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Terence Alan Milligan chose to be called Spike due to his dislike of his name, Terence. Milligan was born on the 16th of April 1918 in India. He was the son of a British Army officer serving in India. Milligan was a musician, writer, poet, playwright, and actor. He is seen here getting his hair cut by his first wife the singer June Marlow in 1956. Milligan married a further two times. Spike Milligan was probably best known for his appearances in the Goon Show a radio program that run from 1951 to 1960 and also starred  Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.

Who Was George Douglas 

Born in 1922 in Rottingdean, a seaside village just outside Brighton but his father was American and the family moved to the States in the 1930s, first to Texas and then to Santa Monica, California.

Santa Monica, guaranteed sunshine apart, was not that different to Brighton. George bought a battered old Leica camera from a pawnshop for a few dollars, and patrolled the seafront, capturing the locals doing their thing.

His work began appearing in magazines like Life and other publications all over America but he wasn’t content. What he admired was the daring style of the ground-breaking British magazine Picture Post, which was setting new standards in photojournalism.

In 1951 he travelled to London by ship, busked his way into the Picture Post office the day after he arrived and managed to sell them a feature. Two days later he sold them another. George and Picture Post were made for each other. He sold them 99 stories in three years – serious features, silly celebrity stunts, beautiful reportage on the lives of everyday working people in England and always, whenever possible, beautiful girls.

The commissions rolled in as he met and photographed a myriad of celebrities and chased stories all over the world.

Then, when he was still only 48, he decided to give it all up, shrugging off the decision with: ‘Press photography is a young man’s job.’