
BBC Television: a British engineering achievement
How Britain leads the world in the technology of television in 1958

Time flight: 1950
A journey around the media of 1950

Behind The News
With some of the Newscasters

The play’s the thing
Drama for everyone
Food
On and off the ration
Banking
Cheques and saving
Flying
We’ll take good care of you
Gas
Mr Therm warms, cooks and cleans
Germolene
Soothes at a touch
Lucozade
For health and nourishment
Television for younger viewers
A look at BBCtv programmes for children in 1951
Best selling music of the 1950s in the UK
The top ten best selling singles of the 1950s
Emergency … Ward 10
a T.V. series that has helped to conquer a fear of hospitals
Junior Criss-Cross Quiz
Prizes galore for the children who know the answers
Behind The News
With some of the Newscasters
The play’s the thing
Drama for everyone
Time flight: 1952
A journey around the media of 1952
Time flight: 1951
A journey around the media of 1951
Time flight: 1950
A journey around the media of 1950
Mrs. Haley writes about… My Life with Bill
LIFE with Bill is exciting; it is fun; it is happiness. It is days alone…
We Ask (Mrs.) Pickles
It’s a double TV date on BBC for Wilfred Pickles this week – in “Ask Pickles” and “Telescope”. How do he and Mabel keep up the pace?
My Teazy-Weazy Day
Raymond, hair-stylist to the stars, will be showing you some more of his creations in tonight’s “More Contrary”
Gilbert Harding Speaks Out
In an interview with ELIZABETH GRAY, TV’s most provocative personality gives his views on thirty-four subjects
What’s Cooking?
An invitation to appear on television with Philip Harben can have some surprising results
A Day With the Lyons
It’s crazy – but it’s fun
Crime and punishment chronology
Crime and its punishment in Britain in the 1950s
Britain in the 1950s
Britain in the 1950s
Disasters chronology
Major disasters in the UK in the 1950s
BBC chronology
Some BBC dates
Expo 58
A gallery of publicity and posters for the Brussels Expo 1958
Facts and figures about British Railways 1959
British Railways takes us through the facts about the network in 1959
Facts and figures about British Railways 1958
British Railways takes us through the facts about the network in 1958
Facts and figures about British Railways 1957
British Railways takes us through the facts about the network in 1957
The Way to Go Round
Your guide to the Festival of Britain in 1951
Your Personal Safety
British Railways seeks to reduce the number of staff accidents
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy