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.
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leinad 02.11.08 at 4:23 am
Like that last video is the best innit.
stostosto 02.11.08 at 1:05 pm
Continuity and Change in English Culture
Where’s the change?
aaron 02.11.08 at 2:42 pm
did his face look bovvered to you?
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.
ian 02.11.08 at 4:12 pm
I think it was Tiny Tim – an acquired taste…
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.
kb 02.11.08 at 7:17 pm
hmm screwed up that link.
try again
Kieran Healy 02.11.08 at 8:26 pm
Cheaper than I would have guessed.
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)
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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