I love it when collections of web data make the unlikely connections.

My colleague and I were delighted to see the Harry Hammond photography collection fully digitised on the V&A Search the Collections database a couple of months back. This is a collection worth exploring…

There are some extraordinary photographs from the fifties and sixties here. Update: I just realised I should link to these images rather than display them inline, due to copyright issues! Don’t want the people downstairs coming after me…

Frank Sintra at Radio Luxembourg

Elvis Presley at Glasgow Prestwick Airport

All very nice. But what struck me today was that one of the sites I develop (Film on Freeview) identified there was a glut (mostly from the Carry On stable) of films starring England’s 6’ 7½” comedy giant, Bernard Bresslaw over the 2010 Easter holidays.

Much to our amusement, there are plenty of photographs of Bernard Bresslaw in the Harry Hammond collection. And some are pure magic…

Bernard Bresslaw as a cowboy in 1958. (Gotta feel for the horse)