(Continued from part one)
Rock around the clock
Before the birth of Rock ānā Roll and its arrival in Britain, the most popular form of music amongst young people was Skiffle. Influenced ...
What was life like as a teenager 60 years ago in the mid 1950s?
We have a Technicolor image of post-war 50s, but whilst America experienced fast-rising rates of prosperity and ...
Small beginnings can be important. A chance remark at a lecture to a well-established evening class at Warwickshire County Record Office in the autumn of 1988 was the starting point ...
Dunchurch has been ‘yarn bombed’ to celebrate 100 years of the local Women’s Institute (WI) which started in 1919. Trees, seats and historic features have been decorated in gaily-coloured knitting ...