Baby Doll

1965

Speed Graphick camera 5 x 4, Ilford FP3

The first prize winning picture Cleave took featured his five year old daughter Lorraine alongside the first human hair doll. The depth of field is very shallow, drawing ones eye to the centre of the image.

Actress Romy Schneider

1966, Bunte Magazine

Rolliflex, Ilford FP4

Pictured here is the actress Romy Schneider with her son Carl, who she semi retired to bring up. The photograph was taken in 1966 for her return to film for 'What's New Pussycat?'. She died tragcally of a heart attack in 1982.

Arrest

1968, The Times

Canon 28mm, Kodak Tri-X

This innocent bystander was arrested during an anti Vietnam war demonstration. He was just passing by and unwittingly got caught up in the chaos. One officer has him by the hair. He later (with the help of this photograph) successfully sued the police force for wrongful arrest and assault.

Room with a view

1970, Bunte Magazine

Rolliflex, Ilford FP4

Featured here is Lord Segal being interviewed by Fred Pye at Jesus college, Oxford. Pye, after an affair with Jazz queen Ella Fitzgerald and a stormy marriage to 60s pop star Kathy Kirby, fled to Italy to become John Kerr - the Sun's legendary correspondant who specialsed in weekly stories. He died of a heart attack aged 60 in 1994. 

Flying By

1971, Daily Mirror

Canon 200mm, Kodak Tri-X

Ken Wallis developed this miniature autogyro craft in the 60s. Its design was modified especially for use in the James Bond film 'Diamonds are Forever'. Later he took the photographer for a spin in his two seater!

The Horse Eye

1973, Sunday Mirror

Canon 28mm, Kodak Tri-X

Policeman down; hit by a rock in Trafalgar Square during a huge and violent demonstration, one year after Bloody Sunday when British troops shot thirteen dead in Belfast.

Leger at the Tate

1974, The Times

Canon 35m, Kodak Tri-X

Harold Wilson M.P.

1974, Daily Mirror

Canon 28mm, Kodak Tri-X

Pictured here is Harold Wilson M.P., surrounded by adoring fans after winning the 1974 general election, leading a minority Labour government.

Black Dyke Mills Band 

1974, The Times

Canon 28mm, Kodak Tri-X

Pictured here are the Black Dyke Mills Band, playing an encore after winning the brass band competition at the Albert hall, with their trophy standing in the foreground.

Screaming Lord Sutch

1974, Sunday Mirror

Canon 80mm, Kodak Tri-X

Screaming Lord Sutch, the 'Earl of Harrow' and official leader of the Monster Raving Loony Party, protesting near Downing Street. In 1969, the anarchist David Sutch had helped promote the Bob Dylan Isle of Wight festival, using similar tactics - the press - and press photographers loved him. He also ran a Rock band which consistently won the worst band in Britain award. Photographed here in Oxford Street, he soon moved on to Downing Street where he was arrested, and the girls were let off without a charge. Sutch appeared at Court the next day wearing shorts and football boots and was charged with Contempt of Court. 

Manchester United fans on the move at Cardiff

1974, Sunday Times

Canon 28mm, Kodak Tri-X

National Front Mass Rally in Trafalgar Square

1974, The Times

This picture was Published on the front page of the London Times, simply captioned 'National Front rally yesterday in Trafalgar square'. The National Front were very upset. John had arrived early for the planned demo - and it had been raining, leaving the square empty aside from these two teenagers, and the rather forlorn group on stage. It seemed a suitably sardonic comment on the national front. 

(The national front - a fascist party espousing repatriation of coloured people - they were 'quite annoyed' by this photograph)

A dog hot day in Hyde Park

1975, The Times

Canon 135mm, Kodak Tri-X

The hottest day of the year.

Actor Curt Jurgens

1977, The Times

Rolliflex, Ilford FP4

Curt Jurgens was imprisoned in a concentration camp during the war. He was married to film star Eva Bartok and starred in numerous films. Photographed here during the filming of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' in Los Angeles. He died in 1982.

Folkestone relay

1978, The Times

Canon 80mm, Kodak Tri-X

Pictured here is the first girls school to ever swim the English Channel in relay, before the start at Folkestone.

The Fisherman

1978, The Times

Canon 28mm, Kodak Tri-X

An African Sculptor looks over the shoulder of his massive creation - 'The Fisherman'.

Jeremy Thorpe not guilty of conspiracy to murder

1979, London Times

Thorpe, previously leader of the Liberal Party, had been found 'not guilty' of conspiring to murder his ex-lover Norman Scott. Here he is outside Court - reputation gone, but a free man. Scott met Thorpe in 1961 while working as a stable hand. He claimed that he and Thorpe had a homosexual affair between 1961 and 1963 when such acts were illegal. In 1979 after losing his seat Thorpe was put on trial at the old Bailey, charged with attempting to murder Scott after Scott sold private letters between them to the press. Featured here on the front page of the London Times.

Three pals, going for a run

1980

Canon 50mm, Kodak Tri-X

This was a difficult picture to time since the three travelled at different speeds. First the boy would run ahead, then the dog would be released, followed finally by the bird. John had to wait in the spot they would all coincide.

Bertie is so proud

1981, Sunday Mirror

Rolliflex, FP4

Pictured here was the largest dog in the world, alongside its owner. 

Jeff Cyne, Jazz Musician in Rehersal

1981

Canon 80mm, Kodak GPF

In a career spanning over half a century, he was the sought after bassist for all the big names in British Jazz. He played with Ronnie Scott, Tubby Hayes, recorded under Mick Wood with Stan Tracey, and was a member of the Dudley Moore Trio.

Harry

1982, Daily Mirror

Rolliflex, Ilford FP4

Pictured here is Harry from Cumberland, the champion gurner of the world.

John Travolta at the Dorchester Hotel

1982, Sunday People

Pictured here at the Dorchester Hotel London, four years after 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Grease', Travolta had just finished Brian de Palma's noir political thriller 'Blow Out'. He still has the look of surprise at his meteoric global fame. A decade later, Travolta became a global star again after starring in Quentin Tarantino's triumphant cult movie: 'Pulp Fiction'.

New leader of the Labour Party

1983, Sunday People

Photographed at the House of Commons in 1983 after a hefty election defeat in June, labour's previous leader resigned, leaving the door open for Neil Kinnock, of whom great things were expected. He was successful in uniting the party but failed to beat the Conservatives under John Major in the 1992 election, and resigned as labour leader having served for eigth and a half years, making him toe longest serving oposition leader ever.

Black Volta River

1984, The People

Canon 50mm, Kodak Tri-X

Mother and child on the Black Volta river near Koudovgov in then Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso, West Africa.

Save the children tour

1984, The People

Nikon 35mm, Kodak Tri-X

Pictured here is Princess Anne with a child who is dying from malnutrition. The father sits, unable to help as it is too late for the child. Outside is parked the princess' white air conditioned Range Rover, packed full of fresh bottled water and food. This picture was taken in upper Volta, now Burkina Faso. Unlike Princess Diana, Anne never got closer than a metre to any child during the whole week long save the children tour of drought stricken West Africa. 

Edward Fox

1985, The People

Nikon 200mm, Kodak Tri-X

Edward Fox in Berlin, shooting 'Wild Geese II'. Fox played the dreaded Colnel Faulkner. He told the reporter Graham Ball that "I am doing it for a bit of fun old boy". He had also played the lead in 'The day of the Jackal'.

Clare Short

1987

Clare Short was Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood. She gained notoriety first for her campaigning against the Page 3 topless models, for which she was nicknamed 'Killjoy Clare'. Some pictures appeared in the press of Short in her night dress with her first husband, but she claimed it was her face being superimposed onto the body of another person. In 1997 she became secretary of state for international development. She remained in the cabinet until 2003 but resigned after falling out with Tony Blair over the Iraq war. In November 2004 she published a book titled 'An Honourable Deception? New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power'.

King of the TV series

1988, The People

Nikon 80-200mm, Kodak GPF

Pictured here in his house in Chiswick is actor John Thaw after landing his role in Inspector Morse. 

Simon Callow

1988, Sunday People

Cannon 28mm, Kodak Tri-X

3 years after his success in 'A Room with a View', the 39 year old Callow still looks young and well, framed in this portrait by his busy desk. Interviewed here by show business editor Graham Ball, Callow was one of the first actors to come out as gay. He said "I think it was probably one of the most valuable things I have done in my life", explaining to Ball how by doing so voluntarily it helped to change the culture. He has starred in many films and in 1999 was appointed an OBE for his services to acting.

Harriet Harman at home with husband Jack Dromey

1988, The People

Bronica, Kodak GPF

Harriet Harman, pictured at her London home with her husband Jack Dromley. They married in 1982 after meeting on the picket line of the Grunwick dispute in 1977, where she was legal advisor to the strike committee. They have two sons, a daughter, and a cat. Harman is a committed feminist and the longest ever continuously serving female MP, serving as deputy leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2015.

The Brothers

1988, The People

Bronica, Kodak GPF

Pictured here is Henry Ballard who played alongside fellow small actor Warwick Davis in the fantasy film 'Willow', which was staffed by the Star Wars legend George Lucas. He "thought it would be great to use a little person in a lead role - a lot of my movies are about a little guy against the system, and this was a more literal interpretation of that idea". Photographed here in the arms of his twin brother John at the films release in 1988.

Ginger Rogers

1989

A Howard Hughes discovery and dancing partner to Fred Astaire. Born in 1911, and five times married. Photographed here in Harrods for the launch of her book. John had met Ginger Rogers before in the 50s while serving his apprenticeship at the Daily Mirror, assisting Mirror photographer Henry Howl in an all afternoon photoshoot in her suite at the Savoy Hotel, as pictured behind. 

House Hole Cornwall

1991, The People

Nikon 35mm, Kodak GPF

10 years on from the Penlee Lifeboat disaster in which sixteen people lost their lives, including all the Lifeboat crew, the coxswain Trevelyan Richards was posthumously awarded the national Lifeboats gold medal, the rest of the crew receiving bronze. Pictured here is Richards widow with her daughter who lost both her father and husband, and her grand daughter. Both women recieved over a million pounds from the disaster fund. 

The Magic Couple

Bronica, Kodak GPF

Pictured here are Paul Daniels and his long term assistant (newly his wife), Debbie McGee, in the kitchen of their house in Denham which once belonged to Actor Roger Moore. Daniels was awarded the prestigious magician of the year award by the Hollywood academy of magical arts in 1982, the first magician outside the US to receive it. 

Leslie Ash and Sunflowers

The People

Bronica 250mm, Kodak GPF

Leslie ash is an english actress. She was once in a relationship with Rowan Atkinson, but is now married to ex footballer Lee Chapman.