#john downing

[undr]

John Downing. Blackpool Tower England. 1985

[nobrashfestivity]

John Downing A group of skinheads beat up a rival on the seafront at Southend, Essex in April, 1980

[mystichaloo]

Sharon Tate photographed at London Airport on July 22, 1966.

📸 by Dove & John Downing.

[babsi-and-stella]

Chrissie Shrimpton and Linda Keith photographed by John Downing, April 1967.

[hippocrafty]

Elephant Backlog! First I did Edward Couch, the third mate on Erebus. Terror doesn't seem to have had one, so perhaps it was more of a "one per expedition" job.

Then I was under the impression that Erebus & Terror had a different number of quartermasters each. They don't! They've got three each & I just got confused. Terror quartermasters:

David McDonald

John Kenley

William Rhodes

Erebus Quartermasters:

Daniel Arthur

William Bell

John Downing.

Doing the tags today, and it appears these fellas didn't already have them - they had very small roles on the show, but pretty important roles on the ships! The quartermasters on ships played a big role as liaisons between the crew and the officers, and would have been the 'first point of contact' for most of the ABs if they had any issues they needed the 'higher ups' to know about or take care of. They would've also been managing a lot of the loading up at the beginning of the journey (and, if they'd been successful, unloading at the end) of all the provisions & stores they needed. I really wonder how well the real men fared, as it's easy to speculate that these were the men most well known to the sailors of the ship in their day to day, and how did that translate once they weren't sailing, and then once they were walking?

[davidhudson]

Graham Chapman, January 8, 1941 – October 4, 1989.

Photo by John Downing.

[semioticapocalypse]

John Downing. Patients from Molesey Cottage Hospital who were rescued by police and soldiers during flooding in Surrey, 17 August 1968

[browsethestacks]

Vintage Photo - Reading Comics

A Vietnamese child reading Sgt. Fury And His Howling Commandos

Saigon (1973)

Photography by John Downing