The BBC recorded the 50th anniversary at the weekend in Ready Teddy (Radio 4). Ray Gosling, who claims to be one of Britains first Teddy Boys, took a nostalgic trip to his home town of Northampton. He met the barber who gave him his first quiff and met Johnny Facer who he called the king of the Teds. He recalls how the Teds marked the gradual end of the austere world of post-war rationing. But Gosling is also big enough to accept that those working-class dandies were no angels. Teds and trouble seemed to go together. In February 1957, a group of Teddy Boys posed peacefully for the Express & Star, prompting the newspaper to comment not everyone who wears Edwardian clothes is a delinquent. Yet before long the trail of street fights, wrecked cinemas, juke boxes and milk bars horrified Middle England.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 07:50:12 +0000
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