April fools 1947 Liverpool Evening Express 1st April 1947
150 Rang the mortuary: "Is Mr. Bone there"
April 1 pranks were not confined to schoolboys in Liverpool today. Scores of business people were "April fooled" by friends who suceeded in getting them to telephone - a ghost! By noon Liverpool City Mortuary had received more that 100 telephone calls from innocent callers who asked for a "Mr. Bone" -
"Is Mr. Bone there"
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Names - Lunt, Hall, Kent, Ayre, Forshaw, Parle, Lawrenson, Longford, Ennis, Bayley, Russell, Longworth, Baile
Any census info in this post is Crown Copyright, from National Archives
Classic April Fool's Day pranks
Who watched BBC TV on April 1, 1957? The television programme Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland.
http://youtu.be/27ugSKW4-QQ
Even the Aussies got in on the act...
http://youtu.be/fACJ22ixzhg
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http://youtu.be/27ugSKW4-QQ
Even the Aussies got in on the act...
http://youtu.be/fACJ22ixzhg
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RIP 20 April 2015
Emery, McAnaspie/McAnaspri etc, Fry, McGibbon/McKibbion etc, Burbage, Butler, Brady, Foulkes, Sarsfield, Moon [Bristol & Cornwall].
Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/