1970’s ESSO football badges/coins/Squelchers

[Muppet the Cat]

Does anyone else have and/or remember the sets of footie related badge/coins/Squelcher booklet collections that ESSO brought out in the 1970’s.

Collected as. Kid and recently unearthed in our loft

[paddy parrott]

Well worth finding and keeping Muppet that's for sure .Mine's gone decades ago .
Loved this collection and still remember 1970/'71& all that .I'd love to see mine again there a collector's gimme that's for for sure.

[faaip]

Used to collect the Esso coins early seventies IIRC, never heard of squelchers

[billie1]

I’ve still got all that stuff . I’ve even got two complete sets of the Mexico 70 ESSO coins ( one on the blue board that you had to send away for and the other in the freebie red gatefold paper holder ) . Really happy memories of collecting when I was growing up .

[Irish Ian]

Ha... We used to have a coin operated gas meter. Those Esso coins worked a treat.

[YorkshireSquare]

Remember collecting the coins from World Cup 90. Had one with Peter Beardsley on, think that made it worth less than the scrap value if the metal!

[SaraM]

I had some stickers in the early 70s, which is why I supported Leeds. Can't remember what they were... think there was a blue gatefold thing you stuck badges on.

Can't even remember why I had it. It probably came from the church jumble, or something, because I wouldn't normally have been given stuff like that.

[1964white]

Ha... We used to have a coin operated gas meter. Those Esso coins worked a treat.

[Muppet the Cat]

I’ve still got all that stuff . I’ve even got two complete sets of the Mexico 70 ESSO coins ( one on the blue board that you had to send away for and the other in the freebie red gatefold paper holder ) . Really happy memories of collecting when I was growing up .

Like this one Billie. I’ve also got the red thinner card one somewhere. Trouble was with that one that every time you picked it up some of the coins would fall out of the slots - probably by design so your Dad would buy you the thicker blue card one.

7 Leeds stars of the day feature amongst the 1970 squad

Somewhere I’ve got the dark blue gatefold club badges (most of, if not all,which will have changed by now) set.

[liggy]

Ha... We used to have a coin operated gas meter. Those Esso coins worked a treat.

You can still dock them with a monkey wrench ian
Just what a friend told me I'm not recommending it
Last winter our 1/4 ,gas bill was £8 ,32

[Chilli D]

My brother used to collect the Esso coins, no idea what happened to them.
I collected the football sticker books from 1975 onwards until 1980, they're all complete and I still have them all.
They're going for quite a bit of money on eBay.

[billie1]

Like this one Billie. I’ve also got the red thinner card one somewhere. Trouble was with that one that every time you picked it up some of the coins would fall out of the slots - probably by design so your Dad would buy you the thicker blue card one.

7 Leeds stars of the day feature amongst the 1970 squad

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Somewhere I’ve got the dark blue gatefold club badges (most of, if not all,which will have changed by now) set.

Yes , that’s the one ! And the red one was a nightmare , mine was held together with sellotape in the end . I remember having to wait weeks to complete the set because I couldn’t get Colin Harvey . And no one else I knew had him so a swop was impossible . When he finally turned up I was ecstatic ! I ended up with so many spares I started a second collection .

I also collected Joe Mercer’s GB football squad plastic heads and got my Dad to switch from his usual ESSO garage and go to Cleveland Petrol who were running the promotion . I remember completing that relatively easily . Leeds had Bremner and Cooper in that set . That’s the one set I seem to have lost over the years unfortunately ( £150 on eBay now ) .

[Clacton White]

Does anyone else have and/or remember the sets of footie related badge/coins/Squelcher booklet collections that ESSO brought out in the 1970’s.

Collected as. Kid and recently unearthed in our loft

I had that set . Leeds were the gold 100 years medal/coin . Have no idea where it is now or if I still have any bits of it lying around . Pity really .

[whiteswan]

I used to collect the Esso coins, no idea what happened to them.
On another note, what about those little models of footballers? I cant remember what they were called I've got Brian Deane, Gary Mac, David Batty etc lurking in a drawer somewhere

[hector]

I've got Brian Deane, Gary Mac, David Batty etc lurking in a drawer somewhere

Their families want them back Duckie....

Kidnapping is illegal you know??

[whiteswan]

Their families want them back Duckie....

Kidnapping is illegal you know??

[1964white]

Their families want them back Duckie....

Kidnapping is illegal you know??

The young lady probably has some lurking in her shed, they are trapped for life

Our ladies don't care once these men are in their grasp

[Clacton White]

This memorabilia and nostalgia stuff really got me thinking . Just sent off for 2 Rothmans yearbooks ( 73/74 & 74/75 ) . Now , can anyone remember who other than Rothmans did season reviews .....I used to have a 69/70 one , not note or Rothmans , it was paperback book but more magazine and article based . Who did these sort of things back then ? I'm trying to rediscover it , I think if I saw a cover I'd remember it . Wasn't Shoot or that sort of thing .

[1964white]

This memorabilia and nostalgia stuff really got me thinking . Just sent off for 2 Rothmans yearbooks ( 73/74 & 74/75 ) . Now , can anyone remember who other than Rothmans did season reviews .....I used to have a 69/70 one , not note or Rothmans , it was paperback book but more magazine and article based . Who did these sort of things back then ? I'm trying to rediscover it , I think if I saw a cover I'd remember it . Wasn't Shoot or that sort of thing .

Don't know Clacton

[Clacton White]

Nor me , just hoping I may have hidden in a box somewhere . Certainly wasn't Rothmans type format , more articles . It had the FA cup run in full all-rounder , a colour photo of Leeds-Sutton , but I can't remember who did those sort of season reviews back then .
Those coin things by the way are well available on eBay .