Fri, 12 July, 2019
Pic pick
TERRY’S OVER THE MOON
TERRY PATTINSON, former industrial editor of the Daily Mirror and a great supporter of AMP, reports that BBC Breakfast is doing a programme about the Moon landings. The show goes out around July 17. “They’re taking me to Jodrell Bank for filming. I will be discussing my big Daily Express scoop, ‘The Express Catches the Moon’. [In 1966 Terry secured the first pictures of the dark side of the moon for the Daily Express in a story headlined ‘Express catches the moon”. He had found out the Russians were using the same photographic technology to send photos back from space as that used by newspapers, and he arranged for the Express to send the necessary machinery to the Jodrell Bank observatory. More follows…
News
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Drama ensued at a recent Mirror social when Brendan Monks, snapper extraordinaire, nearly fell into the Thames. Click through for more…
Too impatient …
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JIMMY BAYNES, former chairman of the Mirror NGA Graphics chapel and a good friend to the AMP, has penned a fascinating memoire …
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The Spring issue of Mirror Pensioner is on its way. If you’re a member and you haven’t received yours by week ending …
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On this Maundy Thursday, Revel Barker sends a reminder about the Wayzgoose
From Gentlemen Ranters, Good Friday, 2008
Yesterday – and there’s …
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Terry in the 1970s (Images: Thanks to Mirrorpix)
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Jimmy Baynes: a unique archive
Memories are made of this
It was 20 years ago today…
Marvellous memories of Mellor
A [different] Windsor get together
Tom Rand’s inky memoirs
Digger Bowry’s trip down Memory Lane
Were you at this Meeting with Maxwell?
Howard “Johnny” Johnson’s retirement pic
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Sporting Life – exclusive
Congrats from the Queen
Tony Bassett: My first novel
Jeremy’s Golden Years
Sunday Mirror, 1964. Remember this?
A Life remembered…
Fred’s Diamond achievement
Why not get in touch with Don Cameron?
Lino ship celebrations
Celebrating Maxwell Day
Geoff Lakeman’s new career
Tel’s new play
Jimmy’s military pilgrimage
Two new books by Mirror hacks
Were you there? Ad dept 1985...
Obituaries
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Brian Cullinan
Our old friend and brave colleague BRIAN CULLINAN died in Kingston upon Thames Hospital on April 21 [2019].
His funeral is …
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Doreen Spooner
DOREEN SPOONER, the first female staff photographer on Fleet Street, died on April 21 [2019] aged 91. Her remarkable career spanned five …
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Richard Fry
RICHARD FRY – deputy circulation manager in the heyday of the Sunday Mirror for much of the 1970s – died on April …