Grainy pics from the 1980s of the Daily Express and Sunday Mirror newsrooms plus Golly Hardy’s wedding
HOLDING COURT: Alastair ‘Bingo’ McIntyre, John ‘Bertie’ Brooks and the ever-diligent Roy ‘Bongo’ Anderson in the Daily Express Fleet Street newsroom (note the monocles). Ken Weller in the background
McIntyre and Brooks at play, fortunately neither of them spotted the soda syphon in the background otherwise there might have been an unseemly skirmish (if you get the drift)
Steve Wood (art desk) and Bertie Brooks at the watering hole as usual
Wood and Brooks are joined at the bar by McIntyre
McIntyre was never noted for getting the teas in but (keep this quiet) he’d probably nipped out for a swift slope and came back via the canteen in a feeble attempt to explain his absence from his desk
David ‘Golly’ Hardy getting married to Sue at Wandsworth Register Office, London, in the mid-1980s
McIntyre, the best man, with the bride’s daughter, bride Sue and Golly after the ceremony
Wedding guests: Barry Edgoose, Miles Hedley, unknown, Ross Tayne who is sadly no longer with us, and Chris McIntyre, who fortunately is
McIntyre makes the best man’s speech with his wife by his side
Cricket at Southampton on the hottest day of the year with the Express playing Southampton Press Club. From left: Brian Cashinella, Terry Manners, Rory Clements, Brian Thistlethwaite (obscured), Chris Chalke, Les Diver, Nick Pigott, Patrick Welland, Paul McElroy and Bob Smith.
Tony ‘Granny’ Grantham (left) on the backbench with Jon Zackon, chief sub, in the Fleet Street newsroom
Jon Zackon attempting an unsuccessful disguise
Bertie Brooks gets the beers in. This pic was probably taken in Ibiza where Bertie lived after collecting his redundo wheelbarrow
Rory Clements, who supplied these pics, and Bertie relax in the sunshine
Saturday afternoon in the Sunday Mirror newsroom, Holborn, from left, Gordon Sigsworth, McIntyre, David Thompson and Dickie the copy taster
On Saturdays the Sunday staff took over the Daily Mirror’s newsroom in Holborn Circus.
