Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Wednesday, 18 March 2026

the weathermen's place is up for sale

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An old post re-upped With a really corny headline about the apartment exploding onto the market, the place that ' The Weatherme...
Sunday, 6 June 2021

charles c ebbets looking cool shooting lunch atop a skyscraper

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Charles Clyde Ebbets was the photographer, on September 20th 1932, who took the iconic photographs of the workmen sitting high up on a gird...

the original popeye

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Here's a fact that not many people know.  Popeye the Sailor Man was based on an actual person. He was a sailor called Frank 'Rocky...
Friday, 15 January 2021

laura nyro at monterey 1967

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I was watching the out-takes of the Monterey Festival from 1967 last night (as you do), and thought l'd share this mesmerising footage o...
Tuesday, 10 November 2020

colourised snowball fight in lyon, france 1896, plus les enfants terribles and la machine infernale by jean cocteau

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An 1896 colourised Lumiere brothers film of a snowball fight in Lyon, France. As usual, the colourisation process ( details of the process u...
Monday, 26 October 2020

andy neill's ready steady go book, and word in your ear

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I received my copy of Andy Neill's Ready Steady Go book at the weekend, and to say l'm impressed would be a massive understatement. ...
Sunday, 20 September 2020

new cold war steve

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 An update of a famous old photograph by Cold War Steve. Sad that it is still so pertinent Toodle pip
Saturday, 19 September 2020

nashville radio stations top 40 requests from 1976

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This is a Nashville radio stations top 40 requests from 1976. It looks like it would have been the station l would have listened to if l liv...
Sunday, 26 April 2020

a tony hancock painting from the rebel has been spotted

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An excellent spot by Steve Hardy regarding a lost Tony Hancock 'Masterpiece' from 'The Rebel'. It was thought the painting...
Saturday, 25 April 2020

me and my uncle - joni mitchell, john phillips, the grateful dead and judy collins

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Me and My Uncle was written by John Phillips of The Mamas and Papas during an evening of much merriment, or at least it seems so, as he cou...
Friday, 17 April 2020

barnacle bill the sailor - film and song

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I watched an old Ealing Studios comedy last night that l hadn't seen before called Barnacle Bill (Released as 'All at Sea...
Saturday, 19 October 2019

the vertigo label and bridget riley - with a bit of marcel duchamp thrown in

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Following on about the Rod Stewart Vertigo albums in the post below, l would not like to cast aspersions about where the vertigo design cam...
Saturday, 17 August 2019

anthony newley - the strange world of gurney slade

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I re-watched Anthony Newley's 'The Strange World of Gurney Slade' last night, as l am a fan of Newley's, but l am still ama...
Friday, 19 July 2019

space - walking in the final frontier and deep purple - space trucking

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As it's the anniversary of the Moon landing this week, here's some more space related stuff (see earlier blog). The first picture ...

mick jagger running down the beatles at the abbey road crossing

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Brilliant stuff! Mick Jagger running down The Beatles at the Abbey Road crossing. Whoever put this together deserves a medal. toodle ...
Thursday, 11 July 2019

vanity fair moon landings / nasa at 40 special feature

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As it's the anniversary of the moon landings, l thought l would stick these up - a Vanity Fair article around NASA turning 40 that l ri...
Saturday, 9 March 2019

oswald mosley injured in liverpool - what joy!

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I know it happened elsewhere as well as Liverpool, but l'm always pleased when fascist organisations get their comeuppance. When Oswal...
Monday, 4 March 2019

britain's oldest man - henry jenkins

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Apparently Britain's oldest man, Henry Jenkins lived and died near where l live, and is buried at St Mary's Church, Bolton on Swale...