In the spring of
1965 we were in the grip of the American Civil War Card craze. The cards, made
by A&BC, came packaged with chewing gum and imitation dollar bills, and
sold at thruppence a pack. Forbuoys and the Copper Kettle were just two of the many
shops that sold them, but Kevin and I got most of ours from the shop on the
corner of Twydall Lane and Romany Road. I didn’t care much for bubble gum but I
loved these cards, criticised though they were in the national press.
Paul Parker: "I
remember the one called Painful Death – a soldier impaled on spikes."
Completing the
set seemed to take an age but eventually, I obtained The Silent Drum – the most
elusive card – from a second year boy in exchange for every spare card and all
the dollar bills I had.
Yes!
Note: the series of
World War II cards that followed weren’t anything like as popular.
Everybody at my school wanted ‘impaled on spikes’
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