Richard Brooks

@thebrookso.bsky.social

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Hello, Good Evening, Welcome...to nothing much. Music. Comedy. Beer. #cafc. Travelling On Buses. Reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs. Tawdry Roberts.

A quite frankly scary looking thing effigy of Kevin Keegan on Blue Peter.
Deborah Burton (Leslie Ash) and Dorothy Martin (Caroline Quentin) enjoying a refreshing alcoholic beverage on the sofa in Gary Strang’s flat in Men Behaving Badly.
A screengrab of the celebrity panel on Blankety Blank S11E10 (tx 20/11/87). On the back row from left, Boxer Terry Marsh, Actress Thora Hird, DJ Steve Wright Intheafternoon; on the bottom row from left Roly Poly breakout star Mo Moreland, “Christ, there’s one of ‘em” Bernie Winters and, erm, Brothel Keeper Cynthia Payne.
TOTP chart countdown slide 21 ROSE ROYCE Slide is of a car going through a Car Wash.
A pint glass with a massive head containing Vault City’s Jumbo Jungle Juice (8% ABV), an alcoholic Tropical (Um Bongo) sour, on a garden table. In the background on a lead is Elvis the Tibetan Terrier.
A photo of Darts colossus and sometime Dexy’s Midnight Runners mascot Jocky Wilson enjoying a beverage and a snout with his feet up. Next to him is some sort of contraption with a grille which has plants seemingly sprouting from it. A packet of ciggies and another glass are on a table.
Celebrity; Known for; Status Ilona Staller Pornographic Actress Eliminated 1st Charlene Tilton Dallas Actress Eliminated 2nd Flavor Flav Rapper Eliminated 3rd Lionel Blair Dancer & television presenter Eliminated 4th Emma B model Eliminated 5th Ron Jeremy Pornographic actor Eliminated 6th Dave Morgan Jessie Wallace’s ex-boyfriend Eliminated 7th Emma Noble model third place Mikey Green Phil’s singer runner-up Keith Harris & Orville the Duck Ventriloquist & dummy Winner
A screengrab of Sally Harrison, who acted as one of the protagonist’s love interests in Confessions Of A Pop Performer, appearing as an In Vision Continuity Announcer for TVS. Sally is wearing a smashing red and black jumper.
Kenny Lynch’s 1983 LP, “Half The Day’s Gone And We Haven’t Earn’ed A Penny”, the cover photo of which has Kenny and Gareth Hunt sitting with tuxedos on, by a pool with three female models and I assume, Champagne.
BBC 1 listing for the evening of Friday 14 March 1986: 7.00 Wogan - Peter Bowles, Little and Large and Martin Sheen. Music by James Taylor 7.30 Blankety Blank hosted by Les Dawson, with Lionel Blair, Don Estelle, Jill Gascoigne, Paul Shane, June Whitfield and some awful TERF swimmer. 8.10 Dynasty 9.00 News 9.30 Lovejoy
A photo of Richard O’ Sullivan and Gabrielle Drake wearing a red dress, flashing her white panties by the side of the road next to a car from the film Au Pair Girls (1972).
A print on wood mounting of a painting of Sir William, a bull, property of Mr Thomas Killick, farmer. Photo taken by me at the Stonehorse pub, Higham, Kent. 2026
A view of Eggcup House from the other side of Camden Lock on a beautiful clear and sunny day.
Photo of a fingerpost sign in Kent. One arm points to HAM 1/2 SANDWICH 3 The other arm points to FINGLESHAM 1/2 DEAL 4 There is another arm pointing to DOVER but it isn’t shown in this photo
A photo of a bright orange beer, Pastore’s Waterbeech Weisse Raspberry & Strawberry on a table with sunlight flooding in from a window with a background of a stunning clear blue sky.
A photo taken a few years ago from the front of a bus looking down on a flat blackboard sign on the side of a pub called The Cherry Tree, advertising “SATURDAY 2ND CHARITY RACE NIGHT FOR DREAMS COME TRUE FROM 8.30PM GOOD FRIDAY 15TH CHICORY TIP FROM 9PM”
Warren Mitchell, very much not as Alf Garnett, getting a wagging finger from Mary Whitehouse.
An AI image created and posted of 70s sitcom star Sally Thomsett as a modern day Catwomanesque character.
Paul Weller, Paul McCartney and Noel Gallagher, at the Premiere of Man On The Run. Given the company he’s keeping, Noel looks like he’s been spending a deeply disappointing and very damp caravan holiday.
Excerpt of James Hamilton’s Disco Page, Record Mirror, 7 Feb 1976.
A still of Edward Woodward looking terrified in The Wicker Man (1973), but instead of looking at a large wicker structure he’s looking at…
Clipping from NME 18 Jan 1992 The Venue 2A Clifton Rise New Cross London SE14 Fri 17th Jan £5.00 The Phantom Chords Sat 18th Jan £5.00 RDF + Fat Dinosaur Fri 24th Jan £5.00 Th’ Faith Healers + Basti + Perspex Without Sat 25th Jan £5.00 Resque + Suede + The Divine Comedy Fri 31st Jan £3.50 Captain America + Daisy Chainsaw + The Cherrys Sat 1st Feb £5.00 Natural Life + Deja Vu + Wild About Nothing Fri 2nd Feb (sic) £5.00 TBC
A quote from Legs & CO’s Lulu Cartwright for Freeman’s Catalogue: “It’s simply the best book I’ve ever read.”
Review of Dummy by Portishead in Melody Maker 3/9/94 by Sharon O’Connell.
A photo of Side One of Stylus/BBC’s “TELLY-HITS” album.
BBC1 tv listings for 14 November 1988. Primetime: 7.00 Wogan 7.30 Watchdog 8.00 Wyatt’s Watchdogs 8.30 Streets Apart 9. News 9.30 Panorama.
Lyrics to the novelty spoken word record Capstick Comes Home by Swinton’s very own Tony Capstick, which is set to the sound of The Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band playing Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor from the New World, aka the Hovis music.
The lyrics for Kill The Poor by The Dead Kennedys reproduced in the 13-26 November 1980 edition of Smash Hits
Matt Bianco on Saturday Superstore, about to be chided over their alleged onanism.
Leo Sayer - When I Need You LP cover
Russ Abbot - I Love A Party
Packs of M&S Collection British Hog Roast Yorkshire Pudding on a shelf
Hopelessly In Love by Carroll Thompson album cover.
The Grade II listed 14th century crypt at The George Vaults, Rochester.
A photo of Gus Honeybun dressed in a navy blue and red jumper in front of a painting of Judi Spiers sitting in a wooden chair with Gus Honeybun sitting in her lap by Robert Lenkiewicz.
Marijne van der Vlught, MTV Europe VJ and lead vocalist of Salad.
Logo for Granada Sky Broadcasting, home of Granada Plus, Talk TV, Breeze and Men & Motors.
A portable loo provided by Abbas Cabins Ltd.
The yellow “CAUTION WET FLOOR” sign appears to be making a bid for an escape as it’s folded and now floating in the flooded concrete area.
A yellow hazard “CAUTION WET FLOOR” sign in a quite obviously flooded external area.
A clipping from Record Mirror 3/1/81 of a review by Alf Martin of The Police at Tooting.
An advert in the music press for “Rooting at Tooting” The Police at The Supertent, Tooting Bec Common. Sun/Mon 21st/22nd December at 7.30
“An update from Alan who runs the “Forgotten British Television” channel: he has made the decision to put it in hiatus until the new year, as a result of now having two copyright strikes in the channel (which has caused his views to slump); and a need to focus on his own working life. So the FBT channel will be invisible until the strikes expire in the new years at which point he will reassess the situation.”
The label for the Good Old Arsenal 7inch record by The 1971 Arsenal 1st Team Squad (Theme song of the Arsenal F.C.) (New Music arr. M. Hunter, words Jimmy Hill)
A publicity photo for Babes In The Wood at the London Palladium showing Derek Nimmo, Rod Hull with bird in hand, Adrienne Posta and Edward Woodward.
A handbill for the 1972/73 Leslie Grade production of Babes In The Wood at the London Palladium, starring Edward Woodward, Derek Nimmo, Julian Orchard, Bill Maynard, Alan Curtis, Adrienne Posta and Rod Hull & Emu.