Search results

This is my greatest memory, and the most wonderful. 55 years ago. Easter Saturday, April 1st 1961 @ 2pm. St. Andrews Church, Norwich. marrying my lovely wife Beryl. Easter Sunday: Both of us travelling to Bournemouth to commence a summer season at the Pavilion Ballroom. Easter Monday...

Men button up on the right. Girls button up on the left. Eddie.

Just got me thinking about how we, as musicians, got around in the fifties. Very few cars around in those days, and even fewer young drivers. When John Crump (Oldbrit), and I worked in a band together, the only driver was Rob, the bass player. We would pile into the car, John, myself, a piano...

During the fifties, our bass player, Vince Thomas, carried his double bass on the bus, for 'gigs' in Birmingham, two or three times to my knowledge. He used to get funny looks, but no conductor turned him off the bus. Eddie

During WW2 we often drank OXO cubes in water. Very good nourishing and sustainable nutrition. None of your fancy sugar rich drinks in those days! Eddie

Alice Faye was the heroine in the original KING KONG. Eddie

Absolutely, Viv.

Paper sizes were known as crowns, double crowns and quads. The Picture Post advert would have been quad sheets. Probably around 28 or 32 sheets. Certainly an even number. A quad sheet was the largest that a bill poster would have handled.I cannot remember the size of a quad. Too long ago. Eddie

I am not sure that the British public was deferential to Queen Victoria. Like her or not, she was a huge part of their life. Having reigned for over 64 years, for the majority of the huge crowd shown in the photograph, she was the only monarch that they would have known. Pretty much the same as...

In the 1950's I had parked in Corporation Street (it was possible in those days). A police car pulled in behind me, only he did not, he ran into the back of me. His front bumper went under my rear bumper, and his lovely chrome bell fitted to the front of his car, went over the top of my rear...

Yes, John. Colin married a band singer by the name of Phillipa Worth. She had worked with the Colin Hulme Band at Tony's Ballroom, in Hurst Street. She was still alive the last time I heard. Eddie

John, in answer to you question. Colin died around 2004 from a brain haemorrhage. This was around a year after Colin and I had met up a couple of times. Eddie

Enjoy your day, and best wishes from Norfolk. Eddie

Yesterday my wife and I were in B & Q looking at different things. While we were standing by the wallpaper adhesives, we started chatting to a member from B & Q about wall paper. and I mentioned that my father used to use flour and water to paste onto wallpaper to hang it. This young lady...

Re: Johnny Hocken. Maybe this is better. Eddie

Johnny Hocken lived directly across the road from us, in Anderton Road. He was a fine pianist, but a very strange man. He lived with his mother, and was almost a recluse. I often tried to have a conversation with him, but the response was always just "Yes, or No". Not a great conversationalist...

Came across this piece of sad news from 1967. Mavis Taylor was a very fine singer, and had joined the Colin Hulme Band when the band opened the Locarno in Birmingham. Later Colin moved to Nottingham, and Mavis went with the band, travelling from Birmingham to Nottingham each evening, and...

The first post war issue of The Sports Argus (The Pink 'Un), was around 1947. At the time I was a 14 year old paperboy, working for Jellymans Newsagents in Stoney Lane, and near the corner of Stratford Road. Obviously the newspaper could not be printed until all the Saturday football results...

Sad to read the passing of Paul Daniels. He was a much joked about personality, but he was a very talented conjuror, and magician. I can say from my own experience that he was a very professional man. Not only did I work with him on a couple of occasions, but in 1974 we booked him for the...

Still better than a Hershey bar, Smudger!