I was only four years old and it was my dad who collected them really and I can remember sitting at the kitchen table while he used a bottle of gloy glue to stick them into place. Gloy glue was a curious sticking paste that worked quite well at first but after a while dried out and the things that were previously stuck together just separated.
Later I used to collect them for myself and paste them into the books (which used to cost 6d) but I never made such a good job of it as him.
Does anyone else remember collecting Brooke Bond Tea Cards?