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A battered bowler hat from the James Bond film Goldfinger has been valued at up to £30,000 on the Antiques Roadshow.
They doffed their bowler hats and swirled their walking canes to salute the legendary Charlie Chaplin who made Waterville his second home during his long off-screen life.
By the 1950s, however, the bowler had become what it had never been up to then – a badge of class – when the working classes began to abandon hat-wearing, leaving stockbrokers and others ...
Ireland all-rounder Curtis Campher made cricketing history on Thursday, becoming the first male professional cricketer to ...
In Ireland, local communities bade farewell to emigrants they would never see again by holding an “American wake,” an ...
Irish bowler Josh Little has joined an illustrious list of cricketers to take a hat-trick in the Men’s T20 World Cup, achieving the rare feat against New Zealand at Adelaide Oval on Friday ...
The hat eventually became better known as the bowler, named after its constructor, though it has a variety of other names, including the billycock and bob hat.
Veteran frontman Suggs watched as a crowd of bowler-hatted “geezers” strode past the window of his hotel - and thought they were marching to celebrate his band Madness in Belfast to play a gig ...