I came across this jolly little film of a Battersea Park Gala in the sixties and nearly capsized watching the frolics on the boating lake.
It's a wonderfully dated vignette of innocent summer fun and I hope it will raise your endorphin levels too. For my British chums of a certain vintage, spot stalwarts of tv entertainment and newscasting and the occasional home-grown film star. I listed Elsie Tanner, Nicholas Parsons, Sam Kydd, Honor Blackman, Shirley Anne Field and more.. Answers on a postcard please.
It's a wonderfully dated vignette of innocent summer fun and I hope it will raise your endorphin levels too. For my British chums of a certain vintage, spot stalwarts of tv entertainment and newscasting and the occasional home-grown film star. I listed Elsie Tanner, Nicholas Parsons, Sam Kydd, Honor Blackman, Shirley Anne Field and more.. Answers on a postcard please.
Illustration © Rosie West
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I love your illustration. I wish they would still do stuff like that - I have had fun rowing on the Battersea boating lake but these little motor powered run-arounds look fab!
ReplyDeleteThanks Polskey. Trouble is nobody's properly dressed on the water these days ho ho.
ReplyDeleteI spotted HildaBaker but though I recognized most of the faces I have no idea of the names.
ReplyDeleteI think I recognized Honor Blackman (Was she in one of the Bond films?) But By the end I was just making wild guesses. Brendan Behan? Philip Larkin?
ReplyDeleteWhat's my uncle Ed doing there?
Definitely pre-litigious society, though.