Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Was Billy Graham at Harringay the Inspiration for the Daleks?
I came across an old film clip on Twitter yesterday, hosted on the website of mid twentieth century evangelist Billy Graham. It's a news item about Graham's 1954 'Crusade' to the UK which was based at Harringay Arena. The film has a few interesting shots of Harringay Arena and Manor House tube station (at approx 1:30). I love the way the narrator says 'Manor House' - rather like it's so exotic that it needs careful pronouncing.
In the first speaking clip, Graham sounds uncannily like a dalek. Surely he was the inspiration behind the voice of the daleks! (at approx 2:20) (Audio clip below)
Link: http://mediasuite.multicastmedia.com/player.php?v=b63450hz
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Permalink Reply by CanadianMichael on
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Awesome! (and I should know, given that Dr. Who was created by my homey, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Newman )
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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A quinteessentially British institution created by a Canuck, eh. Grand. I can live with that!
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It's all part of the Canuck World Domination Plan. Next will be Bank of England, then we'll be running the country (er, again http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonar_Law ) :-)
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Permalink Reply by hob on
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Also Con, or should that be Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Woods on
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I was living in Frobisher Road when Graham came to the arena and I can vouch for the extraordinary response he got. I was 11 at the time and while my household was non-religious my mother (convent school educated) was on about him enough for dad to get tetchy! Up the road a lovely Irish lkady - Ann Ward I think - went and heard him and practically gave up her Pauline calling to become a Grahmite as his fans were often called. But I am with you, definitely Dalek-like but then he is convinced he is the second coming - he denied that of course!
Couple of popints - the announcer is a victim of BBC's pronounciation department - he would have had a script which had something like "Mann-orr Hou-se" on it. And a plum in his mouth too. That 171 passing the stadium was my passport to the Oval - door to door so I could go with my chums to the 56 Test - Aussie and a draw but we won at Old Trafford - Laker 19-56. But its odd - if the bus was going to Stockwell it is heading the wrong way or the board had not been changed!
Another brilliant entry on the web site. Thank you.
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