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- September 18, 2013 79851
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 the smallest tattoo booth in the world at the ‘Sports Garden’ Coventry Street, which was under... -
- June 12, 2013 98471
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 his first tattoo from Cash Cooper of Piccadilly Circus, London...
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- February 06, 2013 66068
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 beautiful actress Mlle Claudine Perrot.
Now, as the story...
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- October 19, 2012 87623
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 for nearly forty-five years in the St.Pauli district of Hamburg. He was 74 years of age when...
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- July 19, 2012 97336
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 showed tattooing being done to the 1960’s pop tune ‘Needles and Pins’ by The Searchers. ...
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- June 15, 2012 89920
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 history found that tattooing was fast becoming in vogue with the people of the...
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- October 11, 2011 123019
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 Borneo to study the Dayaks of Kalimantan (Borneo being at the time a part of the Dutch East Indies)....
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- January 05, 2011 98749
GEORGE BURCHETT
In Town Tonight - A Series of 50 Cards.
In the 1930s, the Saturday evening BBC radio show In Town Tonight began with the cry of a Piccadilly flower seller, Mrs. Emma Baker, whose picture appears on card number 2 in Churchman’s 1938 series...
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- May 21, 2010 73833
Tattooing and the Chilling Mystery of Severed Limbs
A Shocking Discovery and the Infamous Shark Arm Case
Tattooing has over the years weathered many a storm – and with anything popular there is also a down side – And the following article is one that...
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- April 09, 2010 89816
Brass instrument for "branding", deserters with a letter "D", in leather covered case, by Savigny and Co., London,
Science Museum Group Collection © The Board of Trustees of the Science MuseumBefore the tattooing of the letter "D" for deserter and...
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- January 18, 2010 132943
Ten Fascinating Tattoo Facts You Didn’t Know
- Roman Emperor Caeser wrote that all Briton’s stain their skins with woad, and Herod of Antioch found that the Briton’s had animal designs incised onto their bodies.
- The Pict’s of Scotland also painted their...
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- September 05, 2009 73810
Tattooing machine run on air compresser
Over the years many tattoo artists have sought to find and make a newer, cleaner and easier to handle tattooing machine.
And although tattooing machines run by air have been tried many times before, none have...
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