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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
April 1
London to Paris telephone link opened - 1891
Royal Air Corps merged with Roal Naval Air Corps to create the RAF - 1918
Burt Reynolds becomes first 'Cosmopolitan' centrefold - 1972
April Fools Day
April 2
Hans Christian Andersen - b. 1805
Argentina invades the Falkland Islands - 1982
April 3
Robert Walpole becomes first Prime Minister of Britain - 1721
First Pony Express (US) - 1860
First mobile hand-held phone call - 1973
April 4
Francis Drake (Circumnavigator/Privateer) knighted - 1581
'Cat's Eyes' road markers used for first time - 1934
Muddy Waters, Blues Singer & Song-writer born -1915
April 5
Grand National
2025
First performance of ''Die Fledermaus' - 1874
Spencer Tracy, actor - b. 1900
Bette Davis (Actress) - b. 1908
April 6
William Wordsworth becomes Poet Laureate - 1843
Harry Houdini (Escapologist) - b. 1874
First Modern Olympics (Athens) - 1896
April 7
David Frost, broadcaster, presenter & writer - b.1939
Francis Ford Coppola (Film Director) - b.1939
South Pacific' (Musical) opens on Broadway - 1949
April 8
Brunel's 'Great Western' ship first voyage - 1838
Mary Pickford (Silent Movie Actress) - b. 1893
Eric Porter , (Actor) (Forsyte Saga - 1967) - b.1918
April 9
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Inventor/Engineer) - b. 1806
Mia Farrow, Actress (Rosemary's Baby) - b.1945
April 10
First bananas seen in British shops - 1633
Omar Sherif, Actor (Dr Zhivago) - b.1932
Gary Player, first non-US golfer wins American Masters - 1961
April 11
First pillar boxes (Green) seen in London - 1855
Popeye the Sailor Man comic strip debuts - 1929
Joel Grey (US Actor & Singer) - b.1932
April 12
Union Jack created circa 1874, adopted as official flag of Britain
First Manned Space Flight - 1961
Euro-Disney opens -1992
Oliver Postgate, creator of Noggin the Nog, Bagpuss - b.1925
April 13
Handel's Messiah premiered in Dublin 1742
Royal Flying Corps formed -1912
Film premiere of Wuthering Heights - 1839
Oxford/Cambridge
Boat Race
April 14
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth - 1865
Highway Code first published in Britain - 1931
Julie Christie, Actress - b.1941
April 15
Sinking of 'Titanic' - 1912
Discovery of Insulin - 1922
Emma Thompson (Actress, Nanny McPhee) - b.1959
Notre Dame Cathedral Paris seriously damaged by fire - 2019
April 16
Charlie Chaplin (Actor/Director) - b. 1889
Spike Milligan (Writer/Comedian) - b. 1918
First solo flight across the Channel by a woman (Harriet Quimby) - 1912
April 17
Premium Bonds introduced in UK - 1856
Thornton Wilder, writer & playwright 'Hello Dolly' - b.1897
Eddy Cochran, singer - d.1960
April 18
Good Friday
Natural History Museum opened, South Kensington - 1881
April 19
American War of Independence, First hostilities - 1775
First 'Miss World' contest - 1951
April 20
BBC Two (British TV channel) launches - 1964
Easter Sunday
April 21
Rome founded - 753 BC
April 22
Earth Day
First Roller Skates (more like in-line ice-skates) created - 1743
April 23
St. George's Day
William Shakespeare b. 1564 (d. 23/4 1616)
April 24
Hubble Telescope launched from Discovery Space Shuttle - 1991
April 25
Crick & Watson outlined properties of DNA - 1953
April 26
'The Sky at Night' astronomy programme started - 1957
April 27
National Day of
The Netherlands
London Zoo opened - 1828
London Marathon
April 28
Mutiny on the Bounty - 1789
April 29
National Day of
Japan
Wedding of Prince William & Catherine Middleton - 2011
April 30
Walpurgisnacht - Six months to Halloween!
Gal Gadot, Actress/Model (Wonder Woman, Snow White) - b.1985
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