Tag Archives: Maurice Elvey

A celebration of working class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire, during “Wakes Week” Read More »

Women unite to prevent financiers from engineering a second world war. Read More »

Engineers Richard McAllan and Frederick Robinson manage to get financial backing for a gigantic project to build a tunnel from England to America. Read More »

25 year old Cardew is still at school, run by a large headmaster Who lives and bets off the income Read More »

Maximus, a small-time music hall mind reader, has frightening flashes of precognition Read More »

Deborah and Charles, very much in love, are young executives at the successful Pontifex Advertising Agency. Read More »

An inventor and his new bride go on their honeymoon, only to be pursued by criminals after his latest invention. Read More »

Inept Secret Agent on a job in the South of France is followed by his suspicious wife. Read More »

Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died Read More »

The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. Read More »

The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job. Read More »

Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against. Read More »

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In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. Read More »

An American soldier stationed in England is ready to go on his honeymoon with his new wife when his ex-wife, a gorgeous blonde, shows up and insists that they’re still married. Read More »