John Gay photographed by his wife, Marie Photograph: Marie Gay/NMR Photographic Services/RTHarvest festival at St Ethelreda, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 1957 Photograph: John Gay/NMR Photographic Services/SBThree young girls chat outside a Methodist chapel during a family gathering, possibly a wedding. The location is thought to be Aylesbury Photograph: John Gay/English Heritage
A woman plays the violin near Hungerford bridge, central LondonPhotograph: John Gay/English HeritageChildren collecting eggs at Great Munden, Hertfordshire Photograph: John Gay/NMR Photographic Services/SDWInformal portrait of an elderly man paddling in the sea at BlackpoolPhotograph: John Gay/English HeritageGeneral view of a crowd of children being entertained, with Blackpool Tower in the background Photograph: John Gay/English HeritageA hedger near Bridgnorth, ShropshirePhotograph: John Gay/NMR PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES/PMA laundry in Islington, LondonPhotograph: John Gay/NMR PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES/MEA man shelters from the cold and snow in a makeshift tent near a road in Missenden, Buckinghamshire Photograph: John Gay/English HeritageAn elderly man in Salvation Army uniform Photograph: John Gay/English HeritageSwingboats on Hampstead Heath, LondonPhotograph: John Gay/NMR Photographic Services/SDWA young boy playing at the base of a tree beside gravestones from the former churchyard of St Pancras old church in London Photograph: John Gay/English HeritageTwo women look at a stall in the Petticoat Lane market in LondonPhotograph: John Gay/English HeritageAn elderly man asleep with his newspaper at an unknown London locationPhotograph: John Gay/English HeritagePigeons in Trafalgar square, LondonPhotograph: John Gay/NMR Photographic Services/SB
Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.