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