How could we have all stood by and have let that happen? Having been published twice each year since the 1890s, Kays catalogues represent a fascinating archive of the way we lived in the past. Littlewoods and Kays combined to become Shop Direct which was based in Liverpool. A royalty fee may be payable for such usage. Unfortunately, the Bionic Woman faded into obscurity (along with the Six Million Dollar Man) but in September 2007 she is making a come-back! This wonderfully colourful and patriotic cover adorned the Coronation Celebration Spring/Summer Catalogue of 1953. When the company first issued a bound catalogue in the late 1890s, the frontispiece and cover were a simple black and white graphic, as shown in this image of the 1907 catalogue cover. Kays always sold a wide range of items and before the second World War the company had developed its own brand of teas. On 23 February 2007, Kays original depot in Worcester closed. Unlike catalogues of today, the illustrations were drawn by Kays’ own graphic artists and are superb examples of their talent. Home; Archive; About me; Sponsor; Kays catalogue archive. © All images from any and all Kays’ catalogues and related publications or photographic work, published up to the end of the year 2000, are the property of the Kays Heritage Group and the copyright to these images is held by the Group. Julie was the first Catwoman to TV's Batman. A full history of Kays Catalogue company can be found here. We love producing flashbak. What is unusual about this image is the perspective used in the drawing of the model on the steps of St Oswald’s.
Hemlines were going up and down and there was no real prescribed length. © Images and content may not be used for any purpose, be that commercial or private, or digitally scanned or reproduced by any means, mechanically or electronically, without first obtaining the written consent of the Group. This is a page of toys from “The Return of the Jedi”, the last of the original trilogy that featured in the Autumn/Winter 1984 catalogue. Here is a page of clocks from 1956 showing the variety of styles available but also featuring an electric clock for the first time. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('Unit3'); }); In 1980 there was plenty of choice for women. The catalogue features a range of gifts and toys that celebrated the Coronation. The reverse of the current £20 note in circulation has a similar view of the magnificent cathedral. The relative cost of the clothing in the 1940s surprises many, as our consumer society has made clothing a much more affordable commodity. No doubt toy collectors wish they had bought these toys at the prices they were sold for in 1984, as some of the items featured are now very rare indeed. Richard Warren Sears started a business selling watches through mail order catalogs in Redwood Falls, Minnesota in 1888. It was Driver’s offices and warehouse that became the centre of the northern operations. Here we take a second look at the wonderful world of Kays as we flick through the pages of various Summer and Autumn catalogues from 1973 to 1977. Kays of Worcester Heritage © 2020. Arrangements can be made to view the catalogues for genuine research purposes by contacting the University directly. Collectors often ask for information as to how much items originally cost when they were first sold. A copyright agreement and an agreement covering reproduction must be signed. Casa Susanna was a private New York club where 1950s heterosexual men could unwind in female clothing. In 1971, the Troubles in Belfast and the rest of Northern Ireland were in full cry. Collection level description by Sarah Stretton, Graduate Trainee, University of Worcester. The catalogues provide a window into over 100 years of social history and constitute a unique resource for study within the wider context of the century. Home; Archive; About me; Sponsor; Kays catalogue archive. The Kays style for men that year included wearing a dressing gown with a shirt and tie and the young men’s shoe section in seventy seven had more platforms than Kings Cross station. For great art and culture delivered to your door, visit our shop.
Appraised in accordance with GB3284 collection policy and depostior agreement. Shop Direct is centred on the traditional home of the Littlewoods group, Liverpool. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('Unit4'); }); googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('Unit5'); }); googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('Unit6'); }); Please consider making a donation to our site. This is a page from the Autumn/Winter 1965 catalogue with a selection of ladies and gentlemen’s watches. Her fabulous portrayal of the comic book temptress in the 1960s Batman has been praised, The Shop: Prints, Cards, T-Shirts & Gifts, Click here to collect Flashbaks on Pinterest, Click here to view Flashbaks on Instagram, Click here to subscribe to the Flashbak RSS Feed, Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins, Punk Princess: ‘Devastatingly Sexy’ Portraits of Debbie Harry 1977 to 1988, The True Story of The Holocaust Train Rescued From The Heart of Darkness – Friday, April 13th, 1945, Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America, The 1950s Cross-Dressers of New York’s Casa Sussanna Club, Northern Ireland Troubles 1971: Belfast In 50 Photos, Julie Newmar In Playboy, Photos And On Growing Old, Sean Connery in Kilburn and West Hampstead, London, Blink: The Eyeball-Licking Horror of Suehiro Maruo and Strange Other Obsessions (NSFW), Don’t Dream It, Collect Them: ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Trading Cards, How To Become A Werewolf – A 1912 Guide To Lycanthropy, The World As He Sees It: An Exclusive Interview with Legendary Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg, Landscape and Memory: Vintage holiday snaps placed in their original settings, Just a Daughter and her Father: Photographs of Vivian Kubrick’s life with Stanley, 1980: Kevin Keegan Models His Harry Fenton Fashion Range. This was a time of great optimism in Britain as a new Elizabethan age was predicted and after the hardships of the Second World War and the decade that followed it, the country revelled in the excitement that the Coronation brought. Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. Kays Catalogues Distribution Centre on Marshall Street in Holbeck, Leeds, undergoing demolition. The company was founded in Worcester in 1890. In 1977 Punk was sweeping the streets of the UK, however Kays weren’t selling ripped clothes held together by safety pins or Tartan bondage trousers.
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The University of Worcester has amassed the vast archive of pictures for its 'World of Kays' project - which will go on display at the city's library tomorrow. This is the cover of the Spring/Summer 1927 catalogue and is one of the few catalogue covers that features a Kays’ building, in this case, the front entrance of 23, The Tything.
well you’ve come to the right place (They were available in beige, burgundy and blue and could be delivered to your door for under twenty pounds). Four years later Kay struck out on his own and changed the name of the company to Kay’s of Worcester. The catalogue collection is now, once again, available for research purposes and is housed within the University of Worcester campus at St John’s and in the Hive in Worcester. A social history in a book. The average weekly wage of a Kays’ office clerk in 1944 was 27/6 (£1.38), so the coats on this page represent a significant investment and as such could be paid for on the 20-week credit terms offered by the company to its customers. Velvet was popular and it was often worn with lace, tweeds and leather.
Shapes went from slim to extremely full and the ‘blouson’ made a comeback. This page from the AW 1962 catalogue has a signed picture of Jean Shrimpton, who went on to become one of the leading fashion models of the 1960s.
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Such watches as these were often presented to staff as rewards for 25 years of continuous service to the company or as retirement gifts. The blog of Swedish artist Johanna Öst. The company opened a purpose-built warehouse in Leeds in 1981, which subsequently closed in August 2004 (pictured). We owe them, for what we allowed to happen to them.’ – Carrol Walsh, Liberator, 37 Snapshots of Manchester In The 1970s Via: MMU, "Advice my father gave me: never take liquor into the bedroom.
It makes her over fourteen feet tall! [1] The company opened a purpose-built warehouse in Leeds in 1981, which subsequently closed in August 2004 (pictured). This page from the Spring/Summer 1970 catalogue shows Anita Harris, the singer and entertainer, modelling her “collection”. Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kays_Catalogues&oldid=977133096, Defunct retail companies of the United Kingdom, 1890 establishments in the United Kingdom, Articles lacking reliable references from June 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 7 September 2020, at 03:39. Powered by - Designed with the Hueman theme.
120 years later on 23 February 2007 the original depot in the town where they had made their name closed. Collection deposited with University of Worcester Research Collections 2009.
The page from a later catalogue, shown below, features the last of the initial trilogy of Star Wars films “Return of the Jedi”.TOYS – Star Wars – “The Return of the Jedi”. If you enjoy what we do and want to help us move away from relying on ads, you can make a contribution. The Kays catalogues in the Collection represent the English way of life in consumable goods from 1893 to 2006. Contact: http://library.worc.ac.uk/research-collections/research-collections, Listing of items in process. The Kays Archive: Catalogues and Business Archives, Catalogues archival folders artefacts furniture, Please tell us what you think: Hub Survey 2020, https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb3284-ss2, University of Worcester Research Collections, http://library.worc.ac.uk/research-collections/research-collections, http://library.worc.ac.uk/research-collections/, http://library.worc.ac.uk/research-collections. A recent research project (Spring 2005) was on the history of the Sindy doll and the catalogue collection enabled the researcher to document the life of Sindy from her first appearance in a Kays catalogue in 1963 to her last in 1990.