A truly wonderful snapshot in time…so great to see this after so many years…As always Albert and Harold are hilarious 😂
Steptoe and Son on the Ken Dodd Show
Sunday 24th July 1966
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How gorgeous is this? Cruising my narrowboat along a London canal and these swans and their cygnets paddling alongside me. The cutest thing. (Apologies for dodgy camerawork as trying to steer my boat at the same time)
“When a train passes a signal box, the signal man sends an electric bell message to the next cabin. This means the “train has passed my section of line!”
(In the Train, 1955)
Artist: WC Watson
“In the shallow water at the edge of the lake, a coot sits on her nest, which she and her mate have made with pieces of reed stems”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe. Writer: EL Grant Watson
On the Parkinson show, Eric Morecambe discusses his first heart attack and the help he received from a passing member of the public, Walter Butterworth.
"Books only have two smells. The smell of a new book, which is good, and the smell of an old book, which is even better."
- Ray Bradbury
📷 the vintage library on IG
Remembering the sublime genius, Maurice Cole, AKA Kenny Everett, who passed away on this day in 1995.
Here he is in a very famous sketch alongside his friend and regular co-star, Billy Connolly, that took almost a day to record. Why? Well, because they hadn't hired any extras for the sketch they roped in some music hall performers who were recording in the studio next door and they all appeared in costume, much to the amusement of Kenny and Billy. The punchline was reached eventually, but they decided to include the outtakes.
God bless Cuddly Ken x
The Hound of the Baskervilles is 87 today. First of 14 films with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, it’s a cinema landmark, defining the duo’s on-screen image for a generation. For many, Rathbone remains the quintessential World's Greatest Detective