Honorary birthday memory for Paul O'Grady who promoted Crossroads probably more than anyone in recent years across his TV and Radio shows. Here is Jane Rossington playing Lily Savage's sister Vera in a dramatic reconstruction on The Lily Savage Show
#Pride2026 The Jester at 42 Holloway Circus. Opened in 1964, the venue was popular with the LGBT+ community from the mid-1970s through to the 90s. The venue closed in 2019. Ref โ WK/B11/9358 @LibraryofBham@BirminghamPride@birminghamlgbt
@PopcornPost_ First saw him in the Poseidon Adventure - in the Radio Times Terry Wogan described him as a man with a face like a side of underdone pork - loved him ever since
@televisiondavid โPlates cups cushions people - everything will go out that windowโ
Has stayed with me for over 50 years -
I never undo my seatbelt
Weโre sorry to hear of the imminent closure of the House of Fraser. Hereโs a trip back to the glory days of the Rackhams Food Hall in a brochure from 1966. Ref โ L 62.31 @LibraryofBham@houseoffraser
If it's first time on an airplane and you're sitting in the window seat where you can see that, it's initially a little disconcerting. ๐
Of course no worse than flying on old DC3 belonging to an airline called Air Sunshine in the 1970s from Miami to Key West. Walking uphill to get to your seat and then seeing oil coming from the engine and flowing across the wing. ๐
Rod Taylor on "The Time Machine" (1960):
"The Time Machine" (1960) is a big part of my life because it was my first starring role. It was made for 600,000 bucks and nobody thought it would be anything. [But now] it's probably the biggest classic of of science fiction movies ever. There were no computers in those days. This was all movie-making and tricksters and cartooning and modeling. So for "The Time Machine" to have become so classically wonderful is a feat of movie-making."
(Rod Taylor's interview to TCM, 1996)
P.S: On this day, 66 years ago, George Pal's "The Time Machine" (1960) premiered in Rome, Italy.