Jukebox : The Teenage Revolution

Gallery

Images and other content created during the project. Photography by Darren Andrews unless otherwise stated.

Campus in the City (launch event)

The Project was launched at Lancaster University’s Campus in the City event which was held in locations in Lancaster and Morecambe between 11th and 13th April 2024.

Steve Fairclough at the Jukebox Project stall during the Campus in the city event at the Storey Institute.
Brothers Manuel and Alberto Da Costa-Pinho enjoying music from the past at the Mirador Arts and Lancaster University Library stand during the Campus in the City event at Lancaster Library, 2024/04/13. Photography by Darren Andrew. Features two young boys looking at old records next to a record player.
Carolyn Primett, Mirador co-founder, and Steve Fairclough, Jukebox Project Engagement officer at the Mirador Arts and Lancaster University Library stand during the Campus in the City event at Lancaster Library, 2024/04/13. Photography by Darren Andrew. Shows two people stood next to a display with a record player.
Student, India Sidhu, using a record player at the Mirador Arts and Lancaster University Library Stand during the Campus in the City event at Lancaster Library, 2024/04/13. Photography by Darren Andrew.

Jukebox Journeys (Lytham)

The first of our Jukebox Journeys events was held at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham St Annes on the 15th May 2024.

Jukebox Journey's event at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham on the 15th May 2024 featuring a woman sat at a table looking at magazines from the 1960s.
Attendee at the Assembly Rooms event looking at a contemporary magazine.
Jukebox Journey's event at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham on the 15th May 2024 featuring Steve Fairclough talking to the group about the project.
Steve Fairclough talking to the group about the project.
Jukebox Journey's event at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham on the 15th May 2024 featuring Steve Fairclough talking to the group. An image of a album record by Bill Haley and the Comets can be seen in the foreground.
Steve Fairclough talking to the group at the event.
Jukebox Journey's event at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham on the 15th May 2024 featuring a group of people talking.
Discussions at the event.
Jukebox Journey's event at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham on the 15th May 2024 featuring two men talking.
People discussing their memories at the event.
Jukebox Journey's event at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham on the 15th May 2024 featuring Valerie Whittle holding a photograph of her using a vending machine at Ditchburn's Equipment Ltd.
Valerie Whittle holding a photograph of her using a vending machine while working at Ditchburn Equipment Ltd.
Jukebox Journey's event at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham on the 15th May 2024 featuring Valerie Whitte holding a photograph of her using a vending machine at Ditchburn's Equipment Ltd.
Valerie Whittle holding a photograph of her using a vending machine while working at Ditchburn Equipment Ltd.
Jukebox Journey's event at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham on the 15th May 2024 featuring people looking at memorabilia.
People looking at memorabilia during the event.
Jukebox Journey's event at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham on the 15th May 2024 featuring a women looking at a Cliff Richard Album.
Carol Jones who worked at the Ditchburn Factory looking at a Cliff Richard album.
Jukebox Journey's event at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham on the 15th May 2024 featuring Steve Fairclough discussing a photograph with two participants.
Steve Fairclough discussing a photograph with two participants.
Jukebox Journey's event at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham on the 15th May 2024 featuring Steve Fairclough talking to two participants at the event.
Steve Fairclough talking to Valerie Whittle and Carol Jones who worked for Ditchburn Ltd.
Jukebox Journey's event at the Assembly Rooms, Lytham on the 15th May 2024 featuring a selection of 1950s/1960s ex jukebox records.
Selection of 1950s/1960s former jukebox records.

Jukebox Journeys (Blackpool)

The second of our Jukebox Journeys events held at Stanley Park Visitor Centre, Blackpool on the 16th May 2024

Women holding a vinyl single of 'all my loving' by The Beatles in front of a trellis with roses.
Susan Kershaw with her original Beatles single bought in 1963.
Man with a book in a garden
Adrian Horn, writer and cultural historian with a copy of his book ‘Juke Box Britain: Americanisation and Youth Culture, 1945–60’.
Image of a hardback book on top of papers with comments written by people at the event.
Joan N Marks (1952) ‘Cafe and milk Bar Catering’, London: Heywood and Company
Three men in suits stood near a wall
Jeff Hutchinson, Keith Louis and Stuart Woodrow dressed in Teddy Boy fashions.
Man in a suit stood near a wall
Jeff Hutchinson dressed in Teddy Boy fashions.
Man in a suit stood near a wall.
Jeff Hutchinson dressed in Teddy Boy fashions.
Man in a suit smoking a cigarette in a garden area.
Stuart Woodrow in Teddy Boy fashion.
Two men in suits stood next to a wall.
Jeff Hutchinson and Keith Louis dressed in Teddy Boy Fashions.

Jukebox Journeys (Morecambe)

The Final Jukebox Journeys event on the 21st May 2024 held in Lewis’ Café, Morecambe.

Man talking to people sat in a cafe.
Steve Fairclough introducing the event.
Close up of stacked up ice cream cones, including plain, chocolate dipped, wafflecones, and sprinkle dipped.
Ice cream cones at Lewis’ Cafe
People sat in a cafe listening to a man with another man sat in the background.
George Harris introducing Adrian Horn to the group.
People sat at tables in a café.
The group listening to the presentation.
Metal trays containing various flavours of ice cream.
Ice cream being sold in Lewis’s Café during the event.
Four people sat at tables with drinks and ice creams with a blue and white wall in the background.
Group at the event listening to a presentation by Adrian Horn.
Three round glass jars on a counter containing fudge pieces, chocolate balls, and sprinkles.
Jars of ice cream toppings.
Sign advertising ice creams with ice cream pictures in a cone and a tub.
Sign in Lewis’s Café.
Man in a blue shirt sat at a table talking to a group.
Historian Adrian Horn talking about his research.
four people sat down at tables listening to a talk.
Group listening to Adrian Horn’s presentation.
Orange coloured album cover featuring an image of Carl Perkins.
Dance Album by Karl Perkins.
Two men sat at a table talking.
David Scott (left), Morecambe residence and Phil Baker, who worked at Ditchburn Equipment Limited.
Two men stood outside a café.
Phil Baker, who worked at Ditchburn Equipment Limited, with David Scott (left), Morecambe resident.

Coffee Bar Mapping (session 1)

First session at Stanley Park Visitor Centre on the 13th June to gather information on the location of 1950s/60s coffee bars in Blackpool. Photography by Phil Cheeseman.

Four people stood around a table looking at a map.
Steve Fairclough and Carolyn Primett at the event examining the map.
Four people stood around a table looking at a map.
Looking for coffee houses.
copy of a historical map of Blackpool with coloured dots representing coffee house and other venues.
Close-up of annotated map
Five people stool around a table looking at a map
Five people stood around a table looking at the map.

Coffee Bar Mapping (session 2)

Event to map locations of lost coffee bars in Blackpool, held in the Stanley Park Visitor Centre, Blackpool on the 20th June 2024.

Historic map with numbered red dots.
Map annotated during the event with locations of coffee bars and other venues.
Close-up image of a historic street map with red dots.
Location of The Bamboo (3) and The Wimpy Bar (4).
People putting red spots to mark locations on a map.
Pointing out locations.
Man writing down names of lost coffee bars on top of a map.
Steve Fairclough making notes.
Five people in a room stood around a map. Two people are adding information to the map.
Finding locations.
Four people looking at a map on a table.
Locating coffee bars.
Three people adding post-it notes to a map to mark locations.
Steve Fairclough inspecting the map.
A women with a mug listening.
Sharing memories at the event.
Three women sat down chatting
Two women sat at a table looking a a map (not pictured).
Man sat down talking
Steve listening to memories.
Three people adding red dots to a map to mark locations.
Helping people to add locations to the map.
Three women sat down chatting.
Sharing memories
Two women sat down laughing.
People discussing memories of Blackpool.
Man sat at a table with a women stood up with a banner in the background.
Steve reviewing the map.

Intergenerational café (Lytham)

Event with Year 5 pupils and their grandparents at Lytham Hall Park Primary School on the 30th June 2024 to share experiences of the Jukebox era.

Children and adults dancing
Rocking Around The Clock at Lytham Hall Park Primary School
School children sat at a table listening to a man speak.
Pupils at Lytham Hall Park Primary School learning about the Fifties and Sixties

Vintage by the Sea (Morecambe)

The Jukebox team presented the results of the project at the Vintage by the Sea festival in Morecambe between 31st August and 1st September 2024. This was the first time the public experienced Dan Fox’s work Voices from the Hood 2.

Three people looking at a display.
Jukebox Project at Vintage.
Various 1950s records on a shelf.
Memorabilia and records shown at the event.
Young girl listening to sound installation sat in a mock-up of a hair stylist chair
Listening to memories on Voices from the Hood 2 by Dan Fox.
Young girl listening to sound installation.
Young girl listening to sound installation.
Man talking to a group of people in front of a banner.
Steve Fairclough talking about the project.
A women listening to a sound installation while reading a leaflet.
People dancing to a Jukebox in front of a display.
A couple dancing to music from a jukebox.
People looking at a display with a Jukebox.
A man and two women listening to a sound installation sat in mock-up hair stylist chairs.
Listening to memories.
A man and two women listening to a sound installation in mocked-up hair stylist chairs.
A women listening to a sound installation while reading a leaflet.
Laughing at memories.
People looking at a display.
Three people sat in mocked-up hair stylist chairs listening to a sound installation.
A group of people looking at a display.
People looking at the display
A women sat in a mocked-up hair salon chair listening to a sound installation.
Women listening to Voices from the Hood 2.
A group of people looking at the display.
A group of people looking at a display and listening to a sound installation.
A young boy sat on a mock-up hair stylist chair listening to a sound installation.
A group of people looking at a display.
Jukebox Project at Vintage by the Sea.
a young girl sat in a mocked-up hair stylist chair listening to a sound installation.
A group of people looking at a display and a jukebox.
George Harris talking to visitors
A banner with people in the background
A group of people looking at a Jukebox.
George Harris showing a family a jukebox.

Library Festival (Lancaster)

The results of the project were also presented at the Library Festival held at Lancaster University Library on the 13th and 14th September 2024.

Person in a VR headset with a vintage TV and space decorated like a vintage living room.
Welcome to Lunarshire by Tom Diffenthal and Lauren Paige-Dowling at the Lancaster University Library Festival.
Close-up of an art installation showing a 1950s trinkets shelf with trinkets.
Image of a women wearing a VR head set in a art installation with a 1950s style trinket shelf in the background.
Close-up image of an art installation including a small sculpture of a women made out of shells and a small glass scent bottle.
Image of art installation featuring a 1950s style room. Includes one person using a VR headset and another watch the same video on a vintage TV screen.
Image of art installation featuring a 1950s style room. Includes one person using a VR headset and another watch the same video on a vintage TV screen.
Image of a women taking a picture of an art installation with her phone.
Image of an art installation featuring a person wearing a VR headset in front of a vintage TV showing the video.
Tom Diffenthal and Lauren Paige-Dowling (2024) Welcome to Lunarshire. Library Festival, Lancaster University Library, 2024/09/14. Photography by Darren Andrews.

Light up Lancaster (Lancaster)

The art works developed during the project were present at the 2024 Light Up Lancaster event held across venues in Lancaster between 7th-9th November 2024.

People sat in a room watching a video and VR art installation.
Welcome to Lunarshire by Tom Diffenthal and Lauren Paige-Dowling presented at the Dukes Theatre Gallery.
People sat in a room watching a video and VR art installation.
People sat in a room watching a video and VR art installation.
People sat in a room watching a video and VR art installation.
People sat in a room watching a video and VR art installation.
People sat in a room watching a video and VR art installation.
People sat in a room watching a video and VR art installation.
Person sat in a chair with a VR headset and a video projection behind them.
People sat in a room watching a video and VR art installation.
People sat in a room watching a video and VR art installation.
People sat in a room watching a art installation.
Two people looking at an art work based around a ghost in a jukebox.
Matt Tully (2024) Broken Records – The Phantom’s Playlist. The Reading Room, The Storey, Lancaster at Light up Lancaster.
View of an art installation featuring a film projector, cardboard boxes, and a jukebox.
Close-up of an art installation showing a ghostly face on a jukebox.
Cloe-up of an art installation showing a ghostly face on a jukebox.
Close-up of an art installation showing a ghostly face in a jukebox.
Image of an art installation featuring a jukebox with a ghostly face surrounded by cardboard boxes pictured through a reel of the film projector.
Image of an art installation featuring a film projectors, cardboard boxes, and a jukebox with a ghostly face.
Image of an art installation showing a pink cat plush toy sat on a green leather and wood chair.
Image of a art installation featuring a projector projecting a film onto a screen, cardboard boxes, and a jukebox in background.
Close-up of an art installation showing a ghostly face on a jukebox.
Room showing containing an art installation showing a film projector projecting a film on a screen and a jukebox in the background.
Close up of an artwork based on a jukebox, showing a grim reaper and the words 'you got dead'.
Close up of an artwork based on a jukebox.
Close up of an artwork based on a jukebox, showing a ghostly face.

Celebration Event (Blackpool)

The project ended with a celebration event in Winter Gardens in Blackpool on the 20th November 2024. Held in the Renaissance Room, artworks produced during the event were on display in the Baronial Room. The event ended with dancing in the Spanish Room.

People sat at tables in a large room watching a man talk.
George Harris introducing the event.
A selection of vintage magazines, photos and records on a table.
Selection of 1950s/1960s memorabilia.
Tables containing sandwiches, vol au vents, sausage rolls, cheese & pineapple on sticks.
Lunch at the event including classic teatime favourites of the period.
Table containing sausage rolls and trifles.
Close-up image of cheese and pineapple on skewers on a wooden board.
Table contain open pastry cases containing mushroom filling.
Groups of people chatting sat a tables in a large room.
General view of the event.
Man sat down reading a jukebox manual.
Geoff Walker with his jukebox manual.
Three women sat at a table talking.
Sharing memories of the 1960s.
Two men chatting with a table covered in vintage magazines and records in the foreground.
Steve Fairclough displaying memorabilia at the event.
A large decorated room with an art installation featuring a chair ,old television and a screen.
Welcome to Lunarshire by Tom Diffenthal and Lauren Paige-Dowling on display
Person sat down using a VR headset with a screen in the background showing what they are seeing.
Person sat on a chair wearing a VR headset in a space set up like a late 1950s living room. Also a screen in the background showing what the person is seeing.
People looking at an art work in the shape of a jukebox while the artist explains the work.
Matt Tully demonstrating his art work Broken Records – The Phantom’s Playlist at the event.
A man stood next to an art work in the shape of a jukebox.
Two people looking at an art work which was in the shape of a jukebox.
Two people sat in mocked-up salon chairs listening to an sound installation while reading a leaflet.
People listening to Voices from the Hood 2 by Dan Fox
Man sat in a mocked-up salon chair listening to an art installation.
Man sat in a mocked-up salon chair listening to voice recordings while reading a leaflet.
Women sat in a mocked-up salon chair listening to a sound installation.
Women sat in mocked-up salon chair listening to sound installation.
Three women sat in mocked-up salon chairs listening to a sound installation.
Five women stood in a large room.
A group at the event.
Several couples dancing to jive music.
Anthony Padgett’s jive group leading the dancing.
A man and a women dancing.
Large room with people dancing and tables in the background.
A large room with people dancing and some people sat down.
People dancing in a large room.
A large room with people dancing and other people stood in the background.
A large room with people dancing to jive music.
A large room with people dancing to jive music.
A group of people in a room dancing and a small dog on a lead.
A large room with tables and people sat down. Line of people are leaving the room.
Dancers moving to the Spanish Hall.
A large decorated room with people dancing to music.
Dancing in the the Spanish hall.
People dancing in a decorated ballroom.
People dancing in pairs in a decorated ball room.
People dancing in a decorated ball room.