United Kingdom
Smog Helmet
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 23, 2024 -
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Category: Inventions, 1950s, United Kingdom
Fresh Out of Borstal
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 10, 2024 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Music, Prisons, 1970s, United Kingdom
The Devon Octopus Invasion
Summer of 1950: A strange Cold War conspiracy theory circulated among fishermen in Devon. They attributed a large number of octopuses in the coastal waters to the presence of Russian trawlers "fitted with tanks containing octopuses," releasing the creatures near the coast.
Plymouth Western Morning News - Sep 28, 1950
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 11, 2024 -
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Category: Fish, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, 1950s, United Kingdom
Please don’t throw explosives in the trash
A very British way of asking people to not blow up garbage workers:
Derby Evening Telegraph - May 14, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 08, 2024 -
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Category: 1960s, United Kingdom, Weapons
Rene Strange, Singing Cartoonist
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 11, 2024 -
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Category: Music, Puppets and Automatons, Cartoons, United Kingdom, Twentieth Century
Unauthorized Dwellings 34
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 01, 2024 -
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Category: Unauthorized Dwellings, 1940s, United Kingdom
The Wayfarer’s Dole
From Gastro Obscura:The Church's home page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 25, 2024 -
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Category: Food, History, Religion, United Kingdom, Alcohol
Unlikely Reasons for Murder No. 18
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 15, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Europe, United Kingdom, Nineteenth Century
Thrillington
There have been numerous occasions of artists hiding their involvement with their own work. Not just using a pseudonym, but actively encouraging a hoax. Here's one such. From the album's Wikipedia page:Thrillington is an album produced by English musician Paul McCartney, under the pseudonym Percy "Thrills" Thrillington.... [In] late 1976, McCartney decided to release the long-in-storage project, and devised a plan to publicize the album while obscuring his own involvement with it. In preparation for the release of Thrillington, McCartney invented the fictitious socialite Percy Thrillington, and even took out ads in various UK music papers announcing Thrillington's so-called comings and goings to generate curiosity and interest.
Released in April 1977, McCartney's name was mentioned only in the main liner notes where he is described as a friend of Percy. Thrillington went mostly unnoticed upon its release although it was reviewed by Rolling Stone magazine and mentioned in the "Random Notes" section.[5] Variety also reviewed the album, noting that "Whether Percy Thrillington is Paul McCartney or not is really irrelevant. What matters is that he (they) is (are) having fun."[6]
Listen to the other tracks at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 05, 2024 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Music, 1970s, United Kingdom
Hampstead Beatnik Party
This clip (only static for a soundtrack) from British Pathe is labeled "Beatnik Party (1960) Hampstead." But is it the same party described in the article?
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 28, 2024 -
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Category: Dinners, Banquets, Parties, Tributes, Roasts and Other Celebrations, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s, United Kingdom
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