First in line boarding a LeShuttle train. Driving onto the carriage like you're going on an Imperial Star Destroyer.
James Arnold
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Getty Images, London. Walking up and down hills in Hampshire. Photography, books and peering into the abyss.
On bumping into Bill Oddie at the local North London recycling centre. Michael Palin’s Diary, 1998:
I’m reading Writing Home by Alan Bennett and particularly enjoying Russell Harty's thoughts on soup, which Bennett retold in his memorial service eulogy.
Reading Erotic Vagrancy by Roger Lewis and am blown away by what Elizabeth Taylor's then husband Eddie Fisher is going through to look after her.
By water home, and so walk upon the leads, and in the dark there played upon my flageolette, it being a fine still evening, and so to supper and to bed.
The commandant of the Civil Defence Technical Training Centre in Quebec demonstrates the effect of an atomic bomb exploding over a city, Canada, 28th April 1952.
Madame Tussauds waxwork models of The Beatles, 24th April 1967.
Remembering the time I saw the Pope in the back of a Skoda in Alton station carpark.
Explorer Theodore Illion, demonstrating the headgear that he considers will best protect him during his expedition to Central Asia, in London on 16th April 1934. He claimed to have visited Tibet and discovered an underground city there. Though there are doubts that he ever went anywhere near Tibet.
Ringo Starr and John Lennon stand in the doorways of the adjoining suburban houses on Ailsa Avenue in Twickenham used in filming 'Help!' starring The Beatles, 15th April 1965. Photo by Stan Meagher.
Some fantastic examples of fake images through the years here: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘It never happened – but the picture says it did’: 28 fake images that fooled the world
From the pope in a puffer to the Princess of Wales and family, baby Hitler to Mussolini on horseback, people have always manipulated photographs, whether for political power, image control – or just f...
theguardian.com
Peter Sellers with Ringo Starr, 31st March 1969. Photo by Les Lee.
Eric Morecambe pushed on a tricycle by Ernie Wise, 27th March 1980.
The Truth about Teenagers. Photo by Bert Hardy for Picture Post, 25th March 1957.
Drinking of cold small beer here I fell ill, and was forced to go out and vomit, and so was well again and went home by and by to bed.
