Web Page  No 2208

3^rd November 2015

 

Top Picture: Commercial Road with Dunns the outfitters on the left. Note M&S in the background and the large clock hanging over Samuels the jewellers.

Second Picture: Burtons 

Advertising poster

Third Picture: John Colliers the Fifty Shilling taylors. Could not find a picture of the Portsmouth store so this is Merthyr Tydfil 

Men’s Outfitters

In the 1950s and 60s the average business man bought a new suit every couple of years or so and in 1965 the menswear industry sold over thirteen million suits. Most of these were bought at one of a large number of menswear chains which were common on Britain's high streets right up until the 1970s. However the average working man would have just one suit which would have to last for years, one sports jacket for casual wear and his working clothes.

The most well known and most prolific of these High Street taylors was Montague Burton a firm which still exists today as just Burtons. However, changes in tastes mean that formal suits now make up only a very small proportion of the what the chain sells today.

On a 1960s high street you might find one of these shops below, listed in order of the number of stores they had:

Burton (still around today)

John Collier (this was originally the famous Fifty Shilling Tailors). It was rebranded and relaunched as 'Collier' in the 1980s but this did not work and the shops closed in 1985]

HepworthTailors  [converted to Next Stores in 1984]

Foster Bros

Greenwoods

Bradleys

John Temple

Alexandre

Neville Reed

Dunn & Cowell known for men’s hats and sporting gear [closed 1995]

Willerby & Co [more of an upmarket tailor]

Smart Weston

Weaver to Wearer

George Doland

Jackson [owned by Burton]

Meakers

Harry Fenton [a favourite Mod label]

Brooks Bros

Peter Pell

Hector Powe

You may notice that very few of these shops still survive today.

Burton was by far the largest chain.  In 1965 there were 511 Burton Tailoring shops in Britain.  Sir Montague Burton founded the empire in 1900 with one shop in Chesterfield and the ambition to bring made to measure tailoring to the average man in the street.  He succeeded and the business prospered.

The second largest chain was John Collier.  There were 331 John Collier stores surviving in 1965.  John Collier had a similar history to Montague Burton.  It was founded by Sir Henry Price in 1907 also trading from just one store this time in Silsden, Yorkshire.  He traded under the name of the Fifty Shilling Tailors.  In 1953 the giant United Draper Stores Limited acquired the Fifty Shilling Tailors and changed the name to John Collier. John Colliers was sold to Hanson in 1983 and finally to the Burton Group in 1985, which then closed its rival.

Buying a suit from one of these shops was not quite what you might imagine.  There was no tailor actually working in these shops and there were no workrooms at the back. The customer went into the shop to be measured by an assistant. This process then took about half an hour, after which the sales assistant sent the measurements to the factory which then manufactured the suit. The customer then arranged to go back to the shop for a fitting a week or two later. This is where the customer tried on the suit for the first time and agreed to any alterations with the sales assistant. It was quite common for the customer to have two or three fittings and the whole process could take about six weeks. For most men over thirty the smart suit remained the only way to dress for going out and  Burton or John Collier suits were good value for money and lasted reasonably well.

The factory was an important part of the shops and the economies of scale allowed Burton, Collier and Hepworth to offer good quality suits at very reasonable prices. In 1967 Burton employed 20,000 people in its tailoring factories and shops.

How much?

A suit from Burton's cost £17 10s (or £17.50) in 1966, about £225 in today's money. You would really struggle to find a made to measure suit for that price today. If you went to a more upmarket shop in the 1960s, such as Austin Reed or Simpson, you would still receive the traditional service complete with several fittings. You would pay considerably more for this, around £50, or £640 in today's money. The end product, according to Which? magazine, was only slightly better.

Suits from Savile Row tailors were cut more generously and offered a slightly better fit than those made by the average high street tailors. But Burton was only slightly behind in terms of the quality of material and wear.

Then along came teenage fashion with ready-made clothes sold in both male and female boutiques. In our area probably one of the first of these shops for men was The Shirt King, I remember one shop in Charlotte Street and a local one in Cosham High Street and these shops sold more than shirts because Its first-ever January Sale cutaway shirts were 12/6d, boots 49/6d, Casual Jackets 50/- (£2.50) and denim shirts 25/-.

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On this day 3^rd November 1960-1965

On 3/11/1960 the number one single was Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Bootsie & Snudge (Granada) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the week was first vertical take-off aircraft tested in Surrey

On 3/11/1961 the number one single was Walkin' Back to Happiness - Helen Shapiro and the number one album was The Shadows - Shadows. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 3/11/1962 the number one single was Telstar - The Tornadoes and the number one album was Out of the Shadows - Shadows. The top rated TV show was The Royal Variety Performance (BBC) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 3/11/1963 the number one single was You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & the Pacemakers and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the week was Beatlemania born.

On 3/11/1964 the number one single was (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandy Shaw and the number one album was A Hard Day's Night - Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 3/11/1965 the number one single was Tears - Ken Dodd and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

Web Page  No 2206

27^th October 2015

Top Picture: Open topped bus at Southsea

Second Picture: Harbour Defences at Eastney

Third Picture: Canoe Lake

Forth Picture: Rock Gardens Café

Fifth Picture: The Rock Gardens

A Day at Southsea

When we were youngsters and our families did not own a car it was a treat to have a day out at the seaside. In our family if we did not go by train to Hayling Island it was onto the number 31 Southdown bus and off down to the sea front at Southsea where we would travel along the front on the top of a number 25 Corporation Bus Service bus right from Eastney through to Billy Mannings at Clarence pier.

It was at the Eastney end that the sand could be found and it was here also we could see the legacy of the war years as we looked out to sea. How many of you remember the piles set into the sea bed across the Solent as in the picture above? Eastney was also the home of the Royal Marines and so there was always a chance of seeing some form of amphibious landing rehearsals.

Just along from the beach at Eastney and on the landward side of the Seafront Road was, and I think, still is a large Pitch and Putt course, I can only actually remember playing on it once. Past Lumps Fort and the Model Village (again I can only remember a single visit to this attraction) and then it was Canoe Lake and if I was lucky a chance to play in the pedal boats staying well clear of the model boats! 

Walking towards South Parade Pier there were many Tea Stalls selling Trays for the Beach and it seemed to me that we always had to stop hire a couple of deck chairs for an hour for my parents to take tea! I always had to sit on the shingle. Here we would eat the packed lunch mother had carried all the way from Drayton.

After tea it was back to the prom and walk past all the tour coaches advertising trios to various places in the area. Who remembers the White Heather and Byngs Coach company’s?

Then it was onto the pier to explore the slot machines and other attractions on the pier, the end of the pier show, watching the steamers call in on their Isle of Wight run, or just people watching. Later in life you would have found me in the theatre for pop concerts, here or in the Savoy across the road but that is another story.

Back again to the prom and passing the Southdown Bus stop along to the Rock Gardens Pavilion for more tea sat on the patio. This part was always frustration because I knew once we left her it was only a short walk around Southsea Castle to the Motor Boating Lake and the Miniature Train both of which I could be guaranteed a ride on. There was also a bathing pool which was always full of children but I do not remember being allowed to swim in there. There was always a short detour back to look at the Floral Clock and the Roller Skating Park.

Then it was a walk along to Billy Mannings fun fair at Clarence Pier. I was not allowed on the Wild Mouse but could stand and watch!

If this day out was around Easter time or towards the end of the season we would stay to see the Seafront lights come on with all the illuminated tableaux. Now we had to retrace our steps to view the lights until we reached the Rock Gardens, with its Sunburst illumination, where we would cut through the Gardens to see the illuminated flower beds and the fountain with its changing coloured water and the illuminated lily pads and plastic frogs.

A look at the clown display on the pier and the seals with the bouncing ball on top of the Tea Stall

It was then back to the South Parade Southdown bus stop, climb aboard the number 31 and back home tired and happy.  

Looking at the three photographs which were taken on one of these walks it is very obvious that things today are very different. My father is wearing a suit with a collar and tie and a buttoned up cardigan and my mother was wearing a smart coat, a little hat with gloves and carrying a matching handbag. There is no photo of me so I have no idea what my parents dressed me in for a day out in 1957.

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On this day 27^th October 1960-1965

On 27/10/1960 the number one single was Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Take Your Pick (AR) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 27/10/1961 the number one single was Walkin' Back to Happiness - Helen Shapiro and the number one album was Black & White Minstrel Show - George Mitchell Minstrels. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.The big news story of the day was Britain grants Malta autonomy.

On 27/10/1962 the number one single was Telstar - The Tornadoes and the number one album was Best of Ball Barber & Bilk. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Cuban Missile Crisis. Very scary at the time.

On 27/10/1963 the number one single was Do You Love Me? - Brian Poole & the Tremoloes and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 27/10/1964 the number one single was (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me - Sandy Shaw and the number one album was A Hard Day's Night - Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.27 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 27/10/1965 the number one single was Tears - Ken Dodd and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

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20^th October 2015

Top Picture: Put a Tiger in your tank

Second Picture: You are never alone with a Strand

Third Picture: The Esso Blee Dooler

You must buy, or so they say.

The 1960s was certainly the era of the advertising slogan, they appeared on hoardings, in the newspaper and comics, on packets, at the cinema and in magazines, the advertising agencies really took off in this period. So, shall we see how many you remember?

We will start with the easy ones, which means if you remember them they did their job and that you still have a memory left. We all remember the bespectacled little cowboy who, in 1965 (that kid must be about retirement age now) declared on television that ‘The Milky Bars are on me’ I never got a feee one did you? Also ‘Sixpence worth of heaven’ was contained in every Caburys Flake and that ‘Murray Mints were the ‘too good to hurry mints’.  But did you know that ‘Brylcreme made the ‘most of a man’ in 1965? The ladies were not forgotten either because in 1960 they were told to ‘Buy nothing until you have bought Vogue’.

The advertisers were keen that we stayed healthy. ‘Have you  Macleaned your teeth today?’ that was in 1965 or ‘You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent’ from a few years earlier. ‘Fore brings out the best in a man’ advertised Fore After Shave in 1969 tagging on after Hi Karate and Brut. Or if you had been unwell ‘Help him to get out and about again with Lucozade.’ Why just him why not her as well?

Food was always a target remember ‘You can taste the trouble they take’ for Findus Fish Fingers in 1969, Findus was the trading name for Youngs Seafoods. Then in 1965 we were told that PG Tips was the ‘Tea you could really taste’. Also did you know that in 1965 ‘The happiest people you meet in the morning get their sunshine out of a box. And the box is Kellogg's.’ Heinz were prime movers in advertising with their 1964 and 1965 slogans ‘Heinz. 57 times better.’ and ‘Heinz beans are so good to grow up with’ because ‘Beanz, meanz, Heinz’. Plus we all knew that ‘In the Inch War, Ryvita helps you win’; and ’ It's the sun that makes it Sunblest’, not to mention Mothers Pride ‘they named it after me’. But we all knew that we had to ‘Go to work on an egg’. Rice Krispies went ‘snap, crackle and pop’.

The kitchen was a prime target for the advertiser with ‘ Easy peasy lemon Sqeezy’ in 1965 and two years later ‘Now that hands that do dishes can feel as soft as your face with mild green Fairy Liquid’.  Tide ‘washes whitest’ and look out for the ‘White Tide Man’ and for heat with the paraffin stove we were told not to forget the ‘Esso Blee Dooler’

Mass motoring was now well under way and the advertisers saw their chances with ads directed at the motorist.’ Get away with a Triumph Herald’ in 1960, ‘Go well, go Shell’ in 1962, or you could ‘Put a Tiger in your tank’ a couple of years later, when everyone had furry tails sticking out of their car filler caps!

If all else failed you knew that you could ‘Talk it over with the man from Prudential. He lives nearby’ (1965) because ‘You are never alone with a Strand’ or so they said in 1960. I think this has been the only TV advert whose specially written music became a hit record ‘The Lonely Man Theme’ by Cliff Adams.

Come the end of the day we were all encouraged to ‘Look in at the local’ maybe for a ‘Schhh ... tonic water by you-know-who’ or maybe ‘What we want is Watneys’. Then after that it was time for bed so you could ‘Sleep sweeter, with Bournvita’ or Horlicks ‘the food drink of the night’.. But that was after the ‘Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is. 'Plink, plink, fizz, fizz.' of Alka Seltzer’

Now for something completely different. Do you remember, during the winter months, walking to school in the snow? Looking for fresh snow to walk in, making snow balls and having snowball fights. Getting to school cold but happy. Snow down your neck was bad but cold, wet, icy woollen gloves resulting in frozen and painful fingers were else as was freezing cold toes inside you wellies.

There is no connection here between the two sections of this page, the snow bit is something that I just remembered!

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On this day 20^th October 1960-1965

On 20/10/1960 the number one single was Tell Laura I Love Her - Ricky Valance and the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was No Hiding Place (AR) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £13.68 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 20/10/1961 the number one single was Michael - The Highwaymen and the number one album was The Shadows - Shadows. The top rated TV show was Sunday Night at the London Palladium (ATV) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

On 20/10/1962 the number one single was Telstar - The Tornadoes and the number one album was Best of Ball Barber & Bilk. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Hyde Park Underpass opens.

On 20/10/1963 the number one single was Do You Love Me? - Brian Poole & the Tremoloes and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Macmillan resigns as Prime Minister.

On 20/10/1964 the number one single was Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison and the number one album was A Hard Day's Night - Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Brezhnev replaces Krushchev.

On 20/10/1965 the number one single was Tears - Ken Dodd and the number one album was The Sound of Music Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Lesley Ann Downey's body found on Pennines.

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13^th October 2015

Top Picture: Margaret Rutherford

 Second Picture: Stringer Davis

Third Picture: In Blythe Spirit


Margaret Rutherford.

There appeared at time in the early 1960’s that whatever film you went to see Margaret Rutherford was almost certain to be in it.

She first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of  Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. In 1963 she won the best supporting actress Oscar and a Golden Globe for her role as The Duchess of Brighton in The VIPs and  was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1961 and a Dame Commander (DBE) in 1967.

Her early life was overshadowed by tragedy. Her father was William Rutherford Benn, a journalist and poet and member of the famous Benn family of London. One month after his marriage to Florence, née Nicholson, on 16^th  December 1882, he suffered a nervous breakdown and was admitted to Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum. Released to travel under family supervision, he murdered his father, the Reverend Julius Benn, a Congregational minister, by bludgeoning him to death with a chamber pot, before he slashed his own throat with a pocket knife at an inn in Matlock on 4^th March 1883. Following the inquest, William Benn was certified insane and moved to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Seven years later, on 26^th  July 1890, he was discharged from Broadmoor, reunited with his wife and legally dropped his surname.

Margaret Taylor Rutherford was an only child and was born in 1892 in Balham. Margaret's father's brother Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet was a British politician and her first cousin once removed was British Labour politician Tony Benn. Hoping to start a new life far from the scene of their recent troubles, the Rutherfords emigrated to Madras. However, Margaret was returned to Britain when she was three to live with her aunt, Bessie Nicholson, in Wimbledon, after her pregnant mother committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree. At twelve years old, Margaret learned that her father was not dead as she had been by her relatives but, in fact, had been readmitted to Broadmoor Hospital in 1903, where he remained under care until his death in 1921.

Her parents' mental afflictions along with a fear that she might succumb to similar maladies haunted her for the rest of her life and contributed to intermittent bouts of depression and anxiety.

She was educated at Wimbledon High School and, from the age of 13, at Raven's Croft School, a boarding school in Seaford. While there, she developed an interest in the theatre and performed in amateur dramatics. Upon leaving school, her aunt Bessie paid for her to have private acting lessons. Also, when Bessie died, it was money from her legacy that allowed Margaret to secure entry into the Old Vic School.

Unbeknown to many she was a talented pianist who first found work as a piano teacher and a teacher of elocution and went into acting late in life, making her stage debut at the Old Vi cin 1925, aged 33. As her celebrated "spaniel jowls" and bulky frame made the part of a romantic heroine out of the question, she soon established her name in comedy, appearing in many of the most successful British plays and films. She made her first appearance in London's West End in 1933 but her talent was not recognised until her performance as Miss Prism in John Gielgud's production of The Importance of Being Earnest  in 1939. In 1941 Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit opened on the London stage at the Piccadilly Theatre, with Noel Coward himself directing. She received rave reviews from audiences and critics alike for her portrayal of the bumbling Madame Arcati. Another theatrical success during the war years included her part as the sinister housekeeper Mrs Danvers in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca in 1940.Her stage career was now set but although she made her film debut in 1936, it was her Madame Arcati in David Lean's film of Blithe Spirit in 1945 that actually established her screen success.

But her forte was comedy, although she always said that no one was more surprised than her when the audience laughed. More comedies followed, including Trouble in Store (1953) with Norman Wisdom, The Runaway Bus (1954) with Frankie Howerd and An Alligator Named Daisy(1955) with Donald Sinden and Diana Dors. she then rejoined Norman Wisdom in Just My Luck and co-starred in The Smallest Show on Earth with Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers and Leslie Phillips. She also joined a host of distinguished comedy stars, including Ian Carmichael and Peter Sellers, in the Boulting Brothers satire I'm All Right Jack.

In the early 1960s she appeared as Miss Jane Marple in a series of four  films loosely based on the novels of Agatha Christie. The films depicted Miss Marple as a colourful character, respectable but bossy and eccentric and it was her outstanding performance in this role that set the mould for Miss Marple on screen for years to come. The actress, then aged in her 70s, insisted on wearing her own clothes for the part and having her husband, Stringer Davis, appear alongside her. In 1963 Christie dedicated her novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side "To Margaret Rutherford in admiration", though the novelist too was critical of the films for diverging from her original plots and playing dramatic scenes for laughs

In 1945 she had married character actor Stringer Davis after a courtship that lasted for 15 years. Stringer Davis' mother reportedly considered Margaret Rutherford an unsuitable match for her son and their marriage were postponed until Mrs Davis' demise. The ex-serviceman and actor rarely left his wife's side, serving as her private secretary, gofer and general dogsbody. More importantly, he nursed and comforted her through periodic debilitating depressions. These illnesses, sometimes involving stays in mental hospitals and electric shock treatment, were kept hidden from the press during her life.

Towards the end of her life she suffered from Alzheimer's and was unable to work. Stringer Davis cared for his wife at their Buckinghamshire home until her death on 22nd May 1972, aged 80. Many of Britain's top actors, including John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Flora Robson and Joyce Grenfell, attended a memorial Service of Thanksgiving at the Actors' Church, St Paul's, Covent Garden on 21^st  July 1972, where 90-year-old Sybil Thorndike praised her friend's enormous talent and recalled that she had "never said anything horrid about anyone".^[10]

She and her husband (who died in 1973) are interred at the graveyard of St. James's Church, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. "A Blithe Spirit" is inscribed on the memorial stone.

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On this day 13^th October 1960-1965

On 13/10/1960 the number one single was Tell Laura I Love Her - Ricky Valance The top rated TV show was Bootsie & Snudge and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was worth £ 13.68 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was the start of the TV series No Hiding Place

On 13/10/1961 the number one single was Michael - The Highwaymen and the number one album was The Shadows - Shadows. The top rated TV show was Sunday Night at the London Palladium and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Ipswich Town were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

 On 13/10/1962 the number one single was Telstar - The Tornadoes and the number one album was Best of Ball Barber & Bilk. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A pound of today's money was worth £12.89 and Everton were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

 On 13/10/1963 the number one single was Do You Love Me? - Brian Poole & the Tremoloes and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's money was worth £12.64 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.

 On 13/10/1964 the number one single was Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison and the number one album was A Hard Day's Night - Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A pound of today's money was worth £12.24 and Manchester United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions. Nikita Krushchev was deposed in the USSR by Leonid Brezhnev

 On 13/10/1965 the number one single was Tears - Ken Dodd and the number one album was Help - The Beatles. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Liverpool were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.