A Wg Photo Album

.A WG PHOTO ALBUM.

(1) Parents Albert and Annie, circa 1890!(2) 66 Langdale Road, Victoria Park, Manchester, where WG was born on 30 June 1908

!(3) Perranporth, 1927 (4) The young author circa 1934!

(5) At a Truro drama festival held on 25 April 1936, a team from Perranporth WI presented Values, a one-act play written probably especially for the occasion by WG. Three of the cast of seven are shown above, among them in the waitress costume on the right WG's future wife Jean Williamson.

!(6) Wedding to Jean, 18 September 1939 (7) On Coastguard duty, 1941!

!(8) With Valerie Taylor circa 1945!

!(9) With Greta Gynt, female lead in 1947 film Take My Life (10) circa 1948!

With Garrick: (11) At home, 1955!(12) On the beach, date unknown

!(13) and (14) Two from 1956!

1956, during the production of Fortune is a Woman:!(15) With Jack Hawkins, who played Oliver Branwell, and co-writer/director Sidney Gilliat (16) With Arlene Dahl ("Sarah Moreton")

!1957: (17) With Sidney Gilliat at the UK premiere on 13 March of Fortune is a! Woman (18) At home in Perranporth

(19) Beach bum: West Pentire, date unknown!(20) Cooden Beach, Sussex, 1961

!Previous page and above: (21)-(24) Some from a series of publicity photos taken at WG's Buxted home, probably in the summer of 1962

!(25) With Hedren and Hitchcock on the set of Marnie circa 1963 (26) 1965!

Previous page and above: (27)-(30):!More publicity photos, probably taken in 1966. If you look carefully, you'll see that (27) and (29) are different renditions of the same image and that (30) is a cropped and enlarged version of (28)

!(31) Detroit, 1967!

(32), (33) Two more from 1967

!(34) and (35): Winston and Jean, dates unknown!

(36) Perranporth beach: the figure is the foreground is WG.!The building at top centre is Lech Carrygy, where most of Demelza was written. It burned down in 1984 – the picture could have been taken at any time before that.

!(37) April 1971!

!(38) 1973!(39) At Trerice, Newquay in 1974!

!(40) and (41): With Peter Young and unknown man (top right) at Wendron Forge! (later renamed Poldark Mine), near Helston, Cornwall, in 1977

1977: (42) With Jane Wymark!(43) At home

!With (44) Angharad Rees and (45) Christopher Biggins!

!(46) (previous page) and (47): 1977, filming Poldark (S2) on location in Cornwall! (48) With Ralph ("Warleggan") Bates and Jean

!(49) and (50): At St. Winnow Church, Lostwithiel with BBC director! Roger Jenkins, "Lord Falmouth" actor Hugh Manning and Jean

1977: (51) With Robin Ellis!(52) At the Poldarks v. Warleggans charity cricket match held at Boconnoc Cricket Club – WG, wearing a tie, stands in the back row between Ralph Bates and the man with the pint.

Page 30: (53) WG was given a small speaking part in a 1977 Poldark episode – this was his costume – but the scene was cut due to time constraints

Page 31: But both Grahams did make brief non-speaking appearances in the second series: (54) Jean, on the left of the picture, in Episode 9 and (55) Winston, with hat and cane, about to kiss "Morwenna" (Jane Wymark) just after her wedding to "Drake" (Kevin McNally) in Episode 13.

Above: (56) With Poldark cast and crew, BBC Pebble Mill Studios, Birmingham, 1977

!(57) Pebble Mill, 1977, again, with "Demelza", "Jud" and "Ross" aka Angharad Rees,! Paul Curran and Robin Ellis (58) Same jacket, probably 1976

!(59) By Wheal Bush mine, Todpool, West Cornwall (60) With Jean at! Abbotswood, both dates unknown

!(61) At home: Buxted, 1983!

!1983: (62) At home and (63) In windy Falmouth!

!(64) 1984!

(65) Date unknown!(66) 1984

(67) Book signing, 1984!(68) At home, 1985

(69) 1987!(70) On Wogan, BBC1, 1 February 1988

!(71) With Jean at the wedding in August 1990 of Robin Ellis and! Meredith Wheeler (72) With Robin Ellis circa 1990

(73) This portrait of the author in his Abbotswood study is inscribed To the Museum Trust from Winston Graham with all good wishes, March 1991. WG accepted the Presidency of Perranzabuloe Museum on 8 October 1985 and remained "in office" until his death in 2003. In 2016 the role was assumed by his son Andrew. Despite what the watermark states, the Museum is no longer able to supply clean copies of this image.

(74) 1990!(75) early '90s

!(76) and (77): At a Poldark Appreciation Society lunch, 1994!

(78) 1994!(79) 1995

!(80) At 90, with Angharad Rees, Oxford, 1998 (81) Back in his beloved garden!

!(82) and (83): At home, late 2000 or early 2001!

!At Poldark Mine, 12 May 2002: (84) On patrol and (85) With BBC Radio Cornwall! presenter Janette Eathorne

(86) Date unknown!(87) Book signing, 2002

!(88) Late era, date unknown (89) Together again: St. Margaret the Queen! churchyard, Buxted, East Sussex, 2015 CREDITS

(1), (6), (7), (8), (9), (12), (15), (16), (19), (20), (25), (53), (60), (80), (81): Memoirs of a Private Man, Macmillan, 2003 (2) Google Street View (3), (73): Perranzabuloe Museum, Perranporth, Cornwall (4) A Ward, Lock publicity shot used on early dust jackets (5) West Briton, 27 April 1936 (10) As previous, used on Cordelia, Doubleday, 1949 et al. (11) The Tatler and Bystander, 16 November 1955 (13), (14): In 1956, this photo, credited to Walter Bird

appeared of the back flap of the jacket of WG's then new novel The Sleeping Partner. (13), placed similarly on the jacket of Marnie in 1961, and (14), which first appeared in the October 1959 issue of Books and Bookmen, both derive from the same source. (17) Online resource "Three Hundred Years of Gilliat Family History" (18) The Tatler and Bystander, 3 April 1957 (26) Sussex Life, September 1965 (27)-(30): Mark Gerson; (27) features on the back cover of The Walking Stick, Collins, 1967, (28) was published in Summer 1971 issue of The Cornish Review and (29) in December 1967's Argosy (31) Gary Cooperman of the Detroit Daily News (32), (33) Alex Gotfryd; (32) is on the back panel of the dust jacket of The Walking Stick, Doubleday, 1967 (36), (59): Poldark's Cornwall, Webb & Bower / The Bodley Head, 1983 (38) Australian Woman's Weekly, 14 March 1973 (39) SWFTA, Plymouth (42), (48): Making Poldark, Robin Ellis, Palo Alto Publishing, 2012 (43) Sussex Express, 28 October 1977 (46), (47): Colin Antrobus (49), (50): Michael Williams (51), (52): Poldark Country, David Clarke, Bossiney Books, 1977 (54), (55), (63), (70): video screenshots from Poldark, Series Two, episodes 9 and 13 / a TV South West broadcast from 1983 / Wogan, BBC1, 1 February 1988 (58) Peter Letts, from the dust jacket of The Four Swans, Collins, 1976 (61), (62): Woman's Weekly, 30 July 1983 (64), (66), (67): all from Cornish Life, January 1985 (65) Martin Val Baker (71), (72): Robin Ellis / Meredith Wheeler (75) Reader's Digest Condensed Books, 1993 (76), (77): "Char Nanfan" on the WG&PLS online board (78) Telegraph online, 27 August 2019 / Simon McBride (79) Julian Calder, circa 1995 (82), (83): Susannah Binney, from Brighton's Evening Argus Weekend maga- zine, 20 / 21 January 2001 (89) Taken by this author

!(90) The Guardian, 12 July 2003!

Remainder: source not known or not recorded. With thanks to all.

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