Margarete Berger-Hamerschlag’s Journey into a Fog was published in May 1955 by Gollancz. It was a portrait of underprivileged youth at a club in west London’s Paddington and Kilburn districts and was compared to the depiction of youth in the film ‘Blackboard Jungle’ although as the January 1956 reviewer in Kirkus Review wrote: “the revelation […]
The Golden Era
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
Under the unpromising title Cockney Phonology (1960) we get a pretty accurate transcript of the way teds were viewed by some inhabitants of Bethnal Green in 1955.
1974 ‘Get Some In’
Aired on ITV between October 1975 and May 1978, the comedy series ‘Get Some In’ was set in 1955 around a bunch of conscripts. The Christmas special (broadcast between Series 1 and 2), set at RAF Skelton, was captioned “Christmas 1955”, but the remainder of the series (involving two changes of camp) continued to be […]
