Interesting Article in the Daily Mail today, for a change...

[paul kersey]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ars-1950s.html

Spotted this in the online edition of the Daily Mail today, for a change it is actually of interest........

[Moor Larkin]

The second *Foto-Find* of this year....

The man who captured them was sworn to secrecy over the pictures, largely because the Queen was still officially in mourning for her beloved father when they were taken. Photographer Kenneth Clayton, who worked for the BBC, had been commissioned by artist Margaret Lindsay Williams to take a series of images which she could use as the basis for her first official portrait of Elizabeth II.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...#ixzz1yLPXUJud


The photographer’s son, Daniel Clayton, who is selling the photos, can’t identify all the personalities and would like help.
I wonder how we are meant to help him identify who might be on the pictures, without seeing them all first?
But then again, he's flogging them all this week, so who cares wins.......

[Mark O]

Good to see them posting interesting photos for nostalgia buffs, getting a bit too 'sleb' obsessed is the Mail these days for my liking, pics of fit young things semi-naked on the Beach etc; it's all just a big yawn, anyhow, back to the nostalgia and architecture and transport fans may find these pics of a disused New York subway station interesting, the tiling is quite something.........


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...l-station.html