Who’s Who?

Bob Aylott (Aberdeen, Scotland 1948)

 Age 15 years Bob arrived in Fleet Street and became a tea boy at ‘The Sport & General Press Agency’. Later he moved into the darkroom at ‘Fox Photos’ and  became a photographer in 1967 with ‘The Keystone Press Agency’.

In 1968 he was named British News Photographer of the Year; he joined the Daily Sketch and the Daily Mail in 1969 and then went on to The National Enquirer based in Los Angeles. He returned to London in 1987 to join Express newspapers   and The Daily Star. As an award winning photographer he covered assignments around the world and won numerous awards including Colour Sequence of the Year and a World Press Award for his prison pictures of killer Charles Manson.

                                                 Robert Barclay (Dumbarton, Scotland 1947)

A professional photographer for over 39 years, Bob has worked both in the UK and abroad for national newspaper and international magazines. His photos have been displayed in The World Press Photo Holland and galleries in London, Dorking and Birmingham.  He won the 1988 Ilford Press News photo of the Year and during 30 years in Fleet Street, has worked for The Press Association, The Daily Telegraph and Express Newspapers.

He has covered every type of news and feature assignment from the Royals, politicians, disasters, pop stars and celebrities to Presidents in the White House to the slums of Soweto. and Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland.

Robert is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, a member of the Master Photographers Association and now runs a successful studio and gallery in a converted barn near Dorking, Surrey.

                                                  Larry Ellis

Age 14 Larry started work in Fleet Street as a messenger with the Central Press Photo Agency. He progressed into the darkroom with The Press Association and joined the Daily Express as a photographic printer in 1958. He became their Show Business Photographer in 1963.

  He has travelled the world shooting the biggest names on both the small and the silver screen including Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Cary Grant, David Niven and Peter Sellers to name a few.

During the 1960’s and 70’s Larry toured with the Beatles and Rolling Stones and photographed pop sensations the    Osmond’s, the Jackson Five and David Cassidy. He has worked on the sets of most of the James Bond and Carry On movies.

     Now retired Larry lives on the Isle of Wight and can still talk the hind legs off a donkey –his favourite expression is ‘to cut a long story short’ but he never does.

James Gray (London 1939)

James’s career started in Fleet Street in the 1960’s as a dispatch rider for Keystone Press. It was his job to collect films from photographers around the country and rush them back to London. This was in the days before laptops and mobile phones and it was always a race against time. ‘The first pictures back would be the ones that published the next morning. So you could have six or seven bikers racing against each other to get back to Fleet

Street first. Driving at 100mph was common. Sabotaging other bikes was acceptable. A few were killed in the rush’.

He became a photographer at the agency in 1962 and covered news and feature stories including the troubles in Aden and the Congo and on a softer note, the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour in the West Country. ‘Lennon was always bumming cigarettes off me,’

He is one of the only photographers in the world to have sat on Nelsons head while it was being cleaned in the 1960’s. (See picture)

James joined the Daily Mail in 1969 as their Royal photographer, a position he held for more than 20 years, and covered every major tour including Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada, India. and Europe. He moved to Scotland in the 1990’s to freelance and returned to England in 2000.

                                      Stuart Windsor             

Stuart left school at 15 and became a runner boy with Thompson Newspapers in London. With an interest in photography he  moved to Kodak's PR department editing thier inhouse magazine 'Kodak News'. In his spare time he shot pictures of bands for 'Disc' and 'Music Echo' magazines. He worked with The Rolling Stones The Who, The Faces and Elton John,. In 1969 he joined Brennards PressAgency at Heathrow Airport and a year later he was shifting on the Sun, Daily Mail and the London Evening Standard and Evening News.But at the age of 26 he had had enough of Fleet Street and moved on to become a creative documentary and stock photographer.