{"id":193,"date":"2024-05-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/jukebox\/?p=193"},"modified":"2024-12-06T11:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:05:16","slug":"pioneering-teenagers-relive-their-youth-morecambe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/jukebox\/2024\/05\/28\/pioneering-teenagers-relive-their-youth-morecambe\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering Teenagers Relive Their Youth &#8211; Morecambe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<strong>Louise Bryning<\/strong>\nMirador Arts\n\n28th May 2024\n\n \n\nTeenagers of the Fifties and Sixties have taken a musical trip down memory lane in Morecambe.\n\nMemories of music, coffee bars and dancing from years gone by came flooding back to people attending Jukebox Journeys, the first in a series of exciting events taking place on Lancashire\u2019s seaside coast this year during Jukebox: The Teenage Revolution, a celebration of the music and teenage culture of Britain in the Fifties and Sixties.\n\n\u201cInspired by memorabilia from the Fifties and Sixties, it was a joy to see so many happy faces on people recounting stories and experiences from the \u2018golden age\u2019 of the jukebox on the Lancashire coast,\u201d said George Harris, co-founder of Mirador who ran the event.\n\nAmong those participating was Phil Baker who started work in 1967 at the Ditchburn Equipment Company in Blackpool which made some of the first British jukeboxes.\n\nMirador, a\u00a0 Lancaster-based arts and heritage charity, and Lancaster University Library are working in partnership on the project which is supported with a \u00a350,904 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, thanks to National Lottery players.\n\nMorecambe\u2019s Jukebox Journey was hosted by Lewis\u2019s caf\u00e9 and included a talk by Adrian Horn, author of Juke Box Britain, who lives in Bentham.\n\nOne extract from the book highlights a challenge to Sunday jukebox playing in a 1951 Morecambe licence application where magistrates were concerned that the public relaying of music, if played at all, should not be of \u2018a frivolous nature\u2019 such as be-bop, dance and American-style music.\n\nConditions which applied to Sunday musical licences were that the music should be of \u2018a high order suitable for the Sabbath\u2019 and of a light orchestral type and not \u2018dance music of a broadly humorous nature\u2019.\n\nFamous band leader and impresario, Jack Hylton, played an important role in bringing the jukebox to the UK and his archive is held at Lancaster University.\n\nLancaster University students will record memories of the era from people now in their seventies and eighties during the intergenerational part of the project.\n\n\u201cI am delighted that the library is working with Mirador to capture the voices and memories of a generation that carved out so much that we consider vital to popular culture,\u201d said Andrew Barker, Lancaster University\u2019s director of library services and learning development.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Bryning Mirador Arts 28th May 2024 Teenagers of the Fifties and Sixties have taken a musical trip down memory lane in Morecambe. 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