Harry Secombe celebrity print 1973

Summary

This concrete handprint was formerly located as a part of the iconic McEwans celebrity pavement. Between 1972 and 1994, scores of celebrities had their handprints and footprints immortalised in cement at the entrance to the McEwans hardware store on Bourke Street. The City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection acquired a number of these impressed concrete slabs from the original celebrity pavement in 2005.

"Harry Secombe (1921-2001) was a Welsh-born actor, singer and comedian, best remembered as Neddie Seagoon in The Goon Show, the legendary absurdist-comedy radio program in which he starred with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers during the 1950s. Secombe was in Melbourne in January 1973 with a touring stage version of his eponymous variety show which ran for five years on British (and Australian) TV." - Robyn Annear, 2023