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British Icon of the Sixties - Dusty Springfield
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Licenced To Thrill
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Looking Back: Sheffield Girl - The First 19¾ Years
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Bob Edwards' Black Country Memories
Trips down memory lane - going to Cornwall in a Morris Oxford - Surviving the coldest winter ever! - TV, Pets and Toys - Sunday at Nan's and lots more besides...

Doing My National Service by Bill Hawksford
How one man survived conscription

The 1940s
Vera Lynn film clip
Introduction to the 1940s

The 1950s
London Cafeterias film clip
Introduction to the 1950s

British Music Charts of the 1950s
Who was number one and when
Music and Film Clips:
Jo Stafford - "You Belong To Me"
Rosemary Clooney - "Mambo Italiano"
Doris Day - "Que Sera Sera"
Elvis Presley - "Jailhouse Rock"

1950s Music Makers - The Million Sellers
With facts and biographies.

British Television in the 1950s
What British television had to offer in the 1950s

British Films of the 1950s
Twelve of the best - films you wouldn't want to miss!

The Flowers of Manchester
In February 1958 tragedy struck Manchester United football club when eight of their most gifted players were killed after their plane crashed on a Munich airfield.

The 1960s
Sid James Narates Look at Life film clip
Introduction to the 1960s
And I Love Her - The Beatles

The Profumo Affair
A Very British affair - sexual intrigue, political subterfuge a Government minister and spies!

Miscellany
British TV Ads - film clip
London Late 1940s film clip

Seaside Postcards
The history of the British saucy postcard

Britain on Film
DVD's to purchase showing the best of Britain past and present

Keith Moon Stole My Lipstick

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Johnny Seven - The Ultimate Boys' Toy of the 1960s
The 'Must Have' Toy of 1965
Give-A-Show Projector

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Richard Digance - 200 Remembers film clip

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BRITISH MUSIC CHARTS OF THE 1950s
The first British Pop Charts were published in 1952. This article looks at those chart facts and gives titles and dates for every British Number 1 from the 1950s

THE MILLION SELLERS
The story behind the 1950s records and recording artists who sold a million or more from 1950 to 1959. The Gold Disc facts and biographies.

BRITISH TELEVISION IN THE FIFTIES
What British television had to offer in the 1950s.

BRITISH FILMS OF THE 1950s
Twelve of the best - films you wouldn't want to miss!

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