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The Evening Post and Evening World competed strongly until 1935, when both titles were acquired by a new company, Bristol United Press (BUP), 40% owned by Lord Rothermere's interests and 60% owned by the Bristol Evening Post. In 1960 BUP acquired the Bristol morning paper, the Western Daily Press, and the weekly Bristol Observer.
Fred Wedlock was born in the old Bristol Maternity Hospital in Southwell Street, Kingsdown, Bristol. He was brought up in Redcliffe, where his father ran the York House pub. He sang in the church choir at St Mary Redcliffe. [2] Wedlock was educated at Bristol Grammar School in the 1950s. He represented the school and the Old Bristolians playing ...
Johnny Hole; Born 18 December 1924Bath, England: Died: 8 May 2016 (aged 91): Nationality: British (English) Career history; 1946–1955, 1960: Bristol Bulldogs: 1956–1960: Southampton Saints
The Western Daily Press is a regional newspaper covering parts of South West England, mainly Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset as well as the metropolitan areas of Bath and North East Somerset and the Bristol area. It is published Monday to Saturday in Bristol, UK.
A civil rights campaigner, who paved the way for the first Race Relations Act, has been remembered as "champion" following his death. Dr Paul Stephenson OBE, 87, organised the 1963 Bristol bus ...
The arrival of the Beatles in the U.S., and subsequent appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, marked the start of the British Invasion.They had 20 #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits.. In the late 1950s, a flourishing culture of groups began to emerge, often out of the declining skiffle scene, in major urban centres in the UK like Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and London.
The earliest reliable reports of the Hum date from the Seventies, when numerous Bristol residents wrote letters to the Bristol Evening Post to complain about hearing the noise, which has since ...
Date City Country Venue Opening acts 23 September 1966 [2]: London: England: Royal Albert Hall: Ike & Tina Turner The Yardbirds Peter Jay and the New Jaywalkers