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October 31, 2016
Diamond Jacks, Soho, London
Paul Sayce talks to Darryl Gates at Diamond Jacks, founded in 1985 by Dennis Cockell, now reaching 30 years of tattoo history, tattooing the stars of Rock 'N' Roll....
October 26, 2016
Duncan X - Into You
Duncan talks about how he became aware of Into You, and ended up working there.
Filmed in July 2015 at Into You....
September 23, 2016
The History and Stories of Tattooing's Iconic Pioneers
A film setting out to tell the history and stories of some of the most prominent names in tattooing.
Featuring...
January 16, 2014
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Photo Circa early 1960's
Terry Wrigley
Tattoo artist, magazine editor, writer and President of the National Tattoo Club Terry Wrigley...
September 18, 2013
Photo Circa late 1950's
Prof. Cash Cooper
Charles ‘Cash’ Cooper (1927-1979) was tattooing at Piccadilly Circus in the 1950s and ’60s, in what has been called...
June 12, 2013
George Bone - Guinness Book of Records
George Bone was born in 1945 first became interested in tattoos when as a boy he saw some tattoos on a member of his family - George was 15 when he got...
February 06, 2013
Paris Secrets -The Strange Case of the Eiffel Tower Tattoo: A 1960s Film Controversy
A tall story made the papers in the 1960’s when ‘Ulysses Films’ made the movie ‘Paris Secret’ starring the...
October 19, 2012
Five tattoo facts on tattooists
- Christiaan Warlich was, without a doubt one of the best-ever tattoo artists to have come out of Germany. Christiaan tattooed...
July 19, 2012
15 Tattoo Facts You Might Not Know
- The BBC’s ‘Pebble Mill’ afternoon TV show once played a video on the Dave Lee Travis segment entitled ‘Golden Oldies’. Which...
June 15, 2012
Tattoo Facts - The turn of the 20th century
The turn of the 20th century saw the emergence of some fine tattoo work and some of the most celebrated names in British tattoo...
February 16, 2012
Richie Mingins Tattoo collection
Hanky Panky got the Richie Mingins collection on the 15th of April 1999 – the author was at Hanky’s tattooing museum in Amsterdam, Holland – when Hanky told...
October 11, 2011
12 Tattoo Facts You Might Not Know
- In the years 1893-94, 1896-97 and 1898-1900 the Dutch government sponsored Dr Anton Nieuwenhuis in three expeditions to...
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