Playgroup Trip To The Farm
These pics are from March 1971 on a playgroup trip to a farm at Moulton Park....
Children
I must admit that I thought for a while about publishing these. They were taken in September 1970 at the school my aunt taught at - I showed her some of them last weekend, and I think she said it was in East London. It was over 40 years ago, but she remembered plenty of them - names and what they were like.I was unsure about showing them as they're not family, but I think they're really good documentary portraits....
King’s Road 1970
A definite change in the fashions on King's Road - August 1970.
A fine 'tache, sir!...
King’s Road 1969
The third annual visit to photograph the happening people of King's Road.OK, I know this one isn't King's Road - it's Piccadilly Circus - and the people are probably slightly less trend-setting than the fashionistas of Chelsea, but it's still worth posting....
Hey there groovy hepcats…
It would appear that my father visited the King's Road in Chelsea a few times in the late 1960s and early 1970s to photograph the nation's trend setters. It looks like he went every summer from 1967 to 1975.
These are from 1967 and 1968, and it'll be interesting to see how the fashions change over the years!...
Famous Person Alert
I had to be told as I wouldn't have guessed, but this is Lesley Joseph in the Masque Theatre's 1964 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream - she wasn't quite 20.Other subsequently famous people to have been at the Masque -Michael Green (author of The Art of Coarse Acting) was a member around 1950, Marc Warren, and Alan Carr was in one production....
Drunk and disorderly
Back in this post, I mentioned someone getting drunk at their sister's wedding - Mother at her sister's wedding in October 1966.
The bride.
A proper working class party - a keg of beer, and a bottle of Dubonnet for the ladies.
The is Mother at the wrong end of presumably a few Dubonnets - her getting very drunk at her younger sister's wedding is a well-told story in the family.
What's particularly ironic about her inability to stand up is this picture of The Brother, taken earlier in the day.
This is actually him standing up on his own for the first time.
I happened to mention at lunch today that I was sorting out photos of this wedding (my aunt is coming to lunch tomorrow), and Mother asked if there was a shot of The Brother standing up, mentioning the significance of it - which I hadn't realised. The Brother commented on the irony of him standing up and her not being able to......
CAUTION: Scientists at play
February 1965.
Good to see that the brainiacs at Plessey enjoyed a snowball fight as much as anyone else....
Strut that funky stuff…
Was it really September when I last posted? Oops.
As the Masque Theatre is rapidly heading towards its 80th anniversary (it's actually in 2012, but they've started preparing nice and early), Mother asked me to dig out all of the Masque negatives I could find. I don't think anyone (least of all me) was quite expecting somewhere in the region of 400 films that I delivered a couple of weeks ago!
Fortunately, now that I've handed over all of the Masque negs, they become an SEP (Someone Else's Problem - Douglas Adams) and I can concentrate on the rest of the archive.
Anyway, I was trying to work out where I'd got up to on the blog, and found some older pics that I passed over previously.
Dancing at a couple of Masque parties in 1964....
Masque Theatre summer show
The Masque Theatre in Northampton put on an open-air show every summer, usually Shakespeare. Traditionally it was always held in the courtyard of the museum in Abington Park, but this was closed for a number of years over the last decade or so. However, they're back there now, which means that the actors once again have to battle to be heard over the peacocks from the small aviary just behind. Assuming there are still any there - I haven't lived in Northampton since 1992, so I've no idea whether there are or not!
As this is 1961, it must be Much Ado About Nothing. If I recall correctly, the little ticket booth is green, and always saw additional service in the Borough Show in Abington Park a week or two later. I spent many summer evenings around there, often selling programmes, as my father was generally in the play and my mother helped out, sometimes prompting, sometimes in the ticket office....