Who remembers scraps?

My late husband and myself had no end of trouble with scrape paper at the turn of the century.
My late oldest cousin had written a lot about my mother’s clan all on scrap paper because he was too old to understand computers.
So my son suggested that we could transform what he had written onto electric format ready for a website.
We had no end of trouble as the computer couldn’t decipher a lot of the pages so it took AGES to go through it all.

Scrapbooks came back into fashion a few years ago but I was never that bothered. My autistic son, who is in his thirties and living independently, likes to keep scrapbooks with his special postcards, pictures he's coloured in, railway tickets etc.

Lovely memories of keeping scraps. I’m definitely going to to do this with my granddaughter . 👍

I loved scraps, but I think they were a late 50s craze, not 60s. They were sheets of shiny pictures with little tabs separating them. The Raphael cherubs were popular and I remember other figures, bunches of flowers, ladies in crinolines etc. I was at school in east Scotland and bought them in Woollies - they didn’t cost much.A lot of the pictures were Victorian rather like the Victorian style Xmas cards you still see sometimes. I think many of the grans on here are just too young!!

The sheets of scraps are still available as far as I know. I have several varied sheets bought for collage during the last few years. I done recall where they were bought but they say ‘Made in England’ and PO BOX 12 BSE IP32 6NQ

I do. I was about to say "yes , but I can't remember what I did with them " when the opening post reminded me that we put them in the pages of books.

Lo ed them especially the cherubs on the cloud. You trued to collect all the different sizes! 🤣

Never heard of these scraps, but I did make a scrap book of various themes. I won a prize at junior school for one about the Queen’s trip to Nigeria. My mum bought or bogged extra magazines for more pictures for me.
Scraps with fish and chips- not for me thanks.

We had scrap books way back in the 50s - before the days of footballers and pop stars (😉) and my favourites were angels and cherubs. As another poster said above, you could buy them by the sheet from Woolworths or a newsagents too I suppose, though I can't really remember. We used to keep them between the pages of books for swapping. I'm not sure what the appeal was but I think we were all between the age of 8 and 10ish when the 'craze' was at its height and then it just sort of petered out.

Oh those sheets of scraps! I especially liked the cherubs, in various sizes all sitting eyes heavenwards, in their fluffy clouds! I just loved them, a 50/60s Scottish childhood here too, Mustafafag. Spent hours poring over them and loved all the swapping too. Thanks Katek for bringing back some happy childhood memories!

What are scraps in this context? Obviously I've heard of scrap books but you usually cut things out of magazines for those, often with a particular theme (like a pop star for example). Or you might put postcards and various other mementos in them.

Mine was full of ponies, racehorses & footballers. We used to get our dads to ask the pub landlords if they had any spare racing calendars ( I don't know if it was just the "Horse" name pubs who had these).

Scraps? ha ha I thought it was about bits of batter! I do remember scrap books though. It was full of pop stars.

I remember scraps and taking the book to school. To do a swap you said a pin, a pin , a pin to dip in and in exchange for a pin you would give out a scrap. Why I don't know.
It was funny how the games changed and somehow you just knew when whips and tops changed to skipping in a big rope and that to scraps and then to ball and so on.I wonder if this is regional. I grew up in the West Riding.

Yes, Inused to see packs of Victorian-type scraps somewhere.
A favourite 🎄decoration is a garland of robins - Victorian-scrap type, but a lot bigger. I have 2 from Past Times - if anyone remembers them -they come out every year.

I used to love scrap books. I took just pasted in pictures that took my fancy from magazines or newspapers - simple pleasures!

Primrose53 me too. That’s got me thinking of the chip shop now!
Never got involved in a SCRAP scrap,………was far too much of an angel - -scaredy-cat- -

I know what you’re talking about now but I did think you meant scraps of batter at the fish and chip shop or scraps as in when there was a playground fight at school. It would start, someone would shout “scrap, scrap” and a huge crowd of kids would gather.

Like these!

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1154891978/vintage-style-paper-scraps-die-cut

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/609380736/6-genuine-vintage-angel-english-scraps

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234740718361

I've never come across 'scraps' in this context.

Scraps to me are either scraps of fabric or those crispy bits of batter (yum).

I remember sitting on the steps swapping buttons with a neighbour! Can you imagine it now!!!

Well like a few others I ve never heard of scraps (only the chip variety at the chip shop) and never swapped
It’s is an area thing ?
I had a scrap book with bits cut out of magazine or cards but never heard of swapping

Redblueandgreen

Was getting hungry then thinking about the ones we got from the chippy.

Oh yes!
Yum yum!

Well, I remember PG Tips cards and doing swaps of those.