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CITY | HISTORY
BELOW: A smile from the Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Beaufort at Badminton Horse Trials, 1964. I covered the Badminton Horse trials a few times and my pictures included a shot of a young Anne on a horse with the Queen. I also got sworn at by Prince Phillip at Badminton, which I consider to be a Badge of Honour.
BELOW: Rehearsals for the Roman Rendezvous in the Roman
Baths, part of the Bath Festival celebrations in June 1962. It was only when I looked at the neg in the darkroom that I noticed a woman in normal coat and hat sitting on the side of the Baths... she should not have been there. A quick lick of white paint soon turned her outfit into a toga though!
ABOVE: Firemen fight the huge tyre fire in Melksham at Avon Tyres – the 1966 blaze was the biggest in Wiltshire’s history and cost in excess of £1 million. The fire destroyed almost the entire stock of tyres and caused road closures and an urgent need for rehousing. The Bath Evening Chronicle ran a double page spread of pictures and sold many photo reprints of the incident. RIGHT: Bryan Forbes’ film The Wrong Box featured a host of stars including Michael Caine and Cicely Courtneidge and filming was in the Royal Crescent. Bryan was a popular director and I was amused at his efforts to get a little Instamatic camera to work – he was grateful when I showed him. Here is Bryan with Cicely Courtneidge relaxing on the Royal Crescent set of the film in 1965.
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november 2021
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TheBATHmagazine 61
