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1958 dancing to rock’n’roll at home in the East End

Taken from a short 1958 documentary ‘The More we are Together’ on the extended Gladden family of Bethnal Green. We can see an excerpt showing young girls and their parents amusing themselves dancing to rock’n’roll tunes at home.

1957 Blackpool holidays

This 1957 colour film ‘Holiday’ is a great illustration of the traditional holiday season in Blackpool. 1John Taylor, the director was shooting a standard 1950s travelogue of the Lancashire Coast for British Transport Films and ‘Holiday’ was created from the spares by editor Ralph Sheldon who had established a reputation for setting pictures to music. This […]

1959 BBC documentary on New York youth gangs

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/panorama-new-york-juvenile-delinquents/z7yn2sg

1955 BBC documentary on two London teds

The long-running BBC documentary series ‘Special Enquiry’ (1952-57) broadcast a half-hour documentary on ‘Teenagers : What are they ? What do they want ?’ on the 1st of November 1955 in which there was a short 6-minute slot on ‘The Teddy Boys’. The 6-minute slot in ‘Teenagers’ of two London teds, Pat and Mike, is just […]

1964 rockers’ good deeds in Southend

Nick Vince identifies near the Arches cafés on Western Esplanade Southend on Sea. Tomassis café in rear at start of reel. All looks the same 50 years later. Southend Pier features later …

1956 ted cameo in ‘The Crown’

The year is 1956, and Old Compton Street, Soho, is pictured in the Netflix series ‘The Crown’. The series was the costliest ever for Netflix and has been praised for its high production values.  

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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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