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Petula Clark with Frank Atkins, Alan Crawley and Ernie Blake, in Bedford 1959. Copyright Alan Crawley

© Alan Crawley

Petula Clark, film and international singing star, alights from a Ford Anglia 105E after being taken for a demonstration run by Alan Crawley in September 1959. She was at the time appearing in a stage show at the Granada. Also in picture from left, Frank Atkins, Alan Crawley and Ernie Blake (1879-1961), cinema pioneer and chairman of Kodak Ltd.

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