Tires

 Hungary, 1953

Renault Tires, France

DUNLOP Tires, vintage advertising, 1937

Flat tire, Hungary 1963

A Michelin representative delivers the goods with his Vespa scooter combination. 1953

London #3

 London Bar

Brigitte Bardot, London, 1967

The Speaker's Corner, London

Tottenham Court Road, London, about 1971

Irish Supporters, London

RTR Memorial London

Put People First demonstration, Hyde Park, London

Mary Quants in London, 1967

London Fashion Week – Penis-Beret

London #2

2015 VJ Day Commemorations at Horseguards in London

2016, woman with shopping cart in Brewer Street, Soho

Trans person during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration, Parliament Square, London, 2020

Musician at The Extinction Rebellion Demo, London 2019

South Bank, London

Kees Scherer, London 1961

 

London #1

Marc Ribaud, Greenwich, London 1954

London street musician playing an accordion by night. 1930s 

Older London couple takes a walk in 1970s

Jilly Johnson, former page three model, joins the 'Red Berets' at Waterloo station, London to launch the new cereal 'Special K red Berries'

Drummer Daniel Woodgate of English band Madness, during the cover shoot for their album, '7', London, 1981

Euston Road, London

Tramp sitting on grass, Balham, SW London

A young woman walking down a street in East Finchley, London wearing a beret, 1932

Les 7 Familles Pyrénées

Les 7 Familles is a card game with simple rules, involving memory and observation. It is played with a deck of forty-two special cards, divided into seven families of six cards each, originally the grandfather (the great-grandfather in the oldest games), the grandmother (great-grandmother), the father, the mother, the son and the daughter.

I was delighted to discover this old box of 7 Families Pyrenean edition designed by my friend Jean-Claude Pertuzé (RIP).

Hard Life of the Farm Workers (1969)

Fascinating documentary on the tough life of farm workers in 1969, including some prominent berets.  

"It's back-breaking work, just one of the difficulties of living under conditions that have hardly changed since medieval times."

Most people have a view of life in the country that doesn't match reality. One farmworker in four earns less than £13 a week - the minimum wage is only £12.8s - while a peculiar wages permit system allows some farmers to have their workers' downgraded and pay them even less than this.

One-quarter of general farm workers with more than three children live below the official poverty level. Because of the 'tied' cottage system, some farm workers do not even have complete job security and freedom - if they lose their job they can lose their home, too. 35,000 men a year are getting out of farm work, leaving these conditions for jobs in the cities. The National Union of Agricultural Workers frequently has its hands tied and seems helpless, partly because it has so few members and partly because its members are so scattered. 

Man Alive reports from the Old Crown Court, Dorchester, in which, 135 years ago, six men of the land who became known as the 'Tolpuddle Martyrs' were convicted for trying to organise a protest against farm workers' pay and conditions. Their sentence, then, was transportation to Australia, are farm workers still an oppressed minority a century and a half later? 

Clip taken from Man Alive: Everyday Story of Country Folk, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 4 June, 1969.

Paris #10

 

Paris #9