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Over 2000 individual hire outfits, around 60 theme-related costume areas, plus background information on a 250 page website updated regularly,
yet we'll try to get you where you want to be within four page/screens.
Appointments only. These can be usually be made for:
Monday & Thursday: 10am - 8pm; Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday: 10pm-6pm;
Saturday: 10am - 6pm;
Closed Sundays
June 1
1926 - Marilyn Monroe (Actress 'Some Like It Hot' Seven-year Itch') born
1937 - Morgan Freeman (Actor 'Invictus') born
June 2
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic Swimmer & 'Tarzan' actor, born
National Day
of Italy
June 3
1965 - First US walk in space (Ed White)
June 4
1783 - Montgolfier Brothers launch first unmanned hot air balloon
June 5
1915 - Denmark introduces female sufferage
1956 - Elvis Presley's 'scandalous' performance of 'Hound Dog'
June 6
1844 - YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) founded in London
1944 - Operation Overlord (D-Day)
June 7
1950 - First episode of ‘The Archers’ radio serial
June 8
1912 - Carl Lemmie founds Universal Film Studios
June 9
1934 - Donald Duck’s ‘birthday’. First film ‘The Wise Little Hen
June 10
1793 - First public zoo opens in Paris
1829 - First Oxford v. Cambridge boat race
1967 - 'You Only Live Twice' premiered
June 11
1981 - 'Barnum' opened in London -
June 12
1667 - First attack on a Naval Dockyard
1920 - Peter Jones (voice of 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) born
1980 - Sir Billy Butlin (Creator of Butlins Holiday Camps died
June 13
1892 - Basil Rathbone, Sherlock Holmes actor born
1944 - First Flying Bomb hits London June 13th June Space
1982 - Film premier of 'E.T.'
June 14
Edward Caernarvon becomes first Prince of Wales
1909 - Burl Ives born (Composer/Folk Singer)
1969 - Steffi Graf born (Tennis Star - Four times world champion)
June 15
1215 - Magna Carta established -1215
June 16
1890 - Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) - born
June 17
National Day of Iceland
1823 - Macintosh waterproof cloth patented
1920 - Beryl Reid born (Actress)
June 18
1429 - Joan of Arc defeats the English at Patay
1928 - First woman's flight across the Atlantic June 18th June 1942 - Paul McCartney born (Singer/Songwriter 'The Beatles')
June 19
1566 - King James VI of Scotland & I of England born 1829 - Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police
1954 - Kathleen Turner born (Actress)
June 20
1837 - Victoria became Queen June
1952 - John Goodman born (Actor - Flintstones, Monsters Inc.)
1953 - Cyndi Lauper and 1949 - Lionel Richie born (Singers)
June 21
1887 - Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee June
1935 - Franoise Sagan & 1905 - Jean Paul Sartre born (Authors)
1978 - Stage show 'Evita' premiered in London
June 22
1814 - First cricket match at Lords
1932 - Prunella Scales born (Actress - Fawlty Towers)
1987 - Fred Astaire died (Actor and Dancer)
June 23
1848 - Adolphe Sax patented the Saxophone June 23rd
1860 - US Secret Service created
1937 - Bob Fosse born (Actor, Dancer, Choreographer and Director)
June 24
1901 - Picasso's first exhibition in Paris
1983 - First US woman in Space
1989 - Hollywood Film premiere of 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'
June 25
1876 - Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn 1945 - Carly Simon born (Singer/Songwriter 'You're So Vain')
1963 - Mike Myers born (Actor 'Austin Powers')
June 26
1483 - Richard III claims throne
1896 - First cinema (New Orleans)
1906 - First Le Mans Grand Prix
June 27
1693 - First Ladies magazine
1939 - Transatlantic flying boat service launched
1969 - Judy Garland died (Actress & Singer 'The Wizard of Oz')
June 28
1491 - Henry VIII born June
1841 - Giselle first performed in Paris June
1926 - Mel Brooks born (Actor & Director 'Blazing Saddles')
June 29
1855 - Daily Telegraph first published /1868 - Press Association founded
1888 - First music recording in UK
1943 - Little Eva born (Singer 1960s hit 'Locomotion')
June 30
1891 - Stanley Spencer born (English Artist)
1918 - Susan Hayward born (Film Actress)
1936 - 'Gone With The Wind' published
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