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Demolition in Kentish Town
Jack’s Light Writing
Here are two of Jack’s light-writing pictures, and it shows just how far he’s progressed: the one below shows one of his first attempts, from 2009; the bottom one a brilliant shot from last year. You can see more of Jack’s light-writing pictures on this section of his website. Read more »
Partou Zia
PARTOU ZIA Occupation: Artist Born: Tehran, Iran, 9th October 1958 Died: St. Ives, Cornwall, 19th March 2008 In its obituary of Partou Zia, the Guardian says she, “…was a true visionary in the line of Samuel Palmer and Blake.” I first knew Partou in the early 1980s, when we were [...] Read more »
People With Passions
A superb photo project by my youngest son Jack: pictures of people, many from the Southsea area of Portsmouth, taken with the objects of their passion. They are lit simply, and the wide-angle lens and unsmiling faces suggest the obsessive and quirky nature of the subjects. Below are a few [...] Read more »
George Formby’s Funeral
A photograph from the family archives, taken by my father, showing some of the 100,000 people who lined the route of George Formby’s funeral, on Friday, 10th March 1961. Read more »
George Formby Senior
GEORGE FORMBY ‘SENIOR’ Real name: James Lawler Occupation: Music Hall artist Born: Ashton-under-Lyne, 4th October 1875 Died: Warrington, 8th February 1921 When people hear the name George Formby, they automatically think of the comedy film star of the thirties and forties, the singer of songs such as The Window Cleaner [...] Read more »
My Old Man
DANIEL KEVIN DALY Occupation: Record Producer, Writer, Broadcaster Born: London, 15th April 1942 Died: Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, 21st December 1989 This is a few words to wish my late, great dad, Kevin Daly, a public ‘happy birthday’; he would have been seventy today. My ‘Old Man’, like Ian Dury’s, “Was [...] Read more »