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BBC Archive

Wakes Week in Blackburn 1957

November 28, 2018 by THE HOBBLEDEHOY

#OnThisDay 1957: Wakes Week – the annual holiday in Lancashire cotton towns – in Blackburn. A film by future oscar-winning director, John Schlesinger. Stunning. #TBT pic.twitter.com/dT5G3eC2Mo

— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) August 16, 2018
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Portrait of a Goon: A Day With Spike Milligan

February 18, 2018December 8, 2017 by THE HOBBLEDEHOY

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BBC Archive: Mrs Annie Blackwell from Doughton

October 18, 2017 by THE HOBBLEDEHOY

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BBC Archive: Lulu

October 17, 2017 by THE HOBBLEDEHOY

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British artist Frank Reynolds was an illustrator for Punch Magazine, regularly published within its pages during World War I. He was also well known for his many illustrations in several books by Charles Dickens.

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