This is a compilation of those contributors who I have interviewed who remember their involvement in the aftermath of 7/7/2005

Andy Hayman , Don Randall, Sharon Herbert, Rebecca Walker and Gary Hayes share their knowledge. Click on the names to listen to their podcasts in full.

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Former Royal Marine Matt Telfer Maleary explains why he is planning to run the length of Borneo to raise money for spaces that are close to his heart. Head up charity supports former members of the military who are suffering with their mental health and a self-funded trip to Borneo for his 14yr old son who hopes to raise enough money to go and take part in an ecological visit to the region. He will be working as part of a group to deal with some of the issues having an impact on the ecology of Borneo.

Matt has a go fund me page please copy and paste https://gofund.me/a1cf7a28 @paulminter_uk_run @head_up_charity #military #charity #royalmarines #mentalhealthawareness #suicideprevention #army #navy #airforce #cousin

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Ian "Fritz" Frakes commenced his working career in the Music world. He was born in Harold Hill to parents who had moved out of the East End of London. Rather than taking the 11 Plus he took the morning off to avoid the exam.

At 15 1/2yrs he joined the junior leaders. However, after 3 months it was discovered that the military was not for him and ended up returning home. On the way home he picked up the Evening Standard and saw a job advertised for F & R Walsh in Tottenham Court Road where he was employed as a runner. He moved to Carling Music as a counter assistant and went on to meet the great and the good of the British music scene.

He worked in the building where Hendrix, Fielding and Mitch Mitchell had their 1st Jam session. His interactions with David Essex were extremely memorable and included the discussion over David's after shave. In 2019 Fritz wrote to David Essex and explained that they had previously been in each other’s company, David Essex responded … Sorry mate I don’t remember you.

Fritz witnessed the historic performance by the Beatles on the roof of 3 Saville row in January 1969.

In 1979 Fritz joined Essex Police he worked on the elite Force Support Unit, Marine Unit and at Stanstead Airport.

He was present during the Colchester Poll Tax riots

He now resides in Northumbria.

#deccarecords #beatles #davidessex #podcast #police #policeofficer @TheBeatles @DavidEssexVEVO

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Richard is an Essex Boy who followed his brother into the Royal Marines. After 8 years and two tours of Afghanistan Richard decided to leave the military and moved to Maritime security where he protected vessels from pirates.

He is now the reform candidate for Braintree. We discuss life before during and after his military career. We also discuss the Reform Party and the Leader Nigel Farage.

James Cleverley has been asked to take part in a podcast too and we are awaiting a reply.

@NigelFarageOfficial #reformparty #royalmarines #afghanistan #imigration #illegalmigration #jamescracknell #jamescleverley

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Don Randal MBE was born in Dartford and joined the City Of London Police cadets. He loved his time as a cadet and recalls this time with fondness. His adventures with the cadets included a canoe race from Devizes to Westminster and an 18 mile run from Barnstable to Croyde Bay. He was also part of the team that were National Life Guards Champions.

Don became a regular officer in the City Of London in 1969, This was a time when radios had just been introduced and officers were reliant on the police boxes with lights on top to get instructions to attend incidents. Don spent most of service at Wood street. He became a motorcyclist and had the opportunity to be first on scene. This was the case for the Tower of London Bombing and he was 2nd on scene at the Old Bailey Bombing.

Don cites hard work and self-motivation as being his key to success in both the police and civilian life.

After 25 years’ service Don was enticed by the private sector and made the tough decision to leave the city of London Police. He became a valued member of JP Morgan where he worked until he took up a role with the Bank Of England.

Don recalls the day of 7/7 bombing and the loss of a member of staff during the attack at Tavistock Square.

Don has been instrumental in putting together some of the greatest initiatives that the City Of London has seen. Project Griffin gained such momentum that Don was invited to New York where he met senior management of the NYPD. The result of the meeting was the adoption of the scheme by the Big Apple.

Dons ability to engage partners and bring them with him is well renowned. He has overseen the initiative relating to Violence Against Women and Girls known as Prevent VAWG. CC Lucy D'Orsi had approached Don and asked if he could arrange a meeting to discuss the issues around the issues and this was the motivation for the initiative. 1 Lombard Street is a Safe Haven under the scheme, The Ned and Fortnum and Mason are about to join too. The strap line is Our Safer City which can be transferred to any city.

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Peter Baylis took a lot of the earliest photos of The Police in 1977. He photographed them at the Roxy on 1977-06-17 and then the following day at Covent Garden. His photos can be seen in L'Historia Bandido, The Police: A Visual Documentary by Miles and Secret Police Man.

He also photographed The Police on 1978-11-25 at the Electric Ballroom and on 1979-04-05 in New York City. And he was one of the few people to take photos of Klark Kent!

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Peter Baylis is from the Metropolitan suburb of Bexley. He left school and pursued his career in photography by starting in a processing lab. He learned his craft by taking as many photographs as possible and submitting them to photo editors and hope that they would use the image for a story.

During his career Peter has photographed the great and the good. His first interaction with a celebrity was as an assistant’s assistant was with Elton John. His most saleable image is of Eric Clapton and Pattie Boyd.

Peter worked with the Who both as a photographer and security, David Carradine was the most awkward subject and Keith Moon one of the best!

Peter took images of the then Prince Charles at Belmarsh Prison and the late Queen Mother who posed for him!

It was a regular visitor called Guy Robin (French Music Journalist) Who introduced him to an unknown band formed by Gordon Sumner, Stewart Copeland, and Henry Padovani – The Police were photographed, Padovani replaced by Andy Summers and the rest as they say is history. Peter toured with the band and went to the iconic CBGBs in New York.

Mel Brooks Pulled a “Goochie” at Peter in protest at the noise made by the camera, this image was captured and is iconic.

Making requests of appropriate authorities Peter was able to spend time with the Paras, On a submarine and flew as a passenger on an F1-11! Having a brass neck was the greatest asset that Peter has!

Pete Townsend and David Essex posed for Peter at the Cannes Film Festival. He snapped an image of David Cassidy as he left a theatre in Leicester Square.

He was invited by the producer of Shout at The Devil to photograph Lee Marvin and he went on to meet Roger Moore and Barbra Parkin

Peters career was placed in jeopardy when he was violently assaulted by 3 Sunderland fans. This caused Peter to lose sight for a period of time and impacted on him for 3 years.

During his time of treatment he became friends with Rodri Tasker Watkins , Son of Lord Tasker Watkins (Aberfan) https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/feb/03/legal-hero-tasker-watkins

Peter spent time photographing with the Boston and NYPD he photographed the work carried out by the officers.

Peters role evolved in the Metropolitan Police from Volunteer to being employed.Having joined the Metropolitan Police in their media department as the official photographer he met the Late Queen having be requested by the Borough Commander to take photographs and he became the subject of the image.

His career concluded when Theresa May assisted in reducing the budget for UK Policing. 4k met employees lost their job.

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CALLING SERGEANT CROCKFORD: The Story of a Pioneering Policewoman in the 1960s will be published by Welbeck on 1 March 2024.

CALLING DETECTIVE CROCKFORD: The Story of a Pioneering Policewoman in the 1950s was published by Welbeck on 2 March 2023.

CALLING WPC CROCKFORD: The Story of a 1950s Policewoman was published by Welbeck on 3 March 2022.

In 1951, at the age of 21, Gwendoline Crockford joined the Berkshire Constabulary as a woman police constable. Ruth’s memoir of her mother, a pioneering female officer in the days before beat police even had radios, is set in a world of barely-remembered post-war austerity and a society on the brink of enormous change. Gwen’s colleagues are a colourful cast of characters, including her fellow WPC the fun-loving Pattie Baxter, fearsome WPS Miss Robertshaw, lechy PC Higgs, full-of-himself DI Dankworth, Barbadian nurse Suzette McDaniel with the newly formed NHS, and probation officer Hilda Bloom with the then-in-its-infancy social services. CALLING WPC CROCKFORD navigates both the cosiness of solving burglaries and chasing escaped circus animals with darker child protection themes, narrated with humour and a deliciously light touch.

Ruth D’Alessandro studied Modern Arabic at Durham University and worked in publishing before becoming a commercial copywriter.

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