerly unreleased studio album has twelve tracks previously unheard and made around 1969, just one year before his untimely death.
Although not made in the 1960s, the excellent and very popular TV show ‘Heartbeat’ is firmly set in 1960s Yorkshire.
I make no apologies for yet another post on model train inspired ideas! One thing I particularly liked, but was never able to afford, was the scenery you can add to a model train set. In fact, I have to say that it interested me as much as did the trains!