Though he is one of Britain’s biggest industrialists, Sir Bernard Docker is better known in the sensational penny press than in the financial and society pages, and so is his wife Norah. There have ...
It is the luxury limousine designed by a former showgirl who dreamed it would bring glamour and pizzazz to gloomy post-war Britain. Instead, the ill-fated Daimler Stardust nearly bankrupted its makers ...
It was the day the miners met the Dockers. What the 45 pit men from the Waterhey colliery near Leeds must have thought as they stepped aboard the 863-ton luxury yacht in Southampton in the summer of ...
The 1950s were the time of Teddy boys and Brylcreem, rock 'n' roll, Sunday Night at the London Palladium and - as far as Southampton was concerned - the colourful couple Sir Bernard and Lady Docker.
Poor Daimler, now reduced to a mere label on a Jaguar without a jot of authenticity. It was once one of the grandest of all marques, the favourite of British kings, and an object of desire among the ...
If the cult of celebrity is a modern phenomenon then Lady Norah Docker was one of its pioneers. From the 1940s to the 1960s, she cut a colourful, decadent swathe through polite post-war society with ...
It was the day the miners met the Dockers. What the 45 pit men from the Waterhey colliery near Leeds must have thought as they stepped aboard the 863-ton luxury yacht in Southampton in the summer of ...
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