From Richard Bellfontaine

Richard has sent me about a dozen copies of Ariel (BBC in-house magazine, for visitors), from 1955-57.
Apart from the size and the paper, it doesn't seem to have really changed that much since then. Articles and obits etc - though people being refered to by just their surname in places dates it, as does the odd girl in a swimsuit, very non pc now.
Oh - and the small ads...





This was the standard cover. Presumably the figure is Ariel, and one wonders if CWB, the artist, wasn't having a bit of an in joke for the boys in pink in those innocent times...heaven forbid!


Here's a veritable miscellany of material -

Caption speaks for itself, sort of...
An article about floor managers - but who are the people?

Is that a young Ian Gibb on the left?
I recognise the one in the middle...

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