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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.  

1990 ‘People try to put us down …’ BBC documentary on teds, rockers, mods and skinheads

A 17-minute BBC Manchester educational documentary of Producer Marilyn Wheatcroft who was later to become head of BBC Education between 1995 and 2000. Many parts of ‘People try to put us down …’ are found on a 38-minute edited documentary put up on YouTube in 2016 by ‘Trashville Productions’ (attributed to Marleigh and Rushgrove).

1962 Square Saint Lambert, Paris

1962RTF documentary on Square Saint Lambert, where the ‘blouson noir’ phenomenon was born 4 years earlier. What a young bloke likes: “Le madison, le twist, le rock, tout ce qui est à la mode” ‘Tout naturellement on va au cinéma, tout naturellement on choisis les films de violence” 0:31 Armés de barres de fer et… […]

Hector, the French Sutch

Is there such a thing as a Screamin’ Lord Sutch in any other country but England ? Apparently, yes, and in France he went under the name of Hector, his backing band being the Médiators. Of course, both Lord Sutch and Hector were inspired by the original schlock rocker, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. Born in Paris […]

Americanisation, processed food and obesity since the 1940s

In the present day, using body-mass index (BMI) measurements, the medical profession distinguishes between classifying human bodies which are described as ‘fat’ in everyday speech as technically – in ascending order – as ‘overweight’ > ‘obese’ > ‘morbidly obese’. In 1962, only 13% of Americans were obese, by 2016 that figure had increased to over […]

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Posts in The Golden Era

  • 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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