Over on our Press Photo History Project we’ve been contacted by Brian Goodman another Fox Photos staffer who spotted our post covering David Newman’s account of his time at Fox Photos.
Brian worked at the Tudor Street and then Farringdon Road offices of Fox Photos between 1952 and 1956 – he sent us this note [and photos, Thanks!] of that time:
…Most of the press photographers worked without assistants. unless they were using large cameras. I went with Reg Spellar to cover the Derby at Epsom Downs man handling our equipment up a scaffold tower at Tattenham Corner once the glass plate was exposed I scrambled down to a waiting motorcyclist, one of many who raced back to Fleet Street, the picture editors waiting for the first photographs to arrive for the presses to roll. …’ Read Brian’s full account on PPHP now.