Lacock Parish Magazine - September 1984

Sure, Ephemeral 80s will no doubt feature more ephemeral slices of 1980s Britain in the future, but this particular item hums with a conviction which will be hard to beat. Yes, it's a copy of the Parish of Lacock with Bowden Hill magazine which hails from September 1984. Have any other copies of this precious document survived the intervening 41 years since it was printed? I sincerely doubt it. Regardless, this tome of parish life from the mid-1980s must surely harbour a few gleaming curios to remind us of a more humdrum, simplistic and mostly forgotten time.

St Michael Coffee Glass (1985)

Coffee, that jittery, brown stimulant of the overworked, is the unofficial national religion of Britain. First coming to these shores in the 16th century, coffee has remained a staple in getting us through our day. Fast forward to the specialty coffee shops of East London today, and you can see just how dramatically coffee has evolved - mine's a pink bourbon carbonic maceration, thanks. Back in the mid-1980s, however, and coffee, much like us, was a simpler, less pretentious affair.