Layout1 – The Retrospectors

ON PREVIOUS DAYS:

YESTERDAY:
Let's Build A Rollercoaster
DAY BEFORE:
When Lennon Met McCartney
DAY BEFORE THAT:
Zeppelin Takes Flight
DAY BEFORE BEFORE THAT:
The First Tour De France 🚲

ON PREVIOUS DAYS:

YESTERDAY:
Let's Build A Rollercoaster
DAY BEFORE:
When Lennon Met McCartney
DAY BEFORE THAT:
Zeppelin Takes Flight
DAY BEFORE BEFORE THAT:
The First Tour De France 🚲

OLLY MANN

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REBECCA MESSINA

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ARION MCNICOLL

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9 Jul: The Sun Sets on 'Eldorado'

One of the BBC’s biggest-ever flops, soap opera ‘Eldorado’, broadcast its final episode on 9th July, 1993 - just one year after it had begun, at a reported cost of £10 million. Focussing on the glamorous lives of British expats - fusing the elements of ‘EastEnders’ and ‘Neighbours’ - it…

8 Jul: Let's Build A Rollercoaster

Promenades Aériennes, the world’s first modern rollercoaster, opened in Paris on 8th July, 1817. Thrillseekers climbed a towering wooden structure before being sent gliding back down on wheeled carriages attached securely to rails; modest by modern standards, yes, but introducing many of the key features that still define coasters today.…

6 Jul: When Lennon Met McCartney

The Quarrymen took to the stage at a parish fête near Liverpool on 6th July, 1957: the event that first brought together the brains behind the Beatles, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney. John oozed cool with his swagger, sideburns, and low slung guitar. Paul, watching in awe, was struck…

2 Jul: Zeppelin Takes Flight

Airships had flown since the 1850s, but the first rigid airship to comfortably carry passengers - the Zeppelin - had its maiden voyage at Lake Constance on 2nd July, 1900. The passion project of German aristocrat Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the ‘golden age’ craft were freezing cold on-board, and precarious:…

1 Jul: The First Tour De France 🚲

Around sixty cyclists set off from a café in Montgeron, just outside Paris, on 1st July, 1903: the start of the first ever Tour de France. The event began as a circulation-boosting scheme by newspaper L'Auto; struggling to compete with its rival Le Vélo, they launched the race as a…

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