Sketch "Get yourself to Looe, mother"

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Sketch "Get yourself to Looe, mother"

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Established in 1992, the South West Film & Television Archive collection spans from 1893 to the present day containing more than 250,000 items. Formed from a variety of depositors, including broadcast news and programmes material from the Westward and TSW archive. In 2018 the archive collection transferred to The Box in Plymouth.

Sketch "Get yourself to Looe, mother" (Westward Diary)

The Box
Looe
1970-09-01
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7m

Moyra Babington in "Get yourself to Looe, mother!"

Moyra Babington stars in a sketch for Westward Diary at Looe beach, Cornwall in an aim to show the change in swimwear fashion from the early 20th century to the 1970s and the advent of the bikini. Moyra plays “Get yourself to Looe, mother” in local dialect to the amusement of the onlooking crowds on a packed seaside day out. Moyra was a popular local television personality known for her programme ‘West Country Cooking'.

Moyra Babington was the station's cookery expert and joined in 1962, fronting many cookery programmes as well as contributing to Westward Diary. Off-screen, she taught elocution at the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth and judged cookery competitions.

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