Reposted by Kevin Mottram8bitnorthxstitch @8bitnorthxstitch.bsky.social · 4hWhen Blessed was rehearsing Peter Pan in Manchester, my mate had to deliver a big rubber crocodile to the company. He was told to deliver the prop to the room. When he walked in, Blessed roared, ‘here comes the fucking crocodile!’ grabbed it, and wrestled it to the floor. What a legend. 18524
Reposted by Kevin MottramI held a human brain once @glitchknitter.bsky.social · 4hHe was at Sci-Fi Weekender a couple of years back and gave a very funny talk. On his way off the stage he fell down the steps and the whole room froze thinking we'd just killed Brian Blessed, until there was a booming "GORDON'S ALIVE!" from the floor and we all cheered 🤣 041
Reposted by Kevin MottramDave Turner @mrdaveturner.bsky.social · 8hBrian Blessed’s birthday is an excuse to share one of the greatest paragraphs in any memoir ever. 9345110
Reposted by Kevin MottramALDC @assoclibdemcllrs.bsky.social · 20hTown Ward - Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council Labour Gain from Reform 🔴Labour 431 46.2% ➡️ Reform 249 26.7% 🟢Green 115 12.3% 🔵Conservative 110 11.8% 🔶Morgan Inwood Liberal Democrat 27 2.9% Thanks to Morgan for standing. 0113
Reposted by Kevin MottramMichelle M. @michellemabelle.bsky.social · 13hHappy Birthday, Johnny Rhythm. Dearly loved. Never forgotten. #JohnLennon 💜 2332
Reposted by Kevin Mottram🍂 Simon Threadgold 🎃 @sthreadgold.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Personally, I'd like a Director General who doesn't cream-their-jeans at the prospect of reducing the BBC to an employee-less, AI powered, app that nobody downloads. But I'm weird that way. 04513
Reposted by Kevin MottramFree Cats Daily😻 @freecatsdaily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Fire breathing cat #Cat #Caturday 228139631565
Reposted by Kevin MottramAndrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It is time. youtu.be/HD1EWUMNE5A?...youtu.beKEITH HUDSON - Turn The Heater On [1975]YouTube video by Bionic Dub 65410
Reposted by Kevin MottramBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Manchester, 1961, photo by Shirley Baker. 1021540
Reposted by Kevin Mottrambryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 101142474691
Reposted by Kevin MottramOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Very, very rich people rarely have good taste. It's a thing. 2224532
Reposted by Kevin MottramColin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Long-distance runner Brendan Foster training for the then-upcoming 1978 Commonwealth Games on the streets of Tyneside, by Tony Duffy. A quite wonderful snapshot of Seventies Britain. 39427
Kevin Mottram @mott73.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It was built by a fella called Mr Scotcher, who ran a beerhouse on Glebe Street (the one that became Harry’s Bar in the 1990s). He wanted more football trade, so he got backing from Pims brewery on Copeland Street (based on the A500 side of the street, so long long gone) to build the place 110
Reposted by Kevin MottramBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Teenage life, Lancashire, 1957, photo by Bert Hardy. 724144
Reposted by Kevin MottramBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Longsight, Manchester, 1969, photo by Stephen Dowle. 1808
Reposted by Kevin MottramInish View @inishview.bsky.social · 07/10/2026An early morning view along the Buncrana Coastal Walk, with Porthaw Beach in the distance under clear autumn skies. 29310
Reposted by Kevin MottramPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I am writing this while sitting in Woolworth's in Oxford Street, where I have just had my dinner. 1321321
Reposted by Kevin MottramDes @desdelboy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Morning all. Alea Stony Rock, Westlock Terrace, Leeds. Photographer Peter Mitchell. 1414112
Reposted by Kevin MottramJonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ever since I first saw it, this scene has epitomised Amerlcan elegance for me. I wrote a short story about it for Radio 4 (never broadcast) and it's why I drink Gibsons even though nobody who works in a bar these days knows what they are. A perfect scene - RIP Eva Marie Saint. 1357380
Kevin Mottram @mott73.bsky.social · 06/10/2026How I arrived on Blueskystatic.klipy.comAnthony Mennella Comes HomeALT: Anthony Mennella Comes Home 040
Reposted by Kevin MottramPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999. 321480461
Reposted by Kevin MottramBirmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Happy birthday to Richard Jobson youtu.be/UUaVbKbEbl8youtu.beTHE SKIDS - 2 Songs Live BBC Studios (OGWT) 13th November 1979 (Animation - Yankee Dollar)YouTube video by MrHbsauce, Punk Rock & New Wave videos 0315
Kevin Mottram @mott73.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Very enjoyable Joe, but I’ve got news for you - The Vic wasn’t named after the pub! 😮 T’was the other way round, as the Vic Hotel wasn’t built until 1902. The Victoria bit comes from the Stoke Victoria Athletic Club, founded in 1862 as a spinoff from the cricket club founded in 1847 120
Reposted by Kevin Mottramarchivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Top of the Pops (6th October 1977). The Stranglers are at number 13 with No More Heroes. 07013
Reposted by Kevin MottramBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Manchester schoolboys waiting for the next bus on flooded Kingsway, Burnage, July 16, 1973 (Mirrorpix/Manchester Evening News). 610018
Kevin Mottram @mott73.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"He strikes me as a nice enough fella, but he's the kind of bloke who would bottle your piss and sell it." Ringo susses out Jeffrey Archer, 1963 191
Kevin Mottram @mott73.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Oooh, I never realised oatcakes had got the Cloake “perfect” treatment 010
Reposted by Kevin Mottramarchivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (5th October 1977). Jimmy has a plan for when the balloon goes up. 5428
Kevin Mottram @mott73.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Thanks! They turned out OK considering I haven’t done any for a good 15 years or so. I use the recipe in Elizabeth David’s “English Bread & Yeast Cookery”, which is slightly adapted from one printed in the Evening Sentinel in 1941 100
Reposted by Kevin MottramAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Badenoch, last month: Why is PM obsessed with Thatcher? SO WEIRD! I was not even born. He wants to take us back to the 70s. Badenoch, this week: I'm like Thatcher, a new Thatcher, possibly possessed by Thatcher, LOVE Thatcher, Thatcher was right, and I'll take us back to the 80s. Tory Conference: 45462128
Reposted by Kevin Mottram"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@chrissteller.bsky.social saw this in the Miami News in August 1975 while looking for something else and was quite surprised. I didn’t know anybody in the US was aware of the 101ers while they existed. 163
Kevin Mottram @mott73.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Been a good few years since I made any of these beasties, but as there was some OO pizza flour in the cupboard that needed using up, I thought I’d have a bash. Quite pleased with ‘em #oatcakes 280
Reposted by Kevin MottramBeatles Archive @beatlesarchive.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The #Beatles, BBC Saturday Club Session 0525
Reposted by Kevin MottramDavid Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I had no idea KC and the Sunshine Band had been going that long. 2192
Kevin Mottram @mott73.bsky.social · 04/10/2026static.klipy.comWill Ferrell with an AxeALT: Will Ferrell with an Axe 020
Reposted by Kevin MottramProf Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/20264 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators. 9566247
Reposted by Kevin MottramPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Thought you could get rid of me eh? Forget it your guardian angel will never leave you. 1820415
Reposted by Kevin MottramBritish Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 03/10/2026AFC: AUTOMATIC FARE COLLECTION AND YOU (1969) | www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UqO9tnRlcY 0273
Reposted by Kevin MottramPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We got what we want 'Cos we want what God wants. 510110