One rugby enthusiast who was feeling no pain was Michael O’Brien. Countless choruses of “Jerusalem”-the so-called “rugby anthem”-were sung mightily. The game started at 3 p.m., so they had plenty of time to get drunk. Saturday, April 20, dawned gray and chilly, and the fans flocking to Twickenham liberally consumed beer, whiskey, and more to stay warm. They agreed to meet at Twickenham, the hallowed grounds of rugby union, on par with Wimbledon for tennis and Wembley for soccer. Edmonds Rugby Club who had attended the England-France march.Įngland and France arranged for a charity match to raise money for the Air Disaster Fund. All 346 people on board were killed, including 18 players and supporters of the Bury St. (With the addition of Italy in 2000, it’s now known as the Six Nations.) Ireland won the event, but much of the coverage was overshadowed by the airplane crash that occurred on March 3, the day after England and France played to a 12-12 draw in Paris. In February and March of 1974, Twickenham Stadium hosted two matches of the Five Nations Championship, a prestigious rugby union tourney that featured England, France, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. He typically shot rugby on Saturday afternoons for the Mirror. ”īradshaw left The Times to freelance, and found plenty of work on Fleet Street, the heart of London’s publishing industry. “I learned a lot from Ralph Morse, a great technician who shot all the NASA images, as well as Co Rentmeester and John Loengard. “I was heavily influenced by the American style of photography because they were always trying to get something different visually,” he said. By his early 20s, he was a staff photographer for The Times, shooting general assignment: news, sports, entertainment.īradshaw found creative inspiration inside the pages of popular magazines from the U.S., including Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Look, Time, and Life. To allay his parents’ fears about his future, he took photography classes at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London.
“My headmaster said to me, ‘Standing on a street corner with a monkey on your shoulder is a waste of your education.’ That’s how photographers were thought of in those days: on the seaside, with a monkey, getting snaps with the tourists.” “‘Photographer’ was a dirty word in 1960,” Bradshaw told me, speaking via Skype from his home in Sligo, Ireland. He was bound for university, but he rebelled from that path to follow his heart and become a photographer. Ian Bradshaw was a World War II baby, born in 1943.
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