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Annuals from my childhood (8): "The Western Film and T.V. Annual" (1957).
Another fascinating film annual, I bought this one when I was ten years old in 1957. It...
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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012
Annuals of my childhood (7): "By Space Ship To The Moon" (1956).
A book that never failed to fascinate me as it asked the question will man ever go to the moon and,...
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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012
Annuals of my childhood (6): "Walt Disney's Davy Crockett -Indian Fighter" (1956).
Davy Crockett was an enormous hit at this time and every boy, including me, wanted a coonskin hat at...
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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012
Annuals of my childhood (5): "P C 49 ANNUAL, 1955".
This character was very popular on radio and in films at the time. I don't recall if there really...
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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012
Annuals of my childhood (4): "Roy Rogers annual, 1955".
Westerns and western books and comics were enormously popular with me at that time and I was a big fan of Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy.
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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012
Annuals of my childhood (3): "Super Cinema Annual, 1952".
I was fascinated with films and books about films and this annual was a particular favourite of mine...
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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012
Annuals of my childhood (2): "When I Grow Up" (1951).
This was intended for well brought up little boys who were fortunate enough to have a nursery to...
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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012
Annuals of my childhood (1): "Chatterbox Annual, 1950".
This story book for boys is one of my first memories from my early years in Cheadle...
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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012
A 1949 studio portrait of 12 years old child star Bobby Driscoll (1937 - 1968), whose demise was the most tragic in the entire history of Hollywood.
A 1948 press still of Bobby Henrey and Ralph Richardson in Carol Reed's classic drama, "The Fallen Idol".
"The Fallen Idol" was the first of three masterpieces to result from the legendary meeting...
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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012
An original Front-of-House still of Jeff Morrow and Richard Burton in 20th Century-Fox's "The Robe", the first film to be released in CinemaScope (Directed by Henry Koster in 1953).
“The Robe” became the second highest grossing film of all time, next to “Gone With The Wind”. In...
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Uploaded on Feb 15, 2012
12 years old Bobby Driscoll (1937 - 1968) in Walt Disney's first all live action Technicolor feature "Treasure Island", filmed in England in 1949 and released in 1950.
The actor who became immortalised as cabin boy Jim Hawkins in Walt Disney’s “Treasure Island” (1950)...
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Uploaded on Feb 14, 2012
12 years old Dean Stockwell as war orphan Peter Fry in RKO Radio Pictures excellent Technicolor drama directed by Joseph Losey, "The Boy With Green Hair" (1948). (Still with brown hair in this scene, it seems).
A studio publicity portrait of 12 years old Dean Stockwell as Jed Joy in "Down To The Sea In Ships", directed by Henry Hathaway (20th Century-Fox, 1948).
Dean Stockwell was a really talented American child actor who was one of the few such to make the...
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Uploaded on Feb 12, 2012
A companion photo to the one uploaded much earlier in my photostream, this shows myself, aged 12, and my sister, aged 10, paddling in the River Blythe (known locally as The Brook) at the rear of Coalville Estate, Weston Coyney, in July, 1959.
Back then, I still had all my own teeth and I was a lot fuller of energy than I am now and I could...
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Uploaded on Feb 9, 2012
A farmer (or ploughman) ploughing his field with a horse drawn plough off Park Hall Road, Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent, in July, 1959. This location is where Glandore Road is now.
Despite the mark on the negative that has covered a large part of my then ten years old...
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Uploaded on Feb 9, 2012
A 1947 Shepperton Studios publicity portrait of eight years old Bobby Henrey as Phillipe in Carol Reed's masterpiece "The Fallen Idol", released in 1948.
Was this you, or someone you knew? Scanned from a 35mm Kodacolor slide taken by Arthur Shea in April, 1962, this little boy was a neighbour of Arthur, then living at 25, Eversley Road, Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent. The boy would be around 53 years old by now.
Photo taken in "The Backs" at the rear of 25, Eversley Road. The boy lived either next door to Arthur or just a few doors away.
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Uploaded on Feb 2, 2012
