These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.
The material is searchable, can be browsed by ‘Theme’ or ‘Decade’, and filtered by media type.
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Weather Man
Bill Bruce, one of the team of weatherman from the Meteorological office.
41 KB
1950s, tv and radio, images
Whirligig
Whirligig' - a fortnightly magazine programme for children. Here a scene from 'The Adventures of Hank' - Francis Coudrill with Hank, the cowboy puppet and his horse, Silver King, November 1950.
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1950s, tv and radio, images
Sugar Chile Robinson
Picture shows child prodigy Sugar Chile Robinson in 1951. Born in 1940 Robinson was playing parties at the White House for President Harry Truman by 1946. In 1949, after signing to Capitol records, he released his hit record Numbers Boogie and his tour of that year broke box office records. By the age of ten he was touring with the Count Basie orchestra. He is pictured here with interviewer Peter Leslie.
53 KB
1950s, music, images
Car Factory Oxford
A Cowley car factory is fitting suppressors to plug or distributor leads to help reduce interference on TV screens. From 1951
8 MB
1950s, people, video
New Year Babies
6 babies born on New Year's Day in 1951 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London
5 MB
1950s, people, video
January Sales Shoppers
Brisk trade in West End Sales despite the snowy weather. Last week's news of a ban on zinc, copper & brass saucepans boosted the sales of aluminium pans.
22 MB
1950s, people, video
Sales Shoppers 1
Brisk trade in West End Sales despite the snowy weather. 1951
14 MB
1950s, people, video
Arsenal
3rd Division Carlisle held 1st Division Arsenal to a goalless draw, forcing a re- play, in the 3rd round of the 1951 F.A.Cup.
25 MB
1950s, sport, video
Police Motorbikes
Metropolitan Police Commissioner,Sir Harold Scott,was present at the press showing of new 2-way radio equipped police motorcycles
11 MB
1950s, people, video
Bristol Bomb
In 1951, Bristol's Civil Defense force staged 'Operation Medusa', involving military & civilian services in a rescue operation exercise after a mock atom bomb attack.
12 MB
1960s, events, video
Wireless
a family sitting round a wireless set listening to the Childrens Hour radio show in 1951
64 KB
1950s, childhood, images
Boatrace
Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race, 1951
65 KB
1950s, events, images
