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Charlie Cairoli was the clown at The Blackpool Tower Circus who delighted audiences both there and on TV for decades. Di...
14/07/2025

Charlie Cairoli was the clown at The Blackpool Tower Circus who delighted audiences both there and on TV for decades. Discover more about his life and his archive which is a cornerstone of the town’s new showbiz museum in our July issue. classicmagazines.co.uk/digital22bob

England and Wales play their first Women’s Euro 2025 games today. Join us for the July issue, as we remember the Lost Li...
05/07/2025

England and Wales play their first Women’s Euro 2025 games today. Join us for the July issue, as we remember the Lost Lionesses who played the unofficial 1971 Women’s World Cup and the former bus driver and Spanish civil war veteran who coached them. classicmagazines.co.uk/digital22bob

Roger Taylor carried the torch for British men’s tennis throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. He appeared in three ...
30/06/2025

Roger Taylor carried the torch for British men’s tennis throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. He appeared in three Wimbledon singles semi-finals – 1967, 1970 and 1973. He also reached the Australia Open semi-finals in 1970 and won the US Open men’s double titles in 1971 and 1972. Discover how Yorkshire grit got him to the top of British tennis in our July issue feature. classicmagazines.co.uk/digital22bob

The actor David Tomlinson died 25 years ago today. After a brief spell in the Grenadier Guards, he worked as a clerk for...
24/06/2025

The actor David Tomlinson died 25 years ago today. After a brief spell in the Grenadier Guards, he worked as a clerk for Shell-Mex & BP. From an interest in amateur dramatics, he would appear in the film Quiet Wedding before serving as a flight lieutenant in the RAF during World War Two. He would go on to appear in films such as The Wooden Horse, Here Come the Huggetts and The Magic Box but is best known for his work with Disney including Mary Poppins, The Love Bug and Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Join us for the July issue as we speak to Please Sir!’s David Barry, remember Blackpool Tower Circus clown Charlie Cairo...
24/06/2025

Join us for the July issue as we speak to Please Sir!’s David Barry, remember Blackpool Tower Circus clown Charlie Cairoli, profile tennis star Roger Taylor, celebrate the “Lost Lionesses” who played the 1971 Women’s World Cup, discover the story of the Derbyshire oilfield and hear from the musicians who spearheaded the “British Invasion” of the 1960s. classicmagazines.co.uk/digital22bob

The painter and musician Stuart Sutcliffe, best-known as the Beatles' original bass guitarist, was born 85 years ago tod...
23/06/2025

The painter and musician Stuart Sutcliffe, best-known as the Beatles' original bass guitarist, was born 85 years ago today.

Film director Terence Fisher died 45 years ago today. Best known for his work for Hammer Films, he directed classics suc...
18/06/2025

Film director Terence Fisher died 45 years ago today. Best known for his work for Hammer Films, he directed classics such as The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958) and The Mummy.

In 1960, the first Tonibell Ice Cream vans were launched on Britain’s streets. Learn a little more about the company’s h...
15/06/2025

In 1960, the first Tonibell Ice Cream vans were launched on Britain’s streets. Learn a little more about the company’s history and meet the man who operates the last Tonibell vans in the June issue. classicmagazines.co.uk/digital22bob

Have you read our June issue yet? It's on shelves now!Why not subscribe and get future issues of Best of British deliver...
11/06/2025

Have you read our June issue yet? It's on shelves now!

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Back in the early 20th century, a wide variety of performers, including acrobatic high divers, became huge hits with hol...
11/06/2025

Back in the early 20th century, a wide variety of performers, including acrobatic high divers, became huge hits with holidaymakers in Brighton. Discover more about Brighton’s “Professors” and their death-defying acts in the June issue. http://classicmagazines.co.uk/digital22bob

The musician David Dundas is 80 today. The second son of the 3rd Marquess of Zetland, Dundas shared a house with Vivian ...
02/06/2025

The musician David Dundas is 80 today. The second son of the 3rd Marquess of Zetland, Dundas shared a house with Vivian MacKerrell and Bruce Robinson when they were at drama school together. He would go on to write the score for Robinson’s Withnail & I, along with Fourscore – Channel 4’s original signature tune – but he is perhaps best known for the hit single Jeans On, which peaked at No 3 in August 1976.

The actor Richard Greene died 40 years ago today. Although he appeared in many films including The Hound of the Baskervi...
01/06/2025

The actor Richard Greene died 40 years ago today. Although he appeared in many films including The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), Yellow Canary (1943), Lorna Doone (1951) and The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968), he is best known for playing the lead in the long-running television series The Adventures of Robin Hood.

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