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	<description>Teddyboys and the birth of Rock n&#039; Roll</description>
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		<title>Ghosts of Christmas past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a pretty cheerless sort of existence. Food was scarce and still rationed, kids were often seen in hand-me-down clothes. The war may have been over but for most people times remained hard.
And that’s why in those post-war years Christmas to us youngsters became so much more special. No TV and computer games then, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefifties.co.uk/2010/12/ghosts-of-christmas-past/</link>
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		<title>My first record</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Saturday afternoon in December 1958.
The local record department was packed as shoppers battled to buy the latest hits.
I was there, too, with a friend of mine who was asking if he could listen to a record fast climbing the hit parade &#8211; a rockin’ little number by a young lad known as “The Kilted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefifties.co.uk/2010/08/my-first-record/</link>
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		<title>The games we played</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summertime, and the living was exciting &#8211; especially if you were a youngster in the Forties and Fifties.
No TV in those days, computers were unheard of and the X-box was probably something the Martians used in the adventure comics you bought.
There was also the fact that you entertained yourselves, usually with other kids from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefifties.co.uk/2010/08/the-games-we-played-2/</link>
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		<title>Dig those funky mopeds!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was every young man’s dream – to be mobile.
So you couldn’t afford to buy a car – few could in the 1950s – but you had your eye on something to get you around other than your bike.
Like thousands of others you plumped for a moped, but secretly hoped for a motor bike. Remember [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefifties.co.uk/2010/08/dig-those-funky-mopeds/</link>
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		<title>Tasty treats from long ago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is just an ordinary little shop. Or at least that’s how it looks from the outside.
Peep through the window, though, and this is a treasure trove, a step back in time to childhood.
This particular establishment is at Whitby and it sells, among other things, a wide selection of the sort of sweets that kids [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefifties.co.uk/2010/08/tasty-treats-from-long-ago/</link>
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		<title>Sad end for a great champion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FOR a time in the 1950s he was an English motor racing superstar, inconsistent, maybe, but a worthy champion nontheless.
The racing career of Mike Hawthorn ended immediately when he became World Champion and announced his retirement from Forumla 1.
But still he dogged the headlines, but only for a short time. Within months of taking the title Mike Hawthorn was dead.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefifties.co.uk/2010/01/sad-end-for-a-great-champi/</link>
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		<title>Remembering Gert and Daisy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many years these two women were among the best loved entertainers in Britain.
They were Elsie and Doris Waters, better known to millions as Gert and Daisy. And they had an equally famous brother – Jack Warner, much loved as TV’s Dixon of Dock Green, a major hit in the Fifties.
The characters Gert and Daisy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefifties.co.uk/2010/01/remembering-gert-and-daisy/</link>
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		<title>Alma, the girl with the laughing voice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She was a British singing superstar, as famous in the 1950s for her extravagant hooped skirts as she was for her voice.
Today, over half a century later, Alma Cogan is still fondly remembered by an army of fans.
Born Alma Angela Cohen in Stepney in May 1932, she was encouraged to go onto the stage by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefifties.co.uk/2010/01/alma-the-girl-with-the-laughing-voice/</link>
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		<title>It happened in 1957</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 6 – Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the third and final time. He was only shown from the waist up, even during the gospel segment, singing &#8220;Peace In The Valley&#8221;.
January 9 – Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigned.
January 10 – Harold Macmillan (left) became Prime Minister.
January 16 – The Cavern Club [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefifties.co.uk/2010/01/it-happened-in-1957/</link>
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		<title>Mr Haley, Mr Average</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As musicians go he was talented but never brilliant. As for singing he could cope but you’d hardly rate him as anything above average.
To look at he was certainly no Adonis, more a Mr Average, thinning on top and slightly overweight.
For years he eked out an existence with his fellow musicians known as The Saddlemen, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thefifties.co.uk/2010/01/mr-haley-mr-average/</link>
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