Cilla White is the name what I knew her by.





Back in the very early 1960 I was an apprentice typewriter mechanic at United Typewrites and was given a job to fit a new platen roll to an Imperial typewriter at I think it was at the offices of BICC in Stanley Street Liverpool.

The typist was a slim very quiet shy looking girl. She had some religious item on her desk and I asked her was she a catholic. She replied she was and that she went to St Ant’nys.

Later that week I had to return to the same office when all her mates egged her on and myself to go on a date. I arranged to meet her at 12.30 outside her office in Stanley street. SHE DID NOT TURN UP.

The rest is history.

I became an antique dealer and she became Britains number one female star and so I realised

I was not part of………. “YOU’RE MY WORLD”.
“Anyone who had a heart” …………I had one.
“Step inside love” ……..I waited outside
“Something tells me “ ……………she did not want to know me.
“Surround Yourself with Sorrow”… I chose to surround myself with antiques.

"You've Lost That Loving Feeling" ……… I never did.

Love you Cilla, now rest in peace, Love John Nolan the Antiques man



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Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), known by her stage name Cilla Black, was an English singer, actress and entertainer. Championed by her friends the Beatles, she began her career as a singer in 1963, and her singles "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (1964) and "You're My World" (1964) both reached number one in the UK. Black had eleven Top Ten hits on the British charts between 1964 and 1971. In May 2010 new research published by BBC Radio 2 showed that her version of "Anyone Who Had a Heart" was the UK's biggest selling single by a female artist in the 1960s "You're My World" was also a modest hit in the US, peaking at No. 26 on theBillboard Hot 100.
Along with a successful recording career in the 1960s and early 1970s, Black hosted her own eponymous variety show, Cilla, for the BBC between 1968 and 1976. After a brief time as a comedy actress in the mid-1970s, she became a prominent television presenter in the 1980s and 1990s, hosting hit entertainment shows such as Blind Date (1985–2003) and Surprise Surprise(1984–2001).
In 2013 Black celebrated her 50 years in show business. British television network ITV honoured this milestone with a one-off entertainment special which aired on 16 October 2013. The show, called The One & Only Cilla Black, featured Black herself.



Black was born in Liverpool, England, on 27 May 1943 and grew up in the Scotland Road area of the city. Her parents were John Patrick White (1904-1971) and Priscilla Blythen (1911-1996). Black had a Welsh grandfather, Joseph Henry Blythen (1883-1966), who was born in Wrexham, and Irish great-grandparents on her father's and mother's side of the family. She was raised in a Roman Catholic household, and attended St. Anthony's School.[5] situated behind St. Anthony's Church in Scotland Road, and Anfield Commercial College, where she learnt office skills.
Determined to become an entertainer, Black gained a part-time job as a cloakroom attendant at Liverpool's Cavern Club, best known for its connection with the Beatles. Her impromptu performances impressed the Beatles and others. She was encouraged to begin singing by a Liverpool promoter, Sam Leach, who booked her first gig at the Casanova Club, on London Road, where she appeared as "Swinging Cilla". Black became a guest singer with the Merseybeat bands Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes and, later, with the Big Three. Meanwhile, she worked as a waitress at the Zodiac coffee lounge, where she later met her future husband Bobby Willis. Black was featured in an article in the first edition of the local music newspaper Mersey Beat by the paper's publisher, Bill Harry, who mistakenly referred to her as Cilla Black. She liked the name more, and took it as her stage name.