Family Britain, 1951-1957 (115 page)

16. Mogey,
Family
, p 105; Collins and Vamplew,
Mud
, p 24; M-O A, TC 85/8/A, 7 Aug 1947, TC 85/9/A, 2 Dec 1947, FR 3029, p 110; Dennis et al,
Coal
, p 144.

17. M-O A, FR 3029, p 133; John Barron Mays,
Growing Up in the City
(Liverpool, 1954), p 71; M-O A, TC 85/9/A, 2 Dec 1947; Rich, ‘Spare Time’, p 327; M-O A, FR 3029, pp 71, 79, 103.

18. Zweig,
British Worker
, p 150; Cauter and Downham,
Communication
, pp 84–5; Zweig,
British Worker
, p 151; Cauter and Downham,
Communication
, pp 84–5.

19.
New Statesman
, 15 Apr 1950; Thompson, ‘Imagination’, pp 258–9; Rich, ‘Spare Time’, p 311; Ross McKibbin,
The Ideologies of Class
(Oxford, 1990), p 146; Janet Street-Porter,
Baggage
(2004), p 40; Geoffrey Gorer,
Exploring English Character
(1955), p 70; Cauter and Downham,
Communication
, p 79.

20. Dave Russell,
Football and the English
(Preston, 1997), pp 131–5; Carr-Saunders et al,
Survey
, p 246; Tony Collins,
Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain
(Abingdon, 2006), p 200; Cauter and Downham,
Communication
, p 81; Gavin Mellor, ‘The Social and Geographical Make-Up of Football Crowds in the North-West of England, 1946–1962: “Super-Clubs,” Local Loyalty and Regional Identities’,
Sports Historian
(Nov 1999), pp 25–42.

21. Jeffrey Hill,
Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain
(Basingstoke, 2002), p 30;
Guardian
, 5 Jan 2008 (David Lacey); Subrata Dasgupta,
Salaam Stanley Matthews
(2006), p 40; Jonathan Coe,
Like a Fiery Elephant
(2004), p 53; Collins and Vamplew,
Mud
, pp 72–3; Russell,
Football
, p 138;
Barnsley Chronicle
, 12 Jan 1952; ‘Trevor Ford’,
The Times
, 2 Jun 2003; Richard Holt, ‘Heroes of the North: Sport and the Shaping of Regional Identity’, in Jeff Hill and Jack Williams (eds),
Sport and Identity in the North of England
(Keele, 1996), p 155.

22.
Football Mail
(Portsmouth), 15 Mar 1952;
Guardian
, 11 Jan 2008 (Harry Pearson); Billy Wright,
Captain of England
(1950), p 125;
Daily Telegraph
, 27 Jul 1998.

23. Tom Finney,
My Autobiography
(2003), pp 6–14;
Manchester Evening News
, 6–7 Oct 1949; John Ramsden,
Don’t Mention the War
(2006), pp 325–44; Richard Holt, ‘Football and Regional Identity in the North of England: The Legend of Jackie Milburn’, in S. Gehrmann (ed),
Football and Regional Identity in Europe
(Munster, 1997), pp 54–9; Mike Kirkup,
Ashington Coal Company: The Five Collieries
(Seaham, 2000), p 84; Tony Mason, ‘Stanley Matthews’, in Richard Holt (ed),
Sport and the Working Class in Modern Britain
(Manchester, 1990), pp 175–6.

24. Trevor Delaney,
The Grounds of Rugby League
(Keighley, 1991); Sam Davies, ‘The History of Hull Dockers, c. 1870–1960’, in Sam Davies et al (eds),
Dock Workers
(Aldershot, 2000), p 192; Geoffrey Moorhouse,
At the George
(1989), pp 50, 30; Dennis et al,
Coal
, p 157;
Telegraph & Argus
(Bradford), 4 Sep 1951; David Storey,
This Sporting Life
(Penguin edn, 1962), p 7;
Independent
, 1 May 1999. In general on rugby league, see Collins,
Rugby League
.

25. Laura Thompson,
The Gods
(High Stakes edn, 2003), p 29; Browne,
Patterns
, p 140;
Picture Post
, 21 Nov 1953;
Racing Pigeon
, 5 Jul 1952, 9 Feb 1952; Richard Holt,
Sport and the British
(Oxford, 1989), p 188; George Orwell,
The Road to Wigan Pier
(Penguin edn, 1962), p 63;
Racing Pigeon
, 5 Jan 1952. In general on pigeon racing, see Martin Johnes, ‘Pigeon Racing and Working-Class Culture in Britain,
c.
1870–1950’,
Cultural and Social History
(Sep 2007), pp 361–83.

26. Zweig,
British Worker
, p 127; Roger Munting, ‘Betting and Business: The Commercialisation of Gambling in Britain’,
Business History
, Oct 1989, p 72; W.F.F. Kemsley and David Ginsburg,
Betting in Britain
(The Social Survey, 1951), pp 1–2; Rowntree and Lavers,
English Life
, pp 139–44; M-O A, FR 3029, p 158. In general on gambling, see Carl Chinn,
Better Betting with a Decent Feller
(2004 edn); Mark Clapson,
A Bit of a Flutter
(Manchester, 1992); Keith Laybourn,
Working-Class Gambling in Britain, c. 1906–1960s
(Lampeter, 2007).

27.
Independent
, 27 Apr 2001 (Stan Hey);
Observer
, 29 Apr 2001; M-O A, TC 85/9/A, 19 May 1947; John Barron Mays,
Growing Up in the City
(Liverpool, 1954), p 72; Dennis et al,
Coal
, p 149; Rippon,
Derby Boy
, p 48; Madeline Kerr,
The People of Ship Street
(1958), p 34.

28. Laybourn,
Working-Class Gambling
, p 163; Browne,
Patterns
, p 142; F. Zweig,
Women’s Life and Labour
(1952), p 145; Laybourn,
Working-Class Gambling
, pp 161–2; Clapson,
A Bit
, p 173; Mays,
Growing Up
, p 72; Lady Henrietta Rous (ed),
The Ossie Clark Diaries
(1998), pp xiv–xv.

29. Laybourn,
Working-Class Gambling
, pp 270–71; Zweig,
British Worker
, pp 142–3, 148.

30. Peter Stead, ‘Popular Culture’, in Trevor Herbert and Gareth Elwyn Jones (eds),
Post-War Wales
(Cardiff, 1995), pp 120–22;
Coal
(Sep 1950), p 19;
Daily Herald
, 27 Oct 1951, 29 Oct 1951;
Telegraph & Argus
(Bradford), 29 Oct 1951.

31. Robert Douglas,
Night Song of the Last Tram
(2005), p 297; Cauter and Downham,
Communication
, pp 134–6; Kerr,
People
, p 32; Dennis et al,
Coal
, pp 125–7; Steven Berkoff,
Free Association
(1996), pp 34–41; Phil Moss,
Manchester’s Dancing Years
(Manchester, 1996), pp 10–11; Dave Harker,
One For the Money
(1980), pp 66–7;
Guardian
, 6 Oct 2007 (Joe Moran); Chris Ellis, ‘Joe Loss’,
Independent
, 7 Jun 1990; Moss,
Manchester’s Dancing
Years
, pp 21–2.

32.
Planning
, 5 May 1952, p 249; Sue Harper and Vincent Porter, ‘Cinema Audience Tastes in 1950s Britain’,
Journal of Popular British Cinema
(1999), p 67; Ross McKibbin,
Classes and Cultures
(Oxford, 1998), p 421; Barry Doyle, ‘The Geography of Cinemagoing in Great Britain, 1934–1994: A Comment’,
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
(March 2003), p 62; M-O A, TC 17/15/H.

33. H. E. Browning and A. A. Sorrell, ‘Cinemas and Cinema-Going in Great Britain’,
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
(1954), p 137; Alan Bennett,
Untold Stories
(2005), pp 159–60; Sutherland,
The Boy
, p 80; Rippon,
Derby Boy
, p 78; Michael Caine,
What’s It All About?
(1992), pp 39–40; Paul Farley,
Distant Voices, Still Lives
(2006), p 80.

34. Harper and Porter, ‘Cinema’, pp 67–9; Peter Miskell,
A Social History of the Cinema in Wales, 1918–1951
(Cardiff, 2006), p 26; Kathleen Box,
The Cinema and the Public
(The Social Survey, 1948), p 2; Rachael Low, ‘The Implications behind the Social Survey’, in Roger Manvell (ed),
The Penguin Film Review, 1946–1949, Volume II
(1977), pp 109–10.

35. M-O A, TC 17/15/A–C, F; Vincent Porter, ‘Feature Film and the Mediation of Historical Reality:
Chance of a Lifetime
– A Case Study’,
Media History
(Dec 1999), pp 181–99.

36. Sue Harper,
Picturing the Past
(1994), esp chap 9; Dennis et al,
Coal
, p 163; Joanne Lacey, ‘Seeing through Happiness: Hollywood Musicals and the Construction of the American Dream in Liverpool in the 1950s’,
Journal of Popular British Cinema
, 1999, p 55; Vincent Porter and Sue Harper, ‘Throbbing Hearts and Smart Repartee: The Reception of American Films in 1950s Britain’,
Media History
(Dec 1998), pp 187–8; ‘Ronald Shiner’,
The Times
, 1 Jul 1966; Vincent Porter, ‘The Hegemonic Turn: Film Comedies in 1950s Britain’,
Journal of Popular British Cinema
(2001), pp 83–4;
The Times
, 30 Jul 1951;
Kinematograph Weekly
, 20 Dec 1951, 18 Dec 1952.

37.
Coventry Evening Telegraph
, 8 Sep 1953; Millicent Rose,
The East End of London
(1951), pp 271–2; Lord David Sutch,
Life as Sutch
(1991), p 10; Colm Brogan,
The Glasgow Story
(1952), p 153; Roy Hudd,
Roy Hudd’s Cavalcade of Variety Acts
(1997). For an evocation of life in Variety, see Brian O’Gorman,
Laughter in the Roar
(Weybridge, 1998).

38. Nicholas Parsons,
The Straight Man
(1994), p 122; G. J. Mellor,
The Northern Music Hall
(Newcastle upon Tyne, 1970), pp 207–8; Roger Wilmut,
Kindly Leave the Stage!
(1985), p 215; Simon Sheridan, ‘Paul Raymond’,
Independent
, 5 Mar 2008;
Picture Post
, 9 Jan 1954.

39. Hudd,
Roy Hudd’s Cavalcade
, pp 120–21; ‘Jimmy Jewel’,
The Times
/
Independent
(Denis Gifford), 5 Dec 1995; John Fisher,
Funny Way to Be a Hero
(1973), pp 178–84; Wilmut,
Kindly
, pp 196–7, 199–200; Geoff J. Mellor,
They Made Us Laugh
(Littleborough, 1982), pp 38–9; Brogan,
Glasgow Story
, p 153; Fisher,
Funny
, pp 64–71; Andy Medhurst,
A National Joke
(Abingdon, 2007), chap 5;
Daily Herald
, 4 Jul 1950.

40.
Daily Mirror
, 30 Jul 1951; Hudd,
Roy Hudd’s Cavalcade
, p 151; Bennett,
Untold Stories
, p 419;
Bob’s Your Uncle!
, 21 July 1953 (Newcastle City Library, L791.4); Dave Nicolson,
Bobby Thompson
(Newcastle upon Tyne, 1996), pp 98, 61.

41. Denis Gifford,
The Golden Age of Radio
(1985), p 110; June Whitfield,
. . . And June Whitfield
(2000), pp 44–5;
Sunday Pictorial
, 12 Jan 1947; Gary Whannel, ‘The Price Is Right but the Moments Are Sticky: Television, Quiz and Game Shows, and Popular Culture’, in Dominic Strinati and Stephen Wagg (eds),
Come On Down?
(1992), p 181; M-O A, Directives for July 1949 (Women’s replies, F–P file);
Daily Herald
, 15 Sep 1951;
Radio Times
, 30 Nov 1951; Whitfield,
. . . And June
, p 45.

42. Stuart Ball (ed),
Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee: The Headlam Diaries, 1935–1951
(Cambridge, 1999), p 581; Rich, ‘Spare Time’, p 334; Dennis et al,
Coal
, p 151;
Newcastle
Journal
, 5 Jun 1950.

43. W.F.F. Kemsley and David Ginsburg,
Holidays and Holiday Expenditure
(The Social Survey, 1951);
Coventry Evening Telegraph
, 25 Jul 1953; John Hudson,
Wakes Weeks
(Stroud, 1992), p 15.

44. Geof Parsons,
‘Only One “f” in Geof’
(Lowestoft, 1998), chap 3; Valerie A. Tedder,
Post-War Blues
(Leicester, 1999), pp 76–83.

45. Alice Russell,
The Growth of Occupational Welfare in Britain
(Aldershot, 1991), p 117;
Picture Post
, 2 Jan 1954;
The Times
, 29 Aug 1953.

46.
Guardian
, 1 Jul 2006; Robert Jeffrey and Ian Watson,
Doon the Watter
(Edinburgh, 1999); Elfreda Buckland,
The World of Donald McGill
(Poole, 1984), p 124.

47.
Reynolds News
, 15 Jul 1951, 12 Aug 1951;
Independent
, 22 May 1993;
Picture Post
, 9 Aug 1952; Keith Parry,
Resorts of the Lancashire Coast
(Newton Abbot, 1983), p 196; Robert Stephens,
Knight Errant
(1995), p 15; Roger K. Bingham,
Lost Resort?
(Milnthorpe, 1990), p 255; Moss,
Manchester’s Dancing Years
, p 41; Candida Lycett Green (ed), John Betjeman,
Coming Home
(1997), p 300.

48. Moss,
Manchester’s Dancing Years
, pp 47–8;
Blackpool Gazette & Herald
, 21 Jul 1951; Parry,
Resorts
, p 190; John K. Walton,
The Blackpool Landlady
(Manchester, 1978), p 196.

49.
New Statesman
, 18 Jun 1949; Kenneth Harris,
Attlee
(1982), p 504;
Blackpool Gazette & Times
, 21 Jul 1951;
Reynolds News
, 23 Sep 1951;
Morecambe Guardian
, 18 Aug 1951;
Reynolds News
, 9 Sep 1951.

50.
Reynolds News
, 5 Aug 1951; Mark Lewisohn,
Funny, Peculiar
(2002), p 143; Julian Demetriadi, ‘The Golden Years: English Seaside Resorts, 1950–1974’, in Gareth Shaw and Allan Williams (eds),
The Rise and Fall of British Coastal Resorts
(1997), p 51;
Reynolds News
, 5 Aug 1951;
Isle of Thanet Gazette
, 12 Jun 1953; Gavin Lambert,
Mainly About Lindsay Anderson
(2000), p 61.

9 I’ve Never Asked Her In

  1. Ricky Tomlinson,
Ricky
(2003), pp 16–37; Joanna Bourke,
Working-Class Cultures in Britain, 1890–1960
(1994), pp 137–8; Robert Colls, ‘When We Lived in Communities: Working-class Culture and Its Critics’, in Robert Colls and Richard Rodger (eds),
Cities of Ideas
(Aldershot, 2004), pp 283–307; Raymond Williams,
Keywords
(1976), p 66; Bourke,
Working-Class Cultures
, p 137.