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Murphy’s Law strikes Guido and the Daily Telegraph
Hard times at Daily Telegraph Towers. The once great newspaper that now produces tons of clickbait balls is looking to remove staff. Guido Fawkes tells his readers as much:
Yesterday the … (read more)
Posted: 30th, March 2017 | In: Broadsheets, Reviews | 0 Comments
Kill The Toff: The Prolific John Creasey And His Class Act
Kill The Toff first published in 1950
THE Toff, or to give him his proper name, the Honourable Richard Rollison, was the creation of the novelist John Creasey … (read more)
Posted: 30th, June 2014 | In: Books, Flashback, Key Posts | 0 Comments
Terry-Thomas, Jimmy Tarbuck And The Diamond Cigarette Holder Heist
Posted: 30th, June 2014 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, Key Posts | 0 Comments
D-Day’s First Reporter: Gustav The Pigeon And The Message He Brought Home
Gustav the Pigeon’s report from the beaches of Normandy, 6 June, 1944.
THE first war-correspondent dispatch from the D-Day landings came from Gustav, an RAF Coastal Command homing-pigeon, released … (read more)
Posted: 6th, June 2014 | In: Flashback, Reviews, Strange But True | 0 Comments
Charlie Chaplin’s Visit to A Starstruck London in 1921
CHARLIE Chaplin was woken on the morning 17 September 1921 while … (read more)
Posted: 13th, May 2014 | In: Celebrities, Flashback, Key Posts | 0 Comments
The Rise and Fall of Les McKeown and the Bay City Rollers
The Bay City Rollers, 1974. The Press Association Archives.
THE BBC say it’s 60 million while The Guardian wrote that it was 120 million, The Scotsman, no … (read more)
Posted: 23rd, April 2014 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Music | 0 Comments
The Blind Beggar And The Bloody Killing of George Cornell by Ronnie Kray
Ronald Kray 1969 – At last in Gaol.
ONE hundred and one years after the evangelist William Booth preached his first open air sermon outside the Blind … (read more)
Posted: 14th, March 2014 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | 0 Comments
May 25 1951: The Story Of The Day Traitors Burgess and Maclean Left Town
Posted: 6th, March 2014 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | 0 Comments
The Rise And Fall of Benny Hill
Benny Hill wanted his women to be … (read more)
Posted: 24th, February 2014 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | 0 Comments
The Valentine’s Day Massacre And A Nightclub Toilet
Posted: 14th, February 2014 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | 0 Comments
How Mary Quant’s Mini-Skirt Made London ‘Atwinkle With Thighs’ And Swing
Mary Quant in 1963 /AP/Press Association Images
EVERYBODY knows that Mary Quant invented the mini-skirt. Except she didn’t. In reality nobody really knows for sure who produced … (read more)
Posted: 11th, February 2014 | In: Celebrities, Fashion, Flashback, Key Posts | 0 Comments
There Used To Be A Chelsea Drugstore On The King’s Road
THESE days the King’s Road looks not unlike … (read more)
Posted: 27th, January 2014 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, The Consumer | 1 Comment
As Hitler’s Boxer Said To The Actress: Silent Anny Ondra Was Hitchcock’s Star Of Britain’s First ‘Talkie’
Posted: 12th, January 2014 | In: Celebrities, Film, Flashback, Key Posts | 0 Comments
Extreme Dieting: Keith Moon Versus Hunter S Thompson
THE late Keith Moon was … (read more)
Posted: 27th, December 2013 | In: Books, Celebrities, Key Posts, Music | 2 Comments
‘Our Nelson Mandelas’ – The IRA’s Balcombe Street Gang
Posted: 10th, December 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Politicians | 0 Comments
The Rise And Fall of ‘Hippiedilly’ In 1969
Posted: 5th, December 2013 | In: Fashion, Flashback, Key Posts, Music | 0 Comments
The Judges of Miss World, 1970: Bombs, Blacks And The Angry Brigade
ON 21 November 1970, in his usual smooth and professional manner and while, “the girls were changing into their extremely expensive evening gowns”, Michael Aspel introduced the judges of that … (read more)
Posted: 28th, November 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | 0 Comments
Blow-Up: When the Swinging Sixties Came to Stockwell
Posted: 18th, November 2013 | In: Film, Flashback, Key Posts | 0 Comments
