Now the home made badge has a long and distinguished history and is one of those instant bits of advertising which makes the point cheaply and effectively.
A round bit of cardboard, some sticky tape and a safety pin and you have a badge.
Easier than that and just as effective is coloured ribbon, so loved of election rallies in the early 19th century, and the Suffragettes, and before ribbon there were bits of plant, flowers and bush, stretching back into the past, all of which were designed to mark out your political preference.
My first was “Lets Go with Labour” which I wore in 1966 but must have been a remnant from the ‘64 election.
It was a shinny plastic badge, with a plastic pin which fixed into the back, and I wore it throughout the campaign knocking on doors in Well Hall. I was just 16 and such are the things you cut your political teeth on.
And now after a life time of carrying the badge of the week, announcing my opposition to health cuts, nasty dictators, and factory closures, I am all “badged out”.
But that won't stop Peter expecting me to wear the badge advertising our new book the Quirks of Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
It hit the book shelves last week, and offers up the alternative history of Chorlton and bits of Stretford, Didsbury and Whalley Range.
And while I may be “badged out” he has also ordered up the T shirt, leaving me to wonder when the sandwich board arrives with the rota for my turn to walk up and down Barlow Moor Road announcing the new publication.
But there is one better because not content on producing a badge for the book he has produced three.
The first is for any one who wants to be associated with a] the book, b] thinks Chorlton is quirky, or c] aspires to being quirky.
That just leaves two badges.
One for any one who lives or works or is connected with a building in the book.
And finally one for those who are actually, themselves in the book.
But to find out who they are you will have to buy a copy.
The Quirks of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, by Andrew Simpson and Peter Topping can be ordered from http://www.pubbooks.co.uk/ or Chorlton Bookshop
Location; Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Picture; The Quirks of Chorlton-cum-Hardy Badge Artwork © 2017 Peter Topping
Easier than that and just as effective is coloured ribbon, so loved of election rallies in the early 19th century, and the Suffragettes, and before ribbon there were bits of plant, flowers and bush, stretching back into the past, all of which were designed to mark out your political preference.
My first was “Lets Go with Labour” which I wore in 1966 but must have been a remnant from the ‘64 election.
It was a shinny plastic badge, with a plastic pin which fixed into the back, and I wore it throughout the campaign knocking on doors in Well Hall. I was just 16 and such are the things you cut your political teeth on.
But that won't stop Peter expecting me to wear the badge advertising our new book the Quirks of Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
It hit the book shelves last week, and offers up the alternative history of Chorlton and bits of Stretford, Didsbury and Whalley Range.
And while I may be “badged out” he has also ordered up the T shirt, leaving me to wonder when the sandwich board arrives with the rota for my turn to walk up and down Barlow Moor Road announcing the new publication.
The first is for any one who wants to be associated with a] the book, b] thinks Chorlton is quirky, or c] aspires to being quirky.
That just leaves two badges.
One for any one who lives or works or is connected with a building in the book.
And finally one for those who are actually, themselves in the book.
But to find out who they are you will have to buy a copy.
The Quirks of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, by Andrew Simpson and Peter Topping can be ordered from http://www.pubbooks.co.uk/ or Chorlton Bookshop
Location; Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Picture; The Quirks of Chorlton-cum-Hardy Badge Artwork © 2017 Peter Topping
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