Sid James was born in1913 in South Africa and died in 1976, of a heart attack, whilst on stage in Sunderland.
Most famous for being a member of the Carry On Team he was also with Tony Hancock in Hancock's Half Hour and as Sid Abbott in Bless This House.
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Ten years after its launch, Dorset Eye has won the Independent Media Awards for Citizen Media, Regional/Local Outlet of the Year and Political Reporting of the Year. The awards which were officially announced on 26th March where some of the hundreds of independent media were recognised for their tenacity...
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has died aged 50, the band has announced.
The US group - one of the most successful rock bands of the last three decades - said they were "devastated"."The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins," the band...
BRITISH Armed Forces veterans’ exploits during National Service 60 years ago is at the centre of an innovative UK-wide new heritage project.
15 former servicemen from Dorset as well as men from Wales and the Northwest who served in Egypt, Jordan, Singapore and Iraq, tells their stories in a National...
Combine physical exercise with mind expansion and then communicate it outwards. Become physically and mentally healthier whilst emancipating the walking dead and enabling them to live again. Self preservation and altruism unite in solidarity.
Here is but three examples from Toni Nagi.
Toni Nagy is a filmmaker who has written, edited,...
Thomas Hardy was one of many authors who found inspiration in Dorset’s patchwork hills, chocolate box villages, and absence of traffic. Many of his books, short tales, and poems were set in his semi-fictional Wessex, which he based on the area around Dorchester. Max Gate, the red brick residence...
The Dorset seaside village of Lyme Regis not only lured literary greats such as Oscar Wilde, Beatrix Potter, and Jane Austen for their summer vacations but also inspired many of their greatest works. Beatrix Potter, for example, visited Lyme Regis and drew a variety of locales for her second...
Let us remember some of Dorset's previous roles and experiences of conflict and war with this wonderful stroll along the Dorset coastline....
Walking Through History is a History Documentary Series which follows Tony Robinson as he heads out on some spectacular walks through some of Britain's most historic landscapes looking...
A new Internet show aims to blast open a new perspective on politics in Britain. Called The Red Line, by Labour Briefing TV, it will be a weekly Zoom-based event and will invite callers to help it expose fake news and highlight issues the mainstream media won't touch.
Presenter Jackie...
Bamber Gascoigne was born in London in January 1935 and died in London in February 2022.
Bamber Gascoigne went to Eton and derived from the land owning class.
He presented University Challenge from 1962 to 1987 before leaving to pursue other projects.
Here he describes his secret as a quiz master...
