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Stephen Houston

An era of grace and style sparks memories

The heady days of a decade of style are captured perfectly in this image from 62 years ago.

Our Throwback Thursday picture is from 1957 picture outside the Ayr Gaiety Theatre.

Comic impressionist Margo Henderson is the lady in the photo, and she appeared in that summer’s Gaiety Whirl - remember those days of stage variety - in a double act with multi-instrumentalist husband Sam Kemp, on a great bill headlined by Jack Milroy.

The car on a still cobble-stoned street is a Ford Zephyr, complete with whitewall tyres and spotlights. How cool is that?

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