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BBC Radio 2 broadcaster Wally Whyton, British country music singer Raymond Froggatt, Metro Radio disc jockey Brian Clough and me shelter from the rain at a BBC Radio Cleveland outside broadcast at Great Aycliffe Show, near Darlington, County Durham.
This was taken at a club in Whitby Street, Hartlepool after Sunderland beat Leeds 1-0 in the FA Cup at Wembley, in 1973. Players Ian Porterfield and Jimmy Montgomery displayed the cup at a presentation night.
BBC TV and radio personality Noel Edmonds and I at the launch of Miller Lite beer at a Yarm night club, near Teesside Airport. I was presenting the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cleveland at this time and Mr Edmonds suggested I 'should be in bed resting' and not out drinking free beer!
With Merle Dempsey at the British Grand Prix, Brands Hatch, 1982. Merle, one time lead guitarist with Cliff Ledger and the Country Boys, is a big fan of Formula 1 - like myself! Photograph by Gary Smurthwaite.
A photograph of my dream car, a Lotus Europa, in Carlton-in-Cleveland. Note the 'poser' personalised registration plate! I can't help wondering where the car might be these days. I recall a gentleman from Seaham, in County Durham bought it from me when the time came to sell it. Photograph by Alison Moses.
Sitting outside the Motel 6 during my first visit to Nashville, Tennessee in June, 1974. Photograph by Shay Brogan.
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The photographs page was getting a little overcrowded, of late, so we decided to move some of the older items here. Having spent almost 23 years at the BBC, travelling to the United States 16 times and visiting 21 States, I sometimes wished I'd taken a camera with me instead of a tape recorder. Sadly, I didn't. Some of the photographs on these pages were taken by others - and recorded a wonderful time during my career. Because I've acquired quite a nice collection of photos, I've had to reduce the size of some of them and place them here as thumbnails. I've also tried to provide as much information as I can about each individual photograph. Click on the thumbnail below to enlarge it. I hope you enjoy them.
Colin Bunyan and me, with a couple of admirers - Pat and Sue - at the British Steel Gala at Redcar Racecourse.
Ladies and gentlemen, for your entertainment, we have this talented bluegrass trio called the Gants Hillbillies with me on the left, John Cowling (centre) on mandolin and Lynn Lewis (right) who played Dobro and five-string banjo. This was the early 1960's when we started pickin' and singin' together at Barking Folk Club in Essex. The three of us did record a demonstration record for Decca which was, to say the least, a bit of a disaster. Nevertheless, I wish I still had a copy of that record now. It was called "Dixieland For Me." Incidentally, Lynn Lewis has a wonderful website dedicated to bluegrass music. Why not pay him a visit and say hello from me!
My thanks to Joe Lanny for sending this photograph that was taken at Croft Autodrome, near Darlington, sometime around 1977 he believes. It shows Joe, leaning over his Lotus Elan, with Dennis Kerrison and me. I've been a motor sports fan for many years. In fact, the very first Formula 1 Grand Prix I ever saw was in 1975 at Silverstone with the Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a McLaren, taking the chequered flag in a rain soaked race. Some years later - about 1976/7 - I got the opportunity to be involved in motor sport, in a small way, and met great drivers such as Ronnie Peterson, Mario Andretti and Gunnar Nilsson at John Player Team Lotus.
This photograph which I titled "We Were Country When Country Wasn't Cool" was long before those BBC days ever came along. It shows me and Billy Crallan at the Ponderosa Country Music Club which was held at the Palace Hotel, in Mainsforth Terrace, Hartlepool in 1966. We were both very tired this night as we had just travelled back from London after meeting Johnny Cash at a reception, held in his honour, at the Royal Garden Hotel, in Kensington. It was during this memorable visit that Billy took a selection of photographs of Cash which you can see on the Johnny Cash and More Cash pages.
I think I may have been under the influence of alcohol at the time this was taken. This was in my old den back in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough. I'm not exactly sure what the story was in question. I think it was something to do with my doorbell which played "Dixie." A couple of newspapers thought it was ununusal. I suppose it is when you consider I'm from Hartlepool. Photograph © Tom Mackin.
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