A Day Out in London on the 14th November 1987

On 14 November 1987, Peter Hancox, was on a trip to London. “The photos I took on that day include some of the exhibits at Madame Tussaud’s and show how famous people 38 years ago are maybe a little forgotten now or have been ‘melted down’,” says Peter.

He’s not wrong. It’s fun to see waxworks – the good and the bad. There are cricket stars England’s Ian Botham and the West Indies captain Viv Richards, snooker champion Steve Davis, miner’s union firebrand and tabloid terror Arthur Scargill, assorted toffs – King George V and Queen Mary – someone standing next to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and a woman lying down. Who is he. Who is she? Did we know who they were in 1987?

London, 1987 – Steve Davis

Madame Tussaud’s – Ian Botham and Viv Richards

Madame Tussaud’s, London, 1987 – Mikhail Gorbachev and who is that?

London 1987 – Oxford Street

“I never plan anything. I always take whatever inspires me at the time! I never know what I’m going to go home with in my camera! It was the same when I was at Moseley Art School in Birmingham, when I went out sketching.”

– Peter Hancox

 

Madame Tusasud’s – who is this?

Piccadilly Circus

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