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