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August 1999 and the Observer was looking to boost its readership ahead of the new rugby season with a hard hitting ad in the pages of Rugby World.   Just a quarter of a century ago, clearly it was beyond the wit of marketing managers and Observer editors to...

November 1994 and the inveterate tourer’s fancy might just have been turning towards a new caravan for a new year.   Elddis was a big name in that market and with its 30th anniversary to celebrate, it wanted to ensure that En Route readers thought no further than...

The February 2021 issue of the Caravan & Motorhome Club Magazine was looking to cast off the pall of winter and turn its gaze to sunnier days to come later in the British year. Optimistic of them.   They were doing the work of the tourist board by suggesting...

This magnificent picture of horse and rider in peril graced the front cover of Horse & Hound in August 1969, an image that must have leapt off the newsstand, much like the horses leapt for safety off the famous bank at Hickstead.   The image in question was...

While we are on the subject of arresting cover shots, Rugby World used this excellent action study of England scrum-half Roger Pickering on its May 1967 cover.   Pickering, bearing more than a passing resemblance to Bill Owen, or Compo in ‘Last of the Summer...

Nobody had done it before, nobody has done it since, and it’s looking likely that nobody ever will.   This great photograph from the June 1986 edition of Golf Monthly shows Jack Nicklaus pretty much on his knees after leaving his final approach putt stone dead at...

Hancock’s Half Hour was one of the great BBC staples of the 1950s and early 1960s, initially on radio and then on television as The Lad Himself became one of the most popular comedy stars in the country.   What is often forgotten though is that he did eventually...

In their November 2010 edition, FourFourTwo paid suitable homage the greatest footballer of them all, Pele, as he celebrated his 70th birthday.   A string of superb photographs were featured in the piece as Pele gave brief answers to some of the most asked...

Seen as one of the greatest of all-time during his life, Ayrton Senna’s reputation has only grown in the years following his tragic death at Imola in May 1994.   To celebrate the release of a film about his life in June 2011, Autosport featured a special look at...

We were stepping into the future with the Caravan Club’s magazine in February 1997 as they unveiled this remarkable new thing called a satellite navigation system.   The VW Passat was to be fitted with TravelPilot, a CD-ROM based system, the first of its kind to...

Such was the timeless brilliance of Peter Alliss as a commentator for many years, it was easy to forget that he came to the microphone after many years paying his dues on the course.   In April 1958’s Golf Monthly, Fred Pignon profiled ‘one of the most brilliant...

Owen Farrell made his debut for French club Racing 92 last weekend, the England man having moved there from Saracens at the end of last season. But wind the clock back ten years and he was beginning to establish himself in international rugby, earning a cover feature...

July 9 1966 and, like the rest of the country, the TV Times was looking forward to the Word Cup taking place in England.   At ITV, all eyes were on the opening game taking place on Monday 11 July and featuring England taking on Uruguay. It was a very different...

November 2011 and the footballing world was still trying to take stock of the financial transformation that had come the way of Manchester City and just what that might mean for the English game.   With the derby game due, Four Four Two launched a full-scale...

Autosport had rarely featured colour photography on its covers since its inception in 1950. The exceptions were when an advertiser had bought the front cover space or if they were producing a motor show special.   June 25 1965 changed all that with Francis Penn’s...

The cover of Horse & Hound on February 23 1952 could not have been more topical, nor appropriate. Following the passing of King George VI earlier in the month, a picture of Queen Elizabeth II featured on the front page, on horseback as you would expect from the...

It was a special edition of En Route in September 1973 as HM the Queen adorned the front cover of the magazine, pictured meeting some members of the Caravan Club. You can read all about it here…   The magazine’s editorial noted that this was “Royal recognition of...

If the start of what we think of as modern football in England has a moment where the touchpaper was lit, it was the arrival of Ruud Gullit at Chelsea and his elevation to the manager’s job.   Interviewed in FourFourTwo in September 1996, Gullit had all the...

The rise of Seve Ballesteros was the subject of Golf Monthly’s September 1978 issues, the cover shot and accompanying feature proclaiming him as one of golf’s new ‘big three’ alongside Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson.   That was a reference to a period 15 years...

September 2014 and with the new season just grinding into gear, Rugby world was looking at the people shaping that campaigns, and the years to come, with a list of the ’50 Most Influential People In Rugby’.   As ever, with the value of ten years worth of...