Sixties City - Bringing on back the good times

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Come on in! It's great to see you here at Sixties City and I do hope you enjoy your visit! Last updated 11th January 2026

Thanks for visiting! If you've been here before, please refresh the page, and thanks to all of you who have mailed me with questions, comments, information and your own personal memories. I've been adding to the content for over 30 years - I was only 40 when I started this and there are now over 650 pages! I am constantly revisiting links and information on the existing older pages, updating and progressing a few other things I've been working on. Of course, I'll keep adding and updating content on a regular basis, particularly the Kings Road and Carnaby 'maps', and there will occasionally be new articles and contributions, in a kind of 'magazine' format, generously provided by Bill Harry and others.
Adverts, if any at all, will be limited as it was always meant to be a non-profit hobby and I find them quite intrusive, but I do increasingly need help to cover the maintenance costs. As always, if you find any incorrect details (hopefully few) or can provide new or further information, I'd love to hear from you! The pages have been built over many years on various computers using Dreamweaver 3 which is not perfectly WYSIWIG so I have just completed a rebuild of all the pages (it's taken a while!) and standardising / updating the construction which now allows best viewing, particularly for correct alignment of the music charts pages, at a minimum screen width resolution of 1920, ideally x 1089.
Best regards always,

80 Supermodels of the Sixties

Presented here, in his own words, is the definitive story of one of the Sixties' seminal music papers - a fascinating and unique personal insight into the early days of the 'British Beat Boom'. Bill Harry was the original founder of the Liverpool music paper that chronicled the groups and venues responsible for the 'Mersey Sound', the publication that was to give its name to the Sixties phenomenon that has since become almost universally known as Merseybeat.

These pages feature over 240 articles from the personal pen of Bill Harry, providing his unique and informative view on many and varied aspects of Sixties events, personalities, music and culture, and some personal interviews.

Are You Looking for Something Specific?
There are well over 500 pages of great Sixties-related information, sounds and images to browse through, including many unique articles and graphics, so you should be able to find something of interest to you whether you are researching the decade in general, specific events or people, or simply reviving old memories.

There are some links to areas of general interest further down this page or in the image links but you can also click on the button below for a more definitive page listing and a search capability
.
Many subjects have multiple sub-page options when you reach them.

Carnaby Street, Soho and the Kings Road
History, information, hundreds of images
and my unique 1960s occupancy / location maps

New Books
Information and links to Sixties-related
publications that may be of interest to
you, published both recently and
over a period of time. Latest additions are:

Offers the most complete atlas of The Beatles EP records, and features
all formats including 7” & 12” vinyl, CDs, and downloads. Where available,
test pressings & promotional copies are shown alongside every known
label and pressing variation which, along with the sleeves, are forensically
examined. The book covers the period 1963 to 2023.

Showaddywaddy burst onto our screens in a riot of colours - they were somehow retro yet contemporary at the same time. And they kept having hits, appearing on TOTP 50 times! Peter Checksfield reviews every aspect of their music covering a period of nearly half a century.

Tea Cards and collectible card sets from Bubble Gum, Children's Sweets, Ice Lollies and a variety of other sources
Is there anyone who was a child in the Sixties and did not collect card sets from various places? As the shortage of paper receded after WWII, the marketing advantages of including collectible cards with products again became apparent and many unrelated products that relied on 'repeat' sales started to include them in their packaging.
Now, by creating colourful, collectible sets of cards on subjects like aircraft, dinosaurs, space and a wide variety of animals and plants, they had the added advantage of encouraging young people and children to influence parents' purchasing decisions for products that they were never intended to be a target for.
The vagaries of luck and the satisfaction of finding a rare or sought-after card added an element of anticipation and excitement to the hobby despite the frequent frustrations of duplicates or hard to get 'rare' cards.

Sweets, Chocolate and Confectionery
The confectionery industry has a history that is as bright and colourful as the products placed before us over the ages. Hundreds, if not thousands of local manufacturers existed in the early 19th century, at which time production mechanisation was starting to be introduced, leading to the mass production of many confectionery products and the growth of the 'giants' of the industry which had become household names by the 1960s.The Sixties saw the introduction of many new, now famous, sweets and chocolates, some of which still exist today, but a large number of which have since been discontinued or changed, leaving the names as only a childhood memory. Presented here, for your interest, are over 130 illustrations of these confection offerings that I hope will bring back some happy childhood memories and also show the difference in appearance that these had in the Sixties and early Seventies.

Sixties Television Quiz and Prize Shows, Panel Games and Competitions
Here's a listing of some of the Sixties quiz, panel and prize shows and competitions that could be seen on TV - many during the Fifties and Seventies as well. A lot of these shows were short-lived, erased or largely forgotten so information may be short and a bit sketchy. If you can add to the information presented, or advise any shows I have missed, I'd be happy to know. Some of the programmes have had more recent 'revivals' but these have largely been ignored. It is possible that the numbers of episodes quoted for any programme may differ on different sites but these are believed to be largely correct. You may well know the catchphrases from some of these shows even if you never realised where they came from......

Also: The Spurs Double, The 1966 World Cup and EVERY match played at Wembley

Sixties City Jukebox
My 'Top 300' records of the British record charts of the 1960s - and a few 'bonus' tracks that didn't appear in the UK pop charts for whatever reason.

Records here reflect my own personal choice, either through being Sixties icons, innovative, quirky, sounds I love or just records that hold a special memory for me and maybe you too. Sadly, 'You Tube' files come and go so I am fairly frequently checking and updating the links no longer available.

Just some of
the interesting, notable or famous 60s / 70s people
who have
recently left us

(Wikipedia list
of recent deaths)

In memory of . . .

Bob Weir, Erich von Däniken, Terry Yorath, Martin Chivers, Jenny Collins,
Brigitte Bardot, Diane Crump, Chris Rea, Mick Abrahams, John Antrobus,
Harry Roberts, Stanley Baxter, Steve Cropper, Marvin Hinton, Tom Stoppard,
Billy Bonds, Lorenzo Buffon, Jimmy Cliff, Kessler Twins, Don Robinson,
Pauline Collins, Donna Jean Godchaux, Peter Watkins, Prunella Scales,
Tony Adams, Tom Edwards, June Lockhart, Samantha Eggar, Tony Caunter,
Diane Keaton, John Lodge, Terry 'Buzzy' Johnson, Jilly Cooper, Jane Goodall,
Chris Dreja, Patricia Routledge, Brian Patten, Nikola Pilic, Dickie Bird,
Sonny Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Redford, Terence Stamp, John Penton

Television Westerns
'Western' shows were already a pre-television radio phenomenon in the 40s and 50s, but really exploded onto television during the 50s and early to mid 60s. Listed here, with sounds and images for interest, and in no particular order (some of which you may not have seen), are many of them.
They include all my favourites that bring back happy televiewing memories, both as 'children's' shows and adult evening drama or comedy.

How Were Vinyl Discs Made?
Sixties production methods and information on aspects of the vinyl disc - What are they made of? How long is a record groove? What do dead wax codes mean? Why are they black?

Can you help please?

Does anyone have
memories or information
on any of these? :

Colney Heath Junior School staff mid 60s

I'm still looking for any photos of the old
Colney Heath JMI School
building before its demolition?

I attended there approx 1960 - 1967.
(Mid-60s staff picture above)

This one is still a mystery - any information about a London bus used
as a 'mobile boutique' called 'Birds Paradise' - Reg No. OLD 620?

Chelsea Kings Road and Soho Carnaby Street
Please check out the Kings Road and Carnaby Street street maps and you may also be interested in the reminiscences of various people who have been kind enough to contact me.
If you can help, or have images, please do mail me.

A Sixties cafe/restaurant called 'The Spot' - possibly near Dovehouse Green in the Kings Road?
A cafe / coffee bar (possibly Fouberts Street) near Carnaby Street, called 'Rouge et Noir'?'
A cafe / coffee bar (possibly Lowndes Court) near Carnaby Street, called 'Four Aces'?
Joseph at Salon 33 at 33 Kings Road, particularly the exact opening date?
The Casserole - Kings Road - any decent images?

Any theme music for the TV Westerns 'Frontier Justice', 'Jefferson Drum', 'Pony Express' or 'Wrangler'?

Images of a skiffle group called Darktown that played the Liverpool Empire and other well-known venues?

Does anyone have an image of theTankard & Smith garage/dealership at 194-198 Kings Road?

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