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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 can be made:
Monday - Friday: 10am - 8pm; Saturday: 10am - 6pm; Closed Sundays
May 1
Act of Union creates United Kingdom from England & Scotland - 1717
First adhesive stamp, the Penny Black issued - 1840
Victoria opens the Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace - 1851
May-day -
Old Style first
day of Spring.
International
Workers' Day
May 2
Maiden voyage of Queen Elizabeth 2 ocean liner - 1969
May 3
King George VI opened Festival of Britain - 1951
May 4
1st Epsom Derby - 1780
May 5
Michael Palin - b. 1943.
Project Mercury - First American in space (Alan Shepard) - 1961
World Health Organisation declares end of COVID-19 pandemic - 2023
Mayday
Bank Holiday
May 6
Orson Welles - b. 1915.
May 7
Greece became an independent kingdom in 1832,
May 8
Sir David Attenborough - b. 1926
VE Day
May 9
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London opened 1663.
May 10
England seized Jamaica from the Spanish in 1655.
May 11
‘Cats’ musical opened in London - 1981.
Tate Modern art gallery opened by Elizabeth II - 2000
May 12
Edward Lear Author, poet, artist b. 1812
May 13
Stevie Wonder b.1950
May 14
First US Space Station, Skylab, launched - 1973
Eric Morecombe, comedian - b. 1926
May 15
Frank L Baum, writer & creator of the Land of Oz - b. 1856
May 16
First Academy Awards ('Oscars') - 1926
May 17
''Wonderful Wizard of Oz' first published - 1900
Eurovision Song
Contest Final, Basel,
May 18
Rick Wakeman, composer & keyboard musician - b. 1946
May 19
Marilyn Monroe's rendition of 'Happy Birthday' for President Kennedy - 1962
Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Windsor - 2018
May 20
First Chelsea Flower Show - 1913
First Transatlantic Solo Flight: Charles Lindburgh - 1926
First Transatlantic Solo female Flight: Amelia Earhart - 1932
Chelsea Flower
Show 2025
20 - 24 May
May 21
Elton John becomes first western rock star to perform in USSR - 1979
'Empire Strikes Back' premieres - 1980
May 22
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes - b: 1859
Georges Remi ('Herge' - creator Tin-tin, boy detective) b: 1907
May 23
Royal Canadian Mounted Police ('Mounties') founded - 1873
Bonny & Clyde, gangsters, meet a violent end - 1934
May 24
Bob Dylan, composer & musician - b: 1941
First Eurovision Song Contest - 1956
May 25
Star Wars premiered - 1977
May 26
Income Tax introduced in Britain - 1798
John Wayne, Actor - b: 1907
May 27
Masters of Horror Vincent Price (b: 1911) & Peter Cushing (b: 1922)
May 28
Ian Fleming, writer (James Bond, Chitty Chitty Bang-bang b: 1850
Kylie Minogue, singer & actress b: 1968
May 29
Charles Stuart enters London as Charles II - 1660
First Monday Late May Bank Holiday - 1879
May 30
Joan of Arc burnt at the stake - 1431
Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour - 1536
May 31
'Big Ben' clock at UK House of Parliament started - 1859
Clint Eastwood, Actor & Director - b: 1930
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