My mother aged 16

My father in Sweden aged 17

Flaunting the silverware with Mother and Grandma McGough

Brenda and I;

New Brighton Pool

My first stage appearance (I’m the pretty brunette)

Scouting for girls with Arthur and Terry

Ready to take on the teds. The youth club 1955

The Sheriff Foreman investigates a hold-up at the sugar factory

University skiffle group, 1957

At Mabel Fletcher Technical College

First TV appearance with John Gorman. © ABC Television

Summer with Monika at the Lyric, Hammersmith with Alison Spiro

Peter Blake’s set

With Brian Patten in Victoria’s garden

Reading downstairs at the Everyman Theatre

With Mike in Haverstock Hill

Off to buy Windermere House with a bag full of used fivers

Thelma and Nathan modelling her wedding designs

Posing in front on one of Thelma’s paintings

Early Scaffold …

… post Lily the Pink

‘Wordplay’ with Victoria Wood, Lindsay Ingram, Andy Roberts and John Gorman, Edinburgh 1975

On the Circle Line with Adrian Henri

On stage with Grimms

Grimms – Dave Richards, Andy Roberts, Viv Stanshall, Mike McGear, John Gorman and Neil Innes lighting the pipe

In the studio with Neil Innes at the piano

With Mike’s brother

Lost in space, NW3

Clowning about on location with Tom and Finn

Finn

Tom

The Little Poor Poets in Edinburgh…

… at Chelsea Arts Club

Bran in Notting Hill

With Denis Thatcher (or could it be John Wells?) and Jenny Agutter at the Nether Wallop festival, 1984

McGough and McCarthy in Death Valley

With two Petes, Cook and McCarthy, Melbourne Comedy festival 1987

With Ferlinghetti in San Francisco 1995

At the launch of Robert Graves’ War Poems with Spike Milligan, Isla Blair and William Graves

‘He’s Behind Yer!’ Filming Book Tower for Yorkshire Television © ITV Yorkshire

Another hard day at the Palace

Hilary

Matthew and Isabel

With Isabel and Hilary

‘The Mersey Sound’. The poets providing backing vocals for Willy Russell and Andy Roberts at my sixtieth