Continuity and Change in English Culture

by Kieran Healy on February 11, 2008

1958 Aldeburgh Carnival and Lifeboat Launch.

1995 Aldeburgh Carnival and Lifeboat Launch.

Post-jump bonus:

1957 Saxmundham to Aldeburgh Railway Line journey.

Cross-channel air ferry, 1958. How much would that have cost back then?

And finally,

Armstrong & Miller WWII RAF sketch.

{ 10 comments }

1

leinad 02.11.08 at 4:23 am

Like that last video is the best innit.

2

stostosto 02.11.08 at 1:05 pm

Continuity and Change in English Culture

Where’s the change?

3

aaron 02.11.08 at 2:42 pm

did his face look bovvered to you?

4

Matthew Kuzma 02.11.08 at 3:41 pm

I think I can safely say I’ve never heard a song sung entirely in falsetto by a woman before. It’s like listening to a woman pretending to be a woman. That and her incessant use of tremolo go a long way toward making her sound exactly like a horse.

I, for one, welcome an England without horse singers.

5

ian 02.11.08 at 4:12 pm

I think it was Tiny Tim – an acquired taste…

6

kb 02.11.08 at 7:15 pm

“How much would that have cost back then?”

According to <a href=”http://www.classic-car-quest.co.uk/featuresitem.asp?feature=Flying+the+Channel.htm”
here around £5 10s for a small car + £3 for an adult.

So just short of the average weekly wage of around a tenner.

7

kb 02.11.08 at 7:17 pm

hmm screwed up that link.

try again

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Kieran Healy 02.11.08 at 8:26 pm

Cheaper than I would have guessed.

9

TMH 02.12.08 at 1:32 pm

The singer wasn’t Tiny Tim but Jo Stafford in her guise as Darlene Edwards. (With band leader husband Paul Weston – aka Jonathan Edwards – she performed classic songs very badly but to great effect)

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Adam Roberts 02.12.08 at 2:11 pm

Listening to the singer from that first video (as ian says: Tiny Tim, isnt it?) and suddenly the Goons make more sense.

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