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Difficulties of being Asiatic: The show, 'The Tea House of the August Moon', is playing successfully in London but audiences have little idea how much trouble the cast have to look convincingly Asiatic on stage. American actor, Guy Kingsley Poynter and Anglo-Chinese actress, Chin Yu show just how much effort this involves. 1955 Poynter sticks his wispy, fake beard into place. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Beating the petrol ban: Just think of the many uses a penny farthing has and you'll forget all about petrol rationing and its price increase. Feb/March 1956 ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Corpus Christi, the Feast of the Sacrement, is the big religious festival of the year in Toledo, Spain. All the young girls and boys, dressed in white, go to their first communion; processing through the spectator lined streets to the cathedral. They also walk through rows of white gloved soldiers with their bayonets drawn - symbolising the close links between the church and the military state. 1955 Beggars plead for money from the festival crowds as Spain, which spends so much on it's Army and it's Church, has little official money left to help the poor. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Dumb Friends' Friend : The Dumb Friends League animal refuge in Ferdinand Street, Camden Town, London, is a busy place. Cats are their particular care but dogs share the evening clinic with the cats. 1955 In the waiting room at the evening clinics you get an assortment of owners and animals - a cat loving housewife. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

July/August 1955 Lampshade girl - Frances Pidgeon ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Freewheelin' ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell Photo by Ken Russell, January 1955 From a series: 'The Last of the Teddy Girls' Elsie Hendon (15) and Jean Rayner (14) outside the Seven Feathers Club, where they did the popular Ted dance, The Creep.

Photo by Ken Russell - October/November 1957 This is a prison : Scenes inside Hill Hall, a women's open prison. Girls are given work to do in the gardens and the chicken runs and left to do it unsupervised, providing a moral challenge. Women with babies feed, bathe and settle them down whilst one acts as babysitter for the day. Some work in the shop or the laundry. Lunch is at twelve and at one prisoners, staff and babies in prams walk in a crocodile through the surrounding lanes. There are periods of relaxation in the Great Hall or Library ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Pigeon Square - June/July 1955 Everyday life amongst the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, London - man asleep. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Troubadour Coffee House Girl ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell Photo by Ken Russell, 1955 'Coffee bar girls' - these were friends of Ken Russell and his wife, from theTroubadour coffee bar in London where they worked. They came to his studio for a set of experimental photographs. Study of a girl with a necklace and plant fronds in her hair. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - January 1955 The last of the Teddy Girls Grace Living, 17 year old from Plaistow, on a bomsite in the East End with some ponies. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Emperor Alexander Burton: An actor relaxes in the shade on the set of' Alexander the Great' during a break in filming. The film starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom , is being directed by Robert Rossen on location in Spain. 1955 ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Life and Death ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell Photo by Ken Russell, 1955 From a series shot at the Brompton Cemetery.

Hyde Park criminals - July/August 1957 Laws pertaining to behaviour in Hyde Park, London By-Law 28 - No person shall wilfully break glass, china or other like thing in any open space. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell Photo by Ken Russell, 1955 From a series: A wedding has been arranged. A pretend wedding by the children of the Portobello district, London, staged by Ken Russell from their dressing up box.

Coffee bar girls : Friends of Ken Russell who he met at the local coffee bar in London and came to his studio for a set of experimental photographs. 1955 Girl and melon in frame. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Helen May - July/August 1955 Lady in costume watering her flower in a hip bath window box ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - June/July 1955 Teresa del Rio - 18 year old Spanish ballerina on the set where she is playing the part of Roxane, beautiful daughter of the mighty Persian King Darius in the film Alexander the Great. Her partners are Gustavo Rojo who plays the part of Cleitus and his brother Ruben is Philotas. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Pigeon Square - June/July 1955 Everyday life amongst the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, London - Flock of pigeons by the fountains. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Operation Rat - April 1955 The science of rodent control - especially in the ports of the world where ships arrive from all over the world and the warehouses are crammed with cereals and foodstuffs that attract rats and mice. Rats carry plague via the fleas that they harbour but the control measures undertaken by the Port Health Authority in London have been intense and largely successsful. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Penny Farthing girl - February/March 1956 24 year old Frances Pigeon (singer/dancer) on a Penny Farthing bike - The ordinary or penny-farthing is an early model of bicycle, produced largely in England and the United States in the mid to late 19th century. The earliest bicycles had pedals mounted directly on the front wheel. In order to increase speeds in the absence of any practical method of gearing, larger and larger wheels were built, culminating in the classic penny-farthing where the wheel could be 1.5m (60') or more in diameter. The name refers to the penny and farthing coins of the time, the former being large and the latter unusually small. Other popular names include high-wheeler, high bicycle and boneshaker, although the latter generally referred to any early bicycle before the invention of the pneumatic tire. It had only a brief vogue, arriving and departing within a couple of decades, but it has caught the imagination as visually representing the late Victorian era. This brief lifetime coincided almost exactly with the birth of cycle sport. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Forget your Dior fashions. Just follow the advice of some fashion students. No Bond street for them. The Portobello road is their fashion haunt. There they discover old remnants which they transform into costumes, suits and coats fashionable enough to grace almost any West End Couturier. 1956 Those were the Edwardian days!! Student, Shirley Kingdon in what was a tennis outfit, while the one that 8 year old Josephine sports is of lace and cost 1/6d @2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Penny Farthing girl - February/March 1956 24 year old Frances Pidgeon (singer/dancer) on a Penny Farthing bike (borrowed from The Troubadour Club) The ordinary or penny-farthing is an early model of bicycle, produced largely in England and the United States in the mid to late 19th century. The earliest bicycles had pedals mounted directly on the front wheel. In order to increase speeds in the absence of any practical method of gearing, larger and larger wheels were built, culminating in the classic penny-farthing where the wheel could be 1.5m (60') or more in diameter. The name refers to the penny and farthing coins of the time, the former being large and the latter unusually small. Other popular names include high-wheeler, high bicycle and boneshaker, although the latter generally referred to any early bicycle before the invention of the pneumatic tire. It had only a brief vogue, arriving and departing within a couple of decades, but it has caught the imagination as visually representing the late Victorian era. This brief lifetime coincided almost exactly with the birth of cycle sport. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - June/July 1955 Widow Collins Mrs Elizabeth Collins, 59 year old widow, lives in a Linden Gardens, Notting Hill Gate basement with three canaries. Each day at 6.30am she climbs seven flights of stairs to 16 tenants, cleans the stairs, keeps the boiler going, sorts the mail, takes up the milk, mends fuses, chops wood, repairs torn curtains, chats to her tenants and gives motherly advice. She is a housekeeper / concierge and is very happy in her work. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - February/March 1956 Umbrella girl Shirley Kingdom in her nightdress dancing on the sands ballerina-like with an umbrella ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - June/July 1955 Widow Collins Mrs Elizabeth Collins, 59 year old widow, lives in a Linden Gardens, Notting Hill Gate basement with three canaries. Each day at 6.30am she climbs seven flights of stairs to 16 tenants, cleans the stairs, keeps the boiler going, sorts the mail, takes up the milk, mends fuses, chops wood, repairs torn curtains, chats to her tenants and gives motherly advice. She is a housekeeper / concierge and is very happy in her work. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - January 1955 Mattli spring collection : Furs, suits, coats and dresses - Mrs Paterson wearing velour de coupe cocktail coat with black velvet embossed on dark silver grey satin taffeta. Hat is a tiny pill box of black caprey. White glove. Dress underneath coat is of black velvet. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Beating the petrol ban: Just think of the many uses a penny farthing has and you'll forget all about petrol rationing and its price increase. Feb/March 1956 Danger!....man on penny farthing so, of course, there must be a man with a red flag to herald his coming. What price petrol now.....? ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - January 1955 The last of the Teddy Girls Pat Wiles - 17 year old from Plaistow ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Prosperity comes to El Molar: The production of Robert Rossen's film, 'Alexander the Great' has brought new prosperity to the small, impoverished, Spanish town of El Molar, 30 miles north of Madrid. Most of the local workmen helped in the construction of the sets and local people were employed as extras in the film. 1955 In the courtyard of the 'Palace of Pella', women from El Molar take a rest from their cleaning and sit in the shade. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - January 1955 The last of the Teddy Girls 18 year old Rose Price (left), shop assistant from Tottenham, sporting a manly hairstyle. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

July/August 1955 Lampshade girl - Frances Pidgeon ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Hyde Park criminals - July/August 1957 Laws pertaining to behaviour in Hyde Park, London J.J.J. Puggs, the park superintendant, sinking and drowning in the Serpentine whilst a man is barred from a rescue attempt by By-Law 4 (No person shall climb on or over any gate, fence or railing...) ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Health Resort - July 1957 A day in the life of the health resort at Enton Hall, Surrey Client eating lots of lettuce ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - January 1955 The last of the Teddy Girls Vera Harrison, aged 19, leaning on a brick wall - a recent migrant from Ireland, she works in the kitchens at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The stencilled graffiti was part of a campaign to reintegrate returning servicemen into society. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Emperor Alexander Burton: Waiting for the next take, a relaxed Richard Burton smiles. The filming of 'Alexander the Great' on location in Spain, starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom and directed by Robert Rossen, 1955. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

I Look Up To You II Friends of Ken Russell who he met at the local coffee bar in London and came to his studio for a set of experimental photographs. 1955 'The difficulties of wooing', or 'pick on somebody your own size!' ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - January 1955 The last of the Teddy Girls 17 year old Josie Buchan, a fashion student with Russell's future wife, Shirley, at the college Russell also attended. Josie introduced Ken to her Teddy Girl friends. Here she shows off her DA (Duck's arse) haircut (a men's hairstyle that would have been rare to find a woman sporting at that time). ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Pigeon Square - June/July 1955 Everyday life amongst the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, London - Small child feeding the pigeons. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

The Brompton Cemetery, which lies between London's Fulham and Old Brompton roads, means a variety of things to a variety of people. For some it holds dear memories and graves to be tended. For others it is an island of peace in the noise of London. For the curious it offers a fantastic range of monuments to mortality. 1955 Looking a bit like Father Time, the gardener sets out, with his scythe, to mow the long grass. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Troubadour: The Penny Farthing Bicycle ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell Photo by Ken Russell, Feb/March 1956 From a series on the uses of a penny farthing (borrowed from the Troubadour).

Dolls: A doll stitting on steps and pretending to write. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Chico the water boy: When Robert Rossens million-dollar film epic, 'Alexander the Great' set up on location in the small village of El Molar, 25 miles from Madrid, nobody was more delighted than 10 year old Chico, who supplied water for the dusty throats of the actors and film crew. Chico waits and watches as a film extra quenches his thirst expertly. 1955 ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - October/November 1957 This is a prison : Scenes inside Hill Hall, a women's open prison. Girls are given work to do in the gardens and the chicken runs and left to do it unsupervised, providing a moral challenge. Women with babies feed, bathe and settle them down whilst one acts as babysitter for the day. Some work in the shop or the laundry. Lunch is at twelve and at one prisoners, staff and babies in prams walk in a crocodile through the surrounding lanes. There are periods of relaxation in the Great Hall or Library ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Health Resort - July 1957 A day in the life of the health resort at Enton Hall, Surrey Cow in the grounds of the resort ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - March/April 1955 Zora the unvanquished : For 30 years, 72 year old Zora Raeburn wrote novels and sendt them to publishers. With not one acceptance, she never despaired. In her flat near the British Museum in London, where she let two rooms to pay the rent, she typed innumerable letters to publishers, libraries, film studios and radio producers. She begged on her cello in London streets then took a job as a shorthand typist to supplement her old age pension and published one of her books herself. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Allow Me ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell Photo by Ken Russell, January 1955 From a series: 'The last of the Teddy Girls' Josie Buchan at the stage door of the Walthamstow Palace Theatre which was pulled down in 1960.

Please Hear My Song ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell Photo by Ken Russell, March/April 1955 From a series: 'Zora the unvanquished'. From the original caption: 'For 30 years, 72 year old Zora Raeburn wrote novels and sent them to publishers. With not one acceptance, she never despaired. In her flat near the British Museum in London, where she let two rooms to pay the rent, she typed innumerable letters to publishers, libraries, film studios and radio producers. She begged on her cello in London streets then took a job as a shorthand typist to supplement her old age pension and published one of her books herself.' Photo shows Zora playing her cello outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. According to Zora herself, she was 'no musician'.

Bearskins: The soldiers of the Grenadiers, the Coldstream, the Scots, Welsh and Irish Guards are instantly recognised in their tall, bearskin hats. Many of these are made by the firm of L. Silberston and Sons Ltd., of London. The finished product, the headgear of one of the world's smartest and most famous military types. A sentry stands on guard at Buckingham palace, peering through the fringe of Russian fur over his eyes. 1957 ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Rock Steady ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell Photo by Ken Russell, January 1955 From a series: 'The Last of the Teddy Girls' Elsie and Rose Hendon with Mary Toovey and Jean Rayner on an East End bombsite.

Health Resort - July 1957 A day in the life of the health resort at Enton Hall, Surrey Client receiving treatment ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Convent Nuns: At the house of the Daughters of the Mother of Good Counsel, in London, girls who feel they would like to become nuns meet the Daughters, join in activities and see if they have a vocation. 1957 The girls join in with some hymn singing led by a nun at the piano. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Mother - April 1955 Scenes from the smash hit play Sailor Beware - Peggy Mount is a domineering mother who becomes a domineering mother-in-law. The extension of her tyranny outside the family circle is devastatingly tragic and very funny ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Old Soldiers Old Soldiers ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell Photo by Ken Russell, 1955 From a series: 'Between the boards' Photo shows: 'Seven assorted sandwichmen chat before finally moving onto their beat. Many have drifted into this job as a result of an unspecified past. Average age seems to be around 60 years.'

Mirror Image - Corpus Christi, the Feast of the Sacrement, is the big religious festival of the year in Toledo, Spain. All the young girls and boys, dressed in white, go to their first communion; processing through the spectator lined streets to the cathedral. They also walk through rows of white gloved soldiers with their bayonets drawn - symbolising the close links between the church and the military state. 1955 Nuns, having a little trouble controlling their headresses, are amongst the spectators. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Chico the water boy: When Robert Rossens million-dollar film epic, 'Alexander the Great' set up on location in the small village of El Molar, 25 miles from Madrid, nobody was more delighted than 10 year old Chico, who supplied water for the dusty throats of the actors and film crew. Chico, the day over, goes home down the valley with the sheep. 1955 ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Dumb Friends' Friend : The Dumb Friends League animal refuge in Ferdinand Street, Camden Town, London, is a busy place. Cats are their particular care but dogs share the evening clinic with the cats. 1955 24-year-old Pat Ward, Superintendent of the Dumb Friends' League in Camden Town. Pat's main care is cats, but she has a soft spot for dogs too, like this rather shy poodle. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Photo by Ken Russell - June/July 1955 Teresa del Rio - 18 year old Spanish ballerina in an impromptu dance on the set where she is playing the part of Roxane, beautiful daughter of the mighty Persian King Darius in the film Alexander the Great. Ruben Rojo acts as her partner. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

The Lawbreaker ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell The Lawbreaker Photo by Ken Russell, July/August 1957 From a series 'Hyde Park criminals' Ken Russell took the by-laws restricting behaviour in Hyde Park, London and illustrated some of the possible 'situations' arising. The woman is Mrs Collins, Ken Russell's landlady at the time. 'By-Law 29 - No person shall in any open space sort rags, bones, refuse or matter of like nature ... '

Hip bath - July/August 1955 Children playing in a hip bath ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell

Difficulties of being Asiatic: The show, 'The Tea House of the August Moon', is playing successfully in London but audiences have little idea how much trouble the cast have to look convincingly Asiatic on stage. American actor, Guy Kingsley Poynter and Anglo-Chinese actress, Chin Yu show just how much effort this involves. 1955 With over an hours hard cosmetic work to go, Poynter looks in the mirror, puffs on a cigarette and carries on. ©2006 TopFoto/Ken Russell