Stonehenge in the '60s
Something else from the archive – this time we’re in the 1960s and this is my late close friend Martin, standing in front of Stonehenge.
What’s interesting about this image is the crude daubing of the ‘Ban the Bomb’ CND logo on the standing stones – no wonder the authorities roped off the area in 1977 and banned the public from walking among the monoliths. Not just because of basic vandalism like this, but also because visitors would scramble all over the site and climb the stones... and some people actually took chisels, no less, to extract their bit of these 5,000-year-old structures.
Anyway, back to Martin, who was my closest friend from our schooldays, and who died far too young in 2000 from a particularly virulent strain of multiple sclerosis. This photograph was taken shortly before the disease set in and confined him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. All these years later, he’s still much missed.
Stonehenge in the '60s
Something else from the archive – this time we’re in the 1960s and this is my late close friend Martin, standing in front of Stonehenge.
What’s interesting about this image is the crude daubing of the ‘Ban the Bomb’ CND logo on the standing stones – no wonder the authorities roped off the area in 1977 and banned the public from walking among the monoliths. Not just because of basic vandalism like this, but also because visitors would scramble all over the site and climb the stones... and some people actually took chisels, no less, to extract their bit of these 5,000-year-old structures.
Anyway, back to Martin, who was my closest friend from our schooldays, and who died far too young in 2000 from a particularly virulent strain of multiple sclerosis. This photograph was taken shortly before the disease set in and confined him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. All these years later, he’s still much missed.