Tue, 18 September, 2018
Pic pick
Welcome to the Association of Mirror Pensioners’ website. The site is now more user-friendly for the many visitors who use their mobiles and tablets to surf the web. Every so often we’ll feature a new photograph. Ideas welcome!
An iconic pic of the Daily Mirror newsdesk from 1979 kindly supplied by Al Shillum. It’s a pic of a pic, so please excuse the creases
Back row: Bill Duncan (deputy night news editor), Mike Anderson (assistant news editor), Alan Shillum (night news editor), Gordon Sigsworth, Bill Sellwood, (news desk night cover – contracted freelance).
Middle row: Ian Sellers, Frank Pynn (asst news ed), reporter Maggie Hall, complete with dark glasses, Bert Quinn (day copy-taster).
Second row: Extreme left Camilla (surname not known), ??, ??, newsdesk secretary Audrey Marlow.
Front Row: Tom Cowie (asst news ed) news editor Dan Ferrari, Gordon Gregor (asst news ed).
If you can fill in the gaps, please get in touch through the Contact Us page.
News
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Read all about Jeremy Chapman’s milestone wedding anniversary in Members’ Noticeboard
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THE Association’s 2018 AGM in London will be at 11.30am on Tuesday, October 30 at the usual venue, St Alban’s Centre, Baldwin …
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An author needs some help with his research. Go to Members’ Noticeboard in the drop-down menu to find out more.
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There are more than 100 articles on Noreen’s site – http://noreentaylorjournalist.com/ – and plenty of amazing pix of her with celebs, politicians, …
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(Click above to view All Our Yesterdays)
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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(Click above to view Members’ Noticeboard )
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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Iain Mayhew
IAIN MAYHEW, former Daily Mirror news sub and later its travel editor, died on August 17, aged 70. Universally and affectionately known …
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Ian Dow
Tributes have been paid to Ian Dow, left, who spent more than a quarter of a century as a reporter at the Daily …
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Mike Gagie
MIKE GAGIE, former Daily Mirror reporter, feature writer and for decades deputy Northern news editor and finally Northern news editor, died in …