Do you want to buy a Sunny Smile???

[sunflower68]

Reading surrygirl30's question on Webb Ivory reminded me of these. Does anyone remember in the 70s being given little black and white booklets full of kid's pictures which you had to flog door to door? How very, very wrong that was!
I remember too, standing in the doorway whilst my neighbours flicked through to find the kind of child's face they wanted to buy, usually for about 5p.
Money went to Barnardo's if I recall.

[spudqueen]

I remember selling those at school, I think I probably got them from Sunday School. Wouldn't be allowed nowadays!

[Robinia]

oh yes Sunny smiles! - I recently found one that I'd saved amongst a load of memorabillia (aka junk!)....a beautiful little doe-eyed boy, who looked very like my youngest son born some years later...... :o)

[joko]

i don't see it would be a problem - only faces where shown, and you can walk into any shop and buy an ordinary magazine like bella or chat and find pages and pages of them.

with the internet so readily available, with all manner of pictures floating around it, i hardly think any paedophile would even look at these booklets!

are we getting to the stage where pictures of kids faces cannot be seen in public without everyone crying out that its indecent and going to tempt paedos??

[spudqueen]

joko - I'm not suggesting that the pictures would be tempting (or whatever) for paedophiles - more that the PC mob wouldn't allow it now as not every child is as appealing as others - there always was the poor ugly kid whose picture nobody ever sold.

[suzannewozere2]

NCH PRINTING WORKS
The printing works at Highfield Oval gave a good start for a few boys when they left the Home.
Highfield provided the NCH with most of its stationery and also produced many of the fund raising items that were sold to the public.
The colour work that was produced at Highfield was always of a high quality. Any boy who was colourblind would soon be found out.
In later years the Sunny Smiles books of childrens photographs were also printed at Highfield for fund rasing. Media URL: http://www.theirhistory.co.uk/70001/info.php?p=15
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