My father was a sound engineer at the BBC

One of his friends outside work, was a TV news cameraman, Clive Stevens

It was Clive that took the still photos that were syndicated around the world of news

When Airey Neave was blown up by a car bomb by the IRA

Clive, ever the professional, carried his still camera wherever he went

If you search on Google you will still find them

He was also the BBC news cameraman in Poland at the time of Lech Wałęsa

And the fall of the Polish communist Government 

Clive and his wife came over to Harrow were we lived in London

I would have been probably 6 or 7 years old

My parents had given my Grandfather's camera (see blog photo)

My Grandfather had been given it for running a suggestion scheme

At a company based near Willesden Junction in London

The advice that Clive told me was two fold

First, always tell stories with the camera

If you go on holiday, take a photo of the airport and the airplane, tell the story of your vacation

The other piece of advice was to always take “sign post”

If you go somewhere, take a photo of the sign of the place that you visit

Then you always have a “document” of that story