More Palladium Cellars memorabilia

 Here we have a few more items from The Palladium Cellars:

2 different fold out leaflets, one featuring the various sections of the Cellars and what displays are in each section

A letter explaining what the Palladium Cellars is and what visitors to the cellars will experience

Lastly is a wonderful poster which would of been displayed at the entrance

Thanks to David for the photos

SCAREBEARS STICKER ALBUM

The copyright on the album is 1987, the copyright on the stickers is 1986 for the Starbears and 1985 for the Scarebears stickers, the album is in 2 sections, the first is the section on Starbears which goes from sticker 1 to 180, then you flip it over from the back and this section covers the Scarebears stickers 181 to 330. The Scarebears features are Count Ted, Quasibear, Bone Bear, Hero - Worship, What I did on my holidays count Ted in Cannes France, Frankie Bear, Were Bear, Things that go bump in the night, Boo Bear and Tuten Bear. The Star Bears section of the album has the Zodiac as it's theme.

Here are a few examples from the quite rare 'Scarebears' sticker album. 

Thanks to Richard for the scans and information

'Trebor Mummies' Trade advertisement

Here we have another contribution of a fantastic trade ad for 1980s 'Trebor Mummies'. This is really superb, I love the graphics on the display boxes, would love to come across one of those.
The text at the bottom reveals the secret flavors, the haunting 'Tales from the tomb' on the inside of the labels and the advertising campaigns on TV and in comics.
Thank you Jason for a great ad, please check out his brilliant page on collecting candy, some really cool packaging on there.

Collecting Candy

'1970s Monster glow-in-the-dark stickers'

I featured one of these stickers quite awhile ago and I have always wondered what the others looked like, so now at last thanks to a reader of the Cobwebbed Room they have provided a picture of their full set. Great looking stickers, not sure or have forgot how these stickers were bought at the time, were they sold as a set or were they single stickers? Either way really good to see these.
Thank you to the kind person who provided the picture of them.

'Curse of the Werewolf' - Ken Hill musical theatre programme

I came across this theatre programme for the Ken Hill musical 'The Curse of the Werewolf' quite recently. I had heard of Ken Hill before and I knew that he also did plays/musicals for 'The Phantom of the Opera' and 'The Invisible Man'. When I looked him up and saw that he also did 'The Curse of the Werewolf' I was intrigued. I have no idea if it is based at all on the Hammer film starring Oliver Reed, but seeing this brochure with the wonderful drawing of Oliver Reed as Leon the Werewolf which I think is the same artwork from the adaptation of the film by John Bolton featured in 'House of Hammer' magazine, I just had to have a copy of the programme. I have only included a few pages here which are more relevant this blog. One nice little touch is the mention of selling Walls 'Monster' lollies during the interval. I wonder if these are the 'Magic Monster' ice lollies which came out about the time of this production in 1980, the ones in which the wrapper would reveal a monster on the front when the lolly was taken out the wrapper. See an ad below. Never actually seen a photo of them or remember them from that time.

'Monster glow in the dark stickers'

An artist friend of mine has started a Patreon page which supports him in his artistic projects. By donating a small amount each month he will create a glow-in-the-dark monster sticker as a thank you for donating and supporting his projects. There are 3 stickers produced at the moment of a 'Killer Shrew', 'Creature [from the black Lagoon]' and 'Creeping Terror', these are beautiful pieces. I have just received the 3 stickers from him today and can assure you they really are a worthy edition to any monster collection. Also by joining his patreon page you can also make suggestions for any future stickers. Another project he is hoping to get off the ground is a self published book which will feature 30 original paintings devoted to 1980s/90s monster/horror nostalgia. Please check out his page which also contains some of his youtube videos which shows him painting in time lapse, some great paintings here one of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price and John Carradine together [House of Long Shadows], Frankenhooker, Joe Bob Briggs [Monster Vision] etc.

He is a great guy and I know he will be really happy with the support and appreciation of his talents. Thank you.

https://www.patreon.com/arfonjones

'Palladium Cellars' article - 'Action' Annual 1982

First of all I am so sorry for not posting anything for ages for those that keep returning here. Just been too tired after work etc.

Sometimes it's quite surprising what you find when looking through an old annual that you don't normally bother looking through either because it doesn't Interest you or because you don't expect anything that would be suitable to your interests. Well I saw this Action annual at a carboot sale and thought I'll have a quick flick through and lo and behold I saw a nice picture of a Werewolf in an article, so I bought the annual and it wasn't until I got home an read it that I discovered it was about the Palladium Cellars; it's not often you come across anything connected with the short lived attraction.So I thought I would share it here. Hope you like it and find it Interesting.

'Horrors and Heroes' - Horror Bag wrappers for sale

Some of these on Ebay at the moment:    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192817930842 

Middle English - 'Ghosts' documentary 1980

Interesting documentary presented by Aidan Chambers whom wrote the book 'Haunted Houses' Piccolo books 1971 and 'More Haunted Houses' Piccolo 1973, the documentary was from the Schools programme 'Middle English' in 1980. Look for the brief clips inside The Palladium Cellars.

Hammer star Katya Wyeth - Top of the Pops album covers

I didn't realise that this was former German model and actress the lovely Katya Wyeth until I came across her name on a website dedicated to the 'Top of the Pops' LPs. Well I thought I would feature these 2 covers as a follow up to the post I did not so long ago on 'Non-genre records with a genre connection'.
Katya featured in a number of horror films which include 'Hands of the Ripper' (1971) [1st pub Whore], 'Twins of evil' (1971) [Countess Mircalla], 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971) [Girl in Ascot Fantasy], 'Burke and Hare' (1972) [Natalie], 'Straight on till morning' (1972) [Caroline] and 'Dead of Night' [TV series] (1972) ep.'Death cancels all debts' [Vanessa].

Volume 23

Volume 45

Katya as Countess Mircalla from 'Twins of Evil'

Publicity still from 'Twins of Evil', Katya here with Mary and Madeline Collinson

'Hands of the Ripper'

Smiths Horror Bags - 'Spooky Tales' No.1 - 'The Creation' Leaflet/flyer

I spotted this on Ebay a few weeks ago, didn't have the money to bid for it though. It is nice to see though because ever since I featured no.2 of 'Spooky Tales' I've been curious to what the first one would be like. The back of this leaflet is the same as featured on the 2nd one [A Horror Bags T-shirt offer] . Now I wonder if there were a 3rd one too.

Non-Genre LP records with a genre connection

Here we have a selection of records that are non-horror themed but do have a connection with horror films because of the actors featured on them. The only one featuring a still from a horror film is the Telly Savalas LP. I will feature some more that will have a monster on the cover but don't really have nothing to do with monsters.

'Kojak' star Telly Savalas was also quite the singer releasing a number of records, this particular one features a still from 'Horror Express' (1972). His other genre film was 'Lisa and the Devil' (1973)

Former radio DJ Mike Raven turned to acting mainly because he wanted to be the next big horror star starring in such films as 'Lust for a Vampire' (1971), 'I Monster' (1971), 'Crucible of terror' (1971) and 'Disciple of death' (1972). He had quite a striking resemblance to Christopher Lee and here on this record he looks quite the part.  

Back of sleeve, here with his Wife

I am not 100% sure on this but I am pretty sure this is the lovely Valli Kemp whom starred in 'Dr.Phibes rides again' (1972) starring as Vulnavia alongside Vincent Price

Here we have the lovely Caroline Munroe on the LP 'Hot Hits 11', Caroline also featured on the cover of a French or German copy of a 'Top of the Pops' LP. Genre films starring Caroline Munroe includes 'The Abominable Dr.Phibes' (1971), 'Dracula a.d.72' (1972), 'Dr.Phibes rises again' (1972), 'Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter' (1974), 'Maniac' (1980), 'The Last horror show' (1982) etc

Reverse of sleeve

'HALLOWEEN GANG BADGES' - Esco - Grimley Hall Creations

I have had the Frankenstein badge from this line for many years and I had always wondered what other characters there were too. Well a year or 2 ago I came across this shop display with most of the badges on it at a carboot sale, the seller was asking 10 pence for each badge so I asked them what he wanted for all of them as well as the display piece, got them all for £1.
So it seems that apart from the Frankenstein Monster there were only 2 others: Dracula and a Demon/Devil. Seems like there were 8 of each character. The badges glow in the dark and were made by 'Esco' under the banner of 'Grimley Hall Creations'. A number of other novelty Halloween items were made in the Grimley Hall Creations line.  

'Monster Rings'

Thanks to BrianF for sending me this photo of one of his monster rings he found in his attic.

BrianF's Brother also found his original Monster rings

These plastic monster rings were around for quite some time certainly during the 1970s, possibly during the 1960s too. The box of rings you see here are from the 70s judging by the price. Made by Leaf here in the UK and another company in America. I've seen various different designs of the box art on the Internet and a number of colours of the rings including silver. There were 6 different designs of the rings, from what I can make out these were as follows: Skull, A tiger beast thing?, A Bat, An Alien type creature?, A Monster of some sort, and bizarrely a Ladies hand with painted finger nails.
I remember buying some of the rings during the 70s or maybe even into the 80s. I still have 3 of the Skull rings which you can see being worn beautifully by the rubber severed hand. I did used to have a Bat as well [Green I think it was], don't know what happened to that, must of flew off. I am also wondering if you could get the rings in those slot machines like with the bubble gum machines.
They maybe cheap but I like the charm of them, quite nice designs as well.