Newcastle Fashion Week 2013 will be a great experience for the whole city with events right across Newcastle. Here we show video footage of a sixties fashion event exactly 50 years ago
Newcastle Fashion Week 2013 will carry the latest styles to Newcastle, but it’s not the first event to bring fashion to the fore.
This week back in 1963, Turners Photo Fair gave amateur photographers the chance to meet fellow camera enthusiasts – as well as snap fashionable women in a variety of unusual scenarios.
Turners Photo Fair took place at the Old Assembly Rooms on Fenkle Street in May 1963. The audience was predominantly men, but the fair had also set up a variety of calendar-style scenarios where they could take snaps of fashionably-dressed women. The film footage of the event, provided by the North East Film Archive (NEFA), shows the models posing in situations such as a bathroom and even a haystack.
As for Turners of Newcastle itself, JH Turner opened as a pharmacy in Newcastle’s Pink Lane in 1931. The photographic side of the business grew more rapidly, however, and by 1947 the business was purely a photographic retailer selling cinecams and photographic equipment.
Turners also moved into film production, beginning with a couple of weddings. Much of the footage from North East businesses from the time was filmed by Turners, the first being in 1946 at the launch of the Mocamedes from Bartram and Sons Limited in Sunderland.
By the time Turners closed in 1999, Turners Film Productions produced some 2,000 films for regional industry and manufacturing, regional development agencies, and national bodies.
NEFA is the moving image archive for the North East of England and collects, preserves and provides access to film and TV footage related to the history and heritage of the region.
You can find out more by visiting the NEFA website or alternatively you can contact us at community@ncjmedia.co.uk if you have archive footage of your local community which you would like to share.
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