In the 1962-3 football season, Everton won the First Division title for the sixth time in the club’s history. They clinched the title on 11 May with a 4 – 1 victory over Fulham at Goodison Park. Welshman Roy Vernon was Everton’s top scorer with 24 goals.
1,536 goals were scored during the season at an average of 3.32 goals per match. The highest scoring game was Tottenham Hotspur 9 – 2 Nottingham Forest, 29 September 1962.
The family budge. From the Daily Mirror, 31 December 1963.
Female hairstyles for 1963, according to Alice Cooper Beck of the Daily Herald, will consist of chin-length, slightly tapered hair worn straight with a side or centre parting, and a heavy fringe. No back-combing. For the evening, your hair will be swept up, and topped with a curvy hairpiece.
Alice reckoned that the demand for curvy hairpieces would soar in 1963.
Radio listings for 26 December 1963. From this distance, the programmes on offer look grim, but maybe they were exciting at the time? 🤔
My impression: radio programmes in 1963 were more in tune with the 1950s than the Swinging Sixties.
Dr Who was first broadcast at 17:16:20 GMT on 23 November 1963 with William Hartnell (pictured) as the First Doctor. The series was designed to appeal to a family audience with time travel used as a means to explore scientific ideas and famous moments in history.
Episode one of Dr Who appeared eighty seconds later than scheduled because of an announcement concerning the assassination of John F Kennedy.
The Daleks first appeared on British television on 21 December 1963 (just a glimpse on that occasion; they were fully revealed the following week).
The seven-part serial was written by Welshman Terry Nation, thus beginning a long Welsh association with the series. With the Daleks, Nation was influenced by the threat of racial extermination by the Nazis.
I’m not a science fiction fan, but I reckon the Daleks and the Dr Who theme music are touched by genius.
Coming soon, Songbird, my novel set in the winter of 1962-63
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