bill cobbett wrote:insan wrote:bill cobbett wrote:Insan, are you being naughty?
Sup mate? Naughty on what? I'm just posting decades old photos of Cypriots and Cyprus...
Sorry if I've got it wrong mate, but the first photo you posted has a couple of people lying in the street. What's that about?
CYPRUS NEWS PHOTOS (1950s)
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Bob Egby is a writer, editor, award winning broadcaster and news photographer.
In his early career he worked as a freelance news photographer and journalist covering major stories in the Middle East from Cyprus, where he was based. London, Fleet Street photo agency -- Central Press Photos Ltd, Gough Square, London, EC4, handled distribution of his photographs. In the 1970s the Agency was sold, and Bob Egby's negatives, totalling several thousand disappeared. Some of his famous pictures appear below.
http://www.angelfire.com/nj/healing/Cyp ... hotos.html
Three British policemen serving in Cyprus in 1956. They were patrolling Ledra Street, when an EOKA gunman, shot them down. One man is dead, another dying, and Sergeant Webb, with bullets in his neck, stands helplessly watching the fleeing gunman. It happened outside the Cyprus Mail building. Veteran Editor, Victor Bodker is walking towards the camera at right.