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1958 National Association of Teddy Boys

About 2005, John Facer set up the Federation of Teddy Boys in the hope it would bring teds together. If I remember correctly, some dissent was expressed from the ranks of teddy boys who visited his forum and John didn’t continue with the idea (one which I liked, especially as John has never badmouthed 70s […]

1954 Vicky Boys

Ernie Hill. 1954. ‘Dressed in styles of 1830’s: ‘Vicky Boys’ all rage in London’. In Pittsburgh Press 03.09.1954, p.10. Chicago Daily News Foreign Service. LONDON. Sept. 3 – The gay young blades of London are going wild over a new fashion fad. They are having their tailors cut them suits similar to those worn during […]

1955 ‘Momma Don’t Allow’

Teds in the 1955 documentary ‘Momma Don’t Allow’ The Fishmongers Arms, Wood Green, north-west London (Part 1) I went searching for some details concerning the Fishmongers Arms, the first London venue played by Crazy Cavan and the Rhythm Rockers in the 1970s when I discovered it was the same venue portrayed in the short film […]

1962 ‘Some People’

Johnnie and Beeza Bill eating chips

Part 1 Dressing in velvet collared long drapes seem to have gone out of fashion in Britain after the summer of 1958 with the Notting Hill Riots having equated teds not only with hooliganism but with out-and-out racism. Coincidentally the rock’n’roll hits from America were beginning to soften the beat and to add orchestral arrangements […]

1942 The Zazous

Part 1 The origins of the Edwardian style in late 1940s London It has often enough been written that the teddy boys were a wholly British phenomenon and that their sartorial style was influenced by the revival of an Edwardian style after World War II – whence the name. The style as developed by the […]

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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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