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PEARL Maskell drew the lace curtain aside. “The new neighbours opposite at number ninety-two look all right,” she said, directing the comment back to her mother, who was knitting. “Two ladies – mother

John Wade remembers when the shutters finally closed on the British camera industry

When Thomas Joshua Cooper and Paul Hill set out in 1974 to meet and interview the ‘movers and shakers’ of 20th-century photography (see Dialogue with Legends, AP 1 April) they had no idea that the project would take four years and become a unique archive that is still in print. Paul Hill describes the first interview – American photographer Paul Strand in Paris – that kicked it off, followed by extracts from the recorded encounter

This issue’s 10 Pictures comes from occasional Railways Illustrated contributor Chris Perkins. Born in the West Midlands, but now a longtime resident of the West Country, Chris was born in Birmingham