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late 50s England – open-air neighbourhood dance

Bit of a mystery here. A video clip of an unprovenanced 1950s daylight neighbourhood dance, somewhere in England, sometime between 1957 and 1960. It is barely 1 minute and a half on the YouTube video (running from 0:05 up to 0:49, and 1:00 to 1:19) but the quality of the film is amazing and really […]

1958 Lancashire Teds

‘Morning in the Streets’ a 35-minute poetic depiction in film giving an “impression of life and opinion in the back streets of a Northern City in the morning”was directed by Denis Mitchell & Roy Harris in 1958 by the BBC’s Northern Film Unit (although not broadcast until 25 of March 1959). The city in question […]

1958 Notting Hill Riots, London

Lasting less than a week at the end of the summer of 1958, the riots that erupted between Friday the 29th of August and Friday the 5th of September in London’s Notting Hill district proved to be a turning point not only in race relations but in perceptions of the teddy boys.  Here’s a nice […]

1965 Lyon’s rockin’ ‘delinquents’

The 1950s seemed to have lingered longer in some places than others. Away from metropolitan capitals like Paris and London, the long-haired revolution had not yet started for some. 13:45ff One explains why he doesn’t like students. INT 26:00ff “la plupart préfere le rock” *Inusa “Les ” délinquants ” de l’époque qui s’habillent mieux et […]

1950s rock’n’roll in Finland

Here’s a treasure trove of film and newsreel clips showing how rock’n’roll made its presence felt in Finland between 1957 and 1961. Uploaded on YouTube in 2016, I don’t know its provenance although I assume it was  made for tv and seems to contain some running commentary. Need I say ? I hardly know more […]

Were the 1950s teds colourful or not?

Perennial debate in teddy boy circles: are teddy boys supposed to wear colourful drapes or not? No doubt they were more colourful in the 1970s revival than in the 1950s but did the 1950s teds wear colourful drapes or not? Difficult question to answer seeing that just about 99% of photos taken in 1950s Britain […]

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Posts in The Golden Era

  • late 50s England – open-air neighbourhood dance
  • 1958 Lancashire Teds
  • 1958 Notting Hill Riots, London
  • 1965 Lyon’s rockin’ ‘delinquents’
  • 1950s rock’n’roll in Finland
  • Were the 1950s teds colourful or not?
  • The white street lights of the teddy boy era
  • And they went off on their motorbikes … – 1959 Ton-up Boys & 1964 Rockers
  • 1955 BBC documentary on teddy boys
  • 1959 two Stockport teds
  • 1959-70 Gene Vincent and the French
  • 1959 pre-rock’n’roll Parisian youth styles
  • 1958 dancing to rock’n’roll at home in the East End
  • 1957 Blackpool holidays
  • 1959 BBC documentary on New York youth gangs
  • 1955 BBC documentary on two London teds
  • 1964 rockers’ good deeds in Southend
  • 1956 ted cameo in ‘The Crown’
  • 1990 ‘People try to put us down …’ BBC documentary on teds, rockers, mods and skinheads
  • 1962 Square Saint Lambert, Paris
  • Hector, the French Sutch
  • Americanisation, processed food and obesity since the 1940s
  • 1956 ‘My Teenage Daughter’
  • 1958 Tail-end teds
  • 1963 Rockers in the mod era
  • 1961 Ted to Mod transition 1 – Rob Nicholls (1944-)
  • 1950s The Millets – middle-class teens
  • 1950s The British espresso revolution
  • 1950s UK demography 1950–60
  • 1950s–1970s White light: Before the orange sodium lights
  • 1960s ‘standing on the corner, swinging my chain’
  • 1962 ‘The Boys’
  • 1960 ‘Fings ain’t wot they used t’be’
  • 1959 ‘Beat Girl’
  • 1959 ‘Boy Meets Girl’ ITV
  • 1959 ‘Drumbeat’ BBC
  • 1957 The beatniks
  • 1957 Colin MacInnes: London urban reality novelist
  • 1958 ‘Les Tricheurs’ (‘The Cheats’)
  • 1957 Jack Kerouac and teds in Soho
  • 1940s The naughty guardsmen
  • 1942 Zootsuiters and pachucos
  • 1950s British jazzniks
  • 1940s–1950s The post-war British jazz scene
  • 1945 French be-boppers and Boris Vian
  • 1955 Margarete Berger-Hamerschlag’s teds
  • 1954 Eva Sivertsen’s Cockney teds
  • 1974 ‘Get Some In’
  • 1959 Bruce Davidson, photographer of the Jokers greaser gang, Brooklyn
  • 1958-59 ‘Oh Boy!’ ABC Television
  • 1948 The New-Edwardians
  • 1957 ‘Nice Time’
  • 1957 ‘The Six-Five Special’
  • Whence the mods?
  • 1959 Ted to mod transition – Stuart Hall article
  • 1956 British Pathé’s elephant trunk
  • 1959 ‘I Ragazzi del Juke Box’
  • 1959 ‘Juke-box urli d’Amore’
  • 1958 Colin Hicks and his Cabin Boys
  • October 1961 – the day the Beatles killed the quiff
  • 1958 ‘We are the Lambeth Boys’
  • 1959 Teds and Rude Boys
  • 1973 ‘Une vie comme ça’ (‘Such a Life’)
  • 2011 ‘Here come the Teds’ UKTV (parts 1-2)
  • 1959-63 The Blousons Noirs
  • 1963 Teds in Pontypridd
  • 1956 The only ted who got to be friends with Elvis
  • 1960s teds, Nelson, South Wales
  • 1960 ‘Living for Kicks’
  • 1960 Royston Ellis, beatnik disparager of teds
  • 1952 An original early 50s Edwardian who hated rock’n’roll and despised teddy boys
  • 1955 ‘The Ladykillers’
  • 1958 National Association of Teddy Boys
  • 1954 Vicky Boys
  • 1955 ‘Momma Don’t Allow’
  • 1962 ‘Some People’
  • 1942 The Zazous

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