1 Charles Atlas, winner of ‘The World’s Most Perfectly Developed Man’ competition of 1921 and 1922, developed a successful and enduring mail order business under the trade name ‘DynamicTension TM’. His program of body-building exercises allowed ’97-Pound Weaklings’ to develop their physiques in the privacy of their own homes and became very popular in the 1950s.
2 Rosy Apple was a children’s prank of repeatedly knocking on resident’s doors and then running off.
3 Anthony Eden was the Foreign Secretary for Britain at the time of the Suez Canal crisis in Egypt in 1956. The crisis arose because of the British decision to join with France and Israel in military intervention to attempt to prevent General Nasser from nationalizing the Suez Canal.
4 Beetle Crushers were very thick crêpe-soled shoes that were part of the Teddy boys apparel, referred to as crêpes and drapes.
5 A popular car of the 1950s, manufactured by Hillman Motorcars, later taken over by The Chrysler Corporation.
6 The Eagle comic was a very popular boy’s magazine in the 1950s, copies of which are highly collectible today, fetching substantial sums at auctions.
7 Shotties: a colloquial term for marbles.
8 Nowadays this would be diagnosed as ‘post traumatic stress disorder’.
9 General Bernard Montgomery, affectionately known as Monty, led the 8th Army (the Desert Rats) in the North African campaign towards the end of WW11.
10 A popular radio soap opera in the 1950s later replaced by The Archers.