Think your Google-fu strong is, you do?

WillyNelson · 4 Jul 2011 at 11:31

Pretty basic 'find me this on Google' challenge. Accept? [YES] [NO]

Back in the 70's my dad had too much hair, tight trousers and a massive ginger beard. He also had a blue t-shirt which sported the simple slogan 'EAST COKER' in white lettering. East Coker being the name of the Somerset village in which he grew up and where my grandparents lived until their sad passing last year

The only evidence of this magnificent piece of fashion history was an over saturated 6x4 kodachrome from back in the day which has since been misplaced.

Now, I'm sure this can't have been a one-off item of haute couture but try as I might I can't seem to find reference to it anywhere, any other pictures on t'interweb, or any explanationas to why a small Westcoutry village was pioneering its own brand of viral marketing years before Frankie ever requested we 'relax'.

Find it and you will be rewarded. Not with mere e-cookies, but with a large box of delicious biscuits; plain, cream-filled, dunkers and luxury.

Redgie · 4 Jul 2011 at 11:42

Couldn't it of just been...a blue t shirt with writing on it done locally

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Edrof · 4 Jul 2011 at 11:48

It's beyond me, but I don't have much time at the moment. Can't you just take the photo down to your local t-shirt printers? Or is it more the history of the thing you're interested in?

WillyNelson · 4 Jul 2011 at 11:51

Could be. But like I say, I doubt it was a one off and I'd like to find an image of it so I can have a replica made.

WillyNelson · 4 Jul 2011 at 11:53

Forde said:
It's beyond me, but I don't have much time at the moment. Can't you just take the photo down to your local t-shirt printers? Or is it more the history of the thing you're interested in?

The photo's been lost, I just have a vague memory of it from last time I saw it, about 10 years ago.

[FnG]magnolia · 4 Jul 2011 at 11:59

This has Tefal written all over it.

SwishSpencor · 4 Jul 2011 at 12:03

[FnG]magnolia;19511357 said:
This has Tefal written all over it.

Tefal will find the actual picture of the OPs dad

Greebo · 4 Jul 2011 at 12:03

You don't think this lot had something to do with it? Formed in 1975 to promote "East Coker"?

http://www.eastcoker.com/

Might be worth emailing them or they might be aware of the t-shirts.

Also it might not be the village promoting it directly but because it is one of the FOUR QUARTETS in T S Eliot's best-known poem?

Espcially since the poem has "The intolerable shirt of flame" in it?

Perhaps T S Eliot was popular in the 70's and it was a t-shirt done based on this? In fact, he died in 1965 so the more I think about it, the more this makes sense.

Nothing definitive for you there but maybe a start?

Street · 4 Jul 2011 at 12:14

I used to live near there!

Probably doesn't help you much in your quest though!

WillyNelson · 4 Jul 2011 at 12:27

[FnG]magnolia;19511357 said:
This has Tefal written all over it.

*Turns on the giant T spotlight*

SwishSpencor said:
Tefal will find the actual picture of the OPs dad

That would be good, if a little stalky.

Greebo said:
You don't think this lot had something to do with it? Formed in 1975 to promote "East Coker"?

http://www.eastcoker.com/

Might be worth emailing them or they might be aware of the t-shirts.

Also it might not be the village promoting it directly but because it is one of the FOUR QUARTETS in T S Eliot's best-known poem?

Espcially since the poem has "The intolerable shirt of flame" in it?

Perhaps T S Eliot was popular in the 70's and it was a t-shirt done based on this? In fact, he died in 1965 so the more I think about it, the more this makes sense.

Nothing definitive for you there but maybe a start?

It's a good call. TS Elliots ashes are interred at the church there, as are my grandparents.

SourChipmunk · 4 Jul 2011 at 13:24

WillyNelson said:
*Turns on the giant T spotlight*

I knew I was keeping this image around for a reason.

BenjiSayers · 4 Jul 2011 at 13:26

Ha you beat me to it Raist.

Cosimo · 4 Jul 2011 at 13:31

Raist said:
I knew I was keeping this image around for a reason.

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Batman he is not. :p

Last week he did mention about going on a weeks holiday.